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Show How to Build Up ofjjTear ; Down This Community 1 The Home Merchant Has Earned Support. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmjmmmmmmmmmmKjmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmamtaammmKmmmammmmamKamm WHY nro communities, towns and cities? Unve you ever naked yourself your-self this qucsUon? Did you think tuoy Just happened, or hnd you ever .thought tlint thero was a special need for them? In the beginning be-ginning of time as far back na history tukes uswe Und that MEN HAVE BANDED THEMSELVES 'TOGETHER FOR MANY AND OBVIOUS OB-VIOUS REASONS, chief among which are the benefits to be gained from organized society as a social, Intellectual, spiritual and commercial center. Collectively we aro strong, forceful and aggressive and possess power and means to attain a growth which will give to us anil our progeny opportunities for better living to develop our moral, spiritual and intellectual life, tho things for which we wcro created. THEREFORE THE SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS OF EVERY CITIZEN CITI-ZEN OF ANY COMMUNITY LIES IN THE INTEREST HE TAKES IN THAT COMMUNITY AND THE GOOD WORK HE CAN DO TO ASSIST IN ITS UPBUILDING. Now, then, if wo are to succeed as Individuals and as a community wo must not only strive for our own personal success and welfare, BUT MUST GIVE OP OUR WORK AND SUBSTANCE UNSELFISHLY TO HELP TIIN OTHERS. Everything wo do to help In the upbuilding and advancement of our city we do just that much toward our owu personal rucccss. No man can live and prosper unto himself alone, FOR WE ARE INTERDEPENDENT, "and, realizing this, if wo as citizens will all unite and pull together for tho common good we will prosper as a city and consequently as individuals. Well paved streets and sidewalks, good sewerage system, thoroughly enforced en-forced sanitary laws, well regulated and energetic police force, competent flro fighting equipment and rigid building regulations arc economic necessities and therefore' they moro largely affect us as a community thiua as individuals. But beyond this and underlying it all and upon which rests the foundation of tho whole Is THE SUCCESS OF THE BUSINESS MAN. This man makes an investment, goes into some kind ofbUBluesa to manufacture or sell goods-puts goods-puts his money nt stake, employs labor and begins his work to build bettor. THIS MAN IS THE CORNERSTONE OF THE COMMUNITY-thc man you should rally around and support I THE SUCCESS OF A TOWN DEPENDS ON THE SUCCESS OF ITS BUSINESS MEN, WHILE THE 8UCCESS OF THE BUSINESS MEN DEPENDS ON SUPPORT THEY RECEIVE FROM THE PEOPLE AT LARGE, EACH BEING, HOWEVER, DEPENDENT t)NE ON THE OTHER. No merchant can succeed without the patronage of tho public. Ho is absolutely abso-lutely and entirely dependent on the custom of each and e'rry Individual who has a penny to spend, tho little mite of each, taken In tta aggregate, making the yoluino on which be runs his business. The merclwatMiavlfiK plenty of .competition, must in o&lerto get tho "ranWnjff IPPIW JBinri llllifprV"'1' flnnw' 'aud-offoivto thomjfuo vWy DeSt reaullteiUBHUT IJPWUllT - - '1$Ki -fa$ V ,n The merchant pays large rentals, taxes, privilege licensee;;1 lUurawe, bedsides bed-sides employing many clerks and assistants, in order to malntn'vttHnd conduct his business in such a manner as to meet your approval, and to succeed let me emphasize it ngaln-HE MUST HAVE YOUR PATRONAGE TO MAKB HIS BUSINESS PAY. This community has some as fine stores every kind and conducted by as fine a set of men as you will find anywhere on the face of tho globe liberal, big hearted, progressive men. No better retail stores, no better wholesale or Jobbing houses, no better banks, no better mills, no better schools, no bet-' bet-' ter churches, no better municipal or public utilities, cau bo found nnywhero than right hero in your home town, nil absolutely all mado posslblo only by and through tho co-operation and generous giving of tho business men. But, my good friends, with all of these extraordinary accomplishments, thero aro some things being done today which aro STUMBLING BLOCKS IN THE PATH OF OUR GREATER GROWTH and further developmentdifferences, develop-mentdifferences, if you please, which we must reconcile and overcome if we are to continue to grow and prosper. t To bo continued under the HK "HELP YOUKSELF BY HELPING YOUR TOWN." |