. Loyal citizenship. go round. Fortunately, work is not in itself an evil, althoughtoo much of it may be. Many people rather shrinkfrom work; but in reasonable quantities it makespeople stronger, better, and happier than they wouldbe without it. Every one should uiork at least enoughto pay his own way. The tramp, the criminal, andthe loafer—whether rich or poor—are all deadweights to be carried by the rest of us; they do notcooperate. Division of occupation. There was a time wheneach family was self-supporting. The game and fishit ate, the skins it wore, the wood it burned, the rudehut that sh
. Loyal citizenship. go round. Fortunately, work is not in itself an evil, althoughtoo much of it may be. Many people rather shrinkfrom work; but in reasonable quantities it makespeople stronger, better, and happier than they wouldbe without it. Every one should uiork at least enoughto pay his own way. The tramp, the criminal, andthe loafer—whether rich or poor—are all deadweights to be carried by the rest of us; they do notcooperate. Division of occupation. There was a time wheneach family was self-supporting. The game and fishit ate, the skins it wore, the wood it burned, the rudehut that sheltered it, were all produced by the familyitself. If cooperation had never gone any fartherthan the family, we should have scanty food,clothing, and shelter, and few other material advan-tages. With the spread of cooperation to a largerunit, the clan, came the opportunity for division ofoccupation. If one man proved to be an exceptionallygood maker of arrows, he could make more than he 14 Cooperation in Work r. .s. /;. .1. Fk;. }). sliirp on a W tslcrii ranch. The (.oiiperation of inorieverywhere—of workers with hand and brain—is necessary to pro-duce the food we eat and the clothing we wear. needed for himself and exchange the extra ones forgame, fish, skins, or whatever else he could clansman might devote himself to makinghammers, and hecause of his skillful l;il)or the com-munity would have a better sujjply of liamniers llianit had before. Thus, division of occu})ation increaseduntil the common trades we know today came intcbeing, as carjxMitering, blacksniithiug. and was better off because a given number ofpersons, each skilled in a particular task, couldaccomplish more than an equal number of Jacks-of-all-trades. As the areas of peace and order grew, therewas still further division of occupation. One villagehad clay for bricks and exchanged its bricks for an- 16 Loyal Citizenship
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