Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1914 — LOCALITY IS NOT ALWAYS COMMUNITY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCALITY IS NOT ALWAYS COMMUNITY

Suggestions For Necessary lm> provements In Former. COMMUNITY CAN 60 SOME A community Is different from a locality in that its various members and organizations act in baftfiony with each other and with eomnx/n purposes. In a locality it is every fellow for himself and the devil take the hindmost in a community it is every fellow for all the rest and all the rest for every fellow. In a community there cannot be any tin can alleys nor “dog town.** Things have got to come right for the more unfortunate and unhappy

folk or else the more successful find their happiness and success somewhat reduced.

In a community. Jones understands that if he succeeds Smith must succeed too. Jones knows that his boy Bill Is very likely to marry Mary Smith and therefore he must take an interest In Mary’s education. He must see Ct U that she has flowers to ponder over and pluck in the springtime, and that aside from “doing the dishes’* and “keeping the house” she finds delight

in music and the mysterious but ultimate philosophy of Maurice Maeter llnck and Io the Mexican war. Mr. Jones in a community understands thaj son Robert will give more time* to and think more about the habits and features and expres sioni of* hi* playmates and their homes than he will to his own father’s life. So he is interested in Smith and Olson and Pahoushek and whoever lives in the rountry roundabout He is Interested in good roads because they make for the happiness, mental alertness and the financial success of Farmer Brown and'hia daughter. A community is a group of wile awake, competent aggressive, success ful people. AU these qualities begin In the mind, live in the mind, and their limitations are the limitations of the mind. When you stir the mind up and it becomes active, aggressivewhen it inquires and will not rest uu til it has found the answer to its in-quiry-then you have begun to build a real and everlasting community. The purpose of the Lincoln Chau tauqua program In the minds of its

builders and more 'particularly in. the minds of the business men and leading citizens of this community who are backing it is to afford the inspinl tlon. the suggestion, the delight, which will result in mental aspiration, am bi tions dnd achievements. Then we would be only mentally a locality and in every 'sense a community. That is why there is a Lincoln Chautauqua It is made for people out of the desires of people and by the encourage ment of the people. ’