Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1917 — Ain’t It So? [ARTICLE]

Ain’t It So?

If 'you want to live In the kind of a town Like the kind of a town you like, ■ You needn’t slip your clothes in a grip And start on a long, long hike. ■ You’ll only find what you left be- ; hind, r For there’s nothing really new. i It’s a knock to yourself when r you knock your town, r It isn’t your town—it’s you. F f Real towns are not made by ’ men afraid • Lest somebody else gets ahead; • When everyone works and nobody shirks You can raise a town from the dead. '■ And if you can make your personal stake, Your neighbor can make one, ; too. ■ Your town will be what you want to see; It isn’t your town —it’s you. Dotted. Line.