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Show H REAI) AND REFLECT lip -' There's room in every town for the p U booster. 'We've a welcome right here in p ' ( Logan for any of them that want to come fcv , - in, hang up their hats and make this their f ,' ? home. But there isn't an inch of space in . & M town we would care to have the knocker L i ,' feel we reserved for him. And right ally al-ly . ( ong this line, for the benefit of the man H ' who is inclined to knock, we're going to Cgg print again a little poem almost every pa-fijll pa-fijll per in the nation has printed at one time mm or another. It is always good so for H ; fear you never run across it again, clip Eat,' it. and show it to the knocker: P - If you like tot live in the kind of a town, f Like the kind of a town you like, L v' You needn't slip your clothes in a grip, $ And start on a long, long hike; You'll only find what you've left behind h For there's nothing that's really new, It's a knock at yourself when you knock S , " ' your town, It isn't the town, it's You- I Real towns aren't made by men afraid I ' Else somebody forges ahead; I ' v When everyone works and nobody shirks fc, , You can raise a town from the dead1 !,,,: And if while you make your personal ' stake, a ( Your neighbor can make one, too, ft t Your town will lie what vou want to see, ..: l It isn't the town, it's You- j , aJ WHERE THANKS ARE FEW !AS We've thought over it a good bit, and " ' we've about come to the conclusion that there's no profession on earth in which the worker gets less appreciation and more knocks and abuse than in the newspaper news-paper game. And we have also reached the conclusion that the reason all newspaper news-paper editors go to .heaven when they die is they get so much of the other place while they're on earth. No matter how noblv the editor boosts for the development of his town and community, com-munity, no matter how loyally he may support a friend in politics or extol the virtues of a citizen of the town, no mat ter how loudly he sings the praises of the town belle about to be wed or how gently v he lays a wreath of pretty words on the &' grave of a departed citi.en.he seldom jX hears those magic words "Thank you." And few times in .his life does he catch a whisper of that cheering sentiment, "Well Done." . ; But let him make a slip in his. paper-let paper-let him say Bill Jones did something he didn't do or Mrs. Brown said something she didn't say, and everybody in town takes a whack at him- This is true in the newspaper game everywhere in the world and being a part of the world Logan is nov exception. But with all the knocks, with all the lack of thanks and little cheering words that could be said but are left forgotten, the editor drives right on boosting, and he always will , He was born to help the other fellow, jjurid-like the birds" learned early is life,$t'.if no one else feeds him heaven mays" And maybe that's why the Lord keep's :so"many editors edi-tors on earth to keep the balance of the world from souring or turning stale. i ft - A SPRING .TONIC -ty We read in an exchange that the circus is a spring tonic that will cure all oui-, woes and there is a lot of sense in the statement. In these days wfien nearly everyone is 'seeing things' When there" are so many people who are apprehensive of the future certainly a lazy elephant or a cage off-monkeys, arid the glitter and tinsel of the show in general, ought to do a world of good. That is why we folks in Logan are ready to welcome just as many circuses as want to pitch their tents here. The odor of the sawdust ring is better than any medicine. And the slow rumble of the wheels of the circus wagon and the wobbly camel all of it is a tonic that seeps into the blood and makes a fellow forget there ever "was such a thing as trouble. Blackberry time used to be a thing that cured human ills. No matter how the industries dragged along, if there was a big crop of hjackberries the world seemed saved. But not all of us can en-ioy en-ioy picking blackberries. Besides the blackberries came too late in the season to take the place of the circus, for the tonic is needde earlv in the year. So, as long as the circus goes out regularly in the spring and as lone as all of us welcome wel-come it and feel that same snell which came over ais in boyhood is there any need to worry about strikes and revolutions revolu-tions isn't the old world in pretty good shape after all! Pi Pi fc The strik oef 70,000 industrial workers in Vienna, is veidence that conditions are from settled in the industrial centers of Europe,, and that the idea of the holdup, hold-up, takes precedence, when in the end mere satisfactory results might be reached by arbitration, in which case it is certain to be a better feeling among all parties. Pi Pi Pi The United States government w.ll participate in the observance of the anniversary anni-versary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Provincetown and at Plymouth Rock, this year, and a bill has passed the house and senate appropriating $400,000 to enable en-able the federal government to do its share in making this 300th anniversary 'of that event a national success- |