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Show A FINE COMPLIMENT A stranger who recently had occasion occa-sion to spend several days In Delta told us just before departing for his home that one thing which impressed him during his stay here was the number of latch-strings that were hanging out. He was from a big city, where one hardly knows his' l'ext-door neighbor, and- it was pleasing pleas-ing to him to be where people spoke to him whether they knew him or have time to answer his questions and to treat him courteously. That is a mighty nice compliment for the town, but It also proves that there is still another good reason for making your home in a place this size. You bump right into neighborly neigh-borly help and courtesy at every turn : you find people who are more interested in-terested in life than in seeing how many dollars they can pile up.. You feel that community spirit which the smaller towns of this country possess pos-sess but which the large cities brag so much about. The gentleman was Impressed with the fact that our people peo-ple had lime to answer his questions, and seemed pleased to be of assistance. assist-ance. He is carrying that same report re-port wherever he goes, and such reports re-ports never do a town any harm. If making and hoarding nfbney is your nrime object of life, then you belong, possibly, in the large city. But if you want to feel that you are cared for by your fellowmen; if you want to feel the real community spirit and know what it is to have real neighbors, and neighbors you can depend on. then our advice is to stav right here, here where the latch-strings latch-strings are hanging out nnd where pponle have time to be polite to the strangers. |