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Show COMMUNITY BUILDING Cooperation Greatest Factor The keynote of a town or community com-munity as a unit is cooperation among its individuals working together and giving and taking which, after due and unselfish consideration, seems best and most fair. The bully, the fellow who wants his own way about things is a detriment to any community and a menace to its welfare and society in general but the broad minded man who can do good and who is willing to listen to others and allows them to show him where he is wrong or sanction sanc-tion his work and ideas is one of the greatest assets of that community. com-munity. Really great men and women, when it comes to community com-munity building are nearly always al-ways at hand. But in such instances in-stances are held back by the man who thinks he knows it all but is really a block in the wheel. Not that these conditions pertain per-tain to any particular community, much less ours, but as a matter of fact every community has, to a greater or less extent, its bully, bul-ly, ts knocker, its grandma, its laggard, etc.- These all hold it back and create a greater or less amount of friction and strife. However, we pride ourselves that we are less burdened with this sort than a great many communities. com-munities. But we are drifting; what we started to say was that in the upbuilding of our community commun-ity we should all cooperate with each other, and collectively, for everything which will advance us in a way of enlightment re-fii'ici.-.'t, and comforts as a community com-munity and a& individuals. Few communities in the west are not beyond the pioneer stage. In most of them even in the country commtnities the progress pro-gress made in community betterment better-ment is already remarkable. It is no uncommon thing for the smaller towns to have water works, sewer system or even paved streets, and country communities com-munities with good roads, efficient, effici-ent, graded schools and strong churches are not at all uncommon. uncom-mon. But whatever advance has been made there is always something else that can be done to make the community a better place to live in, something that can be accomplished, as was that already done, only through the hearty cooperation of all concerned. concern-ed. If the roads still are inadequate inade-quate the people that use them must work together to make them better. If the school is not meeting the requirement of the community its standard can be raised only through the thoughtful cooperation of its patrons with all it9 management If roads, school, .water supply, sidewalks, and such are adequate and efficient, there still are advantages. ad-vantages. Less material, but none the less valuable, such as a public library and a Lyceum Course of Lectures and entertainments, entertain-ments, that can be had in nearly any reasonbly prosperous, populous pop-ulous community if the people only cooperate to secure and maintain them. Cooperation enriches a community com-munity materially, and it braod-ens braod-ens and deepens the social and moral life of the community. j Cooperation of its people in every ev-ery laudable undertaking for j betterment alone can give them a satisfying environment in which to live. The greatest word in community life is coop- 1 eration. |