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Show THE TOWN DOCTOR j (The Doctor of Towns) j town to purchase when you can buy the same things at home, and usually for less money. j Spending your money with out-of-town peddlers is not only disloyalty ' but down-right foolhardiness, if you , value your money. Bragging that you bought it in the . city and that, therefore, it must be I better, when you could have purchas- . ed it from a local dealer, is not only J disloyalty, but it is flaunting your lack of loyalty, besides taking a j chance of being laughed at behind your back by people who know. When j a stranger says: "This looks like a ' pretty good town you have here"' . and you reply and say: "Oh, yes, it's ' all right, if you like it," or some . other deregatory remark; or when you hear some unthinking native ridicule your community, and you turn it off as a joke, that is not only disloyalty, but darned poor business. Preaching to others what they should do and then doing the opposite oppo-site yourself is disloyalty, so "Try The Home Folks First." Copyrighted, 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. CIVIC LOYALTY IS A 1 1 N E-SO I N DING I'll A S E It is a fine, high-sounding phase Civic Loyalty; it makes a good text for a lot of oratory and columns upon columns of newspaper editor-ials, editor-ials, but after all, thero is no difference between Civic Loyalty and any other kind of loyalty. Whole books have been written on the subject; any number of sermons preached on and about it; hundreds of speakers have put thousands of peoplo to sleep talking about it. Still what is it or perhaps it is better to say: WVhat isn't it?" The city in which you live is your city; its institutions are yours; its life your family's and your children's; child-ren's; and besides, you are a part of it, in fact, you are the city. Such being tho case, you naturally do not want to bo disloyal to it, for the worst of all is disloyally to one's self. Tho man who 1m disloyal to his lown is disloyal to himself and to all that is best in him. lie is his own worst enemy, for he un lermines his character and thu3 deprives his efforts of that incentive which is the most powerful of all factors. Your loyalty or disloyalty makes the place where you live what it is or what it is not, and you can not pass the buck to 'George", the weather weath-er or prohibition. You expect your city to be a goo-1 place in which to live, -in fact, you sometimes get "het-up" and demand that it be such a place. But it is a good place, only if yon yourself do that which is necessary to make it so, and to do that you have to be loyal to it, stick up for it, boost it and if necessary, fight for it. Loyalty reproduces a reciprocal effect in all which whom a loyal person per-son conies in contact. A man who is loyal to his friends, family, town, country and loyal to his God will never be troubled with ("isloyalty on the part of others. There is no real success without loyalty. Whatever Civic Loyalty is, it isn't knocking your town, buying mail order, or going to the next nearest ' |
