New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-10-14

o. gasoline? That depends largely upon
what we have to offer the tourists and
4 very largely whether we bring to their
attention the things that we have that
are worth seeing. We are an historic
city and we have most beautiful scenery
D We are better off in this respect than
many OF our neighbors. But there is
room for Improvement. Where is the
1 man or the coterie OF men who will help
to make New Ulm loom larger on the map
than she already does?
John Allen Murphy in che Com
mercial News Of Sioux Falls published
an interesting article along these
lines recently which we reprint herewith:
The energy, aggressiveness, and ini-
tiative of an individual or Of single
institution aften does more to advertise
and advance town than the collective
(, boosts of all it's citizens.
William Allen White put Emporia,
Kans., in the limelight. Ebert Hubbard
put East Aurora on the map, and got
first class trains to stop there. Grape
Nuts publicity has made Battle Creek a
household word. Who would ever have
heard of Oyster Bay, if the famous cow
puncher had not lived there?
Fort Atkinson is known only as the
place where Jones' Little Pig Sausages
are made. st. Paul attained fame as the
home Of Jim Hill. Hundreds of towns
are known only because of some live wire
person who lives there or some pushing
business is located there.
Nothing makes town better known
than to have one of it's concerns adj
vertised extensively, or to have one of
it's citizens do something really worth
while. There is Prairie Farm, over in
Wisconsin. It has achieved national
prominence, though it is nothing more
than little inland village, simply be-
cause that man Scott, master merchant,
built wonderful store there.
Take Owatonna, Mimi, as another
illustration. It is just an ordinary ,
country town. Some years ago Owa- .
tonna attracted wide spread attention
because OF it's bankers there put up one
Of the most beautiful country banks in
the world. This building was talked
about from ocean to ocean, and many
people went hundreds of miles to see it.
The initiative of Banker Rennet did more
% advertise Owatonna than the collective
enterprise OF all the towns inhabitants.
Rochester's name is not mentioned
associating with it the names of
Mayo Bros. and Wards remedies have
made Winona famous and many people
top there to look at the company's
magnificent plant.
Any town that develops live business
Institution or two will remain in the
'alcium without very much further effort
m its part. Occasionally town, like [
Trenton Missouri, becomes famous
through the cooperative hustling OF it's
citizens, but more frequently it il the
aggression of the individual that gives
distinction to town or community.
When all are collectively boosting
Owl no one is working hard enough.
t is likely that nothing tangible is being
lone. Abstract boosting accomplishes
title. Individual push is selfish. That
$ why it is more effective.
Where every person is striving to
make the best of his own business or work
md are all laboring together for the
advance Of the community, the town is
quilt in the ideal way.
The principal value of Mr.. Murphy's
suggestion is in the impetus it gives our
appreciation Of the men who boost both
themselves and the town. As matter
u fact the men who are most active in
measures to boost the community as
whole are in almost every instance the
men who are most active in boosting
heir own business; yet it is the deplorable
act that these men are generally most
bitterly attacked and criticised in their
'Wn community, probably because of
BETTY jealousy. The fellows who loaf
along in the rut in their own business are i
seldom anything more than somewhat
unwilling trailers in the organized efforts