| Show 4 Z ac wa at abi rbi 0 F 0 rc do if you were working in ill a store and a a stonier customer cu said this looks like a I 1 i pretty good store and answered oh yes its all right it if you like it orwell it used to be all right the boss would no doubt tire fire you it if you he should 1 if you answered a customers inquiry of what kind of a store is is this with slow dead or any of those unprintable descriptions that you and I 1 and everyone have heard people use about their town you would be classed cla as a bi idiot mutton headed numbskull numb skull and a loony nincompoop and who wants to be that start thinking about your community as a business look at it just as if it were a store a business of which you are a part put out of your head the old fashioned idea of your town being comet something hing I 1 that just happ happened elied something that you p cant ant an t get hold of a an n intangible thing so big that whatever you do as an individual wont make any difference one way or another you dont have to be mayor president of the civic club head of a bank or a store to be important your vote counts just as much as that of any banker doctor lawyer merchant or city official and its the attitude you take toward your town the things you do for or against it that makes it alive or dead good or bad forging ahead or standing still when i industry considers your town it is the people they want to know about not just the few shining lights the big boys alone have their men study its you they feel out of often ten without your knowing it and in you your attitude how you look a at act toward and talk about your community I 1 depends on oh whether their report is favorable for a new fast ory distributing point headquarters for representatives or for whatever they are considering your town As a citizen you are a salesperson for your community the same as a clerk isa Ls a salesperson in a store the in merchants er chants bankers and professional people are the same as department heads of a store and the policemen of your community are the floorwalkers floor walkers its always up to the sales force of any busin business ss your town is a bu business sin your business and just the same its up to you this town doctor doe t 0 r article one of a series of 52 is published by the county news in cooperation with the morgan lions club I 1 Gopy copyright right 1920 A D stone reproduction prodoc aion prohibited in whole or in part |
