THE LITTLE DEMOCRACY
when the local communities shall be linked together."
Has the war furnished the centrifugal force that is to drive us together? Will the Community Center Movement, started in many ways and in many places, gain the needed impetus, now that the full power of the United States Government has been turned on? The answer remains with every community in America—with every man, woman and child in these communities.
Dr. Shailer Mathews says:
"Democracy in the eighteenth century was essentially a fight to get rights that somebody else had that we thought we ought to have. It was a great and a tremendous struggle for rights. Under the conception of certain philosophies men thought that democracy wasa sort of replevin of stolen rights. But as we have gone on during these hundred years there has grown up this tremendous and wonderful conception complementary to the struggle to get rights, namely, the great conception that we must give other people rights, and the world
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