Show I 1 LL E ll 11 FE IT 1 I 1 L fx E i z g 1 ov social unit experiment in i n cincinnati ff tl 11 has been so successful that N it may mau be generalli Gener allu adopted 1 i 1 2 g 4 v A AN till advantages ol 01 village life io ho resto redIn the city call CRY city dwellers tiny leavo tile the friendly and fol fueling eling which willai barks tile X relations between tile inen and women UK tile small town where no one call fana be ill or jut ut of work without ea receiving neighborly assistance gun can we find for tile the cities ahli something to take tile place of tile the town niec meeting ting where till nil tile population gathers together to discuss common problems and government sovern mont Is interpreted in terms of community y service ervice instead of being housed lu ill some soine remote beniot city hall 11 the social unit newest experiment in applied plied democracy believes that these advantaged can 1111 be restored to eltea find in a section of bf aln Is attempting to prove that they can so lias has tills experiment been in the few months during which it has been that people till nil over the country tire are beginning t to 0 V it I 1 to talk about it and influential influent thil eliell and women arc even saying that the social has as tile hig biggest gest reconstruction program to Q frer america which has yet been formulated formulated the little cincinnati district which Is trying to re establish sta blish tile sort of which exists it in towns owns jilts has tile most distinguished of Yi visitors well men on oil reconstruction reconstruct lon missions from ill liu countries ined medical leal organizers find social fill service workers for instance dr rene itene sand of the of brus IS aels was recen recently ti y sent to tills country to study methods for re reorganizing belgium li alv vis ked cincinnati and sold said of the social unit 1 I shall carry back to my iny people no more constructive suggestions than those I 1 have gottell front from the social unit tills this social unit Z R ill district strict of litis lias etc aul red anine be abuso trie the people are tl trying to be helpful each cich to the lie other tin and have gone to work to 4 efel effect ct an organization le which would make it possible llos sible for every one to bo be of service neighborliness in the village W in ill tile the small village I 1 it t Is impossible for anyone to be sick or bereaved or out of em doyi nent without tile the folks of tile the village knowing about nebout it and wanting to do something about it A death or a contagious disen disease se tile the entire village anti the 0 only people who alio go iro those ivilo alio rebuff kindliness or who benr it nut u t but blit in the crowded city people get awny front from tills neighborliness alad sevin to care nothing about tile folks around them bables tile die because tile 1110 mothers do not know how for them thein many people alio acho have coil consumption aud and other diseases live with avith smail children around etheln exposing them to st sickness ekness many invalids dinv inv ali daw upend at home alone and ill athis is not because the people of alie te c city ty are not its as kind hearted and as willing to hut but because beef luse tile the city Is too large for every evert one to know every one else and many people live near rach each other for years without knowing even each athers nt liers names the social unit organization lias has divided thie the district li strict of people in ft Is working into thirty one small blocks of about aioo people each tell tho the plan mull Is to make inake each of 11 tiny village where folks will conle come to que another and to be interested the t bors hi fit py and contented jn in a co unity country vil a there Is u usually mully some one woman voin tin chois a so village mother to whom folks go in times of trouble knows every one and Is always busy getting people to help those in need tuh taking ing her as nn an example the social unit organization ling has fount found in fit ench each tiny block bloc village a wilo alio serves as a 4 block worker who knows wilen alien anyone heeds help of any kind and sees that help Is given by the right agency tills this worker Is 19 chosen by tile people of her block flud Is paid enough so that she will be enabled to employ cill ploy fo to do part of lier her housework during the limes libigs that she Is mothering her block tile the hirty one ona block Avor workers kers together forni form ii aliat fiat Is called the citizens council the work of tills this citizens council Is to learn what the he needs of every part of tile the district are till and to see that plans ire worked out for meeting these needs in doing tills this it uses the knowledge of the lie different skilled groups in the community j use people with expert expert knowledge in ili every community there tire anro certain groups sio ups e irh of which knows more about aau 0 n tiling thing than any other group for alio doctors know mow more about the lie prevention of ds ills vase than anyone else the teachers klat know enort educating children tile plumbers a about abou t the bustness business men inen phout business i rin d so on the social unit lias his organized people with abe hil il skill for the good of the lie community as a knole the arc tile the board of health heal rot ili clity district the tha A and trade ill union hita i arf i rc the industrial experts the social workers tir are 11 lie ie department of public welfare tile the teachers alie 11 board of education and so on when the lie citizens it zens council or the block representatives discover n health need in the district it puts the problem up to the doctor roup group from that the doctors tire are responsible for finding a sol solution u t ion for the profil problem ent and for su submitting bin bitting the plan they devise to the CIt citizens izene council it if 4 N F T g tm 11 1 Z ju 11 X pi 0 v 0 Y A ay 1 I of F 1 14 v i r ral aa 1 A VIC A the alio block albek workers in id the Cit citizens liens council ll should land that there arti luhtin men mea out butof in ili tho various blocks usi the and labor groups would be held responsible for the working out of sonic some plan to meet the problem in ili tins tills way 1 everyone aln the unit district Is enabled to work for tile the byh yaple le community mm at tile the same time tillie that bp hes iii work working ng for himself everyone Is a n part nf the big force for good in the toivi lowly otie one by 0 one bif eccli li Is s being or g itald nedwill will aiau leavo an executive in ili charge ip odthe executives of oc till all Is called tile the occupational 4 of thi unit the occupational cot council and tile the Coti council hell acting together are arc tho by which the alio community governs govern 9 0 thelt a i i children given me medical att attention britlon erit lon 1 wh when n the locators loc tors and ami nurea of the 66 social unit were organized alie they v found ilaf were eri many dying aery year deft quite u n nieces i f 4 tuse little diseases which ahey ived pot ot icken in ili time or because inelli era verc nt properly educated ir fr caring for them the doctors asked the citizens ns council to go into their blocks and find out how many children under tinder six als cars of age there were vere they found were 1170 1379 the doctors doctor s decided to glye ench of these children a complete medical in examination and the IV block ock work T V I 1 ia Y ay C M I 1 1 ors went back to their blocks and told tho wath e ars rs and fathers that tho the district physicians would their children and tell thin them if there wan ava i anything wrong and how low it could bo be remedied ono oile tind forty three of the children were ivere brought bi to tho the district health station atlon st hundreds llull I 1 red of defects aveto discovered and il classes were organized for fop the mothers tim district nurses went into tile the 11 p follow up lip tile tho children ire who had hern bevil examined and sei res that tile tho parents wei were giving them thein the right lart rf when the lie epidemic or of influenza tinko out everyone knew somewhere in ili nis ills or her block within calling call ilig alst wast was a woman vo illan 0 who o would exert the utmost effort to slot lint those wilo who ill III got help tile doctors and oil nurses were bobi llred til rough the district 01 strict headquarters so that cases could ho c cared ared for in tho the shor shortest po possible isible tinie there was harddy a case caa in ili the I 1 district which avias ans not reported and when the epidemic was over it was found that lie he death rate nito in tills this district diR triet lint had been n third loor lover that in tho the rest of tile the city census Is taken A little while liro ago tho the people of tills this district decided that they could not work out their problems ms as they should u unless le they know knew more other so they d decided cc I 1 I 1 0 d to take a census of themselves find fani out who they were bifid I 1 I 1 where they 11 lived veil what countries they came front from how many rooms broom they lived in and all d 40 what ahey hey did for ic div ang Up uplift litt organizations Ji tilis hilve taken faken census of thin kind before but probably never neler before has ins n district voted through its block representatives and its skilled groups to arike il study of its own life and present that study to tho the world tile the people were willing to make it because they were hoang it themselves and because they knew that if they found lio using conditions hal they had nn an organ alza t toil willell which could remedy them if they found children nna and young yb u tag r people without vit hout opportunities for healt hrut happy play they could seo that a condition vond llon did not continue secret of a 8 successful community the ali e men and all women who ho are arc backing tile the social unit experiment for the cincinnati district Is really ri it laboratory for social experimentation and hundreds hun freds of nien men and women of vision are interested rested in ill it f elleve believe that t the to secret of a sit suc ce community comment y organization lies in making ever everyone one feel that lie Is important Ini t it Is hard to feel that you are important and that ant what you do counts ts for good or ill in n city of halt ball a mil 1 lion iton or more inore but in fit n city block which Is really a 1 little village with its own oun council its own block worker its own program of health tid nand and civic endeavor every man woman and child Is 19 important tant if they fall to do their part they can sec e immediately tile tho effect upon the life of th their or little community if they work in tho the interests of their little community they can see tile the gooi KOOI booi effects ns as well and this after all Is the which tho village has over the city people dont get lost in inthe the village as kllc they do in the city anil and no one can get lost in the social unit |