Show GOOD CITIZEN People Acting Together Make Strong Community and Nation U the ninth of aerie of len from the bj Th American the and of an The eighth promise of a good I will try to make my community a better place In which to The Pilgrim fathers to come to this From other countries came groups which settled together at a bend In the Neighbors built cabins near each leaned on each worked with each protected each Man has always liked someone to talk someone else to walk x to wor- St n aj I ship to run races Men early found that by their Joint efforts they could achieve something far greater than they could hope to accomplish The more things that people working together in a community can do without depending upon the federal or state the more our individual rights will be the stronger our nation will a YOU HAVE cast your vote and paid your Don't stop There is also an Intangible obligation to make a community a little better for the time you have lived in You don't have to be a professional do-gooder to be a good No matter how busy he In addition to church and nearly everybody can find time for at least one community It may be the Boy or Girl the the Red the Future Farmers of the Community the Campfire slum a new a public swimming pool or golf or merely your family helping another The spirit which motivates these groups Is what makes one community so much better to live in than another town the same size which doesn't have the These things call for your time and ability rather than your and they will give every good citizen an inner glow of pride and satisfaction for having done 0 0 THE MAKING OF A William Allen White said of the material the brick and stone and mortar and lumber thit make this are but a small part of Hundreds of towns in the country have just as much lumber and lime as Emporia that are not nearly such good who have lived during the half century now put something besides houses and streets and trees and material They put practical work In in in in In the social organization to make this a good Emporia did not just To have a clean town meant a every day in the year for it meant sacrifice for scores of men and women sacrifice of time and money and health and To have all these schools and churches meant that thousands gave freely and in a great faith without material results in that we who now enjoy what we might reap where we have not town is the child of many This town is the ideal realized only after those who dreamed the laid them down rest with the dream still a This town is the of a great and we who live here have a debt to posterity that we can pay only by still still we must learn to labor and to even as they learned It who built here on this townsite when it was raw upland prairie article li Chapter S of the booklet Citizen produced by The American of the freedom A complete book may be obtained by tn cent to The American Weal New N. T. |