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Show If there's ono thing more 1 than another thnt helps put a 9 community in the "also ran" B class it's the town knocker. 9 on know linn the lellow fl who is always complaining 11 that the town is dead, that H business is going from bad to il worse, that the schools are not 11 half as good as thoy aro in lid some neighboring village, and if so on. Not only does the knock- ft or dole out this discouraging fl line of talk to bis own town 9 folks, but passes it along to 1 the stranger within our gates. -i And isn't it wonderful how ji fttst this kind of information l spreads and isn't it equally i wonderfully how some people JJI will more quickly believe a bad than a good report 7 g |