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Show t COMMl'MTY WOltlv. Think of the happiest and at the t same time the most wide-awake and ' progressive family you know, the one which most clearly illustrates your .idea of family life. Analyze the secret of their success, and you will probably find that it lies in their i power of cooperation and compro-. compro-. mise. No member insists in carry-; carry-; ing out his own wishes regardless of i the interests and wishes of the others. Each claims a little and yeilds a . little. The real basis of their life is a spirit of mutual help and forbearance. forbear-ance. The community is only a larger family. To accomplish satisfactory results there must be a body of citizens citiz-ens working together in hormony. And in order to achieve anything worth while, each man must not insist in-sist too strongly upon his own wishes wish-es and idea. When he finds 'that they conflict with the ideas of others he must be prepared to yielld the less essential details of his plan, or perhaps per-haps to attain only part of his object. If the public improvement which he has at heart seems desirable enough to warrant it, he must be ready to support his neighbor's pet project (if it is no; distinctly an un worthy one) in order to gain the neighbors support to his own object. He must control his temper, study the personality of the, man he is dealing deal-ing with, use tact and consideration. These are qualities we must all cultivate to work with each other successfully and do our part in the community life. |