Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 313, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1918 — Duty of the Community. [ARTICLE]

Duty of the Community.

A happier childhood, better provisions tot play, better surroundings, greater bodily vigor and a stronger spirit, less hampered by gathering doubts, are gifts which the community, as the fairy godmother of the rising generation, can lay at the era-, die of every child in America. The community that has not the vision, the loving kindness and the plain common sense the child better fitted to. fight off the doubts and the fears of the future, commits a crime against itself as well as against its children. —New York Evening Mail.