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Show KILLING YOUR TOWN You don't have to get out and openly op-enly knock Moab to injure it. There are dozens of ways you can discourage discour-age improvements and hold back the wheels of progress besides open hostility. hos-tility. For instance, if a public improvement im-provement is suggested and your opinion is asked, just hint that you'd rather not have anything to say. Or if you are asked to head a committee or serve on one that is pushing some movement for the public good, just refuse to serve, and make excuses. Or if a meeting is called to discuss something in which the entire town is interested, just remain away, or use as an excuse that you were afraid afr-aid it might rain. Any of these are sure ways of blackeyeing your home town, and will tend to discourage those who are really trying to go ahead. It is not so much what you do to help the town along as it is what you refuse to do. Talking in a pessimistic manner man-ner of proposed improvements before you have really given them serious thought is a certain way to throw a wet blanket over the proposition. And, whether you have any influence influen-ce in the community or not, the fact that you appear disinterested is apt to have an ill effect upon the man who doesn't know you as well as those who have lived neighbors to you for years. Get up and say something when an improvement Is about to be made or when a public movement is launched. If you have a better way say so. If you caji improve on the proposition say so. But dont say nothing, do something, don't help to kill a town by holding back as though you are an xious for the movement to fall thro, so you can repeat those, words of the born knocker: "1 told you so." -'-Moab Times |