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Show I THE TOWN DOCTOR j j (The Doctor of Towns) j - ays -- - " ' ' THINK IT WON'T HURT YOU ANY! Thomas Edison once said, "The American people will go to any extreme ex-treme to avoid the necessity of thinking think-ing " Notwithstanding that fact-think! This is the time of times to think. Next week a year passes into "what used to be." It's through; it's gone, and it will never return. Many, many things were accomplished in the last i9 rntha. hut that's ancient history. let some poor petty jealousy keep you out of the Chamber of Commerce or Lions Club; if you turned sour he-cause he-cause everybody else couldn't see things as you did; if you acted up like a school kid, and wouldn't play at all, and tried to spoil the fun of others just hecause they wouldn't play your way and let you be teacher; teach-er; if you pooh poohed every attempt on' the part of others to do something to build your community; if you spent your time pussy-footing, scan- dal mongering and rabbit puncmng, if you kept your hands in your pockets, pock-ets, leaning backward, while others were putting their shoulder to the wheel pushing forward-if you did these things, and knew you were doing do-ing them, you were a civic moocher and deserve no consideration from There are a lot of other things you could have done-that's ancient history, his-tory, too. It isn't what you did or didn't do in '29-it's what you are going to do in 1930 that counts now. And what are you going to do-same do-same as in 1929? It you do, you are going to go against every law of progress. pro-gress. If you don't change, you will be through-net all at once, to be I sure, but you can't go forward standing stand-ing still, and if you don't do better in 1930 you'll he where you were m '29, and that's standing still or going go-ing backward. This reads Hie a sermon. It isn't meant that way. It's just my peculiar pecu-liar wav of leading up to this neighbor or stranger. Maybe you didn't know you were doing such things that's why I say tliink it will do you good. Copyrighter, 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. n If, in '29, you sort of went hack on your community; if you leaned back with any of your 100-worn-out alibis and let the other fellow do the work; if you sat in the car while the other boys changed the tire; if you |