THE COMMUNITY CENTER MOVEMENT
an organization, namely, the spreading of the realization of the great truth that it is each one of us an individual citizen upon whom rest the ultimate responsibility. Through this great new organization we will express with added emphasis our will to win and our confidence in the utter righteousness of our purpose."
As President Wilson has suggested we are not asked to contemplate any new ideas, for the Community Movement is almost world-old. We find it among the Christians in the catacombs; in the guilds of medieval times; in the group organization of the Artel and the Mir in Russia; in the social center work everywhere; in the broadly conceived playground movement; in our modern system of education. In these and many ways we find the old ideal struggling to express itself, until now, when the very bulwarks of our civilization seem threatened, the cruel and costly demands of war have thrown into the limelight the one instrument, ready made to our hand that can "weld the nation together as no nation of great size has ever been welded before." There
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