HOW TO HELP YOUR TOWN

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 5 December 1919, Page 4

HOW TO HELP YOUR TOWN

Talk about it. Write about it. IBuy all you can in it. Beniember that by assisting trades-, j men, you help the place along. Purchase and assist your local paper, and by so doing you further the best interests of the town. Treat strangers with the utmost courtesy and hospitality, so that tney may take away good impressions of it. Elect good, reliable men to all public positions, not because they strain themselves for popularity, but on account of their stamina and trustworthiness. Keep the money in the place. Sell * all you can and buy all you cuu at home. The men who have invested in stores, workshops, and other business places are building up the town; an t they should be encouraged. Bemember that in giving the local newspaper office the preference for your job printing orders, you are helping in the advancement of your town, as the newspaper is thereby helped. HOW TO INJURE YOUR TOWN. Bun it down to visitors. Go to other places for your supplies. Look sorry when a stranger talks to you of buying property in it. Refuse to see merit in any scheme unless you arc “big-dog" in it. Don’t invest. Show 1 your distrusf by refusing to lay out any money in it. Let your tongue wag idly about your neighbour, without knowing the facts. Cut those whom in your vanity you think beneath you, and split up into classes and cliques.. , Refuse to advertise in your loc. d paper and to give it your printing orders to execute. People sum up your town from its advertisement, sheet. Then you will effectually damn vour town anil district.