Show r HE 0 F U cyc ro P OLD FASHIONED IDEAS WILL NOT STAND THE GAFF or OF MODERN BUSINESS new business new towns are arc fortunate in not being lettered fettered with old traditions and ideas fortunate that they have no barnacles barnacled barn acles on their ships but many towns date back a long way and too often refuse to to accept new ideas and new ways of doing things for that reason they fall to grow fall fail to advance and keep pace with modem times existing in a modem day with thoughts ideas and ways of doing things of the past modern opportunities tuni ties are ara not recognized old fashioned ideas will not stand 1 the gaff of modem business if you are going to grow and do business with modern modem people you have to be modern for new fashioned buyers avoid old fashioned sellers the old fashioned people and old tash fash boned business will soon be gone and then what Is will cease to be for the town that has not kept up to and ahead of date old fashioned does not necessarily mean older people it does mean those people who because their grandfathers before them did a certain thing in a certain way think that that is the only way it can be done the fellow who says his way and his idea Is always right and the other fellow wrong the fellow that because he cannot do it or see how it is done says it cans be done in other words lb it means mean the fellow who condemns everything which Is beyond his range thinking people recognize that there Is a new order ot of things but the recognition Is more evident in business than in the development and conduct of elvie civic affairs business science has changed man from froin a fighting hunting furtive biped traveling brawling ling on foot or paddling a canoe along winding rivers painfully and slowly through the solitude of the great spaces to a ruler of the earth flying through the air sailing under the sea sending mes sages around the ahe world without or wires you KNOW this his because you have seen it vt this his s same science will bring forth P even en grea greater strides of development and change in the ways of doing things when applied to cities town towne and communities it WILL be applied p IS BEING applied bemuse because you have not SEEN it you may not KNOW it and not knowing it fall fail to appreciate it every town should recognize the advantages of this new order of things and start NOW to DO that which Is necessary to capitalize on the opportunity but to do it old superstitions and prejudices if you have any must be wiped out and a realization of a new order of things kept uppermost in your mind this town doctor article one of a sealers of 52 Is published by the morgan county news in co opera tion with the morgan lions club |