The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1917-12-08
No Man, Under Modern Condi'
tons. Can Live Entirely
Unto Himself.
EACH DEPENDENT ON OTHERS
Citizen Who Does Not Aid In Building
Up Community Can Not Expect
to Have Prosperity
Himself.
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man could do pretty much es he
pleased What one man did was of
little concern to anyone else. for il had
little effect on anyone else. Those
days are gone however. and they
never will return. Today. no man car
live entirely unto himself. Life is .
complicated affair under modern con
ditions. No one man in any commnn,
ity il entirely independent of all others
In that community.
Organized society. In the form Of
governments. national state and local
have recognized the new conditions
and have decreed that every man must
observe certain rules In hts relations
with his fellow men. He must not d"
certain things that would endanger the
health of other people in his commun-
ity. He must not do such things as
would disturb the peace and quiet of
his neighborhood. He must remember
that he owes duty to his community.
Not Question Of Right.
A man may say that ne has the right
to spend his money where he peases;
that no one can stop him If he wants
to buy his groceries, his clothes and
his furniture in some city miles away
from where he earns the money to pay
for them. He is right. There is no
law to prevent him from doing SO. IN
less 1t Is the lnw Of self-rreServatinn.
The man who has the right to send MS
money away to some distant city in
stead Of spending 1t at home, also has
the right to send his children to that
city 10 be educated In the schools,
which his money helps to support. but
he doesn't exercise that right. He
sends his children to the local schools.
the maintenance Of which Is made pos
sible by the men who spend their
money at home.
Life In any community today IS n
give-and-take proposition. A man can
not take everything and give nothing
and get away with 1t for any great
length Of time. He can not take his
living from a community and give
nothing back to help the other fellow
make living. If he cuts off the other
fellows living. he Is bound eventually
to cut OF his own. for unless the other
fellow has money to buy his Tabor or
his goods he cannot make living
himself.
You may say that what yon buy
doesn't amount to much and the none,
that you send away to the mail order
houses In other cities can not have any
great effect upon the general business
conditions In your town. Maybe II
doesn't amount to much and maybe II
won't have any great effect upon the
communities prosperity In itself. but
what will be the result If every person
in the community, or half If them. or
tenth Of them, take the same view
Of the matter. Your business. In IT.
self, may not amount to much. but
taken together with the business OF 9
hundred others In the community, II
amounts to a great deal. It amounts
" NV uiiCtSu(c ''C'"ceu n pICciNI-
Gus community and dead one. 1t
amounts to the difference, In the end
between good times and bad times for
yourself and your own family. II you
lived On a desert isle. It would make
no difference where you sent your
mo'.ey, because It would make no dif-
fe>"ace whether you had any money al
all OK not. But you are not living upon
a desert lsle. You are Twin. In
modern ccmmuaity. 70 do everything
possible to hu.ld up that community Is
not only duty which yon owe to ths
community, hut-more important still
lit is duty which vou owe to your
self.
TsAss v..i' Increase.
Yon have children to educate. You
want your community to haze sarl
schools Sd that Your children mar have
the same advantages that the children
In the big city have. If you 1.-Two IN n
farm you need good roads over which
to haul your products to market. You
may say that you pay your share c?
the taxes out of which the school
houses are built and the roads con-
Maybe you do pay your share,
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