Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-12
SECURE ALBERT
AS A SPEAKER
IN The TEMPLE
Noted Orator VIII Give Talk on
the Community COunciI-
Organization Plan.
OUTLINES WORK IN DETAIL
Rock Island Will be One OF First
Cities to be Visited in
Behalf of Council.

On Saturday evening, May II,
the people of Rock Island will have
an opportunity to hear a speaker
OF national reputation in the per
son of Allen ID. Albert, who comes
to Rock Island to speak at the
Masonic temple on the organization
o. community council for the city
ard county. The membership OF
all organizations and inStitu ions
OF Rock Island are invited to at
IND this meeting OF Saturday. A
letter went out from the secre-
tary of the finance committee of
the state council of defense today
to all OF the city's institutions and
organizations inviting them to urge
their membership 20 attend this
meeting.
The purpose of the meeting as
outlined by Allen ID. Albert
no heads the movement in the
state of Illinois is for the purpose
OF furnishing a vehicle through
which the splendid service CO.
operation and understanding which
was brought out during the war
might be continued and directeu
munity good.
Among First Visited.
Rock Island viii be one of the
first cities 20 be visited in behaIi
Of the organization of this COM
munity council, and the city has an
opportunity of creating a coopera-
tive council which will be a pat
tern for the entire state.
~ In further explanation of the
work of the community council,
Mr.. Albert states:
"A community council is like the
cid New England town meeting, a
coming toge her of all the people
IN a community to talk over, con-
sICer, and act upon matters ror
the community good.
There has to be some form OF
organization, of course, and this is
usually achieved by calling tOgeth-
err the heads of every organiZa ion
i'll tOwnmen's clubs, commercial
organizations, fraternal and benev-
client societies, labor and educa-
tional bodies. the local Red Cross,
civic, church and foreign groups.
A Community Council
toto a community council advisory
committee. The council gets busy
about whatever it's community
wants or needs, from an intelligent
back to school drive, which sees
tLat boys and girls who need more
schooling get it, to a prompt han
ding of the employment question
in relation to the returned SOL
dierS; to the provision for proper
recreation for our young people
that there may be fewer Opportun-
tiles and less temptation for indis-
cretions; to the establishment of a
big community chorus, of contin-
uation schools, the employment of
IL community nurse, the cleaning
Jap of an unsanitary district or the
securing of better transportation
facilities.
with the heads of every organ
ization in town meeting together
regularly. there is opened up a
wonderful field of cooperation i'm
possible now under the systems
which prevail, of each organization
working in its own little field with
out point of contact with the COM
Taunity at large.
Its merely following out the
lessons we learned in war" con-
tinued Mr.. Albert, that we have
to get together if we want to ac-
complish anything at all. That is
how we put over the Liberty loan,
tie war savings drives, the regis
tration of men for draft and of
vGmen for service. and the feeding,
clothing and financing of our own
boys and the armies of the allies.
Ard that is how we can make our
communities worthy of our boys.
Aaoys who went over there'-some
never to return, and others who
must come back TO the very best
town we can make, all working
together"
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