Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-05-21
LIFE IS give and
( TAKE PROPOSITION
No Man, Under Modern Condi-
tons, Can Live Entirely
Unto Himself.
EACH DEPENDENT ON OTHERS
Citizen Who Does Net Aid In Building
Up Community Can Not Expect
to Have Prosperity
Himself.
(Copyright.)

Inere was a time in the world when
man could do pretty much as he
pleased. What one man did was of
little concern to anyone else, for 1t had
little effect on anyone else. Those
days are gone, however, and they
never will return. Today. no man can
live entirely unto himself. Life is a
complicated affair under modern con-
ditions. No one man in any commune
ity is entirely Independent of all others
in that community.
Organized society, In the form of
governments, national, state and local,
have recognized the new conditions
and have decreed that every man must
observe certain rules In his relations
with his fellow men. He must not do
certain things that would endanger the
health of other people in his commun-
ity. He must not do such things as
would disturb the peace and quiet of
his neighborhood. He must remember
that he owes duty to his community.
Not Question Of Right.
A man may say that he has the right
to spend his money where be pleases;
that no one can stop him If he wants
to buy his groceries, his clothes and
his furniture in some city miles away
from where he earns the money to pay
for them. He is right. There is no
! law to prevent him from doing so, I'M
less it is the law of self-preservation
The man who has the right to send his
money away to some distant city in
stead of spending 1t at home, also has
the right to send his children to that
city to be educated in the schools,
which his money helps to support, but
he doesn't exercise that right. He
sends his children to the local schools,
the maintenance of which is made pos
sible by the men who spend their
money at home.
Life in any community today is
give-and-take proposition. A man can
not take everything and give nothing
and get away with it for any great
length of time. He can not take his
living from community and give
nothing back to help the other fellow
make living. If he cuts off the other
fellows living, he is bound eventually
to cut off his own, for unless the other
fellow has money to buy his labor or
his goods he cannot make living
himself.
You may say that what you buy
doesn't amount to much and the money
that you send away to the mail order
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great effect upon the general business
conditions in your town. Maybe 1t
doesn't amount TO much and maybe 1t
won't have any great effect upon the
cop,munity's prosperity in itself, but
what will be the result If every person
In the community. or half of them or
tenth of them, take the same view
of the matter. Your business, In it.
self, may not amount to much, but
taken together with the business of a
hundred others in the community, 1t
amounts to a great deal. 1t amounts
to the difference between a prosper
Gus community and a dead one. 1t
amounts to the difference. in the end,
between good times and bad times for
yourself and your own family. f'you
lived on a desert isle, 1t would make
no difference where you sent your
money, because it would make no q :
ference whether you had any money ut
all or not. But you are not living upon
a desert isle. You are living in a
modern community. To do everything
possible to build up that community is
not only duty which you owe to the
community, but-more important still
1T is a duty which you owe to your
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