Show e HIGH-GRADE HIGH HOME TOWN To Secure Fine Qualities In a Community Community Com Something Besides Money Is Needed 1 I TI Th The great trouble with American t life today Is the tendency to s see e ev- ev h from a money point of view People are forever asking with regard to e every evry choice In hi life Will It plY Pay 2 They judge education and occupation t J and marriage and all other relations l' l by the money point of view But there I is Is a n. side of life still that Is to SOU som some L extent and In some minds free tree from this sordid standard There Thele Is a group of things to which we give the name l' l of home There are values In ones one's home that cannot be measured by the mere coarse yardstick of money So do people will often sacrifice money rewards re ra- re- re wards In order to retain the home borne as as- that they prize The question of developing what Is f r r called a good residential town depends in a n. large largo measure on the acquirement acq of this point of ot view You cant can't have havea 4 a good home town If you ask in ref re- re r f g gird gard rd to ever everything you do if It will I l pa pay In terms terras of money I f If the object for Improving a home borne fc or a street or a n. neighborhood Is pure pure- p ly Jy to make mone money 9 a lot of folks will I k C ne never cr operate co-operate In suca efforts If It f rs i the only motive for tor planting fine flue trees f and shrubbery Is that they make a 7 residence nce sell seH for more a lot of peo- peo pie will never ne do It ft In all air probability ity such efforts to beautify a place placedo do pay in La cash cah but that motive alone k Is not sufficient To secure these fine une qualities that constitute a 11 high-grade high home town something besides mone money 9 ambition has hasto hasto to be devoted de to this purpose People People Peo Pee pie must feel a love for their communIty community ity an nn attachment to that spot that they ther call home There must be a kindS kind S of affection for tor the scene a n. desire to nurse It and make It as lovable able and ann romantic and beautiful as possible Somehow civic lc beauty seems to have its effect on the the- the character character of the people peo pee pIe of a town I If you ha have ve a dull and drab looking town to you will draw dull and drab people said a lecturer on on civic topics Salem Salem News r |