The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1915-03-11

Coppcrfield) and / unhesitatingly sa,
ihat they are all overlooking many op
portunities Of expansion in wealth ane
population.
Let us take this city in which we
find ourselves. You have here one 81
the best and richest Commercial clubs
In the State. II has large member
ship roll, IFS treasury has funds and
can get good sites for the erection OF
factories and the encouragement of In.
vestors in labor employin industries.
The members help the secretary 10 do
all In his power TO get go various at.
fractions Of the locality before the
people who have not y,t seen your
fair country. All thai = Of course
right and proper work g.: Your club TO
do. But are you q 'u; Il? Do
you believe the picture ave drawn
10 accurate? If so yo1 ote not as
smart as You look by ~-5l deal.
What you have done is to allow q
handful Of hard-workins, patriotic,
selfsacrificing men who are getting
their backs sore trying to hold up an
ever increasing load, already too heavy
for them, keep on lifting, while the
rest OF you are willing to sit back with
cigars in your mouths and your heels
on your desks, and tell them to 20 to
IL. You have no building, no club
house, no funds invested, no nothing
except an unfortunate half time secre.
tary, who is working a jolly sight
harder now than he ever worked be-
fore.
II would appear then that the first
lesson you have to learn In the task
Of building up your town Is TO learn
to get into and behind your Commerce
ial Club. The merchant who sits back
smiling and says let the other fellow
do 1t, Ia trying to get something for
nothing. He Is like the man who
went into the cafe and ordered pork
and beans, and when he was served
looked at them questioningly and then
asked II he might change them for
pie. He was told he might and did
SO. When he was leaving the cafe he
walked out without paying, SO the
proprietor called to him for his money.
Highly indignant the man asked for
what he had to pay. "For the pie of
course" replied the irate proprietor.
"PieY Why gave my pork and beans
for the pie."
That is the exact attitude of the man
who hopes to get benefits from the
club without supporting it. 1t is un-
business-like, unmanly, uncitizen-like
and surely un-American.
Now before you have a city YOU
must have people, and before YOU
haye people you must have industries.
before you start industries you must
have faith in their ultimate success.
That means faith in your country.
II you have not, who will? In all nv
lie l have never heard so much talk
'f hard times as have heard during
he last few weeks. What is the mat.
'er with you? Do you suppose YOU
ire going to gain anything by that ?
Do people migrate to hard times
Every time you cry hard times Won
AXE dollars out of your pockets. /
vas standing outside a store the
'ther day talking to the owner when
men and his wife drew up in their
ar The man ordered a five gallon
an OF oil and whilst the clerk went to
'et 1t we Joined in a general con-
ersatlon. From lack of moisture,
nd lack OF snow, the talk drifted to
'ck OF money and everything else 1
kept their own lack of brains.
When the man returned with a five ,
ailon can of oil the wife spoke for !
ne first time. "What do you want q
nth five gallons of oil? That will
'st us for year. One gallon will
us now and we will take the other
'ur when things look up a little"