Community civics and rural life . ces The members of the Second Industrial Conference called after the war byPresident Wilson. and the navy department of the government, and many others,to concentrate upon this problem, with the result that we dis-covered methods of shipbuilding, and of loading and unload-ing and operating ships when they were built, that will probablyenable us to maintain permanently a merchant marine, thelack of which we have deplored for many years. In a similar way we discovered and brought into use valuablenatural resources of whose existence we had largely been igno-rant
Community civics and rural life . ces The members of the Second Industrial Conference called after the war byPresident Wilson. and the navy department of the government, and many others,to concentrate upon this problem, with the result that we dis-covered methods of shipbuilding, and of loading and unload-ing and operating ships when they were built, that will probablyenable us to maintain permanently a merchant marine, thelack of which we have deplored for many years. In a similar way we discovered and brought into use valuablenatural resources of whose existence we had largely been igno-rant and for which we had been dependent upon other nations. 76 COMMUNITY CIVICS We made astonishing progress in scientific knowledge, andespecially in the application of this knowledge to inventionand to industrial enterprises. We developed a new interestin agriculture, and learned the food values of many productsthat had formerly been neglected. We were led to attack seri-ously the great problem of suitable housing for workmen, and. Courtesy American Magazine of Art. The Fifty Shtpways of Hog IslandFrom a painting by John C. Johansen. had an important lesson in the relation between wholesomehome-life and industrial efficiency (see Chapter X, pp. 112-113).Foundations were laid for the adjustment of the unfortunatedifferences that have long existed between workmen and theiremployers. The war suggested changes in our educationalmethods, some of which will doubtless become effective, to the OUR NATIONAL COMMUNITY 77 great improvement of our public schools, colleges, and technicalschools. We shall study some of these things more fully in later chap-ters. They are mentioned now to illustrate how our nationalprogress was stimulated when the war forced us to see the relationof all these things to one another and to the accomplishment of ournational purpose. On the other hand, failure to recognize thisnational interdependence means slow progress as a nationalcommunity. When the war began,
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