The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-03-02
GIVE AND TAKE
ONLY SOLUTION
Every Citizen Must Share De-
veIopment Of Commun'
ity Interests

There 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 complicated affair under
modern conditions. No one man in
any community is entirely indcpcnd-
ent of all others in that community
Organized society. in the form Of
governments, national state and local,
have recognized the new conditions
and have decrecd that every man mus,
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
community. 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 he
pleases; that no one can stop him il
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, unless 1t is the law of self
preservation. The man who has the
: right to send his money away to some
distant city 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 possible by the men
who spend their money at home.
Life in any community today is a
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 ami
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 un-
less 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 houses in other cities can
not have any great effect upon the
general business conditions in your
own town. Maybe it doesn't amount
to much and maybe it won't have any
great effect upon the community's
prosperity in itself, but what will be
the result If every person in the com
munity, or half of them, or a tenth
of them, take the same view of the
matter. Your business, in itself. NAV
not amount to much. but taken to-
gether with the business OF hun
dred others in the community, it
amounts to great deal 1t amounts
to the difference between a prosper
GUS community and dead" one. 1t
amounts to the difference. in the end,
between good times and bad times
for yourself and your own family. I'll
you lived on desert isle, it would
make no difference where YOU sent
your money. because it would make
no difference whether you had any
money at all or not, But you are
not living upon a desert isle, You are
living in modern community. To
do everything possible 20 build up
that community is not only duty
which you owe to the community. but |
more important still-it is duty
which you owe to yourself
Taxes Will Increase.
You have children to educate. You
want your community to have good
schools so that your children may
have the same advantages that the
children in the big city haze II you
live on farm you need good roads
over which to haul your products to
market. You may say that you pay
FOUR share of the taxes out of which
he sehoolhouses are built and the
Dads constructed. Maybe you do pay
,our share IN oronort;on 70 tbe value