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Show Lily Day Again Under FHA Sponsorship The Future Homemakers of America, under the sponsorship sponsor-ship of Mrs. Marion Holyoak, will again undertake Moab's Lily Day, announced Angela Wanielista, Grand County Easter Seal Chairman, this week. Lily Day is when the Easter Seal Society collects money for their work with crippled children and victims of birth deficts. Each contributor is rewarded with a tiny white Easter Lily. and state, to be sure, did have its costs. Robbed of their "1 official props, the churches became dependent on majority sentiment, vulnerable to shifts in public mood and opinion. As they participated in the difficult diffi-cult task of social adjustment, many churches abdicated their critical functions. Rather than acting as spokesman for principles that transcended the clash of interest groups, they voiced the aspirations and the fears of local communities. In time most American churchmen church-men took the path of accommodation. accom-modation. Sects multiplied (built often arounduhe magne-. i tism of a single great leader like Mary Baker Eddy or Brigham Young) and their variety, according to some critics, divided the faithful instead of uniting the com-j com-j munity. Both family and church, in their traditional forms, are victims of a powerful emphasis in America upon personal development. Increasingly church attendance and discipline disci-pline became rituals which displayed social commitments rather than shaped them. Family relations, once meant t to be permanent and unchang- The Girls from FHA will be giving their time on the Saturday before Easter to help the Easter Seal Society with its local collection as well as donating time before and after the collection to attend to other details. "It is easy to see what responsible parents and citizens citi-zens these girls will be and they are to be commended for taking on this project," said Mrs. Wanielista. ing, are subordinated to freedom of movement and the maximizing of personal choice. As voluntary associations, family and church formally survived the changes brought by modernization, but only by selective abandonment of much of their authority. Republics, more than other societies, require virtuous citizens if they are to function properly. On this the 18th century sages agreed. It was not tyrants who made slaves, ran the old epigram, but slaves who made tyrants. Could virtue be maintained if the " authofity bf farhil and church, the private matrix, became weakened to the point of irrelevance? Who or what would then be held respon- . sible for maintaining that continuity of values essential to collective social life? There did seem an answer of sorts. In making some previously pre-viously public functions private, pri-vate, Americans compensated by making some private functions public. Perhaps the most dramatic of these trans-, formations came with the public schools, which will be the subject of the next article. |