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Show I " I Enter Without Knocking "Enter without knocking, and remain re-main under the same conditions," was the import of a small sign we noticed j tacked up on the door of an office some- i time ago, and at the we thought what1 a good thing it would be, if we had a large boarJ bearing just such a legend in bold type at the different ; points of entrance into our Valley, and also one or two in the outskirts of our j towns! If this were done the chronic kicker might take a hint and not be liable to the full force of a well inten- ; tioned kick that would be his just reward. j There are too many of us, who, when coming into a town, district or office, looks only for the faults existant therein. We never take into consideration considera-tion the magnitude or grandeur of the other conditions or the obstacles overcome over-come to redeem the same to the condi- 1 tion it is, nor the points wherein that particular community is far superior to any other in some distinct respect. I Some of our country is comparatively young; some of our institutions are weak , some of our people are rujgeJ pioneers, who in bringing the Valley into the present state, have given tneir best of vitality, energy, and intelligence, and in doing so have given '.o tne very air, streams, and sod, that whicn none of us ever would have done. There are many things we can find fault with, with little effort, but this isn't what we are here for. Who is there that thinks of picking out half a dozen of his very worst faults and telling them to everyone he meets? There are not very m my. Tnera are far mure wno are ever anxious to tell of their neighbor's flaws and don't neglect to make tnem appear sjme-what sjme-what exaggerated, eicner. ThTi why should we pick out numberless faults with the community in which we live? Is not that community ours, and is it not likely that we are partially to blame for some fault so plainly discernible dis-cernible to our blameless (?) 8 ght? If we are so set on knocking, then let us knock upward and onward, not using a hammer alone but use a few good nails of fellowship, goodwill, brotherly love, and unity, that we may have a fortification that no knocking from without can do the least injury, and inasmuch as this is OUR VALLEl" let us protect the same anJ try our best to remedy any little existing faults just as readily and as earnestly as we would endeavor to eradicate our own personal deficiency. |