Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — HOW TO JUDGE A TOWN. [ARTICLE]

HOW TO JUDGE A TOWN.

A community is judged by its newspnpers. You know that if you pick up a county newspaper that is neatly printed and well filled with ads your first expression is that the paper must be printed in a thriving and wide awake town. If it is all smeared up with ink, has no ads and has a general run down appearance you size the town up as the same kind of a proposition. A town that never has anything to do in a public way, is on the way to the cemetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for his town is helping to dig the grave. A man that curses the town furnishes the coffin. The man who is selfish as to have no time from his business to give to city affairs, is making the shroud. The man who will not advertise is driving the hearse. The man who is always pulliagbaok from any public enterprise throws boquets on the grave. The man who is so stingy as to be howling hard times preaches the funeral, sings the doxology and thus the town is buried from all sorrow and care.— Exchange.