The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-01-09
MEDICINE y 4! hat N
! PINGS FAVOR
Qoa'f Change Name Known tie
World Over, He Pleads.
GOOD As YANKEE TILES.

Moreover, ~it's the Only Place Tsat
Can Freeze Out the upitsd States,r
and Westssners Should Glory In Pos
session Of cosnomsn Rich With In
dian Tradition, He Asserts.
Rudyard Kipling has written char
acteristfc letter to the citizens Of Med
icine Hat on being informed that the
city contemplated changing its name
He assumes that the reasons actuating
the citizens are that the name Medi-
cine Hat has become stock joke
among the newspapers as ''the place
where the weather comes FROM
A resident wrote to Mr.. Kipling tell
ing him Of the proposed change and
setting forth that the name was &
translation of the old Cree name of the
place and rich In Indian tradition.
Mr.. Kipling IN his reply told the
citizens to hold joyously and proudly
to the present name of the town.
which, he declares, has all hell for
basement" and go forth as the only
city officially recognized as capable OF
freezing out the United States. He
thinks Medicine Hat can well afford to-
bear such a name when he remembers
anew places I'm the United States, such
az Schenectady. Tonawanda. Cohoes.
Eeughkeepsie, Podunk, Schoharie, Pc
totnac and Oneonta.
People That Make Cities.
Mr. EfpliuU oISo u-rofo.
b But 1t is people and not prospectuses
that make cities. and time has sancttfied
the queer syllables with memories and as
ISOLATION for millions Of our fellow crea-
lures. Once on a time these places were
young and new and In process of making
themselves.
That is to say, they were ancestors with
duty TO posterity. which duty they full
filled in handing on their names intact.
and Medicine Hat is today an ancestor.
not a derivative nor collateral, but the
founder of a line.
To my mind the name Of Medicine Hat
has an advantage over all the names 1
i have quoted 1t echoes. as you SO Justly
+, put 1t, the old Cree and Blackfoot tradi
/ ton OF red mystery and romance that
! once filled the prairies; also 1t hints I
venture to think. at the magic that under
lies the city In the shape of your natural
gas. =
1 asset
| and as years go on will become more and
i more or an asset 1t has no duplicate in
/ the world 1t makes men ask questions
/ and. as / knew more than twenty years
ago. draws the feet of the young men to-
ward 1t.
Might Change Towns Luck.
1t has the qualities OF influences. fndi-
viduality. association and power. Above
/ all. 1t Is the lawful. original sweat and
4 dust won name Of the city, and to change
i 1t would be to risk the luck OF the CITY
to disgust and dishearten old timers no,
In the city alone, but the world over and
to advertise abroad the city's lack of faith
| in itself
Many western towns are pettipo
tired OF the old names given them nv
the frontiersmen. and many outsiders
are afraid they will adopt new names
Kat Portage now sounds like a sleen
Ing car or an apartment house. Keno
"a Is Its name, to the disgust Of those
VINO would have the last great ives,
retain the picturesque.
Moose Jaw thus far holds true :,
the old. So do Drinkwater, Saskatche
wan, and Pinchers Creek, Alberta. anf
White Fish, Ontario.