Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-30

IT, ONT you think Boosters
n Club is needed In commun.
~ ity that contains ouch clti.
zcns? We cannot help but
feel that the great ma lority Of the
residents Of Newport News have the
best interests of tho Exposition and
the city at heart and will gladly Join
In a movement to combat. as far as
possible, the sentiments of the---wclI,
The Daily Press asks to be excused
from giving Its opinior--of the men
whose minds and naturea are so
warped that they cannot see beyond
the nose which Is SO busy being In
other people's business.
a few Of the most persistent knock.
ers unfortunately are men high and
prominent in business places. Some
of these men from the time the Expo.
sition was first suggested have pre-
dlcted nothing but failure for II. They
refused to give It their moral or flnau.
cla support and now they are evil
dently possessed of a derire -tS- syyolys..
up and glcefully proclaim: al told
you go" Did you ever see a told
you so" man anyway who was not
a knockcr? These ~ told you so"
chaps in Newport News have reached
the point where they have passed the
human endurance mark. They must
be equelched.
Perhaps you do not know aluo that
some Of the high class and artistic
knockers las they say on the vaudc-
Vile programs, are men who were
perfectly able to subscribe for stock
for the Exposition but who never gave
one pieayune of encouragement to the
enterprise which means so much to
the entire state of Virginia and the
Tidcwater in particular. We will
grant that 1t was their right not to
inVe5t the money of which they are
SO fond, but they certainly could have
and can put their axes under cover.
There was and is no need of their
throwing cold water on the Exposition
at every possible chance; Of knock
Ing an enterprise which their bust
ness and social friends endorsed and
thereby showed who had the greater
local pride and public spirit.
The majority of Knockers secm
to be prompted by spirit OF an
. tagonism against the management
of the Exposition but If such is
the Gaze the management about to
retire does not constitute any reason
able cause for a knock against tho
Exposition itself The jamestown Ex-
position Company and the James
town Exposition arc two separate and
distinct propositions and should be
kept separate at all times.
It's success or failure is a mat
ter of the utmost Importance TO every
resident of this section of Virginia.
It's failure would bring dscredit, to
Fay nothing OF shame and humiliation.
just picture yourself going to New
York or some other large city and be-
ing introduced as being from New
pert News and being received with a
reply something like this. "Ah, yes,
TINT is one of the cities that was re-
sponsible for the failure of the James
town Exposition. Not very cnterpris-
ing down that way are your" Nice
greeting is II not?
II is for the best interests of the
people of Newport News to root
all the time for the Exposition for
a number of its residents have capital
invested directly and Indirectly in
the fair. Perhaps it may be that 1t is
In hotels right here in the city or
It is in Il steamboat line or may
be 1t is in concession, but any
way there are thousands of dollars
invested that mean much to the city.
Their failure to bring back returns
cannot help but be detrimental to the
city.
In the parlancc of the baseball fan
let us all root and continue to root
for the exposition and the city of
Newport News. After you have gotten
through with roofing for the first time
root again and while you are roofing
don't forget the pledge you are going
to sign and never fail to boost, BOOST
and boost.