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We, The People

Character and National Resources-the Ideal Combination Which
Makes a Great and Outstanding Nation

"W

WORKED

AND HELPED

TOGETHER ONE ANOTHER." According to RearAdmiral Robert E. Peary, an American, this was the plan that enabled him to reach the North Pole in 1909, after many other heroic explorers had failed. It is the principle to follow in all the work of life, great and small.

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Ordinarily, getting a bottle of milk seems a simple matter. Every morning spot on the three hundred and sixty-five we look for it and find it in the same heads that a complex business organizadays of the year. It never enters our place occurrence; that many people tion is responsible for such a commonworking together furnish us with milk, and that while some of us have our work to do after a seven o'clock breakfast,

Team Work
MAN cannot live and

maintain the kind
of a society in which we
now live without cooper-
ation... Our American
Democracy is team work
on a great scale. It is
a great society composed
of individual citizens,
organized to be a political
WE... A Democracy
is a country owned and
managed by all its adult
citizens through their
government.

Have you stopped to think how necessary it is in modern life that all of us work together to help one another? Let us for a few minutes think of the reason for some of the things that in our daily life we take for granted. Early each morning we open the back door, or the dumbwaiter door if we live in a big apartment house in a great city, and take in the bottle of milk that is to be used for our breakfast. It is usually waiting for us. But suppose that by reason of a milk drivers' strike, or a big snow-storm which ties up the railroads, our morning bottle of milk is not on time. troubles arise! What The oatmeal without milk does not taste nearly so good! The baby cannot understand. Then we begin to wonder. "What is the matter?" we ask. And with the question comes the realization of how very dependent we and our family are upon others for our every-day comforts and happiness.

others of us have
been
up and at work
much earlier.

A Long Journey

Let us trace the bottle of milk back along its journey. Every morning of the year some milkman must get up at two or three o'clock in order that fresh milk may be delivered for the cereal and the baby.

The job of the milkman is a hard, tiresome task. Part of the price we pay weekly wages. for each quart of milk goes toward his

In the larger cities each driver secures his milk from some central station carefully in order that it may be pure where it has been pasteurized and iced and wholesome when it reaches our homes. The central plant has in turn secured its supply of milk from the railroad which runs daily milk trains back along its line

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dreds of miles from the largest cities. To each rural station milk is brought from the surrounding districts by individual farmers. Unless the farmers meet the trains, and the trains are on time, we fail to get our supply promptly. Each individual farmer and his hired man must milk the cows both morning and night without a break in the routine. Out of the price we pay for our milk must go a percentage to each of the workers who have handled it.

Still other individuals are interested in our morning bottle of milk. In order that we may be safe from infected milk, some official of the government has tested the cows for tuberculosis. The government has also required that certain standards of cleanliness be met, that the milk be kept free from adulteration, and that a definite grade of richness of cream and of purity be maintained. Clean milk, pure milk, rich milk, milk on time, means that we and our family keep in good health. There are many individuals who are responsible for these conditions.

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The Whole World Helps

This is not all. Many other agencies, indirectly, are called upon. The engineer and the fireman of the train which brings in the milk must be experienced men. The cars necessary to transport such a product as milk have to be especially manufactured in a great car-making plant. The rails on which the milk trains run are produced in a great steel plant, which in turn goes

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A Great Newspaper Another interesting example of cooperation is the newspaper. It is the twin, at least in time. and importance, to the bottle of milk. The newspaper also meets us at the breakfast table. It is our daily traveling companion. Before we reach the office or workshop we know what has happened throughout the world during the last twenty-four hours. We have read perhaps about a great fire, about the happenings at some important conference in Washington, of the details of yesterday's baseball game, of a modern Blue Beard in Paris, of a man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, of the President's latest choice for the United States Cabinet, of another missing link discovered in the Himalaya Mountains; all told in short, snappy news items that we may read quickly.

What a marvelous organization a newspaper is, from the boy who delivers it in the morning, right back through the printing plant, composing room, to

Many must work together so that we may get our newspaper every day. THE STORY OF A GREAT FIRE must have reporters, editors and printers. Still others, working together, must make the huge rolls of

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reporters and editors who gather and edit the news.

All these things illustrate the marvelous fact that we are a part of a vast, intricate organization. Modern life is the combined results of the efforts of thousands, even millions, of people, each of whom has contributed his mite of effort. Society is a finely spun, delicate but wonderful organization. To live we must each be dependent on the other, and yet few of us are conscious that we are working to build and support this organization. Our first concern is to get our wages. How much more interesting and vital our work becomes when we realize its social meaning, that it is our contribution to the support of society!

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Thousands Employed

Take anything which we use, even a silk necktie, and trace it back to its original source, and it will be found that countless men and women have worked to make it. We no longer build our own homes as did the early pioneers in America. We have carpenters and plumbers and painters and architects do the work for us. We in turn, however, are doing something for each of them. We may work in a school as teachers and educate their children. We may be locomotive engineers who carry materials from city to city. We may be lumbermen in the Maine woods or the Canadian forests who cut the trees which furnish lumber for our home or the wood pulp for our newspaper.

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