Connecticut western news., 1907-09-05
THE BOOSTER CLUB

bustling city can have Booster Club. And in the thriving, growing, bustling they are always found.
 A Booster Club is one of the most val uable assistants any place, large or small, may have. It is closely related to the Get Together Club, possesses all the good features of The Boomers Club and is an ally of the Everybody Hustle Club. The dues are nothing & year, payable semi-annually. There are no no hall rent and no regu- lar meetings, although the club is al- ways ill session.
 Are you eligible? No one can answer that question as we'll as yourself. Take a mental inventory, look yourself in the face, examine yourself thoroughly and if you find you possess public spirit, progressiveness, loyalty to your town. charity for your neighbors, a spirit of liberality and a nature in which the op- timistic predominates, you are eligible to membership in The Boosters Club and you may consider yourself enrolled at any time. Every member is supposed to persuade his neighbor to become a member also. If he finds the persua sion-by-word of-mouth method ineffect- ual, example may accomplish the result
 If, on the other hand, the result of your self-scrutiny brings to light self fish, greedy, grasping, care-only-for- number-one nature, a belief that the town is already large enough and pros porous enough, an inclination to wish the spindles, the machinery and other noise-makers might be removed 'in order that we might have nice, quiet little town, the same as we used to have " then you are not eligible to Booster Club membership. The Knockers Club will take you in if this is your condi- tion but you would be decidedly out of place in The Boosters Club.
 But perhaps you are not a hopeless case and possibly you may become Booster after all but not until you have gone through the probationary stage, after optimism has taken the place of pessimism, after enthusiasm for your town succeeds that lukewarm attitude, when you feel that through thick and thin, in prosperity and in diversity you can shout for it with will, when you are ready to exploit it's advantages and to do your part toward remedying it's disadvantages, when you can satisfy yourself that you have experienced a thorough change of heart, when you know the change is absolute and enduring, then the Knockers can no longer lay claim to you and you are a full -fedged, 33d degree Booster, inves- ted with all the rights, lights, benefits and privileges of the degree and equipped to go ahead with your part of the good work in which The Booster Club is engaged. ..
 The reason The Booster Club holds no meetings is because all the members are, or should be, too busy to spend the time these meetings would consume. They
 
 the stranger within their gates, they are devising ways and means to make the town grow if it is dormant or to keep it growing if it is advancing, they are sending out with their correspondence, literature outlining the attractions and advantages of the town, knowing that
 Many shaft at random sent,
 Finds mark the archer little meant"
 If they are in aff1uent circumstances, they are conferring with the architect or builder relative to the plans for the new house or houses of which the viii lage is so sorely in need, they are paint ing their residences, repairing them if they need it, slioking-up the premises, replacing the worn-out sidewalk with a new one, trimming their hedges and do- ing the hundred and one other things which contribute to the making of an attractive property, street and village, things which will elicit the favorable and admiring remark from the stranger and thus help to create in the minds ot people, favorable impression of the town.
 And these are not all the things the Booster Club member is doing. Beside the hundred and one alluded to there are hundred ana one more he may dc if he sees fit. Some of them cost money and some of them don't, there, fore every citizen, be it man or woman can in one way or another contribute te the welfare of the town whether that support be of the sort which money ab tains or the sort which the favorable word, said at the proper time and in the proper spirit, helps to bring about.
 Booster Clubs are needed everywhere If you belong to the Knocker Club, re sign, change your attitude. and join the Boosters.
 Do it now.
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