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“HOW TO RUIN A TOWN”
Taking a strictly negative approach is seldom justified, we agree. However, in this case we feed obliged to make an exception, inasmuch as the following message by an unknown author on “how to ruin a home town” gets across some pretty potent points that all citizens could well ponder. Here’s how:
1. Don’t pay taxes. Let the other fellow pay his. Vote against taxes, then fuss because the streets are not kept up and the police protection is lax,
2. Never attend any of the meetings called for the good of the town. If you do, don’t have anything to say. Wait until you get outside and then cuss those who made suggestions. Find fault with everything that was done.
3. Get all the town will give you, and don’t give anything in return. Write unsigned (letters to the editor demanding more for your tax money.
4. Talk co-operation, but don’t do any work for the town unless you get paid for it. And by all means, refuse to serve uniless they make you chairman.
5. Never acceptcan office. It’s easier “to criticise than to do things. Accuse anybody who serves in an elected office .of being a publicity seeker.
6. Don’t 4° any more than you have to. When others willimgiy and unselfishly give their time to make it ^ better town, howl because the town is run by a clique.
7. Don’t back your fire dr police department. If the firemen work to bring the insurance rates down, tell everybody that is what they are supposed to do. Don’t thank them or the policemen fo endangering their lives so that you might have a safer town in which to live. Demand special treatment; raise cain if anybody expects you to obey traffic and parking laws.
8. Look at every proposition in a selfish way. If you are not the one that gets the most out of it, vote against it. Never consider what it will do for the good of the town as g w^iolc. • . •
9. Don’t do anything for the youth of the town. Criticize them a^potenial delinquents. Keep your feet on them. Encourage them to move away when they grow up.
10 If you have good town leaders, <ton t follow .them. Take a jealous attitude and talk down everything they do.
11. Don’t work on any committee. TeQl them, Im too
bU12. Don’t say anything good about your town. Be the
first to point up its shortcomings. Pretend that if trouble comes your way, it will be residents of some other town kwho wild visit you while you are ill, bring in the fire department if your home is burning, comfort you if you lose a dear one, stand back of you in disaster. . ,
13 And don’t support your local retail stores and industries. Claim the prices and services in stores in other towns are better. Claim industry and its payrodl hurts the town. But if you need a donation, ask yopr local stores and industries for it. Expect them to back you^but don t back them.
If these 13 points don’t ruin ytfu!* town, its not your fault. You did your best! _
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