The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-04-17
THE sLACKER WHO GROWS.

The most undesirable and the most worth
less citizen in our community is the Stacker
who growls. You all know him. He is the TEL
low who sits on the sidelines and let's the rest
of the people work for the community and then
digs deepest into the benefits of community
life He is the fellow who never wants to con-
tribute to anything and never sees the use of
doing anything for the betterment of the COM
nnunity. He sits in his own place of business
and takes the benefits of community advance
nent and takes every possible advantage OF US
ing this advancement fol the benefit of him
self. 1t he is asked to contribute to a fund
for a Fourth Of July celebration he promptly
declares that he is opposed to dangerous fire
works. 49,
A play festival does not appeal to him be-
cause he thinks its foolish 10 play; he doesn't
want to help support the children in Europe
who are suffering because he always says that
there are people over there who have never
helped support his children.
When he gets away from home he talks loud
est about the things that his town has done
and is doing, but he never mentions the fact
that he is not part of it.
Most of the time-when he hasn't brother
or a brother-in-law or some other relative run
ming for office-he never goes to the polls, and
after some others elect the officers, he stands
on the curbstone and bowls about their Gin
competency"
He is the finest example to be found of self
interest and lf-aggrandizement. His inter
ests are conferred wholly in using the commun-
ity to advance his own interest He is para
site on the community at all times, and the
sooner he is sought out and driven out of the
community, the better off the town is going to
be.
The really valuable citizen is the man who
believes that he is a contributing part of the
communicative man who takes a pride in CIV
ing just as much or little more of what he
has to help build the community and help
solve the community problems. If he is a critic
his criticism is along constructive and not des-
tructive lines. He does not slip out into the
Darkroom when the solicitor comes in for some
community project; he does not hide away in
the Darkroom, but he comes to the front with
an Intelligent contribution He is not the fell
low who overpays to advertise but the fellow
who believes that he has fair share of respon-
sibility to take in the community which sup
ports him.
There should be- some way to make these
growing slackers" pay their share of the sup
port OF the community or cease to get their iv-
ing OFT of it. We are not in favor of boycotts,
but we think that some plan should be worked
out to let the people know just what the atti-
tude OF these men is to community advance
ment. We believe that if the people could be
told just what that attitude is that these men
who fail to meet their community response
biities would find Kenosha bad place for them
to do business in and poorer place for them to
live in.
The average man wants to do his part in COM
munlty advancement and he wants the other
fellow to accept his share of the responsibility.
If he is unwilling TO do this he should not be ex-
pected to make capital out of community in
which he has no interest other than the selfish
interest of filling his pocketbook
We don't want the foreigner who seeks moth
ing here but higher wages than he can get in
the country he was born, and we do not want
the man who seeks only to take from the com
munity and give nothing to it.
The Stacker who growIs is the most undesir-
able and the most useless citizen of any COM
munity.
OBSERVE coon FRIDAY