The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-02-17

An, yes, there 1t is, right at the
point of my pencil-see?
Wonder who else sees?
Who knows our town is on the map.
Who cares--other than our home
folks?
What does our town mean, indus
trially, to America?
Anything?
What is it's rank in the American
town development game?
What's the score?
Are we really in the game?
Boys, it is almighty important, the
position our town takes in this race
for municipal supremacy.
And the old town cannot fight her
battles without you and me to boost.
We can boost, at least, if we do not
build
No town Is better than her men.
No town ever went ahead without
men TO push her ahead.
A lazy farmer allows his crops to
run to weeds.
A lazy townsman allows his town
to run to weeds-literally and figur
atively.
Weeds and crops do not thrive well
together. Weeds and town develop
ment do not know each other.
Let's cut down the weeds.
Let's cultivate our ground.
There is a reason for our town be-
ing on the map, or it would not be
there.
Let us study our town a little.
Find out why we are on the map;
why you and | and our neighbors
settled in this spot instead of some
other. In making this inquiry we
probably will discover reasons why
other persons, other business men
would like to live and do business in
our town. We will discover our advan-
tages.
After we know our town, let's tell
others; let's pass the information
around send it abroad.
Let's work for our town.
| Our private business is important,
and must not be neglected but our
general business interests are insep-
arably associated with the welfare of
the town.
If the town prospers, we will have
a better chance to prosper.
If we are making good now, what
could we do in far more favorable
circumstances?
to do to make our town more promin-
ent on this map?
Isn't there a good deal of truth in
this advice? Isn't it profoundly true
that if the town prospers we Will have
a better chance to prosper?
Let us be perfectly frank with our
selves. Arc we as individual citizens
doing all W. can to boost and 10 build
Montpelier? Are we helping 10 every
effort that is being made to advance
the interests of the city or are we
standing back and uttering cynical
criticisms and sneers in regard to the
attempts others are making to secure
"a better, bigger buster" city? If we
are going to build up this city We
must have good team work. We must
be willing to make prices just as at
tractive as those elsewhere display
our wares to the best possible advan-
tage, let the public know what we
have to sell and how we propose to
sell, get up g little earlier in the
morning than our competitors else
where and above all give our out OF
town patrons a good time and make
them want to come again.
We need to cut the weeds. to cul-
tivate our fields more assiduously, to
know why we are on the map and to
let others know. If we are going tC
grow as we ought we have got to
put a little more ginger into our
methods. Our splendid BOARD OF
Trade cannot do everything. There
must be popular, hearty support. w
, must make up our minds that q
! handful of men cannot do all tn
work, but there must be general CO.
operation.
, If we wan to make Montpelier
grow we can do it If we ar really
in earnest about it, but we have go
: to be wideawake III order 10 do it
: and to get in touch with the best o.
modern methods.
Let us show the rest of Vermont
just what Montpelier really can do il
boosting and building when she really
, tries