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Show The Productive Citizen By RUTH TAYLOR We talk withi pride of production produc-tion and the productivity of this great land of ours. We admit we are not the largest nation. We even admit that we have not the greatest natural resources in the untapped mineral wealth of the earth. But we yield to no one in our power to produce. We boast that we have the highest paid man power and we claim it is also the most intelligent. intelli-gent. We brag of the fact that as a people we condemn the drone and laud the worker. We take pride that our measure of success is accomplishment. We state that all of our citizens are J expected to do their share in producing for the common good and we point to our high stand-adrs stand-adrs of living as evidence that thpy have done , so. We are a nation of producers but, are YOU a productive citizen? citi-zen? You, no matter where you work, or what your job may be, produce pro-duce goods either by the work of your hands or brain. Do you also produce discords? Just as important as the work of the hands and the head is the .i work of the heart. The produc tive citizen Who is a pride of his community is not alone he who has achieved the most in material mate-rial things, but he who has in some way demonstrated his love for his fellow man. Look at your community. What have those to whom you point with affectionate pride produced? In almost every case, they are men who have risen above personal per-sonal ambition and interest to work for the common good, to give to their neighbors in the ' spirit of brotherly love and com radeship. They were men who fully realized the truth of William Wil-liam James' great statement. "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will ' outlast out-last it." Are you a productive citizen? Do your neighbors in shop and street, regardless of class, creed or color, look to you as one to whom they can turn in time of trouble, as one who will understand, under-stand, and as one who will al. ways stand up for the right? Do . ' you produce good will by judg ing those whom you meet as individuals in-dividuals or do you produce discords dis-cords by stressing differences of beliefs and ' emphasizing old prejudices?' pre-judices?' Do you respect the other man's point of view? Do you bear in mind the things that other people bear in their hearts? As free citizens in a free democracy, de-mocracy, we have each of us the power which taken as a whole has set us in a short space of time at the fore-front of the nations. We produce goods. Let us also produce good by, as Hen. ry Van Dyke phrases, it "remembering "re-membering our kinship with all men, by well-wishing friendly speaking and kindly doing." Let us ALL be productive citizens! |