Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-01

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your town. OF course get the outside
fellow and his money when possible
and your success means his success
and a satisfied citizen.
Some of the chief lines of work for
Board of Trade are: To arouse !
community spirit. Good roads and
how to get them. County fair Win
COW trimming contests. County Far1n
Demonstration and Agricultural Devel.
opment. Developing local markets,
improvement of condition of the town
through organized effort. Better
streets and how to get them. In
prove the towns appearance from the
railroad. Make the town clean. and
sanitary. City planning. Trade ex=
~cursions. Building up retail trade.
Municipal government as a business
proposition. The relation of taxation
to community growth. Make an in
dustrial survey. Secure industries,
large or small; small ones grow. Sc
cure public library. Good water anu
milk supply. Of more importance thar
doctors. Vocational education. Or
ganize troop Of Boy Scouts and dis
cover the value of the boys to your
community. Raise funds for publicl
'ty. Advertise your town. Hold fire.
Iquent public meetings.
The meetings themselves will dis
cover many points of value to your
members and to your town. Now
don't say, Mr.. Buckner, such a pro-
gram cannot be carried out here IN
Marion. for it can. You are but hu-
man, as other folks in other places.
and are swayed by the same emotions
man, as other folks in other places,
Don't think that you are too conser-
vative to do this thing or that. Con-
servatism is but a state of mind.
psychological condition. Every citizen
ia an asset or q liability to the com
munity. Most men really wish to bet
ter the community in which they live,
come to a greater degree than others
Some live In the community with tbs
sole idea of getting the creates.
amount in dollars and cents from the
community. 1t is we'll for every citl-
zen to ask himself the question. TO
which class do / belong?
'The man who is always too busy
TO lend q little help in the communi
tvs common cause Is too busy to
measure high in the community's
stature" -..s
1.-THE man who Ia so Door that he
founded. successful. MISUNDERSTANDING
community movement, is so poor that
he is on the debit side Of the ledger
''The man who counts for something
in the community Ia the man. who
does something for the community.
and he is the same man who gets back
from the community the fullest meas
ure of return"
There are three steps or processes
for developing the man who is an as
set to the community: The first Is
the necessity to develop constructive
men. Begin by showing appreciation
of the constructive men you already
have in your. town. The second Is to
create a constructive, cooperative
spirit of enthusiasm and spirit of en-
.terprise and confidence and conf
dence in the community and in each
other. l might add that the first step
In accomplishing this much-to-be-de-
sired condition is to kill of all the
pessimists in the place. If you do not
know what the pessimist IL. Viii state
that 1T is a person who. seeing TWO
evils, a lesser and a greater, chooses
both of them
AS a matter of fact, the young Is thA
natural optimist, youth always sees
the rosy glow. Keep him at home
IS your most valuable asset. The loss
of the many thousands Of young men
from the, farms of the South every
year is the real crux OF the situation
in the South's retarded progress OF
the past,
Don't merely tell the young man to
stay at home, but make it worth mis-
while to stay at home. If he wants to
somewhere else to make his for
point out some concrete way
he can make some money at
home. Then he will become a pro
and builder, and the money he
would spend in going away and take
with him. would remain at home anG
increase. The young mar always a
some money, and plenty of energy anu
ability to make more, so keep him n
his money, but be sure to try and help
him keep his money out of the DO
nanza.' by the way, is a hole In the
ground owned by a big llar.
I will go further and say, take an
interest in the teen age boys. They
have a potential value to the com
mun1ty. They can be made of service
as fire and waste inspectors, care OF
public property to prevent abuse to
the courthouse, ~postoffce. schoo'
building, churches, letter boxes, street
and the like. If you have no
troop Of Boy Scouts, let me suggest
that some of you men investigate b
value of Boy Scout principles and h
value Of the boys SO trained to h
community now and as they become
older. 1t makes strong, independent,
helpful, respectful, patriotic boys and
these habits. inculeated into them as
viii make them the same kind OF
men. Two, of the special features OF
Scout work are to respect the rights
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