Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-04-13
WORD OF ADVICE
TO BOOSTERS
One True Way Of Showing In.
terest In Home Town.
Do YOUR BUYING HERE,
Local Producers and Dealers Deserve
and Need Patronage of Their Fellow
Townsmen-Straight From the Shout
der Talk From Sedalia, Mo.

No man can be a true booster who
who harbors petty jealousies and can
not rejoice in the success and pros
perity Of his neighbor or competitor.
Nor can one who bears malice be q
sincere booster. for malice is the prop
erty of a small soul. and q small sou
has no place in the big things of this
life. We may proclaim ourselves
boosters. we may join the ranks of Il
booster club and wear a booster but
ton, yet by our acts shall we be known,
and until petty jealousy, envy and sci
fishness-those things, should they ex-
ist, that tend to warp and shrivel mems
souls-are eliminated and substituted
by unselfsh thoughts and a feeling of
good will toward each other we can
not hope to succeed.
Men may meet and feast together.
fit the city and community, and. while
such meetings are always beneficial
and instructive to a certain extent.
yet it is the acts Of men that produce
results. How many citizens of Sedalia.
active members of the Booster club,
a club organized to promote home in
dustry. to build up the institutions we
already have, are doing their whole
duty in that direction? How many
merchants, members of the Booster
club, are buying their supplies abroad,
goods that could be purchased in Sc
dalia (and oftentimes at a better
price,, the same quality. the same
brand and free delivery? How many
members (not merchants) call for
home products when giving an order
or making a purchase from their
grocer or butcher?
Thousands of dollars that could be
and would be kept at home go abroad.
There are many worthy enterprises in
Sedalia, all employing local help that
in turn are spending their earnings in
Sedalia, and both employer and en-
ployee pay taxes in Sedalia, and the
money is being used to keep up our
city. Further. do we realize that the
continuous employment of the men
working in our home institutions is de-
pendent wholly on the output thereof?
Other cities that are daily growing in
wealth and popularity attribute their
growth and prosperity to the loyalty of
their home people and speak with
pride of their home brands of goods
and of how by the continuous inter
change of patronage they keep their
money at home, thus increasing the
volume of their business, the value of
their real estate. the population of
their city. and. best of all, cultivate a
sincere feeling of good will toward
each other. There are no petty jeaI-
ousies in these cities. They haven't
time for such thoughts. but instead
every one seems trying to be bigger
than the other fellow by outdoing him
in building up his home institutions
and town.
Let us give this matter serious con
sideration and let us all be boosters
that boost by giving the goods put ur
or manufactured in Sedalia preference
and so tax our minds with this duty
(all things being equal) that we will
specify these goods when giving an
order. We all have a personal interest
in the growth and prosperity of our
fair city: hence let us during the yea,
demonstrate by our individual efforts
that u interest is sincere and Loyalty
support every home institution. large
and small. and then we can %truthfully
say to the world, Watch Sedalia
grow."-Sedalia (Mo., Democrat Sen.
tinel.