Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-09-03
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BOOSTING.

BOOSTING.
The term Boosting" has of late
come into general use among the
people of this country as applied to
to the act Of championing helping
forward and working for any given
cause, movement, business or person.
al interest. We like the word. in
our school days it was synonymous
with lifting or pushing up, and we
do not believe that the word has lost
TINS meaning in its modern applica-
tion. To boost" is to lift up, and
there is lot of lifting up that needs
to be done. You can't conceive of
lifting up without the idea of better
ing, improving, strengthening and
progressing. Following this line of
thought, the only way to really boost
enectually and efficiently is to plan
and work for the establishment and
success of those things that make
Tor the general welfare and uplift of
the community. But to get back IN
the real first principles of BOOSTING
% aI.er al, a person needs to begin
with himself.
Ihere are mighty few of us WA,
cannot find some place in our hearts
OF character that would NOT stand
bringing up to higher level: there
Is no one, except the confirmed
egoist the person absolutely absorb
ca IN himself, who does not feel
snat there is room for Improvement.
This feeling. this innate desire in The
normal human being is at once the
promise and the hope for the future
OF the race. There have been ner;ods
IN all lands when this innate desire
Tor self Improvement seemed to be
atrophied, dead, among the masses
or the people and notably so among
those who conceived themselves 10
ne OF the upper class, who were self
sunicient in possession of temporar
power or material wealth. There
may be. doubtless are, multitudes IN
whom this desire seem dead in the
present time, but Il has and does
persist IN the human race through all
the ages and as It is awakened IN the
minds Of men, the old order changes
and the new and better conditions
comes to take its place.
Say what you win Of Billy Sunday:
agree or disagree with his methods.
call him mountebank, a CRATER or
Christian gentleman; the fact re-
mains that he has rendered a SER
vice OF inestimable value to his time
and to his country, in that he has
awakened this innate desire in thou
sands Of men and women and they
have become real and efficien. boost
ers for the general uplift by boost
ing themselves. Whatever the meth
cd, Mr.. Sunday has succeeded in ar
rousing many to the realization that
they have been living on a plane far
below that which they might live on
and that they were neither putting
into life nor getting from It what
they ought. If people have poured
thousands Of their. money into Mr..
Sundays pockets, Il Is to be re-
membered that he has not made his
money by giving people that which
is detrimental to their physical well
being, stultifes their mental life or
demoralizes them spiritually. But
We are not defending or apologizing
for Billy Sunday; we desire IL we nay
TO get down to the he'd rock of eff
cient and effective boosting show Just
where It begins and enlist everybody
in the business. The real booster
never stops with Eis own personal
interests; he reaches out to help lift
wherever and whenever he sees a
chance to help lift up and push for
ward. On the other hand, no Per-
son can begin boosting his own life
and character to a higher plane Of
efficiency and a higher standard of
humanity without also boosting sur
rounding conditions.
It has been said often from plat
form and press that the perpetuity
and progress of uch a government as
our own depends upon the efficiency
of the citizenship-ths whole mass
Of the people. The changes cannot
be rung on this idea too cften or toe
long. II simply means this, that this
nation will grow in strength and to-
ward the ideals Of political industrial
and social conditions as it's citizenship
grows in boosting efficiency. We dc
not need destroyers we need builders
we do not need knockers" we neec
helpers. In a word W. need as 4
people individually and collectively t
get into the boosting business. BE
ginning a home and with ourselve,
let us reach out and lift up; and le
us do II together. Il is our purpos,
as a newspaper to help all we can il
the boosting line and we want tn,
cooperation of everybody else il
the community; or, to put it tn
other way round, we want to worl
together with our fellow citizens il
this community in the boosting bust
ness.
The columns Of this paper are ope
to suggestions and plans for boost
ing our community county, state an
nation. Some space will be devote
in this paper each week to some phas
Of the Boosting Business" We ma
not all think alike on a great man
subjects, but we may all work tc
gether to build up the better cond
tions a better community and 70
each others welfare.