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Show j THE TOWN DOCTOR T I'l'ha loctor of T.'wns iiuyz) ? h.NOW 101 K Al.MOSI'ilKKL; Two men were driving a beautiful winding roadway through a rolling wooded country when rounding a curve they suddenly camo upon a nunilier of cars at a standstill. There was no accident, there was no police officer, but no barrier of KloulcHl Iron or electrified steel, no highway's "Itoad Closed" or "Bridge Out" could have been more effective; cars ea.st-buund iind "westward ho" stand still a.s if cementbound to the had, therefore. "oen annihilated; others had looked across the highway and v'-'ied thoy were on the other Bf.le; others had peered out at the whizzing automobiles and turned back with fear and trembling in their hearts, and many' more were content to stay whore they were. But this little "kitty" knew the power of her atmosphere, decided to get somewhere, some-where, made known her intentions, started, kept on going, and got to where she was going to the other side of the road. pavement, for a mother Seganku had cliosen this arterial highway for an ostentatious promenade of her progeny. pro-geny. That mother polecat and a lot of little polecats were going places, and In their going, behemoths of gasoline-driven gasoline-driven Iron and steel brothers in creation of odoriferous atmosphere whose path she crossed, became as etatues. With glance neither to right nor left she led her little family across the highway, while a score or more of earthly dwellers looked on with awe and apprehension, and marveled at her boldness, nerve and determination. determina-tion. There is no doubt but that many of her kind had ventured to cross that road but faltered after starting and The moral to communities is this: Recognize the power of YOUR atmosphere at-mosphere (concerted effort pulling together) decide on what kind of a community you would like yours to be, then start, individually and collectively, col-lectively, thinking and DOING those things that will make it such looking look-ing neither right nor left until you "got where you are going to." And remember, that the town that says, 'It can't be done" will lose its trade to the town that does it. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction Re-production prohibited in whole ore in part. - o This Town Doctor Article, one of a series of fifty-two is published by this paper in cooperation with the Lions Club. |