The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-07-10
THE WAY TO BUILD OP L COM.
MUNITY.

We take great pleasure in publishing
the following able article from the pen
of our young townsman, L. r. Wright,
editor of the Educationist:
In a new state the question is frequent
" before the mind of the enterprising
and public spirited citizen, what can we
do to build up our state and communi.
ty? Various answers may be given, the
following among others:
/. Criticise whenever you can, the eli
mate, soil, seasons, people, institutions;
as colleges, schools and teachers-al-
ways insisting that none of these are
half go good as they are "back east"
2. AS the colleges, normal schools and
high schools are inferior, ana common
schools especially, be sure to send your
son or daughter black east. to schooland
then urge all your friends to do the same.
Thus you help your state by saving
something in expense of building and
tuition, and you send your money to old
| institutions surfelting in wealth, that
will appreciate your pittance.
3. Do the same with insurance COM
| panies. Be sure to insure in some New
York or Boston company, so as TO send
your money out of the state and thus free
it from taxes on that account.
If you live IN Emporia, Topeka, or
Lawrence, or anywhere else in Kansas,
be sure TO go to Kansas City, or Chicago
to buy your best goods, furniture, Car
pets, curtains, silks, etc. Thus you will
help your home merchants 80 much
by reducing their amount of shipping
and will also please them in the fact that
you appreciate things much finer than
they are able TO buy.
5, When you want q newspaper be
sure to subscribe for New York paper
though that paper Is old and rich with
300, 900 circulation, and you get but lit.
tie news that Immediately interestes
you. The editor of your home paper
struggling to reach circulation of 8,
600 and working night and day to fur
nish you the home news, and advance
the interests of the community, will bS
SO pleased TO think he lives among 6
, people of such superior intelligence thai
, nothing but the great metropolitan pa
pers can feed them. If you faithfully
continue in this course, you will soOr
have his paper established on an i'm
movable basis.
@. Trustees of schools. when you wan
teacher, don't look at your own state
new states are crude, and no good thlnI
can come out of Nazareth but go east
and take young man fresh from col
lege or the normal, without experience
+ and reject graduates from your own col
/, leges and normals. who have had three o
I four years successful experience. Thu
YOU will teach Young men and younl
women more prudence than to stay a
home and graduate in their own school
a and thus fail to do what they can to BULL
up their OWL state. Such treatment 70
few years will teach them something
of the process and the gravity of build
: ing up their own state and community
q Lastly, If there be any other persons o
+ things that can be had from the olde
q and Weather states, do not fail to &c
!. them, though there be as good or bette
f at home You do all this at convenience
j and sometimes real sacrifice because @
8 your sincere love for your communIt
T and your state, and your answering d.
termination to build them up. Such d.
votion Will in time receive It's reward
i and YOU may live long enough TO see th
# fruits OF your labors.