Success comes to the one who plays the game.  There is no royal road to it, or chance about it.  It comes from eternally plugging at it, by study and concentration and an absence of the fear of making a mistake.  A mistake is not such a frightful thing as many imagine.  An honest mistake can be readily changed into a success many times.  The fear of making mistakes frequently deters a weak man from going ahead where another will study well the situation, form a conclusion, and go ahead.

Your own character and habits determine whether you are a leader or a follower.

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GET AFTER THE BILLBOARDS

If your town has not yet taken action against the billboard nuisance it is time that it did.  Have a strong town by-law passed and see that it is enforced.  There is no question that public sentiment is against the billboard.  They should be made outlaws upon the highways.  State legislation has been enacted against them, but its effectiveness has been tempered by the timidity of those charged with the enforcement of the laws to destroy the “property values” that is claimed for them.  Public sentiment, rightly used, can do more than laws.  Offending billboard advertisers can be shown that such advertising is injudicious and in time they will voluntarily give it up.

By law, billboards can be debarred from localities possessing unusual scenic beauty.  The Mohawk Trail and Cape Ann are examples of the application of this principle.  Cape Cod has just as great claims.  Its scenic beauty is marred and destroyed by the glaring monstrosities that greet the traveler everywhere.  Let them be removed and an irritating offense against the nerves and asthetic senses will be removed.

The only way to get rid of the billboards is to act.

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HELP THE CAUSE

In certain ways the whole community can be helped by concerted action.  The interest of the whole is the interest of all.  Anything that tends to help others will help you.  Just now a question of importance is the further development of Cape Cod by the establishment of terminal facilities on the Cape Cod canal.  This will cost money, but it will be money well expended.  If we wait for someone to do the developing for us we will have to wait a long time.  The state is ready to do its share, but it wants the locality itself to do a part.  A canal terminal is the one thing needful to make the canal of local advantage.  We have the opportunity and we should grasp it.  It is a case where local conservatism should be forgotten and every community should help bear the burden of an expense that will assist in the development of Cape Cod as a whole.

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE

E.M.  Chase

“Willie.”