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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR j (The Doctor of Toivns) ! a lawn next year." Step across the street and take a pood look at your store, your house and yai'd, your factory and say to yourself, "Does it look as good as it can be made to look?" I it doesn't, get Imsy and make it so. Every hour of time and every dollar you spend to make TOUlt corner of your com. munity more attractive, will pay yon a big dividend. Do it yourself and influence others to ask the officials of this community to keep the streets clean, remove the leaves, wash the street lamps, repair sidewalks and curbs an'd all other things to make this community "look good". As "it pays to look well" personally, as a product often is only as "gooVi as it looks," as "good dress does give one a sense of self-respect ami poise," just so a community must have an atmosphere of cleanliness, attractiveness attractive-ness and cheerfulness in order that it grow, progress and prosper. Mountains are moved by the shovelful, shovel-ful, an ant hill is matie grain at a time, and so by everybody doing a little something, big things are accomplished. ac-complished. Start toViay to do your something to make your community "look good" it costs you nothing and will pay you big. Copyright, 1929, A- D- Stone. Reproduction Re-production prohibited in whole or in part. This Town Doctor article is published pub-lished t- this paper in cooperation with the local Lions Club. Make This Community Com-munity Look Good If you don't think the looks of tilings is important, try selling an automobile without any paint on it. Think how silly you would feel trying try-ing to sell someone on tho idea that a dress with mutton leg sleeves and slop-in-the-mud hobble skirts is just as good a buy as present day styles. In the next few weeks every merchant mer-chant In this community will "dress Up'make their windows and their store as neat, bright, attractive, Inviting In-viting and cheerful as possible. Why? Because you and everybody like you avoid dark, gloomy, depressing, messy mes-sy and ugly places, and these merchants mer-chants want you to come to not to be driven away from their stores. If dressing up a store is conducive to cheerfulness and more business, why won't it do the same for the community? com-munity? It will, and here are a few suggestions: Civic organizations arrange ar-range with owners to allow cleaning up and trimming windows of all vacant va-cant store rooms. In each window see that there is neat o;ird giving "reason why" for doing things In and for this community. Merchants would do well to use these windows for display dis-play for their merchandise. Check up on all signboards, especially espec-ially at highway entrances and around depots. Make it your personal business to do this, and then speak, phoue or write to those whose signs are old, Vlilapidated and unsightly, asking them to remove, or at least repair them. As you walk down your business streets, check up on the "location" signs in front of stores, and to those whose signs are old, unpainted, rusty, bedraggled and otherwise unsightly, write a note and say, "Please remove, repair or clean up the sign in front of your place, because it is hurting your community, and therefore casting cast-ing both of us money." Write, speak to, or otherwise ask the owners of vacant lots and buildings build-ings to clean up, cut the weeds, rake the leaves, remove the rubbish, and on vacant lots place a small, neat sign reading, "This vacant lot will be |