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Busy and Beautiful Stamford 



"Busy and Beautiful." 



This slogan has been adopted by the 

 city of Stamford to which it fittingly 

 applies. It was suggested by President 

 Beckley of the Board of Trade, and at 

 once met with general approval, since 

 it is recognized by all who know Stam- 

 ford as being properly descriptive. 

 Business in Stamford is always 

 good and the people work to 

 their utmost and keep intensely 

 busy in taking care of the business. 

 The city itself, the suburbs, the sea- 

 shore, the hills, the trees, are always 

 beautiful. There are plenty of people 

 in Stamford with good eyes and acute 

 vision who know nothing and care 

 nothing for such beauty, because they 

 do not carry beauty into their business 

 and into the occupations of their life. 

 Nothing in this world is beautiful in it- 

 self, but everything is a mirror that re- 

 flects beauty if you have that beauty in 

 the heart. Do not live in Stamford nor 

 come to it expecting to find the beau- 

 tiful there unless you bring it with 

 you, and then you will realize the won- 

 derful accuracy of the term, "Busy and 

 Beautiful." I have heard that the au- 

 thorities in Stamford intend to copy- 

 right the slogan as it is so particularl} 

 applicable to that city. Don't do it. 

 Rather let it he your endeavor, as it is 

 the endeavor of The Agassiz Associa- 

 tion, to make all lives and all places 

 ""Busy and Beautiful." Do not limit 

 business and the beautiful to civic in- 

 terests, but spread them abroad and 

 into every Iranian life. The words 

 should be the slogan not of one rapidly 

 growing city, but of every member of 

 "humanity in his endeavor to advance 

 toward a higher and better civilization. 

 "Busy and Beautiful," physically and 

 mentally, yes, even spiritually, and all 

 earnestly. 



Busy — the lovers of nature study 

 should be the busiest of all people in 



the world. They, more than all others, 

 realize how short life is and how much 

 there is to see and love. 



Beautiful — if lie sees nature rightly, 

 as in a mirror, then from every object 

 will indescribable beauty be reflected. 



"Busy and Beautiful" — why. my dear 

 President Peckley, if your slogan 

 should be adopted as it can be, it will 

 usher in the millennium. It will save 

 humanity, it will make a heaven on 

 earth, it will transform human beings 

 into gods. 



The Aged yet Youthful "Advocate." 



"We're twenty! We're twenty! 

 Who says we are more? 



We've a trick, we young fellows, 



You may have been told, 

 Of talking (in public) as if we were old:" 



Thus might sing "The Stamford Ad- 

 vocate" which recently celebrated its 

 twentieth anniversary as a daily, and 

 the sixty-third of its establishment as 

 a weekly newspaper. It has seen the 

 rise and fall of many a competitor, and 

 has lived and been successful because 

 it has been conducted on good and 

 honorable journalistic principles. It 

 has been faithful to these principles 

 and fearless beyond most newspapers, 

 especially those in small cities. It has 

 made some enemies, but it has shown 

 itself to be a paper with a keen interest 

 in the welfare of all people. It is not 

 the organ of any clique or faction. It 

 is not influenced by selfish motives. 

 For these reasons it has won hosts of 

 staunch friends, and is generally rec- 

 ognized as one of the ablest papers of 

 the state. Much of Stamford's pros- 

 perity, and much of its fame as a place 

 of residence are due to the fact that it 

 has had an untiring, impartial and 

 effective advocate in "The Stamford 

 Advocate." 



Copyright 1912 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



