The Republican journal., 1920-02-12

locate in Belfast2 We have the goods!
Let US show up these reasons in the prop
er light
Most of you know of the success we
had last fall in going among the people in
some of the surrounding towns not only
in putting Belfast and its ira ling advan-
tages before the people of those towns,
but in the cooperation and good fellow
ship we enjoyed ourselves, getting ac-
quainted with one another. The same
plan will be followed this year as soon as
the roads are in condition and regular
schedule will be carried out. the greater
the number of workers, the greater will
| be our success.
| just now there is a movement on foot
to have Community Day or Week"
! for Belfast, when the merchants will Of
fer special inducements to out-of- town
people to come to Belfast to trade. We
plan to have our advertisements in the
local paper and to put that paper in prac-
tically every home in Waldo county.
AS an advertising proposition it has
! great possibilities. Why should not our
merchants patronize their local paper lib
orally, when So times a year it is telling
| the people to come TO Belfast and working
| for Belfast and its citizens. do not own
any stock in The Journal and have no
axe to grind; but am believer in fair
play and am convinced that it is of in
estimable value to the community and
deserves more liberal patronage.
Right here and now am going to ask
you men who are not members of the
| Belfast Chamber of Commerce to join at
once. 1t is duty you owe your town.
To my mind the reason you are not MEM
| lc M hot infa in Ral-
fast, but that you lack interest in the one
organization whose sole purpose is to
work for Belfast. Let us overcome that
| Indifference Let US be enthusiastic boost
ers. Enthusiasm is hard word to spell,
but we need 1t in good big doses. If we
| had a half dozen men in Belfast with the
enthusiasm and everlasting stick to-itive-
ness of the one man who makes our new
schoolhouse possible, Belfast would double
in population in six years.
| Ii we can't be one of six, we can be
one of 100; and 100 men working together
can do wonders. So
eff you want to live in the kind of town
Like the kind of town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in grip
/ And start on long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
| For there's nothing that's really new;
It's knock at yourself when you knock
at your town;
1t isn't your town, it's you.
/ Real towns are not made by men afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead;
| When everyone works and nobody shirks
( Y GU can raise town from the dead.
| And if while you make personal stake
| Your neighbor can make one, too,
| Your town will be what you want to see
1t isn't your town, it's you"
| In response to the subject of Belfast
| Mayor c. W. Wescott gave a heart tc
heart talk and simply voiced the princi-
Piles he lives every day of his life Not
man in Maine works more hours OF
more inteligently than our mayor. He
never thinks of his personal comfort, but
works constantly uutll he completes his
task. He is also honesty personified
! He said in part:
am always delighted to sly word in
praise of Belfast Nothing disturbs mt
more on the inside wherever | am than tt
hear one speak disparagingly or slight.
ingly of our city Were | one who trav.
elled widely, know l should say Oh eacl
return that Belfast looked better to m,
than any other place | had cen. | Ger
tainly feel that way whenever returning
from any ofsour neighboring cities, beau
tiful and attractive though they are.
love every inch of the country hereabout
| have driven over it since boy ant
well remember when first l began t.
come to Belfast. | was driving loade,
team. The boys on the common wouIt