Show SMALL TOWN STUFF the minneapolis journal some time ago under the above heading published an editorial on an address by dr edward A steiner of grinnell college which may well be applied to our richfield dr steiner stressed in his address the importance of instilling in the childs mind a spirit of loyalty to his own home town no matter how small it may be the address was made to the northwest iowa teachers association and th the minneapolis journal said about it some things that are worth while repeating said the journal we are glad to see sec somebody swinging a cudgel in defense of the alie small town it is high time the sneers of the vaudevillians the joke smiths on the humorous periodicals the and nathans and sinclair lewites Le wises the Avise crackers generally have alave all of late years had a tendency to make the professional smart alecks and urb urban in youngsters a little ashamed of his home town if he believes all he hears and reads lie he is likely to reach maturity with a sneaks sneaking ng idea that there is is something shameful about being bom and reared in a community where citizens go to bed of nights and church on sunday so when he travels from gopher prairie minnesota to chicago lie he is tempted to register as from minneapolis and when he be goes on to new york lie he is tempted to discard minneapolis and say he is from chicago when and if he reaches europe hel he is from new york but why why not from gopher prairie and proud of it wherever he goes 9 what is there to be ashamed of in small town stuff small town stuff the stuff of nearly all our presidents nearly all our senators and supreme court jus tices cices nearly all of our important writers and painters and sculptors and musicians present or past the stuff of nearly every big name in new nev york of chicago today so why not be proud rather than embarrassed by the fact of small town birth or rearing |