AMERICAN ADVICE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4783, 1 December 1924, Page 1

AMERICAN ADVICE.

« HOW TO KILL YOUR TOW. L—Mind your own business and let the town go to blazes. .2.—Retire and live in Easy Street. Let the town R.I.P. 3. —Don’t join your local t associations. Let George do it; he has more time, 4. Dun all the work of the town on one live secretary; let him always do the work, and that gratis. s—When the town committee depends upon you to attend to anything, forget about it. 6.—Dun and down the other, fellow because his ways are not your ways, nor his thoughts your thoughts. 7_When the other fellow has an idea you don’t agree with don’t discuss it; sneer —it’s more effective. 8. Hang on to every cent, dime, and dollar you can make; join nothing, invest nothing. 9. —if you have been foolish enougn to invest locally, improve nothing. Broken gates, dilapidated houses, fallen fences, all give the town a reputation. 10. When a fellow citizen starts something be (jure to ask: What is he getting out of it, anyhow ? tl.—Private citizens, don’t deal with the local tradespeople,, even if you can get goods cheaper from them than you get them in the city. 12. —Don’t advertise in the local paper ; sit tight and keep quiet. If you have something to sell wait until someone hears about it. If you advertise you might have to sell a lot of goods, and your income tax would be higher.