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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR (The Doctor of Towns) j ANVTIII.NCi "ULN UOWN" IS I NATTKAC1TVE You have often heard people speak of a community or section of the city as being "run down". If you atop and look at the mental picture that "run Down" creates In your mind, you will have a vision of unkept, cluttered up streets, with mussy entry ways to store buildings and apartment houses and yards littered with a little bit of everything. Anything that is run down is unattractive un-attractive it repels rather than invites. in-vites. It makes you say, "I wouldn't have that," rather than, 'I sure would like to have one of those." In the case of a community, "run down" causes you to say, "I wouldn't live here on a bet", rather than to say "I like this part of town". Anything done or allowed to be done that tends to clutter up a com-, munity Is bad for the community and anything bad for the community drives business out of and away from the community, and when it is allowed allow-ed to go on continuously, there is only one thing that can happen: the community runs down; people move out and business goes "flooey". Therefore, it is only good business on the part of the people who maks up a community to see to it that any practice that tends to clutter up is eliminated. |
