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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR (THE DOCTOR OF TOWNS) ; says , CIVIC LOYALTY IS A FINE-SOUNDING FINE-SOUNDING PHRASE It is a fine, high-sounding phrase Civic Loyalty j it makes a good text for a lot of oratory and columns upon columns of newspaper editorials, but after all fliere is no difference between Civic Loyalty and any other kind of loyalty. Whole books have been written on the subject; any number of sermons preached on and about it ; hundreds of speakers have put thousands of people to sleep talking talk-ing about it -Still, what is iter it-er perhaps it is better to say: ..iry to make it so, and to do that ,a have to be loyal to it, stick ,p for it, boost it, and if necessary ight for it. Loyalty produces a reciprocal fieet in all'wiith whom a loyal person comes in contact. A man who is loyal to his friiends, fam-ly, fam-ly, town, country, and loyal to Ills God will never be troubled with disloyalty on the part. ; of others. . There is no real success wiithout loyalty. , . . Whatever Civic Loyalty is, it isn't knocking your town, buying buy-ing mail order, or going to the next nearest town to purchase when you can buy the same thing at home, and usually for :; less wnai isn t in The city in which you live is your city; fits institutions are yonrs its life your family's and your children '8; and besides, you are a part of it, in fact, you are the city. Such being the case, you naturally do not want to be disloyal dis-loyal to it, for the worst of all is disloyalty to one's self. The man who is disloyal to his town is disloyal to himself and to all that is best in him. He is his own worst enemy, for he undermines his character and thus deprives his efforts of that incentive which is the most powerful of all factors. Your loyalty or disloyalty makes the place where you live wliat it is or what it is not, and you can pass the buck to 'George' the weather or prohibition. You expect your city to be a good place in which to live, in fact, j'ou sometimes get "het up" and demand that be such a place. But it is a good place, only if you yourself do that which is neces-i neces-i ... money. , ; Spending your money with! out of town peddlers is not only dis-loj-alty but downright foolhardi-ness, foolhardi-ness, if you value your money. Bragging that you bought it in the city, and that, therefore, it must be better, when you could have purchased it from a local dealer, is not only- disloyalty, but it is flaunting your lack of loyalty, besides taking a chance on being laughed at behind your back by people w ho know. When a stranger says: "This looks like a pretty good town you have here", and you reply and say: -"Oh, yes, it's all. right, if you like it," or some other derogatory remark; re-mark; or when you hear some un-;hhiking un-;hhiking native ridicule your community, com-munity, and turn it off as a joke, that is not only disloyalty, but darned poor business. Preaching to others what they should do and then doing the op- "5 posite yourself is disloyalty, - so "Try The Home Folks First." 1 |
