The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-12-29
E. A. FRANZ OFFERS
WHOLESOME ADVICE

Wholesome advice and the basis fol
New Years resolutions were Offered
in an address delivered last week by
E. A. Franz to the Tuesday Lunch
club. Mr. Franz address follows:
For some time | have felt that il
would not be bad plan to have a
'get-together" meeting of the town
people for the good of the town. A
good many titles might be applied to
the remarks | am about to make, such
as reciprocity. Cooperation. 1.-The
Golden Rule" or "You and Your
Town" The latter, perhaps, expresses
the real meaning of what | wish to
convey to you. You and Your Town.
When a propective settler comes into
town. if he is family man, one Of the
first things he will inquire about is the
school; they are of such high standard
that he is quickly satisfied in that re-
spect. He also finds that we have two
banks that are second to none in the
state of Oregon for town of this size.
He soon finds that our city has good
doctors. dentists lawyers, good stores
and a good many grocery stores
churches of all denominations, in fact
everything that makes living near or
in such community ideal.
The fact of the matter is, the aver
age farmer would consider a farm ad-
iacent to a town that has the advan-
tages of Hood River worth $50 per
acre more than farm located near a
dead town.
In order to make such an ideal city
as Hood River possible people must
patronize their home institutions in
every way possible in order that a
surgeon, dentist, lawyer or whatever
profession it may be, of high reputa-
tion can afford to stay here and feel
recompensed for his ability; in order
that the stores may increase their
stocks and expand in keeping with the
growth of the community.
Now, believe all of US have ne
/ elected our duty to our home town in
greater or lesser degree in the past,
and | sincerely believe it has been
done unconsciously, without thought of
what the ultimate outcome must be in
regard to the business institions of
Hood River.
A good parallel of our case is the
man who said: cit isn't necessary for
me to go to church. | know what is in
the Bible; know what it teaches;
know right from wrong, good from
evil; | know how to treat my friends
and my enemies so why should |
spend an hour in church," But he
does reed the church and the minister
to remind him of all of those things
that he thinks he knows, in order that
he may apply them to his everyday
life for the benefit of himself and
mankind in general.
So we need to be reminded of our
duty to our home town in order that
our institutions may grow and be a
credit to the citizens of Hood River
and the state of Oregon.
| fully realize that we have class
of people in Hood River and its sur
rounding country whose needs are
above the average demands of com
munity of this size, and our stores
may not be able to fill their require
ments in every respect, but there are
thousands of dollars worth of mer-
chandise bought out of Hood River
every year that could be bought to bet
ter advantage at home. Any number
of people go out of town for dental
work when we have excellent dentists
right here in Hood River Our phys-
clans and surgeons would do credit to
a city of 100, 600 inhabitants and some
of our people do think them a great
convenience when the baby has the
stomach ache about | o'clock in the
morning. but think they must go else.
where when anything of any import
ance comes up.
Now, those are not healthy condi-
tions, and Hood River will never grow
and prosper as it should under those
conditions. Should you take Meier &
Frank, Olds, Workman & King and
Lipman & Wolfe out of Portland that
city would have no attraction whatever
for at least so per cent of the people
that 90 from Hood River to Portland
at the present time. The same thing
holds good in regard to Hood River.
You need the stores 10 make the town
interesting to its citizens, to attract
the country people, and in order to
have good stores and good professional
men they must be patronized. We 90
not want to go backward we do not
want dead town; we want to make
Hood River so attractive that every
body that ever comes near it will want
to stay here. But that can not be ac-
complished unless we all put our shoul-
der to the wheel and let all our actions
be governed by the thought that it
must be for the good of "our town"
In closing, | wish to impress upon
your minds in all sincerity that the
few remarks just made are absolutely
mpersonal and the only thing | had in
mind was ''The Future of Hood
River"