Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-17
The Girl on the Burning
Roof; Community Service
and Business in Omaha
By WILLIAM TANQUERY. Il


1t is not good for man to live his life alone.
He do it, and get along. But wastebasket full
of argument can be written to support the contention
that he will get along better by living his life with his
fellows.
Help the other and he will help you. You
do something better than he can, and he do
things better than you T..
Help him make his dollar, and he will help you make
yours Neither of you will be any better off in the mat
ter Of dollars but the association will make life easier
about which poets could write book but in the
meantime anything that makes life easier is worth dol
lars and cents
One manufacturer or business man can make pretty
big noise, especially if he is Omahan, but two can
make more half dozen can be heard in Chicago and
the Omaha Chamber of Commerce be heard around
the world.
Association does it, the spirit of get-together and
boost.
One man might be able to persuade friend or a.
stranger to here, but the chamber can bring
hundred-and everybody benefits
All of this is to arrive at the real subject-com-
munity service.
Community service is merely the spirit of the brother
hood of man applied to business principles in every
day life
Get acquainted with your neighbor and each help
the other That is one of the missions of community
service The Chamber of Commerce is doing community
service for the city.
Other bodies are doing community service for the
Individual
The first thing is to bring people together. To in
roduce next door neghbors who have lived within 10
feet OF each other tor years without nardy noodng
good morning., if each afraid that an intro
ducton would merely the to request the loan
of a flatiron pound OF sugar.
. This lack of acquaintanceship this living of life
alone and selfish pursuit of ones happiness with
out even glance into the darkened of the neigh
Dor brought out in paragraph, few words that
contained Volumes in an interview published in Fridays
issue of The Bee by E. C. Thomas. He said: -
Put an unknown girl on the roof of burning house,
and in five minutes you will have the entire city aghast
the men yelling and the women weeping: But II that
girl smoders in darkened in the fires of lone-
ness for years, who cares? Do your
more striking illustration of the situation would be
hard to find.
In other words if you really want to wake up !
things, build fire with girl on the roof.
Shoot off gun that will throw shot in all directions
like the Germans needed and like the United states
will need if Japan the bolsheviks in Siberia and the oa
of the European mass keeps on growlng-one with
barrels pointing in all directions and that loads IN the
middle.
Who's the GIRL and where's the gun?
The girl story of course, is merely to illustrate the
fact that when something has got to be done people get
out and do it.
And when everybody helps, it is done best
Therefore, when the Chamber of Commerce starts
something remember that it is community service and
help.
By helping the city you help yourself for the
money brought here the there will be to around
The more there is the chance there is to get
some of it.
A man might get hold of dollar in Wall street, but
he wouldn't have chance in the desert of Sahara.
Wake up, jump in and help become community \
worker and don't let the Spirit of Progress sit
in darkened unnoticed waiting for one to
build fire and put her the roof to call your attention
and enlist your aid.