Show TALK WELL OF YOUR CITY story of a 2 young mans experience that points a lesson to citizens of every community the toronto mall recounts the story of a young man a citizen ol of the dominion who recently visited several cities of the states ile ho brought back with him some imbres alons of one of our cities in particia lar minneapolis Alin neapolis minn and in the opinion of our contemporary canadian cities might consider his views with great profit the truth Is the lesson 0 of f this young mans exper experience rice should prove as interesting to communities on this as on the other side of the tha horder border it amounts to this that everybody ho he met inet in minneapolis spoke well of the town of the many people he met there says our in formant he found not one who was not enthusiastic about the city the conversation seldom ended without the other party giving it a turn tura to tc the popular theme minneapolis now this young man not only listened in minneapolis to praise ol of its places of interest its progress its prospects its advantages as an in du center as a place of resi dence and so on but he stored these things in his mind took them over to toronto talked to the editor of the mall and empire about them and got gol the latter interested in them to th the e extent that he sat eat down and wrote a an n editorial extolling handsomely the civic pride of the minnesota city the lesson the editor draws from the young Canad canadians lans enthusiasm ot 01 rather the cause of it Is that pride of city Is something that would be both becoming and useful on this side of the line while Minnea minneapolis polls Is not no tho the only city in the united states i where here the young canadian might have found a similar measure of local pride and enthusiasm ent iu there are many cities in this country be it said with regret in which public sentiment Is so tine urel with criticism of everything local that the visitor Is led to won der why under all the circumstances tho the complaining residents who for those places do not move away it Is rather a trite way of putting it we know but this does not prevent it irom from being true that a city Is what its ita citizens make it it a city Is not nol what it ought to be this Is generally the fault of tho the citizens who content themselves with criticizing criticising critic ising ng it |