Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-08-25
NATIONAL
ADYERT|RERS
BOOST YOUR
Home TOWN!
Home Merchants Sell Quality Goods
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| Home Merchants Sell quality GOOds
Only
A live, progressive and up-to-the-
minute country town is Gods finest
| creation. God refused to have any
thing to do with the making of big
| cities. Such a work he left to dirt
loving, smoke-loving; loving,
crime loving, graft-loving, excitement
loving man; not man living in the inn
age of God (such as is found in small
country towns) but superficial, mon
ey-mad, harried, nervous, dyspeptic
man who is born a chronic crouch
and who dies the death of the embit-
tered. God refused to have anything
to do with the making of big cities
because he knew in advance of their
founders what destroyers of charact-
er, what perverters of happiness,
what desecraters of homes they would
prove to be, and we all know that God
puts His trademark on only the
good, the worthy and the idealistic
God made the country and small
country town because He knew that
there would congregate the type of
men and women in whom he found
the embodiment of all that is worth
while in life. God wished that there
should be a Paradise on cal th--so he
made small country towns, and in
these small towns he saw to it that
the finest citizens of the nation were
born and reared.
He saw to it that living conditions
in small towns were made ideal. He
saw to it that only home-loving, COM
munity-loving, and characterful men
women and children should populate
such places. He saw to it that these
people should possess those qualities
that go to make life worth living;
such qualities as cheerfulness, hon
est, sincerity, generosity and human
kindness. He saw to it that the dol
lar, important though it is, was made
secondary to the great triumvirate of
right, justice and fairness. He knew
that the people he would cause to live
in small country towns would have a
keen sense of their duties towards
their home town, it's institutions, both
social and business. If God had His
way, He would have fashioned many
more small towns than he did, but
pushing, grasping, struggling, selfish
man carved out wicked cities where
true happiness is unknown.
Why is it that the great majority
of our men famous in letters, busi-
ness, craftsmanship and philanthropy
come from the small country towns
Why is it that every movement in
volving the national welfare origin
ates in the minds of small-town men,
tai giants Why is it that health,
| happiness and prosperity abound in
the great majority of small towns :?
Because-because life in a small town
from the moment one is born is con-
ducive to bringing about these ends
It is simply matter of cause and eff
feet.
Small towns have been the cradles
of human liberty. In them have been
given birth men whose influence has
shaped the paths of humanity and re-
ligion. Within them have been born
the men and women who later went
out into the struggling, seething
world and by pen, sword, tongue anC
gun changed the entire course of his
tory. The cream of the nations
greatest men have always been founC
and always will be found in small
country towns.
Small-town merchants embody al
that is ideal. They place the success
happiness and prosperity of thei
customers above the almighty dollar
They would rather close up shop thar
sell a poor product at long profit
they would rather die in shame thai
short-weight or short-change a Gus
toner. Small-town merchants are in
teresoed in the towns growth and wei
fare. They believe that it pays then
in personal happiness as we'll as i
dollars to be liberal with credits, gen
erous in contributing to the mainten
ance of the towns institutions sue
as schools, churches, Fairgrounds, re
creational centers, parks, ETC. The
!, have caught the spirit of the Make
: and have embodied in themselves a
that is right and worthy.
But, alas and alack, there are som