The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-19
For Good of
the Community

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of duty for each bee The drone has his
purpose the same as the queen and the
workers. His duty performed he is denied
food and thrust forth The community
comes first.
When wild cattle are attacked by
wolves they form in a crescent, the bulls
facing the enemy because they are strong
est. The wolf travels in pairs or packs ac-
cording to the strength of the prey sought
Flowers and fruits of the same kind
cluster near one another so that the pollen
may be carried by the bees from plant to
plant and there bear fruit Tens of thou
sands of anths, each bringinf forth his
grain of sand, make the hill.
Cave men of a locality organized
against the cave men of another Man dis
covered the necessity Of the community
life as had the birds, animals and insects
about him.
1t is business proposition. The more
it is understood as such and the sooner
men cease regarding what is done for
their community as an act over and above
their plain duty and of purest sound sense
the sooner will they have the kind of COM
munity of which they dream.
The postoffices of the land do not come
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levied on the people. They represent the
navies that defend us on land and sea are
community products They will always
be such as the community sentiment and
resources of the community say they
shall be-
The schools of state are what the men
and women of the state declare they shall
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exact measurement of the mental and
moral status of the community. They can
not be better than the constituent ele-
ments of the community.
No man can escape the kind of COM
munity in which he finds himself. He
makes the community. What he does or
does not do for the community reacts on
him in what he gets or does not get out of
the community The condition of the hive
as whole is as important to one bee as
the other.
The community is the whole. What is
done for the community is done for each
member. He who gives to the community
gets back from the community.
So, when on next Saturday, the Com
munity Sing holds it's tag day on the down
town corners let no man think that whathe
gives is charity 1t will not be that; it will
be an investment in the better community
which he wishes as place fit to live in
Let no man say that he gets nothing out
of the Community Sing. He may never
attend one, may never see the happy
faces at one, may not hear the lusty chorus
of men and women chanting the old songs
and familiar hymns. But he will meet
better men and women on the streets. the
day after each sing and Birmingham will
be more worth while as place for him to
live in and here raise his children.
The Community Sing has claim on
every man, woman and child in the COM
munity because it is for every man, wom-
an and child free of charge. 1t is for every
one of us because every one of us will
benefit from the yeast Of peace, content
and wholesomeness with which the Com
munity Sing tends to permeate the COM
munity
Old Scrooge thought he could live
apart from man and be happy Of himself
and by his money until he saw merry
group about an humble table at Christ
mastide enjoying the pleasures that come
from commingling Of people loving one
another
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