Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-03-28
NEWARK AS A CON-
MUNITY DISCUSSED
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an organization which illustrates
the spirit that should pervade every
community. Everyone who lives
here knows that should the alarm
sound, and the call come, the COM
pany would respond even though
the burning property should be-
long to the least worthy and
the least popular man in the
town. There is no spirit which
says we won't help that fellow, he
isn't worthy of help. To tell you
the solemn truth how many OF us
are worthy men, | actually know
OF great charitable organization
that spends u per cent OF its in
come to show that people who
want help aren't worthy OF help.
Mr.. Handy referred to the un-
t;diness OF American cities. MUM
CAPABILITIES are the one spot in which
the spirit OF liberty has failed,' he
said. A Few years ago | spent
the summer abroad visiting the
great European cities. | stayed
long enough to get used to clean
cities-cities clean not only on
their leading streets, but in the
back alleys as well. When land
ed in Philadelphia one September
day | had forced upon me the
contrast between what city could
be and ought to be, and what Our
cities too often prove to be. 1t
shocked me. And | found the
reason for it. Over there the run
ming OF municipality is a profess
sion. In one of the great cities of
Germany the mayor wasn't man
OF that city at all. He had made a
reputation in a smaller city and
had been promoted.
Il take this movement" Mr..
Handy said, for an effort to break
down the barriers that spring up
in little towns such as this; an Ell
fort to do away with the notion
that one sometimes gets, that he
is made OF little better dirt than
the other fellow; an effort to
group together all the various
agencies OF the town that work for
the general good. To begin with
there is nothing so good Tor a
town as the old Jerusalem meth
cd of keeping clean-the method
which has every man keep clean
his own door step. But take what
reform YOU choose, push what me-
thOd YOU please to better town and
State, after all there is but one
way to accomplish your result
through the power OF the message
which the church has to bring
the message OF good news, the
Gospel, the preachers call it, the
telling OF the Story. Not by hui
man agency but by applying the
old Story to the human heart do
we attain results. Old ocean rises
and means in his bed; he frets and
losses wildly. but he's fixed. He
STAYS there. The mountains are
rocks; they are fixed. And human
character is fixed for evil. YOU
cant do anything with it except
through the church and the agency
which it represents. What have
you done to aid your home chur-
ches? The basis OF your civiliza.
ton, the very source of mutua
helpfulness, is the life. the sacri.
fee and death, and the resurrec.
ton of this man OF Calvary.
This particular community is
like no other community. People
from all parts OF our country are
here. to live together, to seek the
institution O. learning, your in
dustries. 1t is sweet community
but its virtues must spring from
institutions assembled here toge
ther, the love of liberty, of indie
pendent manhood.
Il can't close" the speaker con
tinued, without talking OF the bis
community of which we are part
Here under institutions of libert,
and freedom rapidly spreading
around the world. we stand-ar
example toawrd which all the
world has looked. longingly, hope
fully, lovingly. Only yesterda,
old time-encrusted China shool
herself and woke ND a republic
she felt the aspiration through the
encrusted centuries to be indepen
dent. Only yesterday. literally
the greatest autocracy topplet
over; as the plain peasantry liitec
up to place itself in the sunlight
the Gar toppled over. We are