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Show Editorial . . . OPPORTUNITIES AND OBSTACLES "Community improvement results when people look a-head a-head for opportunities and obstacles," said a Chamber of Commerce manager recently. Such has always been the case. Opportunities that lay ahead in the Great Western Wilderness, were the stimuli that inspired the pioneers to .beg in their epoch -making trek. But these migrations would have failed; except that scouts were sent on ahead to find the obstacles and devise ways of surmounting sur-mounting them. Opportunities for civic, economic and industrial betterment better-ment always exist. It takes inspired vision to see them. And, vision comes from thinking and planning. Communities, like individuals, frequently get intoo rut. Leaders often become so engrossed in 'the day to day routine of "business as usual" that they fail to see the opportunities ahead. There should be more "planning sessions" and fewer "business sessions" of City Councils and Chambers of Commerce. Com-merce. A tourist from New York City went out to see the great pine forests of the Pacific Northwest. When he returned, he was asked what he thought of them. "I couldn't see the forest for the trees," he said. |