Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1914 — LOCALITY IS NOT ALWAYS COMMUNITY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCALITY IS NOT ALWAYS COMMUNITY

Suggestions For Necessary Improvements In Former. COMMUNITY CAN GO SOME. A community Is different from a locality in that its various members and organizations act in harmony with each other and with common 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 er else the more successful And 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. lie must see to it 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 in the Mexican war. Mr. Jones In a community under stands that his son Robert will give more time to and think more about the habits and features and expres sions of his playmates and their homes than he will to his own father's lite. So he is interested in Smith and Oisori and Pahoushek and whoever lives in the country roundabout He is inter ested in good roads because they make for the happiness, mental alertness and the financial success of Farmer Brown and his daughter. A community Is a group of wideawake, competent, aggressive, successful people. All 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, aggressivtrwhen it inquires and will not rest un til it lias found 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 lead ing citizens of this community who are backing it is to afford the inspire tion, the suggestion, the delight, which will result in mental aspiration, ambi tions and achievements. Then we would be only mentally a locality ami in every sense a community. That is why there is a Lincoln Chautauqua It is made forp. ... e out of the de sires of people ami by the encourage ment of the people.