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Show J. The TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) Says IF I COULDN'T BOOST, I'D MOVE OUT ! ! A town that is good enoguh to live in, good enought to provide your livelihood, provide your children with schools and playgrounds; a town whose citizens are broadminded enough to put up with your peculiarities, is a town good enough for you to boost. If you can't boost, do the community commun-ity at least one good favor and move out. William Hale Thompson, Chicago's most cussed and discussed mayor, says ""-'Throw away your hammer and buy a horn." That's one thing Mr. Thompson says with which all the thinking people in his domain are in accord. It is good advice, however, to suggest that when tooting your horn to be sure you are in the right key. The man who always knocks and runs down the place where he lives is not only a pest but a public liability. Towns should have a place to pen such people up put them, all together in one place and leb them contaminate only each other. The disease they have is worse than smallpox and is just as malicious and contagious. The knockers creed is "Whatever is is punk." The easiest? thing in the world to do h to knock. It doesn't take any brains and is the easiest way to attTact attention. Knocking is cheap a cheap trf.ck used only by cheap people, bub expensive ex-pensive to them in the long run. : Even a knocker hates a knoeher and sooner or later everybody shuns him because they are afraid of hm. Usually the fellow who knock s his town, knocks his competitor and his; neighbor and like a bee, kills himself stinging others. ; Nobody ever got anywhere running other people down. The old saying that every knock is a boost is true only when the knocker i-i knocked out. If any merchant needs to lose the patronage of his fellow citizens, it's Ve fellow who is forever knocking who decries and belittles every attempt to do anything for, or maike something of the town who says that every itllow or organization tha t tries to do things has an axe to grind. On the other hand, t he man who stops blaming conditions, government, prohibition and competition the man who quits laying the blame of his own shortcomings onto his itssociates, friends and relatives and takes unto him- self the blame for thiugs not being as he would like to have them that , . ' man will take advantage of every opportunity to make his town a better place in which to live, work, play and Make money. Every town has its faults, but evecy town has its good points. If a town has little to talk about, that is ju6t that much more reason to correct the faults, or at least k'eap still about them if a man hasn't enough gumption gump-tion to, do things that wftl help correct them. (Copryright, 1929, A. D. Stone.) |