The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-13
WAITING FOR NEW BLOOD

WAITING FOR NEW BLOOD ."<
COMMUNITY that is dead the posoflce both ways
that community where the citizens know more a
other fellows business than they do about their own
about almost everything than about the resources Ce
yantages and the possibilities of their own conlunty
theory community does not step out and INTO It's own
infusion of blood IS gooo tneoly os
blood is allowed to stagnate IL IS goou ie"s 49,
cause they wait for the and prept
tunties which they have let go by default =,
Some time ago one of residents and BUS
mess men, while visiting Washington city, found nmse one
day in the company enerprsng substantial business
men for the of considering
which they considered offered exceptional III
vesmen industrial and commercial advancement
other than considering ways and means
best putting city the path the great development
they believe the discovery of large flow OF nat
ra gas county The Kennewck was asked what
he gas field which has been opened up almost at
his very door, ashamed to confess said the KenneWck
man chat very little about the field and that had never
visited the gas wells aho of them had been flowing cont
uosy for years. My reply as dcouragg
my city embarrassing to me- mad TO adm
asleep the job but you may be sure tna as
soon as possible after returning visited the wells and
absorbed the could regarding the present de
veopment of the field and it's future possibilities
If it worth the business of distant city
Ito begin ways for making the wells mean
something themselves and their community isn't it about time
the business and residents OF this community TO oeg
to figure little in their behalf II opportunity is mere
we going grasp going to let to others
because of defauting?
There is tendency on the part of too many citizens
Ito assume the role of doubling Thomas and to minimize the
possibilities of the field There some facts however that
even the most keptal but admit Gas flowing the field
at the million cubic feet daily 1t is kind of
from petroleum Several companies
punching the earth and there good to
expect day least of these holes going to
tap pool which the When that happens
going rush and somebody going to be left
The who isn't going to be left behind is the
foreseen just such happening and has laid his plans
accordingly.
Reporter does not wish to stand sponsor for
companies operating to guarantee dividends
Stocks do believe however that when it has been
demonstrated company putting forth honest
the financial support of the community No
y share largely the benefits of strike than
does Kennewic yet proximity to the field
puts the Kennew,ck brand on those benefits
While the benefits be rghtfuly claimed to be
which they will will be determined large
y by take toward preproducton development
multiplied business which production will bring the hard
line for instance rghuy belongs the Kennewk hard
merchant The thing is true of the banker
keeper the butcher baker and and is entirely
within power of the hardware merchant
business channels other supply
today attitude indifference
INDUCES pumping cold water may day that
opportunity that his has been preeped by outsider
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SOUNDING THE TRUE SLOGAN