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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR j (The Doctor of Towns) j Til Kltl'S A SIGN AT YOUR ELBOW There is a sign at every railroad croHHiiiK reading, "Slop! Look! and Listen!" yd every day somebody gets knocked into eternity by a locomotive. loco-motive. Everywhere, thinking high-j way commissioners warn unthinking motorists to "drive with descretion," ".l.m't pass on a hill", "slow down", and all tliose things; still, a newspaper news-paper without a list of automobile fatalities is the exception rather than the rule. As people still walk and drive blindly in tront of speeding twenty-Ion twenty-Ion locomotives, and as darn fools under steering wheels still kill themselves them-selves and endanger the lives of law-observing law-observing and caution-observing citizens, citi-zens, just so do some communities remain re-main sound asleep to their opportunities, opportu-nities, constantly slipping more and If it's factories you want, get "right" yourself, make your community commu-nity "right" by making it READY for factories, and the result will BE factories. fac-tories. If it's home builders you want, the same is true. There are more manufacturers seeking locations for new factories than there are towns ready and right for factories. There are thousands more people in the market for, and just waiting to get "sold" on, new home locations, than there are communities com-munities which can rightfully lay claim to being even semi-qualified' for ideal residence. There is a sign at your elbow-both elbow-both elbows. That sign is a sign of the times, telling you that never in your life has your community had the opportunities that it has today. Everywhere you turn there is proof of it. Every place you go you can see it if you LOOK, and hear it if you LISTED. more into the valley of "what used to be," while others live, wide-awake towns "take telling", shake off their shrouds of lethargy and get going to a bigger, brighter, and better day. What do you want in your community? com-munity? What does your community need to make it what you would like it to be? Whatever you want-whatever your community needs, you can have it . if you want it bad enough and will I "take telling" to get it. Decide on what your community wants, find out what it needs, KNOW what it has, what it lacks, where it is strong and where it is weak. Don't guess KNOW. Then get going to go get it. Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone. Reproduction Re-production prohibited in whole or in part. This "Town Doctor Article" published pub-lished by this paper in cooperation with the local Lions Club. |