The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-06
VAN PELT'S Successor HERE
DISCUSS WORK
FOR COMMUNITY
District Representative of Or.
ganization Replacing War
Service Is in City.

| For the purpose of establishing the
| Pensacola branch of the Community
! Service on firm local basis and to
! consult as to the menas to be en-
ployed to provide funds for it's main
tenance, F. c. Williams. district rep
resentative, southern district. Com
munity Service, Inc, with district
headquarters in Chattanooga. spent
yesterday in Pensacola. Mr.. Williams
| is making an itinerary of the south,
visiting all Community branches in his
district for this purpose and leaves
this morning for Mobile to visit there
in Birmingham and other southern
cities. In speaking of the funds for
the Community Service branches, Mr..
| Williams stressed the fact that the
funds were raised locally to be used
locally, no funds to come from outside
or to be used outside of the respective
| community.
| Aims and objects of Community
Service, peace time outgrowth of War
Camp Community Service, were out
lined yesterday by Mr. Williams He
/ is an advocate of the Community
Service idea and believes its intro
duction is needed in this city He
said:
TT has been proved that Community
Service makes the community good
place for its members to live in. 1t
| is the medium through which the resi-
| dents get together with real interest
| in community well-being, prosperity
and stability.
/ Community. Service makes leisure
/ time a blessing. II gets us all busy in
/ the business of good citizenship and
we all have a share in the dividends.
| What people need now-what the
country needs-is' said Mr.. Williams,
| peace time service in war time lines.
| Individual responsibility is the for
| mula of salvation in a democracy.
| America was in the way of forgetting
that. Individual responsibility was
doing but it has awakened. The war
emphasized a lot of things. none more
| than individual responsibility, which
|
millions.
| Community Service ministers to
contentment by promoting justice.
| giving to all the members of a COM
munity the advantages of a normal
| community life. 1t minimizes unhap-
piness by promoting normal and
| healthy social relations.
1.-The organization has no rigid pro-
/ II n
and their social needs, and must or
ganize to meet local situations and
| demands. 1t means play and play
grounds and play leaders for the chill
| dren; clubs. athletics, dances, dra-
matics. community sings. every sort
of social and artistic activity I YES
| free play for self expression.
| munity Service should be establisl
| in Pensacola on a permanent and socia
| foundation. To my mind, the whole
| plan of Community Service is one of
| the greatest essentials of American
| life today
| Community Service, Incorporated.
proposes to apply to peace problems
| the same capable attention and per-
| sonnel that War Camp Community
/ Service applied to the problems of
| communities adjoining military and
| naval centers during the war" said
Mr.. Williams in outlining the aims of
| the organiza ton. ITO the solution. of
| prestige, plus the experience gained
| in ministering directly to the social
wants of four million and more soldiers
and sailors
| 1.-The appeal of Community Service
Mr.. Williams added, ''is all-inclusive.
| 1t is confined to no class. party or
creed but is available to all as an in
strument for the development of COM
munity weIl-being.
Every community needs a place
where its young people, and the older
ones, can get together without any
thought of the difference of creed or
party. What War Camp Community
Service meant to our boys in service.
Community Service means today to
men, women and children"
| 'sThe Community Service idea is no
Utopian dream" continued Mr.. Will
| Jams. TT is practical, as any one who
has seen it in operation will testify.
During the war, hundreds of towns
and villages actually found themselves
in finding out how to help their boys
in uniform through War Camp Com
munity Service. Getting together to
help others. they got acquainted. be-
| came neighbors, and the community
spirit was planted.
"It is not indifference or snobbish-
| ness that keeps people apart II is
Hack Of a proper medium for develop
| ment and expression of community
| spirit. Community Service supplies
this necessary medium"