The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1919-01-30
PRAISE YOUR town
AND;Y0UR COUNTRY
COMMUNITY BOOSTER HAS As, 3
EXPONENT IN DR.. WEBER
The oakes Country Turned Out Fine
and Enjoyed First Program Of
Community Series

community series
The Grand Theatre was NOT hip
enough to hold the crowds that
wanted to get in on the community,
entertainments that were held Fri.
day evening and Saturday afternoon
and evening. 1t was a surprise IN
the management to see how the neo.
pie wanted to crowd in at all enter.
tainments. On Saturday night If was
necessary to hold second entertain
ment SO many were the people that
could not be admitted the first time
And the people who came did NOT
go away disappointed. DR.. Frank
weber. who had charge of the pro-
grams, Just captured the Oakes folks.
and put out some telling facts that
could not but uplift the business in.
terests of any community
The doctor gave three lectures
each lecture having in the main one
great idea of the movement as its
message.
"The first great idea," said DR..
weber, "is cooperation The spirit
OF harmony. reasonableness. the
broad idea of brotherhood. No mat
ter what our differences of opinion.
our political faith, there are a million
things on which we can all agree.
AS the great Mississippi river is
made up of millions of subterranean
fountains and surface streams. com.
ing in from every direction, so the
stream of life is made up of fountains
of experience that make our view.
points and our feelings. All of our
differences are mere circumstances.
and they are trivial when once looked
at from the standpoint of the common
good. Our failing is not due to our
differences it is due to our willing
ness to get together, to learn from
one another. To learn by experience
is slow and costly; we must learn
also by reason and thinking.
r 'sThe smaller towns and rural com.
munities are losing in population. The
cream of the youth especially is be-
ing drawn into the big cities-not be-
cause the big city has better ad-
vantages,. but because in spite of its
disadvantages it has learned to boost
Its advantages and spends millions
of dollars to advertise all that is
good, never mentioning the draw
backs.
The second great trade-at-home
idea was handled from the standpoint
of community business. "In CONNER
cial business we need the farmer, the
banker, the merchant, the lawyer, the
doctor, the teacher, the laborer, in
short everybody. If all of these are
involved we need form Of organiza-
ton, such as community club, wher~
everybody is member with equal
right to talk. Every line of business
has Its own problem, has its own ex-
perience. its own values, but there is
no banker. no merchant, no lawyer.
no farmer, who has not an immedi-
ate connection with every other in
dustry in the community.
THAT which affects the farmer af-
fects the merchant. What is good for
the goose is good for the gander
The merchants information is good,
his experience is good, so is
the farmers. the dcctor's etc. To
make the thing perfect there must
be merging of our aims and our
purposes SO that everybody has a
square deal The farmer is right,
the banker is right, the merchant is
right, everybody is right from his
own point of view; therefore, we
must learn to get together-to listen
to the other fellow-to never figure
our own benefits until we have fig
ured on the benefits of the other fel-
low too. The information of each is
necessary.
The third point that received en-
phasis was the community building
idea. 'sThere is not enough of them
using it-good clean. wholesome en-
joyment in the small towns in the
rural districts. People talk of it as
being "a dead town and the young
people will seek the larger commun-
tiles, hence If this is a drawing card
for the young man and the young
woman then Just bring that part of
the city over here and this exodus of
the country districts will stop and
you people will turn every dollar to
their home town. They will fall in
love at home; they will get married
at home; get their homes built here
until your community is represented
by the best stock. by the best indus
tries and become d large commercial
center. ;.H
'.Do not build Chicago. New York.
Minneapolis and st. Paul. 1T the ex-
pense Of Oakes. Grind your own
corn, build your factories. trade with