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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) 1 ' says 1 1 ' TO MR. AND MRS. AVERAGE CITIZEN OF THIS COMMUNITY ItuKurdloss of what I think, irre-eiioctWe irre-eiioctWe or your opinion, there is indisputable in-disputable proof that no individual, ImsliioHS, industry or community ever got any place doing the same old thing in tlio same old way. We are all humans, subject to our own peculiarities. We object to change, and most of us detest preaching preach-ing and dislike being told; yet every ono of us wishes to be healthy, wealthy and wise. We all get In a rut more or less, and true it is that the only difference between a rut and the grave is the depth; and the longer wo stay In a rut the deeper it gets. How readily we discard the old and accept the proven new depends on how deep wo have sunk. Groat educators have said that the most clillicult undertaking today is to get the people to think one goes so far as to say that of every one hundred hun-dred persons, two of them do all the thinking for the other S)8V Maybe that's right, BUT I maintain that you and I will do our share If we are shown and given a reason why we should think, especially about that which affects our fun and our pocket-hooks. pocket-hooks. In sixteen years experience I have found that you are always willing to listen; and although you do not always al-ways act, I lay that to the fact that you have not been given the proper incentive. It is my further belief that you are willing to think about this community and willing to do something some-thing FOR your town if you are given good and sufficient proof that doing either' or both will put money in YOUR pocket. You and I all of us I have been told by civic groups and through the columns of the papers we read, hundreds of times, that we should do this, and we shouldn't do something else, all for the vague reason rea-son that its good for the community. But i I know you and know my own reactions to such, you are not "sold" on the idea that its to YOUR particular parti-cular advantage always to practice what they preach. You cannot be sold on anything that you know nothing about the only way to know about anything is to THINK about it. A cow in a pasture gazes at a speeding railroad train, but does not really see it. the alarm clock rings in the morning, but the house cat goes on sleeping; a crawfish and a billy goat smells, but because they never think about it, doesn't mean anything. If you could ask them they'd tell you that they did not see why they should be any different. If you have never got flown to brass tacks and tried to think out where you'd get anything out of taking an active part in community affairs, you don't know whether or not there isi anything in it for you. If you have never offered to do anything along with otner fellows, you don't know whether you'd even get a kick out of it. The only way to find out is to try. You don't have to be one of the big toads in the puddle in order to "do something." It isn't always money ; that counts, nor are days of time i away from work necessary. The big ; thing is to get right mentally. ' THINK about your community aa a 1 business YOUR business. Don't I holler about it, just think about it as ( you go along doing whatever you do . ! to make a living. The fellow who never trys, never knows, and he is the fellow who misses the real fun and the good things of life. j TRY THINKING ABOUT YOUR 1 TOWN. j Copyright, 1930, A. D. Stone. Re- production prohibited in whole are in 2 part. ? This "Town Doctor Article" pub- lished by this paper in co-operation I with the local Lions Club. ( 0 |