The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-02-19
Won Have a Home to be Proud of

You Have Home to be Proud of
You set a good example to your felow-citizens by
keeping YOUR home and everything pertaining thereto I'M
good condition. .
Your front gate doesn't sag with broken hinge
and there isn't picket missing from your fence Your
house gets new coat of paint every time it needs it.
The weeds not choking the life out of the vege
tables in the garden and your front lawn isn't Uttered
with trash.
You Stand by Your Home Newspaper
You are paid-up subscriber to the local neWspa-
pers not only for the they contain but because they
are the general medium for the expression OF community
ideas, and the editors are BOOSlEKS after your own
heart 49, .
If you are in business you are liberal advertiser
not merely for the sake of the business it brings YOU but
because you realize these newspaper constantly
doing lot of good things for the town for which they
wouldn't let you compensate them IN any other way.
You PatrOnZe Your Home Merchants
You paronize your town merchants not only through
convenience but because they your nelghbOrS ana
fellow and when you spend your money with
them you know it will circulate around and probably
come back to you again.
You Encourage Worthy New Enterprises
If one of your citizens is starting new enterprise
YOU are going give him all the encouragement you can
for you know what such encouragement or lack OF IT,
meant to you when you were getting your own start
You Stand for Clean, Competent, Public Officials
If your town and parish officials are good men and
doing the square thing you going to stand by them in
Office If they are the right sort you going to get
them out and see to it they are kept out
You Are Friend of the School Man
If the head of your public schools is conscenously
endeavoring to mould the character we'll train the
mind of the boys and girls of your town. are gong
to let him know you are his friend.
You Will Fight For the kids"
You are going to see to it that every boy in your
town. rich poor is given fair square chance to be-
come decent and useful citizen Elghtyfive per
cent of the prisoners in this countrys jas iterate
It cheaper give boy good education and start him
the road to decency and success than to allow him to
remain iterate, become criminal and execute him
for his crime:
You Have Sincere Respect for the Church
Even if you not member OF church, you are
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for promoting the religious and moral welfare OF your
town. and you going to attend service at least occa
sonaly out of respect for the minister and because you
want him to know you endorse the things that he stands
for in your community.
You believe in Pulling Together"
You will be leader in promoting community coop
Grafton which is simply getting together and pulling to-
gether" realizing that dozen determined business men
who will lay aside petty sefnterest and work together
for the general good will "put your town on the map
You Radiate Enthusiasm and Inspire Progress
Your town may be very small, but if it has few
citizens of your calber is bound to grow for your
young and young women will realize that in the pro-
of community development in the making OF better
Schools in the building of better roads, in introducing
better methods of agriculture, in improving the facilities
for merchandising and in the launching OF new enteprl-
ses there will be abundant opportunity for them to a.
cheve within the very sight Of the old Home, Sweet
Home" just splendid and successful careers as any
great city could offer them.
You Have Warm Heart and Wise Head
Your feow-men always extend you the open hand,
for you thrust at them the closed tst The corn
of your mouth turn up instead OF down. You radlae
cordially because your heart is warm. The young men
to you for counsel concerning their plans The
unfortunate to you for solution of their problems
The little children love you because you understand
them.
You Are Citizen Any Town Will Be Proud Of
Finally, my dear Booster, you will never grow old,
Tor the Fountain of Eternal Youth within the heart OF
every Booster Forgetting SELF you will measure life not
by months and years but by the opportunities you have
discovered for adding something to the sum total of hui
man happiness. A
Your value to humanity is in direct proportion to
the unseish service render In the heart of every
true man there is Somethng-cali it Instinct Principle,
or what you w-that does not permit him to be we'll
satisfied with the things he does for himself with those