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Show If You Make Your Living Here How many of our so-called best citizens go about their daily affairs blindly indifferent to their community communi-ty or its problems, content and smug in the belief that if they are successful they will always be so and that they owe our fair city nothing. How many men, and business executives ex-ecutives too, are too busy to join the Hub Club, because they "couldn't "could-n't go down to their meeting or to their social event.' You know the kind of a man we mean. The man whose business is good why should he do anything for the town? What difference does it Hake to him whether this city is prosperous or not so long as his prosperity continues, so long as his business makes money? You know the professional man, "who is not in business at all," so he says, and who is quite conteut to let people tell other people about his wonderful services, he's another man who has no interest in the work of the Hub Club. These are the men who are quite satisfied to take everything out ot a community and put absolutely nothing back, except what they are compelled to pay in taxes, and they never even rwonder .who is doing the things that contribute to their success. We . quota particularly s:riking experience of a prominent New York business man, head of a national concern con-cern who came back to a noon membership mem-bership committee meeting in a mem bership drive with fire in his eye. "I've just finished talking to th smallest man in New Y'ork," he announced. an-nounced. "He told us that he was n't interested in the Merchants Association, As-sociation, that he didn't bother with public improvement organizations that his business was ail right, and he didn't care whether the city of New Y'ork was clean or prosperous so long as he made money. "I didn't argue with him, or even ask him how long he would be pros- perous if the City began to go back. ' I told him that having met him, our committee wouldn't permit him to , join the association, if he applied. T , added that we were a bit particular I about whom we associated with, and ' that a man with his ideas ought t- live with savages instead of In a , civilized community." |
