Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1919 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

YOUR TOWN. Real towns are not made by men afraid Lest some one else gets ahead; When everyone works and. nobody shirks You can raise a town from the dead. Ind If while you make your personal stake Your neighbor makes one, too, four town will be what you want it to be, It Isn’t your town—lt’s you.\ ts 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 will 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! —Helen Perkins, in New York Sun