Pocahontas star herald., 1924-08-01
Be A Leader

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things are become new. The call is
for leaders. The call is for plain farm
ers and farmers wives and farm boys
and farm girls to make themselves
LEADERS in their neighborhood--
leaders for new methods of farming.
and leaders also in new methods of
farm living.
The old individualistic, un-Christian
way of living must be forever done
away with. The old doctrine Of Every
man for himself and the devil take the
hindmost" must give away to the new
doctrine, Bear We one anothers bur
dens." Cooperation is the master-word
of the new century. Whole neighbOr-
hoods must learn to work together.
You can't farm proftably any longer
unless you work with your neighbOrs.
You must work with them in buying
fertilizers and supplies. You must
work with them in buying and using
modern labor-saving machinery. You
must work with them in getting more
and better live stock. You must work
with them in grading, packing, and
shipping your crops after you grow
them. You must work with them in
organizing, directing, and safeguarding
the needed cooperative marketing asso-
Citations You must work with them
to develop some system of rural credits
whereby men may help one another
out of the Slough of Debt and on TO
the Highroad of Independence. And
having done all this, 1t will yet remain
true that you cannot have a satisfy
ing life, no matter how much money
you make, unless your neighbors are
educated a reading people, well in
formed, neighbOrly, and anxious to-
join with you for better schools, better
roads, prettier homes, a richer social
and intellectual life, and for happy,
"pull-together" neighborhood.
Get the vision, then, reader friend,
young or old, man or woman. You
can't be as happy as you ought to be
unless your neighborhood is as happy
as il ought TO be. You can't prosper
as you ought 10 unless your neighbOrs
prosper as they ought to. Get the Wis
ion and keep the faith. Make your
self leader in revolutionizing your
neighborhood.
Hard work? We know it. Slow
work? There is no doubt about It.
But go to it with the foreknowledge
that the work will be hard and slow.
Go to it even with the knowledge that
hardest of all TO bear-there will
come bitter days when the very men
you yearn to help will judge you harsh
ly and misinterpret your motives, and
you will weary of the struggle as
Jonah did under his gourdvine or Eli
jah under the juniper tree, or as Moses
grew sick at heart when the Canaan
bound Hebrews mutinied because he
had not LET them alone in their bond
age.
Go to the work, we say, with the
knowledge that It will not be wholly
easw, yet with the knowledge that It
will be glorious in the end glorious even
II You do not see the end, but die hav-
ing only inspired some one else TO
carry on the task you could not finish.
Be glad the task is hard be glad It Is
man-sized job. There would he no
heroism In doing it If il were not.
You gain no strength In wrestling with
the weak, but only in wrestling with
the strong And so You win soul
strength. strength of character, only
by doing hard things. ooh, do not
pray for easier tasks as some one
has well said, but pray God TO make
us stronger men," And DR.. $. C..
Armstrong said thing we should
never forget when he declared: Doing
what can't be done is the glory of liv-
ing"
Once again then, kind reader, have
you kept the faith? Have you this
vision of a neighborhood in which life
will mean more to all who are not in
II. where there will be more beauty and
thrift and neighborliness and intellec-
tual vigor and worthy ambitiong And
have you seen how much richer and
fairer and more meaningful your life
will be If you will but throw your
whole soul into the task of realizing
this vision, achieving this ambition
for your communityg
In working out such an ambition,