Nogales international., 1929-12-03
EDITORIALS to Egii
Community Contacts

Contacts of one community with another is a
growing need in this day. Various reasons exist TOR
the fostering Of friendly relations between communl
ties and there many benefits to be derived from
such activity.
Many clubs lodges and civic organizations gener-
ally are affiliated in ways that encourage or make
necessary visits for social enjoyment Often problems
common to all and of mutual benefit are discussed
Trade and professional organizations, which have
sprung up in recent years for Individual betterment
contributing in large way in getting the people
of one community acquainted with the people OF
another.
The churches with their auxiliary organizations
and societies. have done great deal to bring togeth
er the people of the countless districts and even of the
states.
The natural result of acquaintance is friendship
not enmty The normal product of friendship is COOP
GRAFTON, not competition
Sectional problems amply Justify larger commu-
nifty contacts. The question of good roads alone is
sufficient reason for the meeting together of people
living far apart from each other Roads eliminate dis
tance and make otherwise isolated people as neigh
bors. Public utility and transportation questions are
usually of general concern Then there always the
issues of politics. which almost annually make bed
fellows out of strangers
No community should be so self-satsfied and so
self-sufficent that it can not learn from other
Public officials recognize this truth namely that in
local government, organization like municipalities
pass ordinances and enforce regulations which
more or less uniform in context and administration.
This is true Notwithstanding the apparent differences
in such matters traffic control There is enough OF
either similarity duplication of official custom
and regulation to insure the safe conduct, the immun
ity and the protection of any stranger
Regional planning of public works which has be-
come specialized function of government in many
of the cities and in other popuous of the country
is proof alone Of the need of looking to the sectional
values of public development as distinguished from
the local. Ancient history teaches that life de-
solate and competitive in the days. The only idea
of the cave community was to destroy or plunder it's
neghbors. Even in mo- ern times we'll in mid
dleage periods, find the baronic and clan system
with its predatory cOnqueSts and its jealousles.
Community contacts of mutually helpful ma
ture genuine markers of the advance of cviliza
tion.
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America is a land of bigger and better. Regard
ing their women, however, the Americans want em
better but not bigger.
After courtesy has been habit so long that it
becomes rea courtesy is worth while If it is put
both the giving it and the receiving it are
worse off than with no courtesy at ALL
We can't prove it, but we have right to imagine
that Christmas present bought in Nogales would
be more enjoyable than one bought outside.
Santa Claus is one of the biggest advertisers in
the world. And just look at the stuff he sells!
Besides the two sure things in this world such
death and taxes, there's always the bird who has
known you for ten years and forgets your name when
he starts an introduction.
The political parties of the United States now ap-
pear to be, the Republicans, the Democrats, the Pro
hibitionists, the Reactonists, the Insurgents the
ScofflaWs and the Pseodoes.
The fellow who wins contest on how to stop
war wouldn't be half valuable to the world as the
fellow who would be able to successfully work the
PLAN
With the increase in private p1ane ownership
the expression that ones friends drop in occasionally
becomes more literal.
The airplane may be safer than the automobile
but haven't yet heard Of one running home on a
broken wing.