Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1920 — A SANE SYSTEM [ARTICLE]

A SANE SYSTEM

In these days of tinkering with the social machinery, it is refreshing to learn of one plan for the betterment of our daily lives that demands neither revolution nor evolution for the attainment of its objective. Community Service is helping America do for itself in peace what, as War Camp Community Service, it aided a warring America to do. Just as in war the organization enabled communities to get the greatest value for the men in uniform from their recreational resources, so now it aims to stimulate communities to obtain for all the people the best results from leisure time opportunities. But, there is one great difference between the war work and the peace work—in the great struggle we were building for war and destruction; we are building now for peace and construction. Community Service is getting together the finest elements in the nation’s life—regard for our neighbors, affection for our homes, interest, in the place where we dwell —and blending them into a for* 1 working, not for our soldiers at war, but for our soldiers come back from war, for the men and women at home, for everybody in each community. Mothers and fathers, sisters, sweethearts, brothers, can all unite in Community Service with the satisfying knowledge that their endeavors are going to be reflected in better, sweeter, brighter local conditions This, we take it, will meet with the approval of every American. During the war a new spirit of comradeship was born in city, town and hamlet; a spirit particularly conspicuous in those places uniting through War Camp Community Service to extend hospitality to the men in olive drab ami blue. All who shared this spirit or came in contact with it hoped it might not be permitted to lapse with the coining of peace. In Community Service this fine product of war’s tumultuous days finds its perpetuation.