Show y t r Y ideas from other editors From rom from the Seville Chronicle Seville Se Se- I ville Ohio Saturday afternoon was pretty dull downtown and old timers were threatening to get i i out the depression checkerboards Fact Is people seemed to be shopping chopping out of town One place we were ere led out to the street to see all the expensive two-hour two i parking signs signa surrounded by no i 1 potential violators The general consensus was that j I the give-away give programs and cari carnival car car- j i Dival atmosphere of the shopping i i centers were attracting a lot of l people who dont don't want that sort kort of thing In Seville One merchant thought we ought 10 to have something here to enter enter- Rain Itam any chance shoppers who Into Seville Sevie an outs outdoor out- out s door movie or something We said Seville was too pretty la a town to clutter up with rift riff raff raft for fot a movie so the merchants 1 said sald they'd settle for a well ad lynching Now we know how a local merchant merchant mer mer- chant Is asked to to and who gives to all things that make a community community com com- a good place to live Uve feels when people Ignore solid home borne values to pursue a will o We feel the the- same way when we see local merchants advertising in out out of town throw and handbills which contribute noth noth- Inn ink tu tit the community in service or taxes tax And wr r know that price and value isn't as big ble a factor as novelty So we came back to the he office feeling depressed ready depressed ready to sell sellout sellout sellout out to Interests We arent aren't sure what interests are but they are what poor but honest newspaper newspapermen men sell out to In the books we read pronounced reed Then doggone It customers started to come come in There were three in a row and we must have ve taken in almost a dollar altogether alto alto- gether And right away we brightened up and reached a remarkable con con- It isn't altogether the money I loss that hurts a man when his neighbors go so down those crowded crowd crowd- ed dangerous highways to contribute contribute contribute con con- tribute to some other school districts district's districts district's dis dis- tax dollar No sir Part of it Is sheer lonesomeness From the Lincoln Times Lincolnton Lincolnton Lin- Lin North Carolina Who can remember the old fashioned days when Lincolnton had comfortable comfortable com com- benches located In some of the city's shaded uptown Courthouse Court house Main St. St etc areas for convenience of town out shoppers shop pers and visitors How about restoring restoring re reo storing this custom We certainly think the benches would be forthe for forthe forthe the benefit of the merchants Mind Mine you were we're were not not referring to benches fur for the so lIo-c lIo called so-called town loafers loafers' but fur for visitors |