The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-02-08

Y We are not discouraged because tn,
continued efforts of the Review TO
. nearly half century to upbuild Den
ison have been but partially success
8 full. So long as we shall continue tt
be a part of this community we shall
keep up the fight-the fight for bet
ter government, for higher ideals, fol
the doing by the community OF its
whole duty to itself.
We love Denison. Every hill and
every valley tells it's story. Every
building has it's history and it's indi,
viduality. We know the heart history
of so many of our people, the trials
they have undergone, the temptations
! they have met, the sorrows that have
come into their lives that we have
learned to judge them all with that
kindness which comes only with
time and with continued intimacy. We
believe in them. We have seen the
magnificent love with which they have
gathered about those consumed with
grief. We have seen the charity and
the helpfulness with which they have
cOndoned the faults and weaknesses
of their neighbors and the strong but
tender hand with which they have
sustained the faltering. We believe
that the heart of this community is
essentially good and strong and
brave. We believe that not one word
of righteousness and helpfulness that
the Review has uttered during all
these years has been lost.
| Denison has failed to live up to it's
ideal just as each one of us has failed
to live up to his ideal, but this is 10
reason why we should give up our
deals or cease from striving. Let us
rather benefit by the lessons of the
past and take firmer grip upon the
future. Let us draw nigh unto each
other. Let us feel civic pride in
our city just as we feel personal
pride in the accomplishments of our
own lives.
Nothing is more pitiful that the
man who gives up; who acknowledges
that he is undone; who sees that the
good of life has slipped from him
through his own shortcomings and
who is ready to write FAILURE"
at the end OF the chapter.
No community is so to be pitied as
the one in which life and effort
has ceased and the struggle for i'm
provement has been given up.
Such is not the case with Denison.
We have men who give daily thought
and effort to the upbuilding OF our
city. We cannot all be leaders. Some
of us are so situated that we can give
little save advice, but all OF us can
be helpful in one way or another. We
can help, to tighten the burdens of
others. We can show an individual
kindness which will leaven the spirit
of the whole. We can refrain from
undue criticism and uphold the hands
of those who would do something for
our city.
The active man makes mistakes.
The friend of value is the man who
stands by you, even when you make
mistakes. Denison has made mis-
takes, but making mistake is, as a
rule, better than making nothing.
We are hopeful-not too hopeful
but hopeful that Denison has taken
new start That it's business men are
more in earnest. That the effort to
improve is more deep-seated than it
has been for some time, that the les
sons of the census of Iowa and OF
this county, have been taken to heart
and that our people realize that the
people of no other community are 60
ing to do the work for US, that we
must depend upon ourselves.
Some day this dream of j. Fred
Meyers more than third of a century
ago will come true. Will you not help
to hasten the day?