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Show The TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) j Says TO MR. AND MRS. AVERAGE CITIZEN OF GUNNISON. Regardless of what I think, irrespective of your opinion, there is indisputable indis-putable proof that no individual, business, industry or community ever got any place doing the same old thing in the same old way. We are all humans, subject to our own peculiarities. We object to ! change, and most of us detest preaching and dislike being told; yet every one of us wishes to be healthy, wealthy and wise. We all get in a rut more or less, and true it is that the only difference between a rut and the grave is the depth; and the longer we stay in a rut the deeper it gets. How readily we discard the old and accept the proven new depends on how deep we have sunk. Great educators have said that the most difficult undertaking today is to get the people to think one goes so far as to say that! of every one hun dred persons, two of them do all the thinking for the other 98. Maybe that's right, But I maintain that you and I will do our share if we are shown and given a reason why we should think, especially about that which affects our fun and our pocketbooks. In sixteen years experience I have found that you are always willing to listen; and although you do not always act, I lay that to the fact that yov have not been given the proper incentive. It is my further belief that you are willing to think about Gunnison and will to do something for Gunnison if you are given good and sufficient proof that doing either or both will put money in your pocket. You and I all of us have been told by civic groups and through the columns of the paper we read, hundreds of times, that we should do this and we shouldn't d something else, all for the vag-ue reason that it's good for the community. But if I know you and know my own reactions to such, you are not "sold" on the idea that it's to your particular advantage always ti practice what they preach. You cannot be sold on anything that you know nothing about the only way to know about anything is to THINK about it. A cow in a pasture gazes at a speeding railroad train, but does not really see it; the alarm clock rings in the morning, but the house cat goes on sleeping; a crawfish feel.s and a billy goat smells, but because they never think about it, it doesn't mean anything. If you could ask them they'd tell you that they did not see why they should be any different. If you have never got down to brass tacks and tried pt think out where you'd get anything out of taking an active part in community affairs, you don't know whether there is anything' in it for you. If you have never offer ed to do anything along with other fellows, you don't know whether you'd even get a kick out of it. The only way to find out is to try. You don't have to be one of the big toads in the puddle in order to "do something.'' It isn't always money that counts, nor are days of time away from work necessary. The big thing is to get right mentally.. THINK about Gunnison as a business YOUR business. Don't holler about , it, just think about it as you go along doing whatever you do to make a living. The fellow who never trys, never knows; and he is the fellow who misses the real fun and the good things of life.' T TRY THINKING ABOUT GUNNISON. 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 |