Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — It Isnt’s Your Town—lt’s You. [ARTICLE]

It Isnt’s Your Town—lt’s You.

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 behind For there’s nothing that’s really new. It’s a knock at yourself when you knock your town— It isn’t your town—it’s you. Real towns are not made by men afraid Lest somebody else get ahead. When everybody works and nobody shirks— —— You can raise your town from the dead. And if while you 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.