Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Community Centers
The Community Center is a need of our time. In the middle ages, authority, hierarchy, divine right, and status ruled the world. The eighteenth century brought forth ideas of natural rights of life, liberty, and property, of equality before the law, of freedom in all departments of life and activity. There was to be a mini mum of government and of regulation. Fair play and justice de manded that the arena of life be held wide open for everybody. Experience, however, has taught us that this job of holding open the gate involves in itself government regulation, and that an open arena without rules for the game often becomes a case of a free fox in a free hen roost.
Free opportunity in the arena of life is necessary to fair play and justice. There must be also regulation of the game of life. Both the open gate and the regulated game call for effective laws and alert, intelligent public opinion. To promote such laws and such public opinion, society must know itself. People must come to gether, get acquainted with one another, sympathize with one another, co-operate with one another. The big answer to this need of popular co-operation is the Community Center.
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