Show PUBLIO PUBLIC SPIRIT IS NEEDED A town ir 1 city ii i i just what its citizens make it says saye a 1 writer given the light sort of people and nd a desert ert camic wamic aill A ill be transformed into a garden that shall bloom ail like C tile the rose and a str straggling l aing settle inen into tinto a thriving city given civell the ning sort eort of citizens citizen and lit all the advant advantages aget of oil climate clim site geographical position and will trill go fur for nau naught ht manufactures do not make t the he city it is the city that makes tile hie manufactures the stockyards stock yards and the grain elevators did not mike make chicago pork pac packing king did not make cincinnati it a railroad center did not mal make indianapolis 11 in each case the city is tile cause and the business the effect these cities had public spirited men and they attracted the kind of business which is located in them that is all and nd what is the right kind of a citizen ile he is the man mail who does not look across tile continent for an investment but spends his money at home and encourages 11 home enterprises the right kind of citizen dols does not t grumble brumble about the taxes because lie he has sense ense enough to know that taxes amt be high in a growing city and that if low taxes are a desider desideratum awni lie he must go to a place that lias has sto st opeil plied growing or that never has proven grown much the right kind of citizen knows the distinction between the virtue of economy which avoids all waste but spends money freely for public improvements und and the vice of parsimony that spends nothing unless absolutely compelled to the ri right 0 ht kind of citizen may not be a wealthy man but he cheerfully helps support the public schools and churches and he is in favor of all public enterprise the right c kind of citizen believes in well lighted areeta and good sidewalks for lie knows that vice and crime hate electric light almost as much as thoy they do daylight lh ht and that they delight in darkness ile he also knows that these things give a good impression to istran brangers grangers Gr angers ers the kind of RISO also is fully aware of the fact that no expenditure brings so BO great a return to the citizen as that which lie pays in taxes provided it be honestly and judiciously judicious ly applied P lied ile he believes in improving his grounds clearing liis his gutters and doing what he can to beautify the city in which he be live livet t the man inan who is content to lio lie day after day and year after year aard the theace ame old torn orn up lip 11 unfinished surrounding 1 i cannot belon belong to this class |