The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-04-17
AS Others See 1t
LEAGUE OF FRIENDLY Towns FOB FLORIDA
Jacksonville Metropolis.)

Jacksonville Metropolis)
The Leesburg Commercial, one of the Invest
twice-a-week newspapers in the state attaches
significance to the remark passed upon its home
town recently by an outside business man, who
said: "Leesburg is such friendly town"
Indeed the opinion expressed by the disinter
ested observer is significant And Editor Leach is
justified in commenting it, because friendly
towns, likely persons always attract strangers
and after contact soon share spirit of good will
with them.
LeesbuTg is a friendly town. There are a num-
Der of other friendly towns in the state, too; and
Florida is going to have a more enviable repu-
taton when it becomes generally known as the
Land of Friendly Towns.
Towns known by the twinkle in their eyes,
their handshakes, their attitudes towards life
their appearances, just individuals are; for
in The real sense, town is nothing more than
the individual magnifed
it is impossible for town to be greater than
the average greatness of its citizens
1t is impossible for a town to be more friendly
than the average frendliness of its citizens
1t is impossible for town to be more beautiful
than the average beauty of its homes and prem
ises.
Since time immemorial men have lived togeth-
er in groups. The instinct to congregate is as old
as human nature. But in the barbaric periods
men CLAIMED together for mutual protection
against enemies of their own kind and against
the wild beasts that rosmed the fields. Some slept
while others watched, all part of the plan of
protection.
In this civilized age, however, men live in
communities together for mutual benefit as well
for protection. This is the difference between
civilization and barbarsm The barbarian thinks
Of sefpreservation; the civilized man thinks of
self-pcotection through the preservation and up
lift Of others
Search the world over, from the north to the
south, from the east to the west, and nowhere
ON the face Of the globe will more ideal
place be found for the presence of friendly
towns. Nature has given us everything the
heart can desire in this respect Happy en-
ment has been heaped upon us in illimitable
us to build realities with the myriad-colored things
of imagination at our command
Towns have personalities and while these per-
sonaities are generally referred to as civic spir
it's" they generally referred to as "civic spr-
reaching as factors for Observation-Disclosures
ment in the broadcast sense of the word
Florida, state where friendly towns abound
What finer advertisement could the state build
for itself, to say nothing of the genuine salts.
faction the widespread presence of these towns
would afford the home folks?
Towns smile; towns talk; towns make friends
towns make enemes-ju5t as human beings do.
1t therefore becomes the duty of every town
that has visions of becoming great to smile in
the most pleasant sort of way, to talk as con-
structively ard inteligently possible, to make
friends at every opportunity and to make enemies
only when it is absolutely necessary. Enemies
sometimes are worth while assets as friends. 1t
all depends upon the issue involved