Community Development.

Progress, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 1 June 1919, Page 531

Community Development.

Community development has devious ways' of making itself felt. I was told by a successful business man in the early part of my life, that whether in business or social life the main thing to -do was to get the other fellow under obligation. When T went into business, a stranger in a strange land, and onened the doors for business Monday morning, an Trish competitor called me on the 'phone and introduced himself and said that a certain man would be around with an estimate and for me to ? phone the price that I had decided to offer it for, and he would protect 'me. And then this thought came to me, "Well, here he is trying to get, me under obligation to him before I have been in town an hour. He is a wise scamp and is a successful lumberman.'' Obligation does not necessarily mean a money obligation. Sometimes it is nothing more than a telephone or a'cheery "hello" on'the street. Sometimes it is taking off your coat and doing some work on a committee. If you find you are a committeeman and have some work to do, do it cheerfully and willingly and well; make it a success or don't accept -it, '. • V*- .-■•". ■'■. • \ -.-'-: