Show OX ON SMALL TOWNS the hick town is is gone the radio and the automobile and the newspaper transformed it reuben glue aisan disappeared he can be found only at the revival of an ancient melodrama or on the amateur stage the small city has everything the I 1 big town has including vice in lessee proportions only it is acquainted with holl hollywood awood radio city and knows more about political and social economy than a whole lot of the mortar board wearers bearers who pound the pavements of pennsylvania avenue it buys no gold bricks it leaves that to the great city it is as keen about fashions and is better dressed both men and women than thousands you will vill see on a walk up broadway from twenty third to forty second street it knows the best basi and newest books in a given area in the town arid and its immediate surrounding su r country their populations percentage of literacy is higher than that to be found in ili any metro metropolis polL s there are no evil odorous slums under ordinary circumstances cum curn stances with business moving along like a steadily blowin flowing g str stream earn the industries in operation these people provide the most attractive buying market in the united states these people read the tock stock market watch the savings bank reports and know their way around a financial page they may be sneered at as belonging to the bible belt or dwelling in the back coi country or as mid victorians they give their critics the horselaugh horse hon laugh for they are the bulwark of this nation |