Show Dome Town Toil T n. GOOD CITIZENS AND OTHERS Vital Difference Between Them Though It May Not Always Alway Seem Secret to Be Recognized Two To men went to a man who keeps a small retail store on a residence street the other day and said saul We will wilt paint your whole building every year If you will let us put a sign on the blank wall And he said I cant can't do It So they got up to painting his store and paying And then he told them This Is Is' Isa a residence street The Tue people are willing to l a have lae e me here because because be be- because cause I render service That wall wail of mine doesn't make the street treet look any worse than Is necessary They told him other men did It that no one noticed It that It didn't bring him a dollars dollar's more business but he refused all the arguments they could think of His Ills answer was vai that he owed something to the people of ot l his s neigh neigh- There Is a citizen who Is an asset assetto assetto I Ito to his community And It Is true there I Is no re recognition In It and probably not a dollar in trade There are others like this tIlls man The Theman Theman Theman man who is holding vacant lots for foran foran foran an Increase and ekes out the taxes by renting space for disfiguring signboards signboards signboards sign sign- boards is criticized but his pocket doesn't suffer at suffer at least he lIe Is convinced that it The man who refuses to do this who keeps the grass cut and allows no accUmulations accumulations ac ac- ac- ac of ot rubbish is an on asset But there is no sign to remind his neighbors that he Is a decent citizen So with the man who doesn't let his chimney smoke who keeps his place in repair who doesn't have the public public pub pub- lic lie sidewalk forever blocked And they arent aren't paid Well that depends depends depends de de- de- de on how you look at it Some men are pretty well paid by the Uie consciousness consciousness con con- ss that they enjoy the society of at a decent citizen and good neighbor I when they are alone Milwaukee Milwaukee Journal |