Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — JUST NEIGHBORLINESS [ARTICLE]

JUST NEIGHBORLINESS

Stop a minute! Think of the great humanizing quality of neighborliness. Contrast a community where It thrives and flourishes with one where it is a negligible quantity. Consider how gregarious a creature is man, and how his very nature demands intercourse with his fellows. Sit down and reckon up the per cent of your comfort and happiness that depends in whole or in part on •the good will of your neighbors. Think what you would be without neighbors—a modern Robinson Crusoe, a hermit. Honestly, now, don’t about ninetenths of the enjoyments of life come either directly or indirectly from your neighbors? They certainly do. Well, now, are you doing your part as a neighbor? Remember, youp neighbor needs a neighbor as badly as you do —and you are he. Are you doing your full part to pass along the little acts of neighborliness and kindness that are extended to you? Or are you like the sponge, absorb until you are full and never give up until you are squeezed? Now ask yourself this question: “What would this world be if every other man were just like me?” Are von a neighbor, or a sponge? BE A NEIGHBOR.