THE COMMUNITY CENTER MOVEMENT
ing the necessity that a simple means be found whereby, by the interchange of points of view, men of differing private interests and opinions may get together upon the common ground of public responsibility; the necessity, which is made acute by the fact that the process of modern industry, the process of modern politics, the whole process of modern life is a process from which we must exclude misunderstandings.
"If there is, anywhere in the United States, a person who objects to this use of the otherwise-idle public buildings for frank, orderly, all-sided consideration of the facts regarding matters of general concern, you may be reasonably sure that there is being concealed behind that person something which particularly needs to be looked into. Nothing that ought to be kept will be hurt by the fair and thorough discussion of citizens in neighborhood assembly.
"The spread and growth of this movement by which schoolhouses, instead of less worthy places, are coming to be used as voting enters, and by which these appropriate buildings are now being opened to serve, not the children only, but all the people of their communities, must encourage and challenge to coöperation every
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