| Show T H k LOOK philosophizes shall we cooperate or degene irate rate unite or break swim or sink live or die shall we get together for the public good or shall we struggle on in the storm of petty contention does it benefit us ua to push our neighbor Dr brother or competitor over the brink into a bottomless abyss do we not know that he drops a noose about our neck bufore he falls that drags us down behind him film the stability and progress of a community depends on the ability of its citizens to cooperate to get together to unite and to work in harmony C contention on and antagonism is a species of insanity cooperation and enthusiasm a touch of the devine revolt is justifiable but fault finding and contention can never be revolt will lead men to extricate himself to free himself from that which his soul cannot endure petty fault finding and contention are based on jealousy and ignorance their exponents willingly sacrifice sac rafice the future of their community ot of their politics or of their religion on the alter of personal prejudice if hydrochloric acid is poured into a solution of alkaline water to the right amount the alkali becomes neutralized neither has any strength without the hydrochloric acid the alkali is strong and filled with potentialities likewise the hydrochloric acid is powerful unless neutralized by the alkaline salts baits so it is with the many factions of a community each has capacity for much good but none of them get very far because they cannot get together agether og ether they cannot co cooperate they neutralize this monstrous dragon of cont contention brition lies in n wait for every small town and few there are that escape it what is it that sends the cream of the human harvest to the city yoeng men and young women gravitate there like moths to a light bewildered and dazzled most of them slip from opportunity port vort unity they aliey sought and are lost their opportunity is at home right here if all or most of the home town folks could only see it it is no more the lure of the bright lights of the city than the poor lights of the home town that robs small corn com of their best blood if we would return to our community soil that which is taken awayan away in human energy and transferred to the task of solving the problems of the city we must get together and create the oi opportunities port unities that lay dormant right before our eyes there is undeveloped power in the forest in the mountains in the rivers in the ocean and in III the sun but none of these can equal the undeveloped d evele ped power of human souls one man has said the reason young people go to hell is because there is no other place to go have we a place for young people to go or must they go to hell it is not enough that big things have been done there must be more and bigger thinas to do the cars to the ship of life must be kept in motion the danger line is near aen w nen a community starts to live on its past re cordi today to day is sacred yesterday is gone tomorrow to morrow may find us dead signed T A ALOOK LOOK local philosopher |
