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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR I (The Doctor of Towns) t business, anU courtesy and sevice extended ex-tended by you to your neigrbor and the potential customer of your community com-munity business will also build. Be funny, make wise cracks, fail to sell your community when you have the chance, and you will tear down. When a merchant, an organization, or your newspaper does anything for your community, tell them about it, write them a letter, call them on the phone, or stop, in and see them and express your appreciation. Ton get as much good out of anything they do for the community as they do. No one can do anything for the town but that you won't benefit. If you don't or won't do anything yourself, the least you can do is to thank those who are doing something through which you will benefit. It is a little thing to do, but it will pay you a profit-Copyright, profit-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. I0 NOT OVERLOOK Til R LITTLE THINGS To one who doesn't know, the little tilings done or left undone do not make any difference, but there are always al-ways those who do know, and they are usually the ones who count most It belittles a business, a town, or a person to overlook the little things. Overlooking little things is one of the main factors that makes a small town small- It is the little things that often make the difference between profit an'd loss in business, especially in dull times. With an individual, it is refinement, courtesy, cleanliness; with a store, it is stock arrangement, pleasing, efficient salespeople, tidiness tidi-ness and atmosphere; with a town, It is clean streets, well kept lawns, traffic regulations and progressive-ness progressive-ness of the citizens. The most successful merchandising concerns in the country have built their business on courtesy, service and little things. Your town is a |