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Show The TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) Says Is there anyone -who thinks that it isn't a good idea to make the town in which he lives just a liUle more attractive, a little more interesting, a little bit larger, and a little better? But, if a man came into your town a stranger and said to any twenty people on the street, or in the stores, "This looks like a pretty good town here," what percentage of the replies do you suppose would be for the town? If he were to put the question to you, what would you say? If you were working in a store and a customer said, "This looks like a pretty good sitore," and you answered, "Oh, yes, it's all right if you like it," or "Well, it used to be all right," the boss would no doubht fire you. If he didn't, he should! If you answered a customer's inquiry of "What kind of a store is ttnis," with "slow," "dead," "terrible" or any of those unprintable descriptions that you and I and everyone have heard people say about their town, you would be classed as a blithering idiot, mutton-headed numbskull I and and loony nincompoop and who wants to be that? j Maybe you have never thought of it that way. Well, one can't think j of everything, but here is something every resident of every city must think about sooner or later, and for your own personal betterment it had better be sooner. Start thinking about your community as a business look at it just as if it) were a store business a business of which you aro part. Put out of your head the old-fashioned idea of your town being something that just happened something that you can't get hold of an intangible thing so big that whatever you do as an individual won't make any difference ony way or another. You don't have to be mayor, president of a civic club, head of a bank or a store to be important; your vote counts justs as much as that of any banker, doctor, lawyer, merchant), or city official, and it's the attitude you take Itoward your community the things you do for or against it that makes it alive or dead,, good or bad, forging ahead or standing still. When industry considers your town, it is the people they want to know aboult, not just the few shining lights the big boys alone and have their men study. It's you they "feel out," often without your knowing it, and on your, your attitude, how you look alt, act toward, and talk about your community, com-munity, depends on whether their report is favorable for a new factory, distributing dis-tributing point, headquarters for representatives, or for whatever they are considering in your town. As a citizen, you are a salesperson for your community the same as a clerk is a salesperson of a store; the merchants, bankers and professional people are the same as department heads of a store, and the policemen of your community are the floorwalkers. It's always up to the sales force of any business. Your town is a business busi-ness your business and just the same it's up to YOU. Copyrigbj;., 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction prohibited in whole or in part This Town Doctor article, one of a series of fifty-two, is published by The Gunnison Valley News in cooperation with the Gunnison Lions Club. |