Show CO KI FORT A WAY TO COMMUNITY this community represents much to all of us it Is home it is is whore where our families are reared it Is tile the center ot of our joys and sorrows it Is where our property interests lie ile the better the community the better it Is for each individual member of tile the community A greater degree of prosperity tor for the comin community unity as a whole means a greater degree of 0 prosperity tor for each individual making a better community a more prosperous community Is the work of individuals but of individuals but of 0 individuals working together along comprehensive and progressive gres sive lines As a community we get nowhere when each one travels his own path each leading in a dit lerent ferent direction and each striving aror for a different goal we have col as interests and to accomplish anything must work collectively each for or all when we think ot of ourselves as a community circle in which each member of 0 the community has a place we can visualize the benefits bene tits of operative cooperative co action passing from one to another around this circle when by such operative cooperative co action we increase the prosperity the wealth of tile the community we have increased the prosperity the wealth of each member of 0 the circle A better town means a better market place tor for the tanners farmers who are a part of the community and a better market place means better farm values A better town means better property values ind and this without increasing but in reality decreasing the burden ot of local taxation means better schools tor for our children better streets more attractive living jiving conditions tor for all ot of us communities in which the individual members are not cot working together are dying because 0 of a lack ot of cooperative effort with each backward step there comes a decrease in property values a decrease in tho the number of opportunities to foi the individual in the home town this community cannot afford to be numbered among those that are going backward we must and will keep in the forefront ot of those that ar forward we can do this by working together for the interest of all this working together means that our merchants must do all that Is possible to supply our needs tor for merchandise at equitable prices it means that they must afford our farmers a market place for such of their products as are disposed of through local buyers and sellers dut but tor for the merchants to to do these things means that we must give them an ity to supply our needs they cannot carry adequate stocks of merchandise it if we do not offer them patronage tor for such stocks we mus must realize that the prosperity ot of our merchants but adds to the prosperity of the community as a whole an increased prosperity for each of us as individuals our bankers our professional people are arc here to render service to each of us as individuals our later abts are necessarily their interests and their interests are our interests we grow and prosper only as they grow and prosper we aro are all a part of tile the community circle each each other unit let us make our community if a better place in which to live by coop co op effort |