Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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PRESIDENTS PHILOMATHEAN LITERARY SOCIETY FRED WHITEHEAD Fall Term CHARLES MEHAFFEY Winter Term JOHNSON TOWNLEY Spring Term KNIGHTONIAN LITERARY SOCIETY VALERIA OGLE Fall and Winter Terms CHELSEA LAWS Spring Term (Continued From Preceding Page I ly, in telling how the citizen ' s debt may be paid I choose to take the can attitude rather than the should attitude. Though there is no definite point where a citizen ceases to be a debt to society or where he begins to pay back what he has borrowed, in general the time of debt-making belongs to youth and the time of debt-paying to maturity. The citizen ' s first debt is to the home. He can pay it by actively pursuing an honest vocation. As only three out of every ten in the United States work, and as these three must support themselves and seven others, it is easy to see how any avoidance of duty here would play havoc with the na- tion ' s welfare. The debt to the school closely follows. With the late ex- pansion of school curricula to include things formerly taken care of by the home, such as, physical training, manual train- ing, domestic science, and religious training, the responsibili- ty of the citizen to the school increases. The citizen can meet this debt by givmg his time or money. He will realize tlra latter means when the time comes to pay his taxes. Often an opportunity for canceling part of the debt to so- ciety comes in the form of small jobs regarding civic beauty. It may be to plant a few flowers, to keep the street clean in front of the house, to mend a hole in the pavement, or to take care of the trees. Regarding attitude toward law, the citizen can accept the siatu.es whether he likes them or not. He can respect the officials for the office they hold if not for their own strength of character. He can discourage all forms of fun which mock the law by not engaging in them himself. Regarding the operations of the government, the citizen can support all efforts to secure an economical administration cf ti e affairs of the community. He may willingly serve on a jury when the time comes that he is needed. He may re- port all law breakers whether they are akin or dear to him or not. He may strive to keep honest men in public offices by carefully studying the records of the men running for the jobs and by being strictly honest in his voting. He may spend seme of his odd moments in finding out how his gov- ernment works if he does not know, and if he does, he may explain it to someone who does not. He can take off a few minutes from the reading of the murder scandal or the sport events to follow the actions of the legislators he has helped to elect. He can refuse to join his neighbors in pulling for a road that is neded in some other community worse than in his own. Or, when the time comes that no person can fill a particular public office quite as well as he himself, the citizen may put himself to some inconvenience just to serve his community and country. The citizen can be tolerant about other people ' s idiosyn- crasies, realizing that there is no 100 per cent citizen, yet acknowledging that in the midst of an imperfect people can be icund wonderful examples of loyalty and gentleness as aptly illustrated by the life of the late Capt. William Rule, in whose memory this essay is written. The responsibility of world-wide citizenship the citizen may realize reaches his every-day life and may be met by at- tending to little tasks of which the still small voice of his conscience tells him, He may not forget that ideas brought together in a mechanical fashion about the mid-night hour by the essay writer do not always contain workable sugges- tions, rvd that ideals toward which he intends to work must be sought out by his own deliberate thinking. And most of all, the citizen may not forget that in a moral sense he is a steward of all God has lent him and that all must be re- turned with inter est. THOMAS MILLIGAN. 22

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