| Show THE IM BLAME we dont suppose the timo time will ever como come when some richfield men aro are perfectly satisfied with thell surroundings and when they will cease to find fault with the t town and yet we feel the number of those t given to knocking la Is steadily decreasing they go elsewhere see ece other towns and come home inclined c the belief that this community Is IB after all pretty hard to beat the trouble with this class of people lies not so eo much in tho the town as in themselves they refuse to take an active part in pushing needed improvements they leave it to someone else to get things done and it if such things are arc not done they blame it on the town the minute much uch a man stops to consider confide r his own shortcomings short comings and asks himself it he is doing HIS duty toward his homo home town he peels his coat starts boosting and quickly becomes worth more to himself his family and the community at large some time ago we recall printing a little poem that ought to help the fellow who satisfied with his town were going to publish it again in in hope that at least one more of this class may read it and reform heie it is cut it out and paste it in your lint hat i it you want to live in the kind of a town like the kind of a town you like you slip your clothes in a grip and start on a long long hike only find what ou left behind for theres nothing really new I 1 its ts a knock at yourself when you knock your town it the town its you real towns are not made by men afraid lest somebody else gets ahead when everyone works and nobody shirks you can raise a town from tho the dead and it if while you make your personal stake your neighbor can make one too your town will be what you want to see it the town its you |
