YOUR HOME TOWN

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 545, 2 July 1920, Page 3

YOUR HOME TOWN

MAKE IT CLEAN. BEAUTIFY THE PLACE. Writes the American "Delineator'': "Work for your own town. "Beautify it. Improve it. Make i' attractive. "The World War and the Treatof Peace and the protective taril and all sueh things are important subjects; but what's the good o' cleaning up the world unless yot sweep your own doors*.ep?

The city whose main street i dirty, sordid-looking, cluttered, uninviting, suffers much. Such a cit wants to be cleaned, recreated, m.ie a thing of beauty, so that poop' wil' come miles to see it.

"The best advertisement of yo l business is the town you live in. "Towns get reputations, as well r men. Make your town talked of r' over the State. It will thus din pcop'e. 'Xnd when; the people com there is prosperity. "It does not take money. It take something that i> scarcer. Il tak co-operation. "wet together. Oipini/.e for ■-i\ i improvement. Develop i lie ci\i nerve. "kid your 'own »• f one <\voso>after an.ither. ''lean up llie vacan lots and plant them in g: r lens Make a f 11111-■ t<m I vital a Make public opinion Inn hot f.. tin»-,e who will not help. "It ;>.tv' l! '' iti r■ • i"■ ■!" 1 a'/ a 1 order. 11 \"'• 11 hclii in Ihe edlic.it i(if your ilii'di e" l! '■■■' ill d'viw f;.<* till i.'S and nt Lei 111. ■ ine..s en j: I ].. i , tn your loealitv. "SI iif I le.-stics.s. I'd! i 1 i: n • s. iji. ! Scllis!ine>s. !i. siioHii 111 your ''ntl ;ind buildinvs, rea.'l upon \o:ir |;i<.|> ! "Such 11iirn• make yoor l,o\ > , p. • iel ; >'. vi' . !i; ' in:, i heir owr.. "Make VOtir 'lion;.' low a ild: , i ..-.li e. mm •» ilia 1 ; lln i. nr .no: ; nl lo'.intMy l <in hack to. "Look a''er voar imusemcn' , ven , 1 \ >!ir lil-'vror.-al.-, eii' ir. • o' com I'unr! en o.vn. ml -Make \mir home town ' m, . I' pays. Dr. Fi.mk <'r..ne."