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Show BOASTER vs. BOOSTER What would your town amount to without the booster? Ever stop to hsk yourself whether you are boosting boost-ing or just hanging on? The booster is the fellow who takes tak-es hold of forlorn hope and, by his cheerful optimism and bull-dog per-serverance per-serverance keeps hammering away 'till he accomplishes his object. Little difficulties do not trouble 'the booster. He fattens on them. He is so red-blooded that he scorns an easy walk-over in any undertaking. undertak-ing. He usually hunts for game worth while, and In all such hunts the difficulties are numerous and great. But he goes at them with a will to win, and the will is the only quality under God's heaven that will ! win. The booster doesn't see the faults :and fallings of your town, or if he does see them, he passes them by j with a smile and a cheerful prophecy that they will soon be remedied. He sees only the bright side, and he so constantly plays up that bright side that after a while you naturally come , to the conclusion that It far outweighs out-weighs the dark, which Is very sensible sen-sible of you, though you should have been helping him all along to bury ' the dark and hold up the light. But don't get .it under your hat j that boasting Is boosting. The two ; are as widely different as daylight and dark. The boaster Is satisfied the booster is ever reaching ,out for more. The boaster proudly calls attention at-tention to what we have, but the booster calls attention to what we can have if we display sufficient en-jergy. en-jergy. The boaster lives in the glory 'of the present but the booster is I ever looking to the future and plan-j plan-j ning new and greater achievements, j Let's all be boosters and get un-rder un-rder the load and help "tote." |