The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-05-02
YOUR OWN TOWN.
This Is the Way the Editor Of the
Greenville News Describes Town
in Alaska The Description
Doesn't Hit Anybody I'm Abbe'
VILE.
Greenville News.

Greenville News.
We are not booming anything specially
Just talking on general principles. Did you
ever think anything about your own town
the town you live and do business in? Do
you have any pride in u or hope for It.?
What is your idea about it. anyhow? Have
you any sentiment about IL?
Do you care snap OF your finger whether
people outside Of 1t speak OF IT as live town,
good town, growing and fiourishing town,
or whether they laugh derisively and say IT is
dead and played out and no place for live
people to live?
30 long as your own premises are In fairly
good repair, does 1t make any difference TO
You whether the rest OF your town Is a mass
Of tumbli1g: shabby. ramshackle deao,atlon D
pieces, fences leaning six ways for Sunday.
stores dusty and grimy and empty, streets
mud holes and ruts. sidewalks mere paths
through the weeds In sunni mer and sticky,
slippery and treacherous In winter?
! Have you any ambition for your town.
whoever and wherever you are-any senti-
ment about II?
or purpose for yourself or your childrens II
you have, does IL strike you that you can DO
much for yourself or those who are to come
after you in dead town. @ nid you @ ever
know any business, big or little, no matter
what it was, that could flourish In dead
town?
instincts Of humanity and that your selnsh, l,
humanity enlightened. what is your idea
about your own town. Dc yon calculate on
letting somebody else do al the Work ana
spending and pushing while you sit Sui, a
drone In the hive, and simply look on? DO
you figure on always reaping where you have
not sown, gathering indefinitely where you
have not la6ored9 Don't you suppose other
people will get tired Of pulling you d,sdms ana iOr
more congenial and where their efforts will
meet response? Want them to go away. eh :?
Don't like to be stirred up. ehf, You look at
your town, il is prospering and see who has
made it prosper, or II 1t seems dead and see
who has made Il 80 and just how much your
sloth and uf1in telligent selfishness and penny
WiHe pound foolish, saving.atthe spisot-apd-
WastinR.at.the bung, waiting. .for.somebody-
else.to act and then .discouragipg- tnem III
yon.could policy has done to make II dead.
We are talking TO you MI. Poor Nan n,a as wei a
tween / we mean you especially, Mr. Busi; Bus;
ness Man; always growing about what
should be done and what someoody eise
ought TO doand consistently reiusing 10 Htye ",
Interested; Interest or or iopuif :Pound-not even VII: vii
ling 10 give an honrsof time you know you
could spare II you wanted to. .,.,,,
Doesit strike you thai! yoa paxs A ana in.
teiiieent regard for yonr own interests. .it is
| up 10 YOU 10 do your part In promosing tne
towns growth and prosperity ana oeVeiop-T :
The The thing for you, Mr.. Citizen Of every class
and Kind, II you want your. own town 70 De, n,s q
live town. is TO mend your waysi y5inS gaAH iittIe R
from S W Your ri @ own business or trade or whatever
II ia. and cultivate what is calico puoiic
spirit. Understand that II yon want 70 be
man and a citizen you must DO the part oi
Take an active, intelligent interest in every,
thing that is proposed for the advantage mage o OF
yout own town. 60 to meetings n,sd aho 1So Ensour.
aeeieyarybody who Is trying to do something
this occasion ally for the public and general
service, and let 60 dollar or TWO now anu
ISn,t I III ~ sa ayoi,rsslfs "Can't get out OF
doihg anything"