Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
THE MARYLAND PURPOSE.

Farmers In the vicinity Of the Hart
land Friends church have begun
movement looking to the formation Of
a community club. The idea is a club
inclusive Of the entire neighborhood
which shall meet at the community
center Of Hartland, enjoy social privi-
leges and discuss and carry out COM
munity plans agreed upon. They held
the bad roads, filed the town hall and
displayed an active interest in the
success Of the movement.
Hartland is made for community
center with It's town hall, its church
and the centering Of school interests
there. 1t has the men and women to
put over any wise and righteous plan
Of community betterment that can he
carried out in a strictly country COM
munity. 1t can have a consolidated
school. 1t can have good roads leading
to the center. Those people can If they
choose have q model rural church
building and a big congregation. They
are Of the ability financially to have
what they need and want either as in
dividuals or as a community, intel
iectually and educationally. fitted tc
enjoy those things and each other.
They can have it all if they choose.
And they ought to have it. The outlook
is that they will have 1t.
A community club Of the right kind
will pay actual dividends in real money
to Hartland neighborhood. That is the
sordid side of community betterment
that the rich farms of that section
less true for that. It is impossible that
a club Of agriculturalists should meet
at stated intervals and fail to discuss
and consider agriculture and the later
science Of farming. The impulse thus
aroused will show in the corn cribs in
November, on the scales at the live
stock chute. 1t will dignity farming.
Nothing puts a neighborhood on its
| mettle SO much as community Of inter-
est, something in which each has pride,
purpose in which each has part, ac-
complishment in which all share
| Neighborhoods as individuals attain
| that indefinite quality designated as
class" The stranger sees it at the
| boundaries Of the community, notes it
| as he drives thru it.
Iowa needs thousands Of such clubs.
The farms that the pioneers won thru
great tribulation and hardship that
they might leave them to their sons
should not be Deserted by their grand
| sons. We needs to arouse within our
selves that pride of long place so nota-
BILE in England, the feeling that we be-
long to the soil upon which our fathers
and their fathers were born and lived
Merely because three generations have
lived hard and toiled early and late
to accumulate a competence is not a
good reason why the beneficiary OF
their labors should desert the soil they
to seek conveniences in the city that
may readily be added to the farms
and to seek flimsy social life when a
finer and more substantial society lies
at his hand merely for the asking and
the taking.
The Hartland neighborhood has ar
opportunity for itself and an opportun.
ity to show other neighborhoods wha
may be done at any four corners 1,
the state. 1t has the men and womer
and the growing youth and back Of al
the old time spirit Of a Quaker socia
democracy. 1t is one OF the best placer
for the experiment. Try it ON faith
fully. It can not fall.
The number of aviators in the worlt
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