Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1915 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE]

HOME TOWN HELPS

EVERY CITIZEN A BOOSTER Right Idea Seem* to Prevail Among Those Who Have Built Up Ohio’* Great Metropolis. A local business man told this little story at the Advertising club the other day: “I was in the south on business not long ago,” he said, “and found myßelf one • day at a hotel table with three other men, all southerners and all strangers to me." Well, somebody said something about his home town — something not very complimentary — and somebody else said something* along the same line, and then 1 opened up about Cleveland. Well, I gave them the best I had with me. I told where we stood In iron and steel, and in clothing, and electricity, and hardware, and printing, and civic pride. I told ’em about our parks and boulevards, and our Warrensville farm and our three-cent fare. I talked fast so as to get it all in, and I tried not to miss a point. Well, they sat there watching me and not saying a word, but when I stopped for want of breath a fine, portly man pulled a notebook out of his pocket. » “Td like your name 4nd address,* he said. w : f “Then he put out his hand. £ “ ‘Glad to know you,’ he told me. ‘l’m president of the chamber of commerce of ,’ and he named a leading city of the South. ‘And what I want to say is that if we had a half dozen boosters like you our town would be a blamed sight bigger and more useful. Hold on,’ he added, ‘you’re not a special, official booster, are You?’ “ ‘No,’ I told him, ‘l’m just one of the 700,000."’ —Cleveland Plain Dealer.