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Show THE TIME IS RIPE The Comunity Chab Idea Should lie Pushed At Once. Hearing sound advice is good, heeding it is better. Since the visit of Hon. Nels Darling many progresive citizens have been wondering why nothing in the way of community organization has been started.. Minersville, smaller than Milford, has taken the lead and has unified its community interests. Unless Un-less we get busy at once it will be the same old story of " waiting for the other fellow to start something," and we will soon have forgotten the good advice received and drift with the current. ( The community club is not a new one invented by Mr. Darling; it has been in operation in New England and the East for many years and is rapidly spreading westward. Locally, there is no single agency that will do so much to unify the town, obliterate faction, dissipate jealousies, cement the people together for the common good, as would a community club, well organized and wisely conducted. The business Men's organization is good in its place but in a community club, the business interests in-terests would not lose their identity, in fact, would be given greater prominence. prom-inence. A community club, to be successful, suc-cessful, must include every interest in the comunity, commercial, social and religious. There is no room for such an organization for cliques or factions. fac-tions. Every difference, political, religious or otherwise is laid aside in the ideal comunity club and the members mem-bers have but one end in view the safe-guarding and fostering of the community interests, as a whole. Through united effort, the question of wholesome amusement for our young people and for the older people too, could be satisfactorily solved; by means of this co-operation, commercial commer-cial interests could be forwarded and civic improvements accomplished. The comunity club should include a rest room. While the News is completing com-pleting its "cosy-corner" for public use and the public is entirely welcome to visit our office, read the papers and write letters, etc., still it cannot hope to till the popular need so satisfactorily sat-isfactorily as would be a room especially espe-cially equipped for the purpose. If we cannot accomplish a public library right away, let's do the next best thing and establish a reading room. It would be no trick at all to secure sufficient literature to stock such a place. A single volume from every family in town would give u: a considerable start. The News car help mataris.ey , direction. II WHi 1 e rmfe.1 liv rri''r? of n J week's Xews, that Minersville h making the school house the com : munity center and here is anotbr; 1 phase of the mater to consider ir .connection with the coirmunit;. club Why nor adopt the ssrse i,io;i lo ;,!'v' The school house is. nn'nrallr. the ' common mooting j, rc:!i.I of the e-mv "l nil il y. Fri'ietail )::;vr rf the loe.-.l his! . s. boo! !-ss ju -l i.p the x.,,V! loa.l eit in this v-ork, by provii v:: a room for evening classes for those who might wish to take up some special branch, or where foreigners might wish to acquire sufficient knowledge of American laws and usages to enable them to successfully gain citizenship. Here, also, books, magazines, etc., could be gathered together for the use of the public at large. The idea is a good one and should be considered. Whatever we do, let's get busy, and when someone calls upon you for your co-operation in the work, be ready to jump in and help the project along. |