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Show CONCERTED ACTION NECESSARY. Aii exchange truthfully say: "It is little use for the local editor to waste his lungs and sprain llis back in trying to boom his town when the citizens all stand around with their hands in their pockets and wait indifferently for something to turn up. If the capitalist or the business men don't put their shoulders to the wheel and do a little boosting, it is useless for the editor to boom things. He can write "boom" irtieles till he gets baldheaded, but if the citizens themselves do not take hold and push, the town will forever stick in the mud. Of what use is it for the local paper to suggest improvements improve-ments and new enterprises if the suggestions sug-gestions are never acted upon? One man cannot boom the town. It requires re-quires the concerted action of all the citizens. When one man shoulders a town tinu altenipls to eai-r it, there are alway a lot of people who are II I 11 l'e,,i lO ill 111 ( OH IOl of I lie ll,; I.!. |