The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-09-16
you HAVE TO KEEP GOING OR GET RUN OVER.
. (From The Coastland Times)

From The Coastland Tines
We folks in the Coastland are engaged for livei-
hood in business that highly competitive It is also
business that makes keep his toes keep
ahead changed since the day when one might
open store and such times as the customers
came it We'd get their business, what there of it, they
couldn't go anywhere else u a-aaN
We had glorious living here in this Coastland until
nature gave We didn't to take care of
and save and conserve the fish the and the timber
We killed and slaughtered without reason taking only that
which best and easiest to get until the supply wned
to scarcity that would not longer feed all of us
Now have had to to other things and some
years we have been doing pretty well what has again
to with very little effort namely tourist bust
ness But that also cannot last unless do something to
stimulate it and protect it. tfs
It takes advertising, promotion merchandising sales
manshp keep kind of business going longer
it goes the more have to put into it. If don't keep
ahead of the game go behind AS they do up in New
York where dog eat dog if don't keep running all
the time the next fellow going to kick you
you don't lead the pace, you will get If each
business isn't better than the preceding
going to lose money
Now if there time when we must do some
advertising and promotion for this coastland right
we have Just gone through month Of the most intensive
bad advertising that tends to drive business the other way
and we've got to do something to offset it. The
rage of hurricane baloney that has out through the
nation has hurt business just badly the huri
canes had actually struck The one advantage that we
weren't physically hurt and quicker and be
earlier the job great handicap of is that
folks after going through tough midsummer do not
have readily the cash essential to finance adequate
motion campaign. lMA4
In other that been longer in the tourist bus
mess and whose people are WdeaWake to the worth
OF Advertising in other words where people
list conscious the first thing happen situation like
ours would be complete and rapid marshang of
in an about advertising campaign. would be campaign
continuous and intensive to tell the world still in
business, constant reminder not badly hurt and
there still awaits them the old charms
of nature This is responsibility of all the people, and all
people should share the entire public benefits
by our tourist business If builds hotel at Kitty
Hawk helps everyone in the county. Men employed
goods bought it's guests and paw for services
which go to workers, to fishing guides stores to
numerous businesses The taxes that to the county bene
he oth
got Fortunately for Dare County gets threefouhs of
its people who do not reside in the county vet
who make almost demands school funds it's well
fare funds other public funds It's pretty good gravy
but there are probably people anxious to have oud
ers ALL people who wouldn't pay anything whatever
If they might avoid it.
Unfortunately in Dare County we have many people
who do not have the understanding the vision and the pub
lie spirit in fact the plain horse to the value of
advertising to understand just how much the promotion
that has been done has meant to them through the years
Unfortunately have county officials who sometimes
responsive to the sentiment expressed by such
ed people and consequently the valuable and vital promo
ton work needed for the county doesn't get done while
public funds squandered in trivial projects destined only
for today and of no lasting benefit. We you
dozen things which money has been thrown away the
number of years, while important things allowed
But despite all the lack of vision and cooperation at
home can't sit down just because have had little
various other places throughout the nation We have got
to keep going and chip heavier than before true in
all things that those who benefit most from the unsels
work of others often contribute least Those who do contr
butte have to keep going One cannot work for his good
the good of his without helping Others 1t is true
that always work harder and give Others
but this is true in everything true that
contribute to any worthy that do pay the
preacher; that too stngy and little pay
So annual poll tax all of which goes for the needy and
the public schools Yet these folks often get
benefits OF government 1t is these folks who oppose progress
sve grumb at what is done for the public good
beache about the distribution oftaxes which others pay
All such this has gone for ages but real Amer
leans stopped doing things by reason thereof All the
it has served challenge to bring out the energy
and spirit of achievement that made America great and
has given the humbest and most unfortunate
sories of citizens abundance of everyhng that offers
itself to the dulard and drone well to the of
courage and industry. sa
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