AMERICAN ADVICE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2569, 19 April 1923, Page 4

AMERICAN ADVICE.

HOW TO KILL YOUR OWN TOWN

1. —Mind your own business and let the town go to blazes. 2. —Retire and live in Easy St. Let the town R.I.P.

3. —-Don’t join your local 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.

5. —When the town committee depends upon you to attend to anything, forget about it. 0. —Dun and down the other fellow because his ways are not your ways, nor his thoughts your thoughts. 7. —When the other fellow lias 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 —lf you have been foolish enough to invest locally, improve nothing. Broken gates, dilapidated houses, fallen fences, all give the town a reputation. 10. —When a fellow citizen starts something he sure to ask: What is lie getting out: of it, anyhow. 'll, —Private citizens, don’t deal with the local tradespeople, even if you can get goods cheaper from them Ilian you gel 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. Tf you advertise you might have to sell a lot of goods, and your income tax would he higher.