Show I IOnly B Only an Idea Is Needed to Put Town on the Map In Oberammergau long ago they found something else to do besides besides' going to the post office four tour times a aday aday aday day or sitting around the stove In the grocery store or dallying In the village vil vU- lage poolroom om Any small town can b become ome famous and busy only let It find an Idea declares declares de de- de- de clares clams F. F H. H Collier In Echoes of th tha Streets In the St. St Louis Globe Globe Demo Demo Demo- crat The world may be too much with ns us as 58 Wordsworth said said said-In In the cities but It Is a vague off far matter of languid Interest In the village Very well then let the village go about InterestIng Interest- Interest Ing lug Itself In something Every Everyone one of ot them would do well to get a hobby We think of one town In Kansas which has a huge chorus that offers otTers a musical festival every year that has now become famous Another In a different different dif dif dif- ferent state Is devoted to a narrow but fascinating line of horticulture There Is East Aurora N. N Y which Elbert Elbert El El- bert Hubbard gave something to talk about If It a small community can do nothIng nothing noth noth- I ing eIg else It can organize a botany class I and carry carryon on until It attracts attention as a scientific center in Its chosen field Science literature art and music horticulture horticulture hor hor- the liberal arts mechanics the drama and nd metaphysics metaphysics' are all open to villagers to dev devote te their Intellectual intellectual intel Intel- powers to a special feature They cant can't all be but they know not what they can be until they try And trying Itself bre breaks ks the deadening husk of ot the town small-town existence |