there any thing we can do for the succour of that afflicted neighbour? Has any person a proposal to make, for our further advantage and assistance, that we may be in a better and more regular capacity for prosecuting these intentions? Questions The Junto's Friday evening meetings were organized around a series of questions that Franklin devised, covering a range of intellectual, personal, business, and community topics. These questions were used as a springboard for discussion and community action. Through the Junto, Franklin promoted such concepts as volunteer fire-fighting clubs, improved security (night watchmen), and a public hospital. List of questions The questions are included in Franklin's papers, dated 1728, and some editions of his autobiography. As printed in Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces, the questions are: Have you met with any thing in the author you last read, remarkable, or suitable to be communicated to the Junto? particularly in history, morality, poetry, physic, travels, mechanic arts, or other parts of knowledge. What new story have you lately heard agreeable for telling in conversation? Hath any citizen in your knowledge failed in his business lately, and what have you heard of the cause? Have you lately heard of any citizen’s thriving well, and by what means? Have you lately heard how any present rich man, here or elsewhere, got his estate? Do you know of any fellow citizen, who has lately done a worthy action, deserving praise and imitation? or who has committed an error proper for us to be warned against and avoid? What unhappy effects of intemperance have you lately observed or heard? of imprudence? of passion? or of any other vice or folly? What happy effects of temperance? of prudence? of moderation? or of any other virtue? Have you or any of your acquaintance been lately sick or wounded? If so, what remedies were used, and what were their effects? Who do you know that are shortly going voyages or journies, if one should have occasion to send by them? Do you think of any thing at present, in which the Junto may be serviceable to mankind? to their country, to their friends, or to themselves? Hath any deserving stranger arrived in town since last meeting, that you heard of? and what have you heard or observed of his character or merits? and whether think you, it lies in the power of the Junto to oblige him,