Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-10-08
coy CRAIG WANTS OBSERVANCE
OF COMMUNITY SERVICE WEEK.
Issues Proclamation for People to
Take Stock of Conditions and
Plan improvements.

411o III @OSSA JONNS
markable record of industrial, edu-
cational, and moral progress. Today
they are moved as eve before with
a passion for yet larger achievement.
They believe that which they have
lone is but an earnest of the things
they yet shall do" and they press on
with the determination that in every
thing that makes for greatness in a
State, North Carolina shall take a
foremost place in the sisterhood Of
American commemorative. And
Whereas, The realization of ouc
patriotic ambition for North Carolina
as a whole depends upon the achieve
ment of the same ideal in the local
communicable county, the town, the
township, the school district, the lit
tie ~neighborhood grouped around
church or schoolhouse; and for prog
ress in each, there must be frst,a know
ledge of conditions; second, united
work of all the people at tasks of i'm
mediate improvement; and third, the
organization of the people for persist
ent prosecution of all the larger pro-
cesses of community betterment.
Therefore, l, Locke Craig, Governor
Of North Carolina, in response to
widespread sentiment among our peo-
pie as expressed by many organiza-
tons and sOcities, do hereby set apart
the Sd, 4th, and 5th days of Deem
Der, one thousand nine hundred and
fourteen, to be known and observed
throughout the State of North Carolina
as COMMUNITY SERVICE DAYS."
and 1 appoint them as days wherein
every man., woman, and child in the
Commonwealth shall lend heart, hand,
and braln to the service and develop
ment of North Carolina and Of it's
every community and county, and as
days wherein the people shall meet,
confer, and work together for ad-
advancement along the three-fold
lines of investigation, united labor for
the immediate improvement of the COM
munity and wise planning for it's fu-
ture.
I call on the leaders of thought and
progress in every community to assist
in organizing and planning for these
COMMUNITY SERVICE DAYS"
l call on the Farmers Union, the
Chambers of Commerce, the women's
clubs, our teachers and ministers, the
press of the State, our lawyers, physi-
clans, farmers, business men, indus
trial forces, and all others to cooper
ate in working out plans for such
Community Service, and on these days
to put aside matters of private con-
Germ and devote themselves to the
great movements for the common
good.
I. / urge that in each community,
social and economic surveys shall be
made the first days of the week or
earlier, so as to inform the public as
to the conditions now existing and the
lines of progress most needed.
II. l urge that On Thursday, PUB
Lie ROADS, GROUNDS, AND BUILD.
INGS DAY." the men, ONE and
young people of each town, township,
plan, and work together in one or
service to the community: % In i'm
proving the roads and streets and
making them more worthy and more
creditable to the people; e. In i'm
proving both interior and exterior of
the schoolhouses, churches, and court
houses and other public buildings; 60
In clearing off and identifying the
grounds of sc~hoolhouses, churches,
parks, cemeteries, etc., and planting
trees and shrubs in these places as
well as along streets, roadsides, and
private grounds.
III. 1 urge that on Friday, SCHOOL
AND NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVE
DAY" the older people with the chill
dren shall meet at every schoolhouse
in town or country to observe School
and N~eighborhood Improvement Day"
as a day of practical patriotism, and
at these meetings conditions in the
community shall be reported and dis
Cussed; plans made for improving
schools, highways, social life, econo-
mis-, moral, and health conditions;
committees named to prosecute sucn
plans, and arrangements made fol
subsequent public meetings for their
accomplishment.
". l urge that on Saturday,
COUNTY PROGRESS DAY" a greM
1-ecting shall be held at each county
seat when all the people shall meet
together to discuss "The Needs. and
Possibilities of Our County" candidly
comparing it's present conditions with
it, p~otentialities, and inaugurating 4
movements needed. for it's progress
and development.
V. urge that at all these meetings
exhibits illustrating conditions be
made: plans discussed for attracting
desirable settlers to places needing
them; the organization of farmers So
~cieties, town boards of trade, and boys
and girls industrial clubs promoted;
wholesome sports, ~recreations and
plays encouraged; the flags of State
and Nation raised over schoolhouses
and other public buildings; the plans
made for providing books, papers,
and libraries for old and young and
for teaching those who have grown
to maturity illiterate. I also desig-
nate this week as HOME COMING
WEEK." when all former residents
of each North Carolina community
shall be asked to return and visit
friends and scenes of other days, and