The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1918-02-22
Marianne,

and useless to present day warfare.
These changed conditions have
been brought about by three well
known and universally recognized
facts. which compel US, as sensible
people. to conclude that we must live
within the present and not within
the past. First, scientific advances;
secondly, "intercommunication bet
ter designated as the electrical age
or the age of the motor car, the
flying machine, the express tram
and other instrumentalities that
serve to bring the people OF given
community into closer touch each
with the other in their daily routine
thirdly. universal education, the great
est OF the three and accounts for all
of them. These three factors have
swept away old customs, have rem
dered obsolete the usages and GUS
toms of the past, and the man who
fails or refuses to recognize this Is
: doomed to disappointment and fail
ure In the days Of our ancestors,
before these changed conditions were
brought about, from New York to
Chicago was a journey of several
days. while at the present time it
can be travelled in few hours. To
cross the atlantic ocean required a
Journey of two or three months as
compared with five days at the pres
ent time. Last year an Arkansas
girl travelled from New York to
Chicago in a flying machine in less
than nine hours. Our ancestors never
dreamed OF such things: their social
and business intercourse was there
fore narrowed to the extent of their
travels; their thoughts were neces-
sarily confined to more narrow
spheres and conditions, they were
provincial and lacked that broaden
ing that comes from the co-mingling
and intermingling OF men of many
minds. They were necessarily clan
rish, their environment and daily
routine tended toward the establish
ment of that feeling of individualism
and against the broader sphere of
conmupitvie~--d airaNs simply lived
in a hJeds go to the heir own and
knew worlds Should
Thinking 2ni'le? Our world
" Hobbs atti;ns,na s; u ' me c wnr,d ths,
1dtiOu, 10 tNC WOilu tRidt
" ~-ah and our problem is to
s<s.sy off in night, as it we're.
the precedents of an old world, for
the realities of new.
However, while 1t is an evident
fact that we live in a larger world
than our ancestors did, the three
factors that have alluded to have
really made 1t smaller Before the
lay of the automobile and other
vehicles of modern transportation,
we thought Lee county was quite
large territory Today you can get
in a machine and get all over 1t in
day Your neighbor is no longer
the man who lives next door to
you, or within the same section OF
land. Every citizen of your county
is your neighbor. Why? Because
you have come in closer contract and
touch with him in every respect and
the result OF this is to destroy that
spirit of individualism;" that "liv-
!. ing unto yourself alone" condition.
and out of the ashes of the dead
condition, there has arisen, phoenix
like. the greater spirit of "commun
ityism.' that spirit of living some
wha. for the benefit of your neigh
Dor, your state and your nation.
Can there be any greater or grander
life? Can there be any better meth
cd adopted than that by which a man
so lives that he is a benefit to his
neighbor and his community. To
paraphrase the philosophy of our
great Greek statesman. Scion, BE
true to thy neighbor thy community,
thy state and thy nation. and It fol-
lows as surely as the night follows
the day. thou canst not be untrue
to myself" That's the new Ameri-
can spirit. my friends. "the spirit of
communicates" the greatest one can
have. We formerly reioiced In the
freedom of the individual" but
we've added to IL in later years. We
now look on the freedom OF the in.
dividual not from the selfish stand
point, of the particular Individual
but from the standpoint OF the com
munity and mankind as whole. and
when one now attempts to exercise
his fseedbm selishly, we CRY HOLD.
you are iniuring the community YOU
are injuring yourself, which Is a
resultant loss to the community and
you must so conduct yourself that
this injury shall not accrue. We
can't entirely take away his Freedom