We discovered this article on a research tangent entitled “A Creed For Wetaskiwin” published in the Wetaskiwin Times. The question we pose to you…
When was this printed? And do you believe?
A Creed For Wetaskiwin
I believe in Wetaskiwin, where I live; in her people; whom I know; and their interests; in her natural beauty, which U see; and in her industrial advantages.
I believe in spending my money at home, where I make it, through my fellow citizen, for made-at-home goods as much as possible.
I believe that one good word for Wetaskiwin community, is two for my own business.
I believe in keeping my business promises and “setting the pace” in my line of business endeavor.
I believe in investing in and patronizing home industry, today and every day after.
I believe that this home town of mine can be made a more beautiful town, a cleaner and greater town with better and sweeter homes, with more God’s-Out-Doors, more sunlight, and more of the life abundant; and I can help to hasten it.
I believe in strength and power of this community’s manhood, and in the glory of her womanhood, and in the future of her boys and girls and in the opportunities of our citizenship.
I believe in the young man and all men of this community in their faith and energy and initiative, in the inspiration of the citizenship, and the foundation stones of civic betterment and civic growth.
I believe that every citizen is in duty bound to do some service in the interests of his hometown, and I believe in hearing the “call to service” if within my power.
I believe in speaking well of all public-spirited men and in becoming one myself.
I believe in commanding and not condemning; in boosting and not knocking; in helping and not hindering; in uplifting and not pulling down.
I have faith in my home community; I am optimistic, not pessimistic, enthusiastic, not different, and I believe in advertising my faith.
I believe in letting the world know what a good place Wetaskiwin is to live in, to grow up in, to make money in, to talk about and to work for.
I believe I can do something everyday to help my home town forward to a bigger, better, busier and more beautiful berg; and I believe I can influence a hundred others to help in the same way.
Originally published in the Wetaskiwin Times, January 30, 2020