Show V. V THE HOME TOWN TO I r People seldom stop to consider how much their town town means to to them They take it too much for granted and andin in counting up 1 1 their blessings make a superficial inventory that fails to credit the s source from which many of their dearest benefits slow How It is easy f. f t to overlook the home town in summing up the sources of ones one's ii happiness because the the town is such a large all enveloping all l ping th thing thing- ng-I ng dJ r so large in III fact that its it's hard to see see and and th the citizen blindly f draws sustenance from it like au an infant from its mother Traced to their source most of lifes life's blessings will be found to have their root root in that aggregation of human interests known as a town The town is the unit of modern civilization and is the channel through 1 which h civilization confers its benefits There is scarcely a phase of civilization that does not find direct and specific expression in inthe t. 4 the life and organization of a town that is large enough to have a school a library a bank a mill or factory a church a waterworks waterworks waterworks water water- works a brass b band nd a newspaper and a railroad station Representing Representing seating education education literature finance industry religion hygiene r f j art and the speedy distri distribution of intelligence and commodities J. J these institutions express all that is highest and best in human r ft n achievement achievement If civilization is good then the home town is good r and the citizens sh should uld be proud and thankful of it Instead of t casting wondering and envious glances at a distant metropolis l let t 3 us glow with pride for our own little city realizing that the difference difference dif dif- ference e is only one of degree and not of kind |