A CITY'S REPUTATION
DEPENDS UPON ITS CITIZENS, (Contributed by the Town Planning Association.) Americans say it pays to have'a town kept in good order-pays in tetter business and more contented citizens—and they speak from experience. The following is how one of their magazines urges the people to develop the civic spirit:— Work for your own town. Beautify it. Improve it. Make it attractive.' The World War and the Treaty of Peace and the Protective TarijTand r.ll such things are important subjects; but what's the good of cleaning up the world unless you sweep your own doorstep? Tho city whose main street is dirty, sordid-looking, cluttered, uninviting, suffers much. Such a city wants to be cleaned, recreated, made a thing of beauty, 6q that people .will come miles to seo it.
The best advertisement of your business fis the town, you live in. Towns get reputations, a 6 well as men.Make your town talked of all over the State. It will thus draw people. And where tho people como there iB. prosperity.
It does take money. It takes something that is scarcer. It lakes co-opera-tion. Get together. Organise for civio improvement. Develop the civic nerve. ltid your town of one eyesore after another., Clean up tho vacant lots and plant them in gardens. Make a cluttered yard a disgrace. Make puWio opinion too hot for those who will not help.
It pays. It" will promote law and order. . It will help in the education of your children. It will draw factories and other business enterprises to your locality. Shiftlessness, untidiness, dirt, and' selfishness, as shown in your streets and buildings, react upon your people. Such., things make your boys and girls grow', up hating their home town, ; Make your homo town a children's, paradise, something their memory will; lovingly turn back to. Look' after your amusements, your! parte, your playgrounds, y"our theatres,! and all your other means of communal 1 enjoyment. '' Jfafe) your homo town happy. It pays,; If it pays in the States to have a clean,! efficient city it will pay Wellington. Give! the City Council your hearty backing: to-day by voting for the complete loan I schedule, and then councillors mil liava some incontive to mako Wellington tholinest city in tho Dominion. Strike out, the bottom line opposite each, item oh the list,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 302, 15 September 1920, Page 7
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385A CITY'S REPUTATION Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 302, 15 September 1920, Page 7
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