At each place was the Boosters’ Club booklet, listing the members.
Though the object of the club was good-fellowship, yet they never lost
sight of the importance of doing a little more business. After each name
was the member’s occupation. There were scores of advertisements in the
booklet, and on one page the admonition: “There’s no rule that you have
to trade with your Fellow Boosters, but get wise, boy--what’s the use of
letting all this good money get outside of our happy fambly?” And at
each place, to-day, there was a present; a card printed in artistic red
and black:
SERVICE AND BOOSTERISM
Service finds its finest opportunity and development only in its
broadest and deepest application and the consideration of its
perpetual action upon reaction. I believe the highest type of
Service, like the most progressive tenets of ethics, senses
unceasingly and is motived by active adherence and loyalty to that
which is the essential principle of Boosterism--Good Citizenship in
all its factors and aspects.
DAD PETERSEN.
Compliments of Dadbury Petersen Advertising Corp.
“Ads, not Fads, at Dad’s”
The Boosters all read Mr. Peterson’s aphorism and said they understood
it perfectly.
The meeting opened with the regular weekly “stunts.” Retiring President
Vergil Gunch was in the chair, his stiff hair like a hedge, his voice
like a brazen gong of festival. Members who had brought guests
introduced them publicly. “This tall red-headed piece of misinformation
is the sporting editor of the _Press_,” said Willis Ijams; and H. H.
Hazen, the druggist, chanted, “Boys, when you’re on a long motor tour
and finally get to a romantic spot or scene and draw up and remark to
the wife, ‘This is certainly a romantic place,’ it sends a glow right up
and down your vertebræ. Well, my guest to-day is from such a place,
Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in the beautiful Southland, with memories of
good old General Robert E. Lee and of that brave soul, John Brown who,
like every good Booster, goes marching on--”
There were two especially distinguished guests: the leading man of the
“Bird of Paradise” company, playing this week at the Dodsworth Theater,
and the mayor of Zenith, the Hon. Lucas Prout.
Vergil Gunch thundered, “When we manage to grab this celebrated Thespian
off his lovely aggregation of beautiful actresses--and I got to admit I
butted right into his dressing-room and told him how the Boosters
appreciated the high-class artistic performance he’s giving us--and
don’t forget that the treasurer of the Dodsworth is a Booster and will
appreciate our patronage--and when on top of that we yank Hizzonor out
of his multifarious duties at City Hall, then I feel we’ve done
ourselves proud, and Mr. Prout will now say a few words about the
problems and duties--”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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