FOR A SATISFYING} {ASSOCIATIONS AND
LIFE EVERY MAN } These needs {ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING
NEEDS: } are met by {SPECIAL
} {INTERESTS OF THE
} {COMMUNITY, such as
1. ECONOMIC PROSPERITY Cooperative Marketing Assns.
--An Adequate Income Cooperative Buying Assns.
Commercial Clubs
Farm Loan Assns.
2. HEALTH Public health nurses
--Physical Fitness Local health officer
Local hospitals
3. EDUCATION Schools
--The Ability to Learn Parent-Teacher's Assns.
Farm and Home Bureau
Boys' and Girls' Clubs
Public Library and Museum
Community Fairs
4. SOCIABILITY AND RECREATION Lodges
--The Joy of Playing Together Women's clubs; men's clubs
Scouts; Camp Fire Girls
Athletic Clubs and Assns.
Moving pictures and theatres
Public playground & gymnasium
5. ARTISTIC ENJOYMENT Village Improvement Societies
--Appreciation of Beauty in Community Choruses
Nature, Music, Art and Literature Bands and Orchestras
6. RELIGIOUS LIFE Churches and church federations
--The Common Quest of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
Highest Ideals Young People's Societies
7. FAMILY WELFARE Red Cross--Home Service
--Love of Family Child Welfare Bureaus and Child
Study Clubs
8. A PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY Some form of a Community
--A Desire for Opportunity organization, bringing together
for All--i.e., Democracy all the above.
On the other hand we must recognize man's gregarious tendency, his
desire for the support of public opinion, his craving of a feeling of
"togetherness." The elation which comes to a people engaged in war or in
meeting any common disaster comes chiefly from the satisfaction they
experience in being united in a common cause and enjoying the sanction
of their fellows without division among them. The individualistic
philosophy of the more sophisticated may enable them to find
satisfaction in more or less socially segregated groups under ordinary
conditions, but when they face calamity, when the most fundamental and
deepest issues of life are involved, then they enjoy association with
those who surround them--they become "neighbors."
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