this is the story of what is happening to the americans small town men walked on the town is being invaded the invaders are not enemies but friends american people from the from the mountains of faraway and villages they bore into the towns washed through its streets and into it houses and searches a meeting place the town is flooded and overwhelmed it was meant to be a living space for five the damn bows and people twenty thousand thirty thousand forty thousand people roll into it double up in its housing camp on its outskirts the new people have come here to work in the fifty odd in the machine shop a friendly good natured on my butt an army almost without organization the small community is overwhelmed every power plant pumping station and grocery store are pushed to the limit they stand in line at the post office sending money home to the cities on the hill farm they line up with the laundry in three weeks they may get it back lunch counters jammed up people being turned away from the diners they swim on schedule the life god heard them out working in shifts and swimming some new housing has been brought up it's comfortable enough but the people haven't been able to get together yet they live in that separate sales people need other people they need to get together a little fun a little swapping of talk and goodwill they want to feel that they belong the new community the community of townspeople and new people as not yet been built the people must build it themselves all the people juke joint play pool when they'd rather be playing baseball one ship and then another ship with nothing much in between sometimes it gets to be too much they decide to try another town this is another down town where the people are doing something about it the town is still a cog alabama this town has the same broad bloom it had the same bottom line lassitude people were always thinking about getting out of it now they've changed their mind they're doing something about it they're getting together the mayor the city manager civic leaders army officers from the nearby post people from the plant a man from the division of recreation of the united states federal security agency he's seen this problem before he knows how to help people get it in hand but the people do it themselves they are doing it they hunt up rooms and voting places for newcomers the local police help out as guides and advisors the women's clubs begin to organize things they clean up the town  tennis red cross work in the right spots are good for people and the red cross work is essential but the main thing is to get people together cooperating with each other working together playing together a new community is being born americans have been making new communities for three hundred years and dancing in these communit brought drills under the colonial kind of williamsburg just a hole down in the new prime at towns of kentucky square dances in the middle of the kansas corn field minus romping together in the california go down recreation hall games instead of shooting matches nutrition program instead of russell be swapping the mothers and fathers looking o community did this one town full of people who belong there and people who wanted to belong made a new community other towns are doing it everywhere in america american is finding out how to get together all over again a good thing and water time and a good thing afterwards now they have a life in common now they have something to look forward to nobody needs to be walled off or bought all only they go back to work every man on the ship to the neighbor on a friends every man on the ship knows that he belong