Evening journal., 1912-03-16
SATURDAY, MAR. 16, 1912
BOOST YOUR HOME TOWN.

ID OOST your home town. Don't knock it. Boost
~ it twenty-four hours in the day. seven days
in the week, thrty-one days in the month and
twelve months in the year. Boost it always. Boost
its natural and artificial attractions. Boost its en-
terprisng and progressive men and its nice women
and children Boost its manufacturing and COM
mercia enterprises. Boost its wde-awake mer-
chants, its brany lawyers and its life-saving doc
tors Boost its school, its park, sewer and water
systems and the men who have made them what
they are. Boost its architects and its builders who
arc doing so much TO make of II city beautiful
Boost its harbor facilities and their adaptablity
for development In short hoost your home town
both at home and abroad If the time ever should
come when you feel there is something in the
local situation which should not be boosted, keep
your mouth shut that particular part of II while
you arc assisting in making a correction and boost
the rest of it, Remember that when those who
spend their lives in a community speak we'll of it.
wherever they may be- those who visit it only oc-
casonally or who never visit it at all take their
cue from those who boost it and in few years
the city becomes known as one OF the most delight
full places for residence and one of the most ad-
vantageous places for business that there is IN the
country.
One of the drawbacks Wilmington has suffered
has been that it has had too many knockers and
too few boosters Now is the time for change
10 be made. That change will cost nothing. The
man who boosts his home town is happier than the
man who knocks it, Certainly IL is mean man
who persistently knocks the community on which
he relies for his livelihood and his social and other
pleasures II NAV be said that the influence Of the
knocker is corrective. That may be true, in linz
tied sense Ii is safe to assert, however that the
man who has love enough for his home town to
boost it and its public and commercial institu-
tions, exercises more corrective influence in a
cheerful way than do ten knockers whose chief de-
light seems TO be to suffer from Crouch
Wilmington a fine citV--fhc finest ever Will
mingtonanS have no objection to London, New
York Chicago and other places being on the map
They help to fill in. The point of it all is that in
the eyes of Wmingtonians the importance of tho
home town should overshadow that of all other
towns. They should stand ready to oontrovert al
all times assertion by men from any other com
munity that that other community has anything
whatever the old home town when it comes &c
the pleasures Of living or the transaction of busi
ness.
II may interest astronomers to know that th'
moon has its mountain ranges and its craters; tina
Saturn has its rings and that Mars has its system
of canals OF far greater interest to Wilmington
ians, however is il that their city is the premie
municipality of one of the most delightful State
in the Union; that il has many splendid iustitu
tons; that il holds a commanding position on i'm
portant lines Of transportation and that throug
the enterprise of its manufacturers it is know
from one end of the world TO the other. Ii is woi
thy of being boosted by any man, anywhere an
under any circumstance The Wmingtonian VIII
knocks the town in which he lives simply reveal
10 his fellow men that his point of view has b
come so twisted that he does not know good thin
when he sees it. He needs the service of an oeu'
and an opucian