Fergus County Democrat., 1908-12-29
BOOST"

version of the real significance OF the
word, Boost" tell what constitutes
a booster, how much conscience a
booster is supposed to exhibit, wheth-
er or not there is to be found in the
English language a substitute for the
word and when should booster stop
boosting.
Inasmuch as we have voluntarily
boosters, claim, in fact, to be a full
fedged charter member of the ]. E.
B. A. (nland Empire Boosters AS
sociation) and have tried faithfully to
live up to the motto of the order,
"Boost little every day. we shall
take up in order, the questions pro-
pounded by Our friend from Garneill
and answer them to the best of our
ability.
Etymologically, the origin If the
word is somewhat doubtful, coming
from the term "bus" meaning be-
hooves Since our questioner is a
Scotchman, it may interest him to
know that his beloved Burns SO used
it in his poem, "A Dream" in which
he said:
20 faith | fear that wi the geese,
/ shortly boost to pasture"
The definition given by the leading
dictionaries is "to life or push, from
behind, one who is endeavoring to
climb" 1t naturally follows that a
booster is a fellow who is doing the
pushing. An Inland Empire booster
is different from all other boosters on
earth in that he has the distinction of
helping to push along the best thing
in the world. He is exerting his eff
forts in ''histing" to her deserved
position at the top of the column Of
all the counties in the United States,
the greatest agricultural stock and
mineral section of which Our broad
nation boasts. Please understand.
we are not boosting any in this
article but are simply endeavoring to
shed some light upon the significance
of word about which there has been
some pro and con discussion.
AS to what constitutes good
booster, we would modestly refer our
interrogation to this paper. In other
words, a good booster is one who,
knowing that he has something worth
boosting, proceeds to boost, not half
heartedly, intermittenly, Intellectually.
but sincerely, increasingly and sue
cessfully. He, the true booster, is
not one who shouts his praise from
the house tops when crops are good
and uses his sledge hammer when
crops happen to be little shy. He
is not the animated amin advertor on
the greatness of his county when
things are coming his way and the
deep dyed respondent when nature
puts over an off season.
The successful booster is one who
studies the subject Of his boosting
knows its advantages, acknowledges
Ito himself at least) its defects. II
he is booster for a certain section
of country, he is one who gives al
intelligent answer to any question
can, with solid reason, contradict the
croakings of the knocker.
The words "boost" and "boom" be-
come confused in the minds of many
people. When the conscience of +:
we'll intentioned booster goes on F.;
vacation, he becomes boomer. 4
booster is willing to stand on th'
foundation of truth. The boone
stands on the foundation of what h
tries to make others believe to be tn
truth. A booster is successful, in tn
long run, because he tells the truth
A boomer is temporarily successful
most frequently, because he fails t
tell the truth. But temporary success
OF that sort usually results in miser
for some one in the long run.
As to when the booster should sto
boosting, we should say that the lin
(which separates the booster from til
boomer should be the stopping plae
of the first named. But that, happil
does not hold the Fergus count
booster within very narrow limit
Here, the booster can even give h
imagination bit of play without tai
ing many chances, SO matchless
the future of our great county. +
has such opportunities as are seldo
given boosters in any cline and wi
only proven facts to back his a
sertions, make the pretentions of Il
boomer of other sections of the cou