The Globe-republican., 1907-09-05
LET'S GET THE HABIT.


county will succeed az whole
There are too few boosters and push
ers uld too many inclined to take
selfish view Of things, which not onl.
works against the country, bu
against themselves as individuals
When anything is to be done there
are ouly II few who are willing tt
make any sacrifice. and this makes
the sacrifice too great o one. In towr
if the business men will all pull to-
gether on every proposition tina
comes up they may after a while have
q larger business, and be riding il
automobiles. But if they try to gel
up by pushing someone else down
no n will get very high. If every
body in the county had talked kindly
about the fair it would have been a
much greater success. If half Of the
people in the county had helped just
a little toward making a fair it would
have been something to be proud of,
and would have helped enough in re-
turu to have paid we'll for the trouble.
Such q fair as could have been given
would have helped the price of land
and the price, Of everything exhibited.
People are sending away every year
for their fine stock. They are send
ing to the counties where the good
fairs are held and selecting from
stock that has been prize winners at
the fairs. The educational feature OF
the fair alone is worth the trouble of
giving one. 1t seems hard to believe
that there are people in the town and
over the county, who not only refused
TO attend the fair, but who went to
particular trouble to induce others to
stay away, but that is a fact. 1t was
even worse than that. There are
some who circulated false stories re
gardiDg the fair, to keep people from
attending. The longer such work is
kept up the longer it will take Ford
county to become all that this county
should be. If a thing is for the good
of the county, let us get in the habit
of pushing on it. No matter whether
the managers CT the enterprise are
our friends or not. The fellows who
do the work and general husiling on
a public meeting, do not make any
thing out Of. Some fellow may hint
to you that they do, but il you in
vestigate you will nearly every time
find out that "some fellow" is merely
q meddler and a liar as well. This
town and county has the opportunity
OF becoming a leading community in
Kansas. Don't spoil your own
chances and the chances of every
body else by being narrow minded
and selfish. Lift on the other fellow
and he will lift on you. Rise to-
gether. The fellow hal you don't
like may prove after all to be q bully
fellow. only just a little bit foolish
like yourself. Don't pause to listen
to a "knocker". He's q clog on any
kind Of progress. Every minute he
is talking to you he is causing you to
lose money and keeping you from
being happy. Be decent. Hunt up
the fellows who have done all Of the
hard work on this fair, who have
given their time and money to try to
make it a success, and pat them on
the back. Tell them you will be
more decent next time. And when
the next time comes around, and
some fellow comes to you knocking"
if you cannot think Of anything better
to do. hit him in the mouth or turn
around and leave him. There has
been q whole lot Of misunderstanding
about the fair this year. The Agri-
cultural part Of it was attempted for
two purposes. One, the practicle
benefit it would be to the county at
large, and the other the desire Of the
association to follow the wishes Of
the farmers Of the county. There
were enough exhibits at the fair to
show Ford county up as o great
county. But there ought to have
been enough to have shown what the
individual farmers and stock raisers