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Show TO MtCH AMI NOT KNOl'GN. Why so much poliii s iu the average aver-age country town or small som-j munlty? j Why so liitle co-operation in th.;j Interest of local advancement? j ' Find the solution to these two. problems, remove the cause, and you will more than justify your presence j as a citizen. cuiumumi co-opeiuuou win ma.vo j ay cuiuu,uiiii;. excessive political activity will tnrotUu it. " V We can Und no laiilt with wain- j taining party lines in national and state allaiis, hut when they are j drown und tightened to include tue , small homo town it has a tendency :o (destroy the hearty co-operation that Is essential to local amity and prosperity. pros-perity. , Neighbors who think first of party . ascendency in time become so eii- j (grossed in their political suite they consider little else. Thus the legitmate plans for local , Improvements are advocated by !'' party adherents who propose thoi.i ' and are opposed by the members ol. the opposition party. One group of active citizens is pulling against another regardless of the merits of the questions at issue, while the Inaclive class stands k idly by and watches one bunch smash th ; other. Political hatreds and community animosity are thus engendered to the detriment of progressive advancement. advance-ment. Too much of one and not enough of the other will -get us no where. |