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Show vt Buildmcj MUCH IN THE POINT OF VIEW "Home Town" Will Not Look Alike to the Resident and the Visitor for a Day, In the smoking compartment of a pullman not very long ago a gentleman told his fellow travelers a great many good things about his home town. Indeed, In-deed, be told so many that one of his fellow travelers thought he would visit that town and, If he found it as represented, repre-sented, would move his business there. In due season the traveler did visit that town and on returning to his city office observed that the representative of the town whom he had met on the train "had drawn on his Imagination tremendously." tre-mendously." He may have and he may not have It all depends on viewpoint. To the resident It may have been an Ideal town ; to the stranger it uay have lacked many things he regarded as essential. es-sential. To the resident, substantial well-to-do people living In comfortable homes with plenty of breathing space about them, having gardens and shrubbery, shrub-bery, with a community center build. Ing, and just enough Industry to give opportunity for livelihood, It may have been desirable. On the other hand. Us unpaved streets, lack of street cars, theaters, and so on, may have stamped the town to the city man as undesirable undesir-able for home or business. The one lived there, perhaps all his life; while the other could only exist there without with-out the excitements and pleasures to which he had been accustomed, though In the great city where he lived he did not know even his next door neighbor. But beyond these things there may have been other reasons, and one of them may be this the resident had helped make the town what It Is; the other had no sentiment In the matter whatsoever, simply a cold calculated estimate. Men who create take pride In their creations. Good tome-makers are generally good town-makers, because be-cause they want good homes In good towns. They have public spirit, civic pride, and loyalty, because when men work together for the common good they stick together for greater progress. prog-ress. Men In small towns know what they have accomplished; those who live In large cities have to guess at what they have done too many find little opportunity to do anything, so engrossed en-grossed are they with their own private business. There's a reason why the one has sentiment while the other has none. Grit I |
