Show i Let Local Pride Prid e Find Expression at Home Horne Local pride Is based on affection for forthe the place In which you live and Is almost almost almost al al- al- al most as natural a sentiment as family pride says the Youths Youth's Companion Like family pride It may b be useful and I stimulating or It may be futile and r l' deadening A proper local pride manifests Itself In study of the history of the communIty community ity and Its founders In a desire for a thorough knowledge of the Institutions Industries and people of the communIty community ity and 1 In l acquiring familiarity not only with the topography and the external external external ex ex- ex- ex aspects of the place but also with Its Its Its' spirit Anyone whose local pride Is la strong enough to Impel him to such study will become Imbued with an ambition to contribute to the improvement Improvement Improvement Im Im- provement of the community he willbe will willbe willbe be In his turn one of the makers of Its history Local pride that finds Its expression at home Is an admirable trait There Is however a kind of of local pride thatIs thatIs that thatIs Is frequently exhibited only by people who are away fr from m home home- and that Is not to be commended It Is usually amark a amark amark mark of narrowness and prejudice A Aman A Aman man need not sacrifice or abate his bis love of home In order to recognize the superior claims to general Interest that some other ther place offers Provincialism n as l local local cal pride Is likely to be called when It expresses expresses expresses' Itself away from home Is usually bumptious hypercritIcal hypercritical hypercritical hyper hyper- critical and und p petty tty It retards the mental mental men men- en- en tal growth of the than toan who suffers from It for he Is Is seldom one who at home shows any local pride of a constructive con con- character |