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Show SELL YOUR CITY LECTURER SAYS Perry B. Armold Tells Business Employes to Support C. of C. "Selling Your City." was the subject sub-ject of an address, the closing one of a series, delivered Friday night at the Central Junior high school by Perry B. Armold, business lecturer The auditors audi-tors were composed of employos of various business houses of Ogden. In his opening remarks the speaker said that a city was like' an individual and that It made friends or enemies for much the same reasons that an Individual In-dividual does so. Clean streets, smooth sidewalks, shade trees, well-groomed stor'cs, these, he said, were some of the things that made for the success of a city. The initial impression made upon tho visitor, according to the speaker, was of much importance, some cities seeming to say to the tourist or Stranjrei within it. "We don't care whether you drive through here Or not nor whether you remain." PHOGRKSSIVK SPIRIT. He also touched upon the necessary initiative and enterprise of the citi-7ens citi-7ens that made up a city. A progressive progres-sive spirit must be prosent at all times he maintained and the citliens could not afford to sit and wait for success to come to the city but muBt get out snd hutle for It. Touching upon the elements that Impeded Im-peded the growth of cities he enum-i erated among others the knocker, the hoarder, the citizens that send outside j for their merchandise, the business man that expected patronage while at the some time he bought hLa own clothing and that of his wife and fam-j ily In other cities and tho man that refused to join and support his commercial com-mercial club. EXTEND CITIES' INFLUENCE He urged hla hearers to spread the dootrlne of ignoring the line of the. city limits on all sides ond to strlvu continually to extend the influence of iiii cil iu an p'liius lor a raaius 01 . at least 20 miles from the central point. This, he said, was possible today to-day as never before due to the popularity popu-larity of automobile travel. He compared th? various civic ot -ga nidations in any city to the spokes of a wheel and the hub to the com-I I merclal club, stutlng that with a good I tire in the form of co-operation an excellent wheel of progress had been constructed. He also touched lightly upon too many sales and their cumulatlvo effect ef-fect in demoralizing prices. 1 The schools, he said, were of the utmost ut-most importance and shoifld receive the earnest support of all citizens He commended tho efforts of the Weber club and the chamber of commerce com-merce and urged all of his hearers to Join these organizations If possible |