Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1920 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It to reported that the Buddhisms of Japan are planning to eotabliA a university for women. The British National Telephone company is planning to place ita wires underground in the course of the next two or three years. ▲ beginning has been made at Leeds, England, and contracts have beam placed for other centers. The opal 18 more difficult to Imitate than is the diamond. But from artifiicial corundum, stained with dhromo alum, real rubles can be made, and very cheaply. If the coloring agent Is tttannlum oxide, the product becomes a genuine artificial sapphire. A jug of Jamaica rum left at a Pennsylvania farm house by some British officers in 1778 came into the possession of the Wistar institute, University of Pennsylvania, and after being tipped and the contents "tasted” by the members of the board of managers in 1892 when the building was dedicated, was sealed, and will not be opened again until the centenary celebration in 1992.

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SELF HELPING COMMUNITIES The Indian at the party, served with viands from a sideboard, remarked: “Too many people helping Indian. Indian will help himself.” And he proceeded to do so. A great many Americans would find it easy to sympathize with the red man’s point of view. As we look back, it is apparent that an outstanding fault of many past social service activities has been “too many people helping Indian”, and not enough people helping Indian to help himself. The average man and the average boy object to being fussed over. The experience of War Camp Community Service drove that fact hard upon the consciousness of the community work era whose business it was to minister to the comfort and recreational needs of the enlisted men. It was found that, given the tools, the opportunity and a touch of leadership, the uniformed men would go a long way in working out a satisfactory recreation programme. It was not that they did not need guidance. They did, and appreciated it. But they did not need and did not appreciate a condition in which there were “so many people helping Indian” that Indian had no chance to help himself. Social relations, having in the past been so largely dictated by whim, tradition or prejudice, are seldom logical unless consciously and intelligently readjusted. Then, too, there is always the parodoxical situation that the more people there arc to know in any one place, the harder it is to know any of them. One of the present day social phenomena is the extent tn which the words “Community Service’’ have got into the cur rent vocabulary. It would lie going too far to characterize Community Service as a new idea. As the term is used now adays, though, it could properly be said to stand for a new attitude. Community Service, peace-time outgrowth of War Camp Community Service, reaches the individual by organiz. ing the community, by making community life a conscious activity. It is impossible to establish community life by decree, just as it is impossible to establish friendship by compulsion. There are those who imagine that people can be gathered together commanded to be sociable and left to. their fate. Desirable community life is a growth. Moreover, there can be no com inunity life where there is no community service. Unless com munity life is a growth, it is without roots, and exists as a superimposed structure. All of that throws us back to the starting point. It is the business of organized Community Service to see to it that there are not so many people helping Indian that Indian has no chance to help himself. Organized Community Service can supply the stimulus, the opportunity and initial direction, but the community must stand by reason of its own strength.

Star Theatre Wednesday, January 21 “I SAY A FEATURE” E. K. Lincoln in “FIGHTING THROUGH" A Western Picture with Action and Thrills Galore Did you see “Desert Gold”? If so, don’t miss this. Same cast of Characters in “Fighting Through.” ALSO “Burton Holmes Travels” - ■ I ■■■ ■■ . ■. ■ !-! ADMISSION Adults, 25c-3c-28c Children, 15c-2c-17c See It! Be on Time to Stake Your Seats