The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-03-30
WAY TO BETTER
COMMUNITY IS
PROGRAM TOPIC
DR.. r E. Hiero1ymus Presents
Challenge for Service Of
Present Time.

Together, cooperating, you can
do what none can do alone. Face
frankly the whole task Of commu-
nifty betterment. Have a clearcut
plan and assign parts Of it to all
groups and individuals. Work not
at cross purposes, but together"
This is the challenge of the COM
munity as presented to an audience
Of several hundred today at the
Memorial Christian church, gather
ed for the noon session Of the bet
ter community regional conference,
by DR.. r. E. Hieronymus of the
University of Illinois.
In attendance at the noon session
were about four hundred, including
community leaders and those vital
ly interested in problems of the
city's welfare, many teachers, lead
ers in Parent-Teacher associations,
and members of the Kiwanis club,
who substituted their usual Tues
day noon luncheon at the Rock Is
land club with attendance at the
luncheon served by ladies of the
Memorial Christian church, which
preceded the address of DR.. Her
Onymus.
Quoting William James, the psy-
chologist, who said that the world
needs moral equivalent for war,
the speaker this noon said that this
equivalent was provided by service
to the community, which draws out
the best in the individual, as war,
according to the psychologist,
draws out qualities of heroic self
sacrifice.
Competition Death Of Trade.
Competition, the speaker said,
| was once thought to be the life of
trade. Now it is becoming recog-
nized that competition is rather the
death of trade, and that the strug-
gle should be, not to get ahead of
all other groups, but rather to work
together, each group fulfilling its
assigned place.
This principle, if applied in COM
munity affairs. DR.. Hieronymus
said, would meet the challenge OF
the present, which demands that
each group and individual work for
the best interests of the entire
body.
We met the challenge of the
war" the speaker said, and not
only the thousands of oys who
gave their lives on the battle fields
but the men. women and children
who stay ed behind poured out their
best for the cause Now we have
to face a new challenge, the chai,
lenge of the community
A test for insanity. the speaker
said. is setting an individual II
emptying a sink into which wa
ter is pouring from faucet. If tht
person makes no effort to turn OF
the faucet he is called insane.
Drawing on this illustratio. hi
said that the state and communit!
must turn off the faucet of tn,
things which are harming com
munity welfare. Not wait until thu
harm is done. the dangers shoult
be met and combatted at theil
source and beginning.
We have turned off the faucet
of the liquor traffic, he said. Othe
definite lines along which we mus
work are those of health cam
paigns, and recreational supervis
ion for young people.
Mrs. Maucker Presides.
The session OF the morning be
gan at $50 o'clock in the auditor
ium of the Memorial Christian
church. Mrs. J. W. Maucker. pres
ident of the Parent-Teacher asso
citation, presided
) Following songs by the audi
, ence, F. w. Bender, secretary o
, the Chamber of Commerce, spoke
! telling Of the city plan which it i
hoped to carry out, the danger o
the community parasite. and tn
value of 1.-The mind of achieve
ment."
, ]. W. Becker. representing tn
= Illinois tuberculosis association
/ presented the health campaign
employing charts to illustrate tn
definite plan of the work. MI
e Becker will this afternoon NEE
7 representative of the schools TO
: "a conference, after which step
I | NAV be taken to have the SchOO