The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-17
TURN YOUR ADMIR- ALTON INTO
ARDM0RE-ATI0N' URGES WILLIAM A.
HART OF AMERICAN CITY BUREAU

tory and stock taking week IN
ArdmOre with the Chamber Oi Com
merce, is told in detail by William
4. Hart field director of the Amer
lean City Bureau, who announced
this his mission upon his arrival
here Sunday. April 10.
Mr.. Hart has studied conditions
in ArdmOre with a th0rOughnesS
which comes only from a thorough
understanding oi how to study civ
ic matters, and his opinion, SuggcS-
tions and advice should be consider
ed very carefully by every citizen.
".Ardmore, ! pr0phesy is on the
way TO great things-there is no
limit to these things--but the will
OF its people" Mr.. Hart says, and
in the following sets out clearly
wha, can be accomplished and how
best TO go about accomplishing il.
Ardmore, "rhe Beautiful"
''They tell me that the name Ard
more means THE Beautiful" From
what language the word may come.
| have not enquired. II may be In
dian. and possibly is. What has inn
pressed me about il is that the
founders of the town should have
chosen name with such meaning.
And that those who followed them
should against many obstacles have
80 definitely kept the name in mind
Il say that they have kept il in
mind, for all the evidence is that
they must have. Mistakes, learn,
have been made i'm the government
Of the city. Like all new cities Ard
more has had its periods Of pioneer
crudity and tCughness, bur one look
at ArdmOre's layout, its business
buildings. lis churches, its homes.
its trees. reveals that through il all
has persisted the dream OF making
il beautiful.
4 city, like man. is forever
travelling from yesterday to tomor-
row. oh, never tell me what you
were. but what you are today used
to be the wall of one of our popular
songs. \ motto for cities would be,
Never tell me what you are but
what you're going TO be.
What is Ardm0re Going 10 BE
''AiI this week ! have found my
self most interested in what Ard
more is going TO be.
''Is ArdmOre going TO capitalize the
admirable beginnings Of its foun-
ders many of whom are still with
Us. and by means of definite city
plan grow i'm wisdom and in statute
and i'm favor with God and man? Or
!, she going TO just grow like ne
elected Topsy?
rs Ardmore going To develop a com
nunity spirit that can rise 10 occasion
5 Kansas City did few years ag'
rhen convention hall burnei dow
nd the whole citiZenry rose in bod!
nd built new colossus of convention
alls in 90 days?
rs Ardmore going to take the larg
SIS Of the earth in the form OF oi
nd when that is exhausted slump int
he discard with the municipal has
eens Of history?
That is what interests me. And afte
he hospitality the cordiality. the friend
mess which has been afforded me, Z
tranger in its midst, | have a yer!
warm and affectonate wish that tn,
.nswer in every case shall be the bes
'ossible.
What do you think of Arjmore? IL
he question / have most frequentl!
Ieard in the past week.
And here is the answer:
What He Thinks of Ardmore
"Ardmore is probably the most at
ractive, most up-to-date. most hustlins
-ity of its age in America today. An,
hat means in the world. For Americ;
'ets the pace for enterprise. Ardmor'
$ attractive to look upon, pleasant I,
i've in, profitable to do business in. Peo
Die of Ardmore. you have right to b
proud OF your city. ami wherever | q
shall sing its praises in these terms
'There you have it, honestly and with
gut prejudice. That peppy organization
the Ardmore Rotary club. greeted
talk TO this effect the other day witt
A song about the Same Old Bull bu
This was to hide their modest bushes
They believe it and they like it, Quit
But reputation like the foregoing
carries with ii, like all regulations, re
nh. ,,.,rfd 1ars oely
Of city, Never tell me what you ar,
but what you're going TO be-.
The viii Of Its People
"Ardmore, prophesy, is on the wa
TO great things. There is no limit I
these things but the will OF its people
"ln the first place, Ardmore can b
beautiful. Few If any mistakes hav
been made in its physical layout up I
the present time With definite cit
plan and all Oklahoma TO grow II
tbrushing Oklahoma City aside in III
march OF progress II 1t gets in the way
II can become n model city to look a
Did you know. people of Ardmor,
that America is the first nation TO pla
cities? Alexander the Great, Peter III
Great and Constantine planned porto
OF the cities that bear their names an
let the rest run wild. They had an idei
hut II was never pOpularizod. Who
London was destroyed by fire In l6t
Sir Christopher Wrenn advanced
scheme for rebuilding it according
plan. But the inuoculation didn't TAX