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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR j (The Doctor of Towns) j GO SOME PLACE THIS TEAK At this time of year, there are several thousand people throughout the length and breadth of the land who are thinking about vacation, and vacation, to most of them, means going go-ing some place. That is the way it should be. This is the greatest nation in the world for "going places," and may such never cease. To travel is to live. To sit slothlike sloth-like in one place is to see nothing, be nothing, feel nothing and next thing to knowing nothing. Travel is education edu-cation the most pleasant form of education known to man, for it 'peoples 'peo-ples the heart and mind with pictures pic-tures that never fade." Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. Get away from the surroundings with which you are so "contemptuously "contemptu-ously familiar". Get away from the daily grind go places, see things and lenrn, by contact with those of different diff-erent clime. If you live South, go North If your habitat is East, go West. If you live on the plains, go look at an ocean, if you have never seen a mountain, go gaze at one, he-fore he-fore you are any older. And in the going, bee what there is to see. Study how towns do things how others who make their living as you make yours, conduct their affairs. What you learn 'depends solely on your natural nat-ural powers and gift of conception, but regardless, you can't be the loser for such a venture. There are, in America., so many worthwhile places to go places that every American should see and know about, that lack of a destination is no excuse. The National Capital, the the National Parks, historical points, prominent iin America's history in every section of the United States, in your very own state, there are places to go. ! But whatever you do, wherever you go, remember that you are an ambassador am-bassador of the place where you live, and as such, "sell" it to all those with whom you come in contact. "Don't gush" about it don't overdo it, don't lie about it just sell it. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction Re-production prohibited in whole or in part. This Town Doctor Article is published pub-lished by this paper in cooperation with the local Lions Club. |