The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-17
Get in Line
For Big Town
PUBLICITY Committee Tells
Walla Wallans to Wake
Up Now.


1t is a great thing to pe up-to-date.
1t is a great thing TO be in touch
with other live communities.
1t is a great thing for the people Of
any municipality to have solid and
wholesome ambitions.
In fact, unless Waila Walla, or any
other city has these things, there is
bound to be a retardment if not a gen.
eral decay in public as well as other
affairs all along the line.
The publicity committee of the To-
cal commercial club is now at work
trying to interest the people of the city
in supporting an advertising campaign
for the city that will have some sort Of
continuity that will have some perma-
nency and that will be under the direc-
ton of trained worker who will have
a proper conception of his duties and
who will be able to carry them out
with system. The proposed new pub
licity department will work under a
we'll conceived plan; back of every
thing it attempts to do there will be
purpose and a well defined one.
Broadly speaking, the new depart
ment will work for more population
and growth for the city; more popula-
ton and growth for the entire valley.
The new population the department
will work for will be population that
will be useful, that will fit in. In many
instances it will be a type of popula
latiOn that will bring additional wealth
to the local field in addition to a vast
amount of new energy that is bound to
discover enterprises in the local dis
trict that do not exist today. With a
larger and more vigorous population
everything must boom; more taxes for
public improvements will be available
because there will be more taxpayers
in the country. Such a movement I'M
derway land values are bound to in
crease for the district will be more
thickly settled and in the end the coun-
try will witness a development that
will be a vast improvement over what
it is today
In other words the new movement
means progress and betterments both
for the private citizen and the public
at large. Who would stand out against
with system. The proposed new pub
such meritorious program? Surely
such a one does not live in this fav-
ored city or valley. Such a thing
could not be possible.
AS recently announced in the news
papers many of the prominent business
men and business firms in Walla Wal
la have enthusiastically endorsed the
new movement as projected by the
commercial club and announce public
ly that they stand ready to support it
with their good money. That in itself
should be enough for you and you
should hasten to join the ranks of
adopting proper methods to advance
the interests, one and all, of their city
and country as a whole.
Get In Line.
Get in line; be good natured about
it; laugh hearty and practice up a
good lusty yell for your city which is
really one of the best in the world In
modern times the crouch is voted a
bore; he fools no one as badly as he
fools himself; he is pie for the doctors
and drug empOriumS and for no one
else. You can't afford to be ont of these
kinds of people. If in the past You
have fallen into evil ways and have
practiced the damnable arts Of a
crouch be manly enough to acknOwl-
edge your mistake and change your
ways just as quickly as you can. Be
determined; but win your way with a
smile and display of kindness for
your fellowmen; do all these things in
Walla Walla. TITS the way to Win it's
the way to help the commercial club
perfect n11nlPlD9IlfV and
country publicity department.
-fUbLICIIY COM MIIIEE.
Walla Walla, Feb. II, 1909