The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-12-06
SHALL COMMUNITY SERVICE RE.
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What Community Service Means:
A positive force in reconstruction. 1t
is the best kind Of Americanization.
Community Service begins where
War Camp Community Service left
off. What War Camp Community Ser
vice did for our fighting men in war,
Community Service does for all of us
in peace.
Community Service is organized
friendship, localized and made prac-
teal.
The particular object for which the
corporation is formed is the develop
ment in all American communities,
through public and private agencies
and by every appropriate means, of
better moral and industrial conditions.
health and welfare, play and recrea-
ton higher and more adequate com
munity and n%eighborhood expression,
and better social life.
Community Service is the answer
to a demand. The need for Commun-
ity Service existed long before the
war. The war aggravated this need
and emphasized it. The needs of our
fighting forces demanded immediate
organized action. War Camp Com
munity Service was the answer.
Through it all the communities around
the environments organized Americas
hospitality for our fighting men.
Community Service provides the op-
portunity in the community for the
members of the community to meet
together as neighbors-as folks repre-
senting no II but themselves and eX
change ideas and put into effect ideas
for community betterment.
1t makes the community" a fact in
stead of a name.
Community Service (i~ncorDorated)
operates nationally, applies itself 10.
cally and thinks in terms of leisure
time. Men are the products of their
leisure time as much as they are OF
the time spent at business or in the
factory. Our leisure time makes us
or breaks us. Community Service
aims to make the leisure time of all
Of us a constructive benefit to our
selves. to our particular community
and America as a whole. eisure time
makes it possible. It also makes 9th
er things possible that we don't like,
Leisure time may become a curse
Community Service makes it a bless.
ing.
Without being anto-anything Com
munity Service leaves no idle hands
no lookers-on in viciv affairs. It gets
us all busy in the business of good
citizenship and we all have a share in
the dividends.
Community Service is social insur
ance on a national scale applied 10
cally. The world must be made safe
for all of us. 1t is Americas job to
make America safe. Some n thing
in some one place for each" will dc
it. Community Service is the oppor
tunity. 1t is non-partisan. non sec
tartan.
Community Service is Organized Com
non Sense.
"This country will not be a good
place for any of us to live in unless
we make it a good place for all of us
to live in"
Theodore Roosevelt.
Three months of War Camp Com
munitv Service in Kansas City amone
the colored people has done much fol
the community and especially for the
service and ex-service men in the way
of hospitality. securing of employment,
assisting in the way of adjusting gov
eminent insurance: back pay; allot-
ments and any other problems that
confront men recently discharged
from service and helping them to be-
come more suitably assimulated into
our community life.
We are especially proud of any ser
vice we may have rendered in the
organization of the Wayne Minor Post