Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-04-02
COMMUNITY DAYS
GREAT SUCCESS
Inspiring Talks on Cooperation and
Community Upbuilding BY
DIR. Frank r.. Weber.
Excellent Musical Programs Praise
Your Home Town and Keep On
Smiling.

Smiling.
The Community Day Programs given
in this city under the auspices of the
Warren Commercial Club on Friday
and Saturday of last week, gave the
community spirit in our midst big
boost. No one who attended one or
more OF these meetings, but went away
with increased faith in his own town
and the country surrounding it, and
allied with jealous determination to do
all in his power for community devel-
opment along cooperative lines. Many
prejudices and misunderstanding,
which in past years have divided town
people and city people, to the injury of
both classes, were explained away.
Or. Frank r. Weber, the Community
Life worker, delivered lecture at each
of the three entertainments held on
Friday evening, Saturday afternoon,
and on Saturday evening. He also gave
an extra lecture on Sunday afternoon,
considered by many the best of his eff
forts. DR.. Weber is deep thinker
along social and economic lines, es-
pecially as relates to the upbuilding of
rural communities, and he is also a
fluent speaker, with the ability to
clothe his thoughts in beautiful and
convincing language. In Short he is a
man with a message and knows how to
deliver: it, .
On Friday evening he touched up
of
young people to leave the farms and
flock to the big cities. Lack of at
tractive home surroundings, proper
amusements, and inadequate education
i al facilities often induce the boys and
girls. to leave home. A more friendly
.neighbOrly feeling should be cultivated,
petty. 4jealousies and prejudices re-
moved, and all join in speaking we'll of
the community in which they live. In
scathing language he condemned the
slanderer and gossiper, whose venomous
and idle tongues often ruin the char
acters of good and pure young men and
women and blight all real community
cooperation and development. The
catalogue and mail order houses were
ity of the rural community. Farmers
and towns people should work hand in
hand to build up their own commercial
center instead Of the commercial cen
tiers Of the big cities.
On Saturday evening Dr.. Weber en-
phasized the value OF play in our work,
and urged everybody to keep on smiling
and cultivate the spirit Of cheerfulness,
which never grows old. He dwelt on
the Importance of always praising your
own town, its business men, and the
farmers contributary thereto. Be quick
to praise and slow to censure and
criticise. Look for the good qualities
in your neighbors rather than their
faults. Some people move in one So
cial sphere and some in another Those
in an exalted position should not look
down upon OF Sneer at those on
lower level, but by friendliness and CO.
operation endeavOr to lift all to high
er plane. The American Beauty Rose
was at one time wild rose like those
our prairies produce in abundance
The botanist took these uncultivated
wild roses and produced not only roses
of unparalleled beauty and scent, but
roses without thorns Burbank took
the Spiny cactus Of the desert, removed
the spines and transformed it into an
edible plant useful to both man and
beast
In his talk at the Saturday after
noon performance, Dr. Weber spoke
very highly of the progressive spirit in
Warren. Our up-to-date stores, schools,
churches, hospital, theatre hotel, and
other enterprises of public or private
nature, were evidences of a good,
live and prosperous community. He
compared Warren to Hillsboro, an up
to-date town on the Dakota side. One
thing only was lacking and that was
paved streets. No public enterprise in
which Warren could engage at present
would bring better returns in the way
Of increased business, valuable adver-
Using and increased property values all
over the city, than the paving of the
principal business streets.
The musical part Of the programs
was furnished by a quartette of young
ladies, styling themselves 'The Merrie
Maids, and they certainly lived up to
the name. Every number was heartily
encored and there was not dull mo-
ment during the entire rehearsal. All
are talented musicians. Miss Gertrude
e. Hampton is the manager, contralto
and violinists; Miss Devola Shelly, read
ser and soprano; Modjeska Hutchins,
cellist and pianiste; and Miss Mabel
Bradley, pianist and violiniste. All
who heard these high class entertain
serss were pleased; and very grateful
that they were given the privilege to
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