The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-11-02
How ID Boost Your City

There has been change during re-
cent years in the methods of city boost
ing, especially in the older and larger
cities. The old style hurrah campaign
i, less in evidence. and more thought
and study is given to making the city a
comfortable place in which to carry on
business and an attractive place in
which to live. This does not mean
that new industries are not sought nor
the extension of trade territory consid-
cred. On the contrary. it is doing the
very thing that will help promote trade
expansion and bring in the most desir-
able class of home-builders. by making
the best possible city in which to live
We find commercial organizations and
publicity clubs giving more of their
time and energy to the improvement of
conditions of city life.
Many large impartant reforms have
already been accomplished in some
cities 1t is now time that attention
was given to ahost of smaller matters.
There is a disposition some times to
think these not worth while. that only
some spectacular reform which causes
much comment is worth going after.
But few dozen smaller reforms may
combine to make city distinctive, to
place it in class by itself, and this
certainly is no small matter. After all,
hot
the most, as they are the easily abolish
ed.
In actually every day life we seem to
understand the value of the comfortable
city and the beautiful If we have
visitors to entertain. we hustle them
into motor car and show them all the
beauty-spots of our city and surround
ings. We don't take them to the stock
yards, important as that industry may
be. We don't take them through
noisy machine shop or factory to won
der how people can endure such rack
ct and still live, even if such factories
mean much to the volume of the cities
trade. We show our best features and
attractions, albeit nature provided most
of these and man has only helped very
little in conserving such natural wealth.
Suppose you could show your visitors
a city where the smoke nuisance was
practically abolished, including the
smoky auto-car which pollutes the air
for every one else on the country road
or city street. Suppose you could point
out the attractions of clean streets,
kept clean in all seasons as well as dur
ing few summer months; streets that
fuel dealers are not permitted to litter
up with coal from delivery wagons.
which belongs in some custom .r's coal
bin and not on the public highway.
Also sidewalks free from coal dust
where the village practice is no longer
allowed of dumping coal in front of a
place of business and mussing up
whole block. That you could tell your
visitor that the anto- noise society is
ative and has abolished the shrill
whistle of the popcorn wagon, the
yawp of the leather lunged peddler and
! newsboy at o'clock on Sunday morn
ings; and had reduced to a minimum
the noise of city street car and railroad
engines within the city limits,
This is only small list that could be
extended to include many other
nuisances They may be styled petty
annoyances, but in the aggregate they
combine to place heavy tax on the
health and efficiency of city folks.
The city that can eliminate many of
fhAsp hoe
pulling power, 1t will surely have the
lead over other cities in the rivalry of
the future. which is destined to be
along such lines.