The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1921-07-21
Fine Community
development TALK
DAN WEIGLE is LIVE WIPE IN
HIS FIELD-GOOD ARGUMENTS
FOR PROGRESS
DECLARS BENEFITS UNLIMITfn
NEXT GENERATION VIII DIDO
I'll BY EFFORT NOW-CLUR
LUNCH, BAND CONCERT

Dan Weigle, community develoner
came saw and delivered.
That is, he came to Sank cen+,o
last Thursday, arriving on the noon
ram from the Twin Cities. He saw
whae oauk Centre was doing in the
way o! community cooperation. And
ne delivered two very interesting oil
dresses. One at the Palmer Honsa
~ acout sixty members of the Com
merclal Club in attendance at tho
regular monthly luncheon, and an
osher TO gathering of towns-peonle
ana farmers who assembled in H.
PARK on the shores of Sank Lake
Ian welgle is a dreamer, in that
ne sees Tar ahead and realizes what
must De done for the we'll being If
Inc future generations. He is =
dreamer, but he is also a doer
ror some time he was connoo+os
VII, WIN nationwide agency for the de-
velopment of the country communi
.les. Later he was general secre
lafy Oh The st. Paul Association of
ruoilc and Business Affairs. in which
capacity he made good in everv aansa
VI tne word, as the writer has occs
sion to know. ' 0''a-
,,- Du' Mr. Weigle had another idea
"iilcn ne was working out IN mic o.
ave mind. This idea was thar ot
eonniun1ty development association
wilcn would help TO start and ms;n
'a,n III every way possible, the organ
,za.ion OF each and every commnn,t, :,
~ tne state of Minnesota reo., IL,
~ ~ .ue amount of territory embraced
VI Inc number OF inhabitants in that
pfaticuiar area. He declares. and
s " herald believes he is right. that
Il communities are Organized as tbev
SHOULD De, then it will be much easio,.
" get the improvements which rba
majority now believe necessary b,,t
winch entail much needless exnensa
because OF the lack OF Organization
and proper confidence IN each otnor
therefore lack of the necessary 90,
operation.
consequently, Mr.. Weigle and
some OF his associates Organized a
community development assoe,,..ion
winch would give them a larger field
s0 work IN than the city of st. Paul.
,ar. Welgle is excellently fitted for
MS chosen work, We know that all
VINO heard HIM last Thursday even
ing Will bear us out in that statement
one OF the main reasons for this is
mat ne believes in the work he is do
ing and puts all his intelligent effort
into the idea of assisting in the build
ing up OF communities and thereby
the state and nation.
In his talk at the Palmer House
ne recalled some of the happenings
OF the past twenty-five years, such as
the development of the telephone, the
automobile, steel ships, submarines.
aeroplanes, wireless telegraphy, wire
less telephony, present manufacture
Ing methods and the like. He said
that ne could remember when his
father had the first telephone INSTALL
ed IN their home in little town in
Pennsylvania. His mother w..
afraid to use it because she was
afraid something would jump out at
ner. 1t was the first telephone in
thelr residence block. Now, he said.
We have so many that the service is
rotten" =
Dwelling on the developments in
the scientific and mechanical world
at some length, Mr.. Weigle explain-
ed, quite to the satisfaction of his
hearers, that, if this had been pos
slble within the past twenty-five or
less years, We could look forward
with every assurance that the next
twenty-five years would bring many
more wonderful developments than
the quarter of a century through
which we have just passed.
The keynote of proper human am
bltlon of the older generation, Mr..
Weigle said, was to procure and as
sure better conditions and chance
for greater development with more
congenial surroundings for the COM
ing generation than had been the lot
OF the fathers and mothers of today.
That has been the scheme of things
since the creation among all right
minded persons and would continue
to be the goal toward which that class
Of people would struggle.
In banding together the attainment
of that aim would work out much
easier and those who at present were
straying from this path of thought
would be brought into the organiza-
ton and become help r. the impro-
vers of the community, state and ma
ICso-4;-.,nI a.. -p..e on