Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — COMMUNITY SERVICE [ARTICLE]

COMMUNITY SERVICE

There is much unrest all over the world and the United States is not entirely immune from Bolshevism. What is needed to avert one of the most dreadful of all calamities is the Americanization of all foreign born within our borders rescue those fortunate enough to be born in this country from the slough of despond, to improve their surroundings and give them a more hopeful and cheerful view of the future. To impress upon the foreign born the necessity of being good citizens is one of the greatest objects of Community Service. There is room in every community for earnest work in this direction and there seems no questioning the statement that Community Service is the best equipped organization to accomplish this tremendous task. It has the machinery and the leaders and it already has proved its worth in a number of cities. Neighborhood and community works are not new in this country, but there is a new promise of force through national organization in the nation-wide plans of Community Service. Roosevelt said that “no man could be part American and part something else” and truer words were never uttered. The citizens of this country must be all American or nothing. The program of Community Service calls for a great movement to make thorough-going Americans of all of our foreign born population. Americanization is the common term but higher and better citizenship are better words. Through various methods Community Service plans to instill into the alien born the ideals that will counteract unrest and place the disciple of unrest in the background