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Show H TOWN LOYALTY. H A tremendous improvement has been made in school H life during recent years by cultivating what is called H school spirit. You didn't hear much about it in the school H of 20 years ago. But in the thoroughly modern school, H you hear the idea constantly emphasized. The pupils are brought up to see that they are not H merely individual and scattered units, but are working H toward certain ends that they all have in common. If H they want their ball team to succeed, they can't do it H merely by remaining indifferent or standing off and criti-H criti-H rising. In the same way the pupils are taught to back H up whatever enterprise the school starts. They learn that H if the school is to have a good reputation and get the H facilities it needs, the pupils must consider not their own H pleasure alone, but must work and study for the benefit 1 of the school as a whole. When that spirit is promoted, a school acquires a wide H reputation. It is successful both in athletics and scholar-H scholar-H ship. Now the question rises, why can't this idea be ap-H ap-H phed to town life? These boys and girls, that have been H taught to stand by their school and its enterprises, why H should not they come out and apply the idea to standing H oy town enterprises? m The first element in town spirit is supporting all our M iionie enterprises. One phase of that not regarded by all M as it should be, is standing by the home stores. When a H man starts a retail business in a town, he adds to its fa- M olities for comfortable living. It is for everyone's ad- M vantage to have him succeed. H ,, But he can,t' unless we give him the preference over H the merchants of other cities. A town in which the spirit H of home loyalty prevails always has the air of prosperity. H It is always growing, and always it appears a little better, B brighter, and more prosperous than its actual census fitr- H ures warrant. |