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Show Let's Do Things. The man who does things is the fellow fel-low who gets there. A drone is a worthless wart. The worker wins. When a town wants to be hnpiovcd it is the workers.-thc fellows who do things-tliat Improves the town. They build sidewalks, pave streets, put up new modern business houses and residences, start new enterprises, make the old town haid to catch. The man who does things is alwajs a booster. He gets theie with both feet himself and makes everything he undertakes move in the same direction. If theie Is a peison who needs help the fellow who raises the money to buiy the dead and feed the living Is the man who does things. In a business way the man who does the business Is the same fellow who makes everything else go. It pays to be a doer. It pays to have a reputation for pushing things you undertake to a successful termination. This is frequently fre-quently half the light. People know when a fellow Is In the habit of winning win-ning that he will win If It takes him a hundred yeais to do it. The young professional man wlo staits out to win can do so much easier after he gets a reputation for doing things. A farmer who does things Is worth more to the country than a hundred hands. One man In every community who docs things will make his country move to the front hi rapid strides. Wc all admire action, but the life Is too stienuous for the most of us. What this country needs Is more doers. Wc honor the man who does things much more than we do the rich man or the talented man. In politics, in religion, In business, In everything, the man wi. los things wins. And he dots not do things for himself alone. He Is liberal and helps others. His motto is, DO. And he does everything he undertakes. tiOODKOADS. Dclavan, Wis., has one of the best plants for building and maintaining good rpads in the country. Xoar the town Is a rich deposit of gravel, and this has been bought by the town authorities. au-thorities. They also purchased a powerful crusher and traction engine and set up the machinery handy to the gravel bed. The larger stones arc crushed to a uniform size, and the material ma-terial is hauled out on the roads In and leadlnir to the town until a line and serviceable system has been built. The- stone Is rolled by a heavy steam roller until It is hard and smooth These Improvements have been the means of bringing increased trade to the town. A TOWN TO AVOID. "When j ou lind a town that has made no Improvements over last year In streets, walks and buildings you have found a town where property is worth 10 per cent less than last year, and it isn't a good town to buy a home in. USK PKINTKUS" INK One of the llrst requisites of a good businessman in this age or mercantile activity Is that he should understand the art of advertising. The same mles that govern private concerns should govern tho business allaiis of towns and cities. Kvery civilized town that has industrial aspirations and hopes to grow and prosper must needs let the world know what it has to oiler by way of Inducements Manufacturing enterprises, educational educa-tional Institutions, business and professional pro-fessional men are ever .coking desirable desir-able locations, and it is a noticeable fatjjigtjcompaiatlvely few cities and towns anj attracting theui. This Is because many towns which possess good water power, good shipping facilities, good school and residential advantages, lack the life and enterprise enter-prise to let the world know what they possess. They do not grow because they are unknown. They are like the drowsy merchant who doesn't think It worth while to advertise, but prefers to sit and watch the spider spin webs across his doorway. Kvery new enterprise that locates In a town adds to the prosperity and business possibilities of every dealer In the pla'-c, and every citizen who has his own good and the good of the community at heart should take a hand In getting his town into touch with the busy, wide awake world. |