Baxter Springs news., 1919-04-04
No Man. Under Modern cOndI.
tIons, Can Live Entirely
Unto Himself.
oIslssn Who Docs Not Aid IN Building
Up Community Gan Not Expect
70 Have Prosperity
Himself.
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1here was q time In the world wheI
4 man could do pretty much % h'
pleased. What one man did was o.
little concern to anyone else. for It had
little effect on anyoEe else. Th0s'
days are gone, however, and they
never win return. Today. no man car
live entirely unto himself. Life is {
complicated affair under modern con
ditiOns. No one man In any commun
ity ID entirely independent Of all otherl
IN that community.
Organized society, In the form Of
governments, national. state and local
have recognized the new conditions
end have iecreed that every man mus
observe certain rules In his relations
with his fellow men. He must not Dc
certain things that would endanger the
health Of other people In his courmun'
ity. He must not do such things ai
would disturb the peace and quiet Of
his neighborhood. he must remember
that he owes a duty to his community
=. Net Question Of Right
A man may say that he has the right
10 spend his money where he pleases
that no one can stop him II 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 70 right. There II no
law 10 prevent him feon doing 90. un-
less u IL the law Of. selS.presorvation.
The man who has the right 10 send his
money away to scme distant city In
stead Of spending if at home. also has
the right to send his children to that
city to Be educated In the schools.
which his money helps 10 support. but
he doesn't exercise that right. BE
sends his children to the local schools,
the maintenance Of which II made pos
siblo By she men who spend their
mOnog nc home.
Life 10 any community today II q
G1VO-and.take proposition. A man can
not take everything and give nothing
and get away with II Cor any great
iengtA Of time. He can not take his
living from a community and. give
nothing back to help the other fellow
make a living. II he cuts Of the other
fellows living. he is bound eventually
to cut of his own, for unless the other
fallow has money to buy his labor or
Ne goods ne cannot make Q living
himself.
You may say that what you buy
DOESN'T amount to much and the HOney
hat yOu send away 70 tia mail order
houses in other cities can not have any
great effect uD0n the general business
conditions In your town. Maybe It
6OesV't amount 10 much and maybe 1t
won't have any great effect upon the
community's prosperity In itself. but
what will be the result II every person
p the community, or half Of them. or
Q tenth Of them, take the same view
Of the matter. Your business. in IT.
Oelf, may not amount to much, but
taken together With the business Of Q
hundred others In the community, 1t
amounts to q great deal. II amounts
10 the difference between q prosper
ous community and dead" one. 1t
amounts to the difference, in the end,
between good times and bad times for
yourself and your own family. If yOu
lived on a desert isle. It would make
no difference whore you sent your
money, because e would make no DIFF
ference whether you had any money at
an or not. But you,are not living upon
Q desert isle. Yop are living in a
modern community. To do everything
possible to build up that community is
not only q duty which you owe to the
community, but-more important still
1T is a duty which you owe 10 your
self.
Taxes VIII Increase.
You have children to educate, You
want your community to have good
schools 30 that your children may have
TIE same advantages that the children
81 the big city have. II you live on a
farm you need good roads over which
to haul your products to market. You
mag say that yOu pay your share Of
ahe taxes out Of which the school
hnuses are built and the roads con-
structed. Maybe Jon DO pay your share.
IN proportion to the value Of your
worlds goods, but where is the other
1sTlow to get the money to pay his
Share Of the taxes II. after you pay
yo1r taxes, yOu send the remainder Of
Iour money 70 some other community
% help build their schools end con-
atrdet thair roads. The merchants Of
any community pay q very consider
6ble part of the taxes collected In that
community. AGo 70 the tax books and
Hoa. .1dtl ind fhis % be the case. When
he business Of the merchant falls on
and hs eaIrieg srnsller stocks and has
len money IN the bank, he pays small
q tlpes, end 81 the apOunt he pays
ln taxes decreases. the amount you
nay must Increase n the schools are
q y mainfllnsd and the roads kept
~ htmay - q uapH own business e
uana1 . Ssnd hls mone1 10 halD
lulla n fha hlR o'tias where the man