The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-15
Boosting
The Town
Publicity Committee Tells
What It Means to the
Walla Walla Valley.

To the public: Every live active
member of the community should be
deeply interested in the popular and
sensible movement now on to assist the
local commercial club to provide ways
and means to give the resources of
the city and entire valley greater pub
licity abroad.
The movement is a big one. 1t is
broad. 1t aims for a greater growth
along solid lines; to bring about the
accomplishment of more business,
building projects. 1t is one of the
most worthy undertakings the city has
ever known. 1t hopes to benefit no
ones private interests, bus' 10 provide
greater substantial benefits for all.
Summed up in a word, it wants Walla
Walla and the country tributary to it
to win in it's race in competition with
other live communities.
Think 1t Over.
Give the movement your best thought
for a few moments, and it is bound to
have your hearty support. In fact,
those citizens who are so narrow, So
dull and VINO show no inclination to
support local interest should be ostra-
cized and penalized in some effective
manner for such as they are surely
menace to every healthy, wholesome
interest in the city. Such a citizenship
is deserving of no commentator. but
on the other hand it should be shown
up along with it's small niggardly
ideas hat would keep a city at
standstill.
While the plan as proposed for CIV
ia
need the support of All, this support
will not be burdensome to any one in
dividual and this is a mighty big
thing in it's favor. 1t is a case of intel
ligent cooperative work, where all
put their shoulders to the wheel, and
work for their local interest as one.
The movement means a blow at obtuse
and petty fadtiOnalism that has long
been a drag to the local community;
for this reason if for no other the new
movement should have the out and out
endorsement of every broad-minded,
intelligent and progressive citizen.
The new movement is a work that
will stand investigation from the most
critical, and the committee would ask
that every properly owner and bust
ness man in the city scrutiniZe it
closely. Even the most conservative
must approve of it. The work is not
an experiment; it is a work that is
employed and is successful elsewhere.
and having one of the best countries in
he world to promote, it will be
doubly successful here, and results of
the best possible kind will be forth
coming in no time.
Publicity Fund.
When you are asked to subscribe
to the support of the permanent pub
LEFTY fund for the purpose of making
Walla Walla known throughout the
country, dom. look at your subscrip-
lion as an expense, but as an invest
ment, and as money paid out to
strengthen and promote the business
interests you already have in the city
and district Business. like every
thing else. needs a tonic from time to
time; intelligent publicity is more
than a tonic; in this mans town it
will be a cure for numerous evils.
If you look at the situation from
this standpoint you will not only be
subscriber but an enthusiastic worker
in the new movement.
Today Walla Walla and her best
people are making valiant attempts to
get on the road that leads to greater
and better things; don't be a knocker
Or a blocker; make more friends and
secure more business by being a live
wire right in touch with the times in
which we live. Get in the band-Wagon;
get in as quickly as you can; every
day you delay you and your city are
handicapped and you are losing money.
WalIa Walld. Feb. Is, 1909.