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Show XO CITY LIKE OUR OWN. Next to a man's family and business, says a contemporary, nothing shoulu stand nearer to his heart than the town in which he lives. It in his home. ' 11" is the place where he wins his competence compet-ence and educates his children. He wants to make it as populous, as thirfty and as widely known as possible. He cannot afford to ;oe indiiFerent to anything any-thing which will further these ends: It is true that demands for such purposes are frequent and that it is necessary to use some discrimination in choosing methods, but in a general sense it can be said that a town which is not worth) of the devotion of its citizens in inak-! inak-! ing it widely known and greatly prosperous, pros-perous, is a town in which it is not. worth while to live at all. West ern men should remember that such public service is the penalty of living in the ambitious west where the glories glo-ries of civilization are in the futuie rather than past. They should not forget for-get that they arc the forefathers of this new empire, and it falls to their lot to leave a legacy rather than to receive one from other hands. It is a mistake for the public to expect a few prominent promi-nent citizens to perform all the labor and bear all the expense of such undertakings. under-takings. Reai estate i.- not the only interest in-terest benefitted when :i (own is nmdo famous, populous and therefore prosperous. pros-perous. Everybody, down to the man who sells peanuts on the corner, feels the pulse-beat of this new development. develop-ment. Everybody can thereore afford to do his share to bring it about. Nor are the benetits to be measured by the amount of money obtained in making a town known to the world. There is no wife like our wife. There are no children like our children. There should be no town like our town the town where we live, the town whose streets our baby's footsteps tread, the town where we shall some day sleep. If such a tovn is worth anything it is worth all we can do for it. It is worth the lull measure of our devotion, whether we receive an immediate im-mediate dividend in dollars and cents or whether we merely take our shaie of the common benefits accruing to the community. |