Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — BOOSTER IS A CHAP WHO WILL NOT DOWN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOOSTER IS A CHAP WHO WILL NOT DOWN

Man Who Believes In Now and Is Chautauqua Fan. A booster is a man who undertakes to do a thing that should be done for the common benefit of the people. He is a man who believes actively that things should be done and kept as well as they could be done and kept. He believes in patches on clothes, but not in dirty clothes. He believes in roads, but in good roads only. A booster believes that children can have just as much fun and a good deal more in playing “three deep” or

“handball” vith his neighbors than he could have in smoking cigarettes or playing poker in the hayloft of his neighbor’s barn. Of course, he knows that inithe former case he must give the children a very small amount of attention, directly and indirectly. A booster is a man who believes in himself and believes in ins neighbors. He believes that it is better to live eighty happy years than to live sixty lonely and selfish ones. He Is a man who knows that the heart of the average man is good and that our failures are accounted for largely in our frailty and Ignorance and in our stupid contentment. This booster man is a Chautauqua fan. He is the man who is urging you and your neighbor and your neigh” bor’s son to attend’ the most delightful, suggestive, interesting, scintillating program that perhaps has ever been given in this community- one that is crammed with strong discussions, lectures and interpretations that follow a prologue of interesting, catchy music; that brings on the im mortal down with his face paint'and his compelling laughter; that provides a homecoming and community reunion, a visit with John and Mary and the kiddies. In your heart you are a booster. Here is the time and the place to let ydur heart out. You ought to live a long time yet and be very happy and very successful. After a week’s vacation with the Chautauqua people the recipe for such life will be indelibly written in your own experience. Get a season ticket; one for every member of the family; have a vacation; have one that will be worth a million, and cheap at that '