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Show LET US ALL GET IN AND BOOST Article Handed In By a Keaaer and Worthy of Consideration Con-sideration A boost for our hotels Is a boost for Logan. Let's all get In and boost. Country hotel men frequently complain com-plain that merchants nnd other business busi-ness men of their town do not appreciate ap-preciate or support with their good wilt or patronage thoir local hotels. This Is only too truo and has been mado the topic of criticism at various times. Some of theso local business men are even so Ignorant or Indifferent Indiffer-ent that Instead of lending any aid to tho local hotel they knock It with criticism to the commerlcal travelers. What would a merchant say If ho heard that the hotel man of his town had advised citizens to run over to tho next town and buy thoir drygoods. Yet that Ib what sonio merchants do to their local hotel men boost tho hotel In tho next town ana tell the traveling men how quick no can get there. If tho merchant Is not running a Marshall Field storo It Is Decauso his town can't support such n store; It tho local hotel Is not a hotel La-Sallo La-Sallo It Is becauso tho town won't maintain a hotel La Sallo. Ono merchant mer-chant Is quoted as saying: "A hotel Is no good to a town." Of courso this idea and httltudo is Just gross Ignorance, Ignor-ance, and tho only euro for Ignorance Is education. A town or city Is sized , up by Its hotels poor hotels, poor town; good hotels, good town. It Is mighty hard In a country town for a hotel to be at all as It should be, If It has not tho good will and kindly support sup-port of Ita leading citizens. There are some mighty poor country hotels, but In such towns nlno times In ten you will find a lot of mighty poor business bus-iness men in o'ther lines; tightwads, "who go on Sunday to tho church," nnd drop plugged nickels In the basket bas-ket follows who think a hotel man Is getting rich off them from a $5 a week meal ticket, who want to tell tho hotel proprietor how ho ought to run tho house, who drink ico water, uso toilets and towels, wear out rotunda rot-unda chairs, and go across the street when they buy n nickel cigar. With Continued on pngo olght LET US ALL GET IN AND BOOST fl Continued from page ono. fl such citizenship often goes a rundown I I bedbuggy hotel. You get what you I give. A town that Is entitled to a good hotels will in time get a good I hotel, but tho Knockers club nas fl never yet built or operated one. fl |