Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-06-21
COMMUNITY HARMONY
Is the Foundation of Industrial Sue
cess and Good Civil Government
(RV John BuSh(

whole country will be facing Stupen-
dous problems and difficult situations,
and it will require the combined wis
dom and collective action of all to so
direct affairs during these critical
times that policies and ideals shall
prevail which will result in general
good and universal prosperity.
The scriptures say: "If house be
divided against itself that house can
not stand" and it naturally follows
that a community which is divided
cannot be as prosperous as the one
where all work together with unity
of action and purpose. When an in
dividual takes an unfair advantage
of another or Of the community the
ultimate interests of both are bound
to suffer. An effort on the part of
any one to advance his own interest
without regard to the rights of others
eventually results in loss to all.
Now is the time when there ought
to be complete harmony and fedora
ton of all organizations and all
workers. 1t is evident that no fixed
lines of discrimination could be de-
fined without injurious effects. The
ONLY constructive method of achieving
results that are beneficial to all is
for each individual to so order his
personal affairs as to set in action a
drift toward community harmony.
The object of civil government is to
establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty.
In short to create and preserve that
form of human society in which it is
possible for men to live as God in
tended them to live.
If it is the honest desire and in
tention of any organization in this,
or any other community, to stimulate
and encourage the greatest activity
and efficiency in commerce and in
dustry and to make every individual
citizen realize the strength and ne
cessity of his personal efforts to this
end, it is essential that its individual
members be made to realize that
these words of the great Byron are
true of all men:
"The thOrns which l have reaped are
of the tree
Il planted; they have torn me and
| bleed.
81 should have known what fruit
would spring from such a seed"
There are men in our community
who pretend to be working for COM
munity interest; but actions speak
louder than words, and from the ac-
tions of some of our citizens it is
plainly evident that they are not
democratic, but are working for self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and are Of the opin-
ion that they can discriminate against
certain classes and flourish and wax
fat without the cooperation Of the
community.
Certain mushroom wOuld-be aristo-
Gratis would do we'll to take warning
from these words of holy writ, which
might we'll have been written for their
especial benefit:
"Pride goeth before destruction, and
a naughty spirit before fall"
"Let him that thinketh he standeth
take heed lest he fall"
All this has happened to many men
such as we have in our community at
the present time, who are pretending
one thing and are doing another.
One manufacturer even putting forth
an effort to discriminate against the
labor movement, and to hobble and
retard its progress by offering as
high as $1,000 to an industry to locate
elsewhere, as its coming to Newark
would have a tendency to increase
the demand for labor and tend to in
crease wages.
1t is indeed strange that men who
have received their education and
financial assistance from the money
earned by their fathers with the pick
and shovel in the coal mines, and who
are now depending on the purchase
power of the laboring people, should
be so antagonistic toward the class
from which they sprang and to whose
patronage they, in a great measure,
owe their present prosperity. LET
him who tinketh he standeth take
heed"
"Who dares think one thing and an
other tell,
"My heart detests him as the gates
of hell"
This class of citizens is a thorn in
the side Of progress and is reducing
the community to a state of dry de-
cay They should be brought to light,
and a survey of the community will
be great benefit if not hampered
by this undesirable element, but is