The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-29
PLEASANTVIILE


after reading of the pages Of the Pleasantve Press
which is being devoted to promoting good will toward
Pleasantville business houses What we want he con-
tinued lis manufactures This town will never amount
to anything until it gets factories Pleasantve IS enhreiy
dependent upon Atlantic City, When is cold in Atlantic
City, people in Peasanville have chill Peasanville is
large enough to 90 along itself with being depend
cnt upon Atlantic City.
Well there may be something what this citizen has
to say but it can hardly be accepted and swallowed
matter of fact There certain grounds tor appeal
from this more less common view.
Rarely does anyone find all the ideal elements COM
Ebned in single cyno city has monopoly upon all the
good times and happiness.
Take for instance city located in near the great
ramp shpyards. There time when those shpyards
were the workshop which fortunes made and
tion after generation Of families found employment at
wage which enabled them purchase ground and build
shomes have saving bank accounts and to run auto
mobiles
In some other part of the country great cotton mills
had an influence equal if greater upon the surround
ing country where those employed in the mills made their
homes and spent their livelihood.
Again. towns supported by harvests of timber cut from
nearby forests have fourised and they rang with the
music of the
Not SO long ago other towns thrived upon indus
tries while still others enjoyed unwoned activities and life
as large camps for convaescent service men sent there
under good pay by the government
The old order changeth A booming industrial town
Of today may any of the which come
when men and change their modes OF living from
riding and driving moorng when the deposit OF raw
material; the timber line recedes when ships go
out Of fashion and when the government has healed
otherwise provided for its veterans.
1.-THE mill is going to shut down., is cry that is
loaded with heart ache and dread All not the merries
in a manufacturing town.
So there something that Peasantville escapes after
. ALL ..3--~a~- d. ~A
Yet PIeasantvie does amount something 1t in
creases in Importance very large percentage of its
people find profitable employment in the building trades
Just stop and think how much money has into Pleas
antve in we'll filled weekly envelopes account of the
great hotels piers places of entertainment and stores built
in Atlantic City. That money continues to come in
In addition Pleasantville and the Mainland are doing
considerable amount Of building by and for themselves
If you don't think So walk around your old home town and
just that she is taking more and more modern
effects from housing store fronts
1t may be that Pleasantvie needs lot of things that
she does not happen have. The may be said OF
any city, large or small If is to be made, it is
better to need few things than is have lot OF things
which city does not need.
Usually the real fault is that Of neglect to exercise
to appreciate that which city already has.
How would it be for while to exercise an apprecia
Of what Pieasantve already has and to be loyal to
Pleasantville?
We thing this would require any great amount OF
financing, and would be profitable