Connecticut western news., 1910-10-13
DON'T GRoWL! HELP PUSH!

Every towns needs wholesome public spirit to keep it moving; to get it out of the ruts. Now and then there comes 8 time when things don't seem to go just right in local affairs. They don't always move your way and you sit on the rag ged edge of your high mightiness and growI like sore headed bear over it, while down there in the roadway your friends and neighbors, with their coats off for business, are putting g their should CTS to the old car of progress or catching hold of it wherever they can in the en- dsavor to get it out of the ruts and the mire and start it on it's way in triumph.
 Theirs is the spirit of true progress. Yours is the personifcation of pharasai- cal egotism. Some new measure for the public good is about to be launched. Are you ready to aid it, or are you going to ait under the upas tree and breath conta- zion upon it in hope of upsetting what may be for the best good of all3 This world isn't made for individuals alone. The good Lord placed you in it as one of many atoms which go to make up the composite whole. He did not endow you with all earthly wisdom to the detri- ment of everybody else:
 He did not make you infallible. He set you down in life's vineyard to work aide by side with others almost similarly endowed. By the cultivation of talents some have attained higher position than others, and so jealousy, that fatal blight upon human effort, has crept in and too many hearts have given it lodgment and far too many lives have been swayed by it's injurious spell.
 What the world wants to-day, is what community needs, men ready for ser vice men who are true to the best that underiies human life men who will lend the helping hand wherever it is needed, not with hope of expected reward, but for the good of their fellows. It needs men and women, too, who have good word to say for their town upon all oc- casion. Not that class of people who blow warm to-day and become ioebergs tomorrow. People judge your town by wlns you say of it. You are one of it's sons or its daughters, and if you are continually finding fault with it's instit- utions, it's officials, it's public spirit, it's merchants, or it's social life, you must not expect those who hear you, who ,com- ing from other sections, are going to have any higher opinion of the town or its endownments than you have. No stream of water can rise above it's source, and rarely does information improve when repeated second hand.
 Do everything ill your power to make your town better for your having lived in 1t. Set it's virtues and attractive feat ures in so point display type and frame them and hang them on the walls of memory. If you find it has faults, set them in Brilliant, the smallest type known then pie the form that no proof of it can be taken Thus you will serve your town to advantage, and the good you may be able to accomplish will be appre- ciated long after the condemnations of the ''kicker" have sunk into deserved oblivion.
 He IS the desirable citizen who always has good word to say for his town :; who stands up for it's institutions and it's people who learns to see some good in everything done for the public better ment that man who isn't forever try ing to pick flaws in his neighbor or his nsighbor's children or his neighbor' s pri- yate affairs, but who is broad minded enough to mind his own business who isn't looking for trouble or going around with long face and a sanctimonious whine, trying to persuade every one that he meets that the town and the uni verse is out of joint because he has gout or dyspepsia.
 Look on the bright side of life. Do as you would be done by. Don't try to do the other fellow through fear that he will do you, but let the world see by your life and your acts that you are an .optomistic man or woman, who believes that there is good in anything that stands for purity, and the moral upbuild of community.
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