Williams news., 1922-09-22
OH YOU KNOCKERS

OH YOU KNOCKERS!
 What shall community do when a talse psi @ cent of it's citizens consistently knock the coii munity and every movement 1nade 10 ~ speecDei ~. A bolshevik with few bombs can des1Iog ga u iD . lin an hour than a thousand men can rebulfd HI a wear A knocker with his bonabs ot crI1clslll ':skepticism Hack of confidence Tn the eelii @. munity,' and active opposition to every elloIt made to build up the community, can easlly oo more to retard a conr1unitys growth nn tnan a number of progressive eitr4ehs Rat eat what has the bolshevik gained after he has explodeo HIS bombs, and what has the knocker galneo 11 W!ie9 Inc has prevented the growth of his community One man with enough property in Wlllanls Ito make it folly for him to do anything put 1oose the town, consistently looks at the dark sioe oa the nicture and orates on innumerable topics every one of them calculated to prove W lliailis Ia dead town that is losing population ana M a @ ,.o future Others like him are pursuing the same course Except for the persistent efforts ol tne boosters the town would cease to grow ana ils 1 future would be discourag1ng. However, Inanhs Ito the boosters this community IS more than no1o- ing it's own and it is going to grow faster III the
 If those same knockers would exert the same amount of energy in boosting the town, our pop Eulaton would double during the ,,a next oecaoe- lit may do so in spite of the knockers. : r. The knocker first referred to, recently maoe the assertion to the editor that Williams has not I191O He asserted that the population in 1910 was 1867 and that it is now only about 9oo. AS authority for his assertion ne fe1errea ueias .o H statement which he read in the Los Angeles, Times a wear or two ago, in which, he ayers, the population of Williams by the last, census was QlV0n than a thousand. We disagreed with him and in order to back stand with figures wrote at once to the U. s. Bureau of Census. The Bureau sent the following information: = Population of Williams, Town, Arizona. 1 x ss191O, 1267; 1920, 135O. Confronted with these figures, what d1d our knocker do? He immediately attacked the re- liability of the Census report, asserting that that count must have taken in all the surrounding country. The 1920 enumeration is certainly as reliable as the for 1910 and that proves a
 growth in population instead of the sad falling off which this man had been proclaimlng. Had that knocker had the making of a booster surely he would have rejoiced to find that he was wrong and would immediately have heralded the good news abroad. Instead he showed only
 appointment at finding that he was wrong 1n so running down the town.
 Oh you Knockers. You hurt the town and
 yourself by saying that the town is losing popu- iation when you would have the facts to back you if you said that the town is growing and you would be helping your purse by so boost ing: If the Knockers Club would only pass a
 rule that every member must boost for the next
 year just as hard as he has knocked for the past twelve months, the results would be so gratlfy-
 ing and so productive of enthusiasm that they lcould never knock again. Even if you, MT. Knocker, are convinced that your knocking can do no harm and that your boosting could do no good you would enjoy life great deal more If you would only get in and boost. If you would only look on the bright side of things instead of Ialways looking for the dark shadows.
 Il Oh, you Knockers!