. Men and things . at behind this disintegrationthat has been going on, there is an integration of societymore comprehensive than we have ever known before inthe history of the world. While the people may be al-lowed to live by themselves in a part of the town thatis less desirable as a dwelling-place than other parts, yetwe are all dependent one upon the other. There is anold story which illustrates this point. A boy complainedto his father about being poor and said that he wishedthat he had been born in a rich mans home. The fathertold him that he was mistaken, for he really had wealthwhich
. Men and things . at behind this disintegrationthat has been going on, there is an integration of societymore comprehensive than we have ever known before inthe history of the world. While the people may be al-lowed to live by themselves in a part of the town thatis less desirable as a dwelling-place than other parts, yetwe are all dependent one upon the other. There is anold story which illustrates this point. A boy complainedto his father about being poor and said that he wishedthat he had been born in a rich mans home. The fathertold him that he was mistaken, for he really had wealthwhich he had never considered. That night the boy hada dream. It seemed to him that there came and stoodat his bed a little fellow dressed like a fanner. Theboy asked him who he was. He replied that he wasthe soul of all the farmers that were working to producethe flour that went into bread. Another little figure ap-peared beside the first, a black man with a turban onhis head; he was the spirit of the workers in the tea. THE WORLD OF WORK ii and spice gardens of India. Another black man dressedin the rough clothes of a day-laborer joined the others;he was the spirit of the workers on a Southern planta-tion who make the cotton and produce the workers appeared so fast that the boy could hardlykeep up with their approach—the coal-miner, the iron-miner, the woodsman, the carpenter, and the girl workersin the flax-mills of Dublin, who produce the linen inthe rough, red-checked tablecloths. When they had allgathered together there was a multitude, and all were inreality the servants of this one boy. Our dependence upon each other was clearly illus-trated in the shut-down of non-essential industries oncertain days in the winter of 1917-18. In order to keeppeople from starving and freezing, the government ofthe United States ordered the suspension of certain in-dustries so that the conservation of fuel might protectthe lives of the people. The Good Neighbor. We are members one
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