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T. & I. PACKING COMPANY
Producer of
QUEEN OF DIXIE-MEAT PRODUCTS
P. O. Bex 4388
Phone 742-6415
Macon, Georgia
COMMERCIAL BANK
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA ,
Over Forty Years of Constructive
Banking and Dependable Service
1919-1967
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
SCOTT HOTEL
& RESTAURANT
W. F. Scott Jr. Fred Gilbert
Gen. Mgr. Res. Mgr.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
Air Conditioning and Heating Contractors
WATT
Building Material Co., Inc.
ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MATERIALS
Thomasville, Georgia Phone 226—3641
COMPLIMENTS or
JACK and JILL
"WE MAJOR IN MINORS”
114 fc Broad Stroot Thomatvlllo, Ga. Phone CAnel 4-11 It
H. B, ROSENBERG, Owner
Bank of Thomas County
A Friendly Bank ... A Friendly Community
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
MEMBER OF
FUDBRAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
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community conditions that the
exclusive owner of a total
company years ago.
We have watched that in
fluence at work in our own
home town. It is thrilling to
see the rebuilding of our com
munity and to know that busi
ness leadership has been a
vital part of it. At every glance
we see a community being re
born and revitalized. The
magnificent Civic Center and
Stadium complex, replacing
acres of ruin. The majestic
Gateway Arch. And through
out our metropolis—new mo
tels, new office buildings, new
apartments, expanded indus
try and ambitious new plans.
Yes, the community perfor
mance of the St. Louis; busi
nessman has been excellent.
In association with govern
ment, labor and other leader
ship, he has been a positive in
fluence for progress.
Our record in the cultural
aspects of this community also
merits commendation. Metro
politan St. Louis is one of the
leading educational and cul
tural centers of our nation.
Many factors have been re
sponsible for this. The support
and participation of St. Louis
business is certainly one of
them.
But we all know that a com
munity is more than fine new
buildings. It is more than great
universities, a Spanish Pavil
ion or a new home for our St.
Louis Symphony.
The heart of a community is
its humanity.
Our motivations as business
men, in programs devoted to
community progress, have at
the base a desire to help build
a totally modern and very liv
able metropolis. If we are to
truly succeed in that endea
vor, now is the time to train
our biggest efforts on building
human structures.
The old stereotype of the
businessman as one who limits
his interest and his con
cern to the welfare of his own
company no longer applies.
The businessman of today
links enterprise with citizen
ship and business with com
munity welfare, realizing that
they are one and the same and
that no business can thrive
where human conditions are
not good. He knows that care
laden and disturbed persons do
not create a good source of em
ployees, managers or custo
mers. Good social welfare is
good economic policy.
The businessman is already
doing a great deal in this vital
area. He contributes time, ef
fort, ( intelligence and money
to social programs.
But he must do even more.
One of the best current ex
amples of what I mean is the
Work Opportunities program
now under way in our com
munity.
No longer is the St. LouLs
industrialist sitting back ai d
placing responsibility on ti t*
educator, the social worker and
government - supported pro
grams to produce qualified
people for employment at his
company.
Work Opportunities Unlimi
ted has the strong support and
direct involvement of St. Louis
business leadership. Together
with government, educators
and social workers, it is find
ing people who literally do not
know how to look for work; it
is training those who can be
trained; it is developing new
and realistic job specifications
and jobs for those with lower
aptitudes.
In every way, it ia a posi
tive and frontal attack on a
deeply serious problem.
I said at the outset that the
underlying point in my re
marks tonight is what men and
women of freedom can accom
plish together. I know we can
build a better human struc
ture if we effectively combine
and coordinate all of our re
sources — government, busi
ness, labor, education, religion.
We must. We cannot leave the
job to professionals alone. We
must support those programs
which we believe can raise the
human quality of life in our
community.
We know that physical
structures are only the out
ward adornments of a com
munity. The importance lies in
their inner purposes and the
values that arise from them.
New challenges face St.
Louis. They will be met. In all
that we have built and trans
formed here, obstacles and
doubt have been overcome.
The spirit of St. Louis is a de
termined one. It will settle for
nothing less than a totally suc
cessful community.
Some time ago, I attended an
occasion in Chicago at which
two social workers, Dr. and
Mrs. Phillip Seamon, were be
ing honored upon their retire
ment. The dais was aglitter as
this one is tonight, and the
audience as distinguished. One
of the speakers was Rabbi
Mann. He said, “When we
build in stone and steel, they
could flow as water in the
smelting process of the uni
verse; but when we build in
human personality, we build
for oncoming generations, for
eternity.”
Let us in our respective
callings build the tallest struc
ture of all, a strong, healthy
and qualitative humanity. If
we succeed, we will all prosper
and progress. If we fail, we
ourselves will be responsible
for the unfulfillment of our
hopes.
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The Southern Israelite