The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-01-18
In UNCOMMON MAN IN A COMMON
COMMUNITY
Continued from Page Onel

bhoiii'oo ihtbuiNos ht iVnihNo thoe
a business system that incorporates
the greatest number of his fellow
citizens is the system that he should
adopt for his own business. He Is
the man who figures prosperity on
the basis of the comfort, intelligence
and financial strength Of the great
est number Of people in his COM
munity. He does not think for q
moment that il is good symptom
for himself to be rich and the ma
Jority of his neighbors very poor.
And Furthermore. he is far-sighted
enough to know that system that
is good for the majority Of the citi-
zens of his community is good for
himself.
Part IA Cooperative Community
II is my desire to reveal thru The
columns of The Citizen, some Of the
characteristics, as I see them, of the
uncommon man in common COM
munity; | also desire that this per-
sonal opinion which has been slim
ulated by experience and study will
he sifted and analysed until a real
working principle is found.
The uncommon man, who should
be in every community, started with
the Scriptural injunction, do unto
others as you would have others do
unto you" as the base Of his oper-
ations and with that text as a
springing board he leaped into the
midst Of his community's poor
methods, backward ideas, and shift
less habits and lead them to Chris
tianity, intelligence, and prosperity.
The keynote of his every move
was cooperation: cooperation in
religious affairs, cooperation in
political affairs. cooperation in
social affairs, cooperation in bust
ness affairs. He argues with the
people that any doctrine that has
virtue enough to invite the support
of one man has virtue enough to in
vite the support of all honest men;
and that concentration Of powers,
on the part of the best citizens in
the community, upon one point will
accomplish a thousand times more
than these same powers working
in parallel directions in a dozen diff
ferent channels can accomplish.
He has persuaded his neighbors TO
the point Of conviction that thrift,
coordination and the brotherhood
of man are prerequisite to happi-
ness and the full development of
their powers.
He organized a Community I'm
provement League. taking in ev-
cry citizen in the neighborhood
and let me say right here
that the uncommon man could not
turn a wheel if his neighbors did
not believe in him and support him
in his work.
The first act of the Community
League was to start some measure
for improving the economic con-
ditions Of the whole community.
A meeting of the farmers was
called for the purpose of starting a
campaign for better livestock on
the farms. After some heated dis
cussions the farmers were divided
into two groups-one coup concen-
trating on dairy cows and Poland
China hogs and the other group
choosing beef cattle and Chester
White hogs as their speciality.
Bulletins and circulars on diff
ferent breeds of dairy cattle
were studied that they might
wisely choose breed for their
Dairy Club. When all points had
been considered they voted to adopt
the Holstein COW.
How could they get in stock with
out great expense, was the question.
The leader was ready with a plan.
He proposed TO the two wealthiest
of the club that he and
they must each one purchase a
young th0ro-bred COW and that all
the members of the club must pur-
chase one partnership thoro-bred
male. He explained that by starting
with three thoro-bred cows in a few
years thoro-bred dairy cattle would
be on every farm in the club. Ten
men paid the purchase price for the
male and two others kept him as
heir share in the partnership.
The same plan was followed by |
he group who chose beef cattle as
heir specially and the Hereford
vas the breed adopted.
In two years the results became
quite visible - scrub cattle and
'razor-back' hogs were disappear
ng. Cattle buyers of higher class