The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1920-12-17
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places in the world TO- live than in the
country on in the small town. They
have the city advantage plus sunshine
air and freedom that the crowded
cities cannot have.
II asked the keeper vino was show.
ivr me through tho insane asylum at
. weston. Ncst Virginia. you .ay yon
have rualy two thousand nun'
proplr IN Thu u.t.tajion and only o
score or guards tu krap thrm in. Are.
nj yHu IN danger! What !. {" hndur
It,c.r in .anc people from getting To-
ucthpr. organizing, uvcrpuA ing the
l.w guards and breaking upt?'
"TIc Keeper was not iu On" least
Ig'.r1rd q, the vu, lion. l,p milu'
Ip!.,y people Say that Byt The! don c
understand If ttc.r people could rct
tlgrthcr they wouldn't bc IN this a-\
lum. They are insane. No Two ol
tlcm can alsrcc upon how To get 10.
pcthcr and how 10 break out. 80 u
few of us can hold them.
/ cit would be almost unklnd 10 carr!
this further, but | have been thinking
ever since that about thioc-luurths OF
the small towns of America have ona
they can't get together. They can
not organize for the public good lhoE
break up into little antagUhsiie s',ia''
business and ever Iclig .uus faction
and ncutralzc each other, ciiorta'
"a lot uf struggling churches CONE
note with each other instead OF mass
Ing for the common good And Wh'h
,Uc churches fight. the devil tdys .. "-
al ami gmnishp. ,u" ~. ni,iuns 10.
both Sides
50 the home towns Nagnatc anu
the young people with Vi jon go ava!
to the cities whrtc opportunity Seem
To- hcckpn. Ninpty-ninc out OF a nun
,lrcd Of them will io.tlc with tie strap.
LnYg.I. nll their lives, w,Jc "a' ID
turning round IN huge machnr
Ninoty.ninc out ~ q hundred Of tnym
might have had a largrr opportunity
right back in the hom" town, NAT -,
town been awake AMI united ana m'
yiting.
I'VE must make the home town the
,hiiThtcst, most attractive, most prom
| ising place for the young people. NJ
home can afford e. pend II. year
raising crops Uf young people Tor IN,
cities. That h. the worst Kind oi sol
iInuoyrrishmcnt all going out aut
nothing coming back. That 10 The
drain that dcvitali2os the home town
lmuro than al the city mail order
houses.
America Is h. hr great, not in th,
GREETINGS, Of a frw crowded citics, but
in the rrcatnc,, of innumcrablc home
towns.
The slogan today should bc "Go'
God and Home and the Home Town.
Reader. do you believe Ralph Par
lotto l. right about this? II 50, surely
ynu are glad that you have Commu'
luity League IN Oregon, chat Is working
nard to make our Homo Town one thh'
the young people viii not want Il
leave.
\ few Of our many, big hearted
people have spent mach time ant ci'
| rolt in this work. Perhaps YOU have
been helping IN an earnest, quiet way
lpcrhaps you have just been watching
To see what II would do, or again II
may be that YOU have only been hear
ing about IL. In that case you may b,
sure YOU do not know Of it, biggest
best Accomplishments and plans. u
you have had no voice in its work
please remember that Il H., in the main
your own fault. Either you are moi
Interested or you are not willing to be
ccasurcd and criticized as all public
servants are. Why not come out ant
have "A voice in our future programs
Does not your silence mean your con
sent? II so, do not he silent, wher
the suggestion is not for the genera
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