Show Be F Friendly i I When I was growing up there was a popular bit of verse which seemed to appear from greeting cards to neatly framed Illuminated texts of all sizes sires If If I knew you and you knew me me I If both of ot us could plainly see see see- Remember it I think Edgar Guest wrote it but being addicted to what Henry Van Dyke called intellectual Ingratitude ingratitude in In- gratitude I am not quite sure I suppose the present generation would say It drips According to my most modern young assistant that Is the great crime in writing wrIting particularly particularly in mine But drippy or not this verse verne contains contaIns contains con con- a practical solution for some of the troubles which too realistic or realistic or sel- sel fish thInkIng fish thinking has brought upon the world There would be no race problems I If the races took time to get acquainted There would be no industrial problem If It the workers from both sides of the office door knew each other There would be no class problem If IT there were a mInglIng mingling mingling ing of ot the citizens of a community There would be no religious problem if It worshippers gave to each others other's f faith the respect they want for tor their own What we need Is IB s understanding and the willingness to start from scratch scratch- without preconceived prejudices and con cents We know facts and statistics but not people yve We study all sorts of ot abstruse abs aba truse subjects We discuss motivations and talk glibly of ot what is bade back ba of ot people peo peo- pi actions But we dont don't take the time to learn something of ot the people with whom we have to todeal deal We are educated educated educated edu edu- in all but friendliness I learned my lesson at the time of ot my mothe b death when people I never even knew came to see me T I remember after the last days daYI of her Illness a knocK came on the door one night I opened to find a a. woman I didn't remember She said Please I didn't have any money for tor flowers lowers Couldn't I do some cleaning pr or washing for tor you Your mother was so friendly She always alway stopped to speak to me and she even C caned called ned up when my little girl was wad ill I do want to do some some- thing That is a simple story but It struck home to me I had never even known the woman woma existed But Mother saw each person a Ae an Individual With 4 whom to be friendly If It we could adopt a friendly attitude in our with those around u ui us we could solve our bigger problems because w we w. would acquire the habit of ot understanding the gift of ot knowing i popIe so- so o pIe plc It would color not only our personal lives but our community our national relations as well W What at couldn't we do doit if it only we wo would take the time to know w people as hUmen be beings with the tha same ame problems the same joys and sorrows as os our own J |