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Show ii THE TOWN DOCTOR j it (The Doctor of Towns jws) to live, work, play and make moiv It's a man to man proposition: J there any real reason why j shouldn't get behind and push? j Copyright, 1929, A. D. Stone, j production prohibited in whole o;! part. , ; This Town Doctor Article, ono J series of fifty-two is published' this psper in cooperation with j lions Club. ' -uiY s;Hn.DVT you CEX BEHIND AM) rusn Mice still stick their heads into , l.i ,e tr ips; flies still swarm atop phoned honey; moths still fly into j iho candle flame; bumble bees still jsuarm to a buzzing jug; sheep still I follow the leader over a cliff; a salmon fish still swims up the river. They never learn anything no matter mat-ter how many examples, how many experiences of their fellows they go i on doing the same thing in the same j way, generation after generation and die. A town that doesn't learn and profit from the experiences of other towns will go the same way as the mouse, the fly, the moth, the bee, and the "poor fish." Because they do ' not learn from experience is reason for SI towns in ono state alone to pass out of existence in a ten-year period an average of one to a county for some states. Such towns are in a rut and the only difference be- tween a rut and the grave is the depth. Who doesn't know that to stand still is getting nowhere In nature in business in every human endeavorto endeav-orto cease to grow is to perish one way or another. Bruce Barton says, "When we quit changing we are through." The change that will pay the greatest great-est dividend to any community is for the citizens to quit thinking that their town is something that will take care of itself, or that the mayor, the heads of the service clubs and other civic organizations will do whatever has to be done. I Refusal on your part to think about your communiay refusal to change your attitude from passive to active, is COSTING you money. You and a few others, by changing positions from in front leaning backwards back-wards to the one pushing forward , will MAKE you money and make : your community a better, more attractive, attrac-tive, more interesting place in which |