Law Of Attraction
Turn back the pages of these histories and study them and you will
learn a lesson in Co-operation, that will impress itself indelibly upon
your mind.
You are paying, and your children and your children's children will
continue to pay, for the cost of the most expensive and destructive
war the world has ever known, because nations have not yet learned
that a part of the world cannot suffer without damage and suffering to
the whole world.
SERVICE, Sacrifice and Self-Control are three words, which must be well understood by the person who succeeds in doing something that is of help to the world. This same rule applies, with telling effect, in the conduct of modern business and industry. When an industry becomes disorganized and torn asunder by strikes and other forms of disagreement, both the employers and employees suffer irreparable loss. But, the damage does not stop here; this loss becomes a burden to the public and takes on the form of higher prices and scarcity of the necessities of life.
The people of the United States who rent their homes are feeling the burden, at this very moment, of lack of co-operation between contractors and builders and the workers. So uncertain has the relationship between the contractors and their employees become that the contractors will not undertake a building without adding to the cost an arbitrary sum sufficient to protect them in the event of labor troubles.
This additional cost increases rents and places unnecessary burdens upon the backs of millions of people. In this instance the lack of cooperation between a few men places heavy and almost unbearable burdens upon millions of people. The same evil exists in the operation of our railroads.
Lack of
harmony and co-operation between the railroad management and the
workers has made it necessary for the railroads to increase their
freight and passenger rates, and this, in turn, has increased the cost
of life's necessities to almost unbearable proportions.
Here, again, lack of co-operation between a few leads to hardship for
millions of people.
These facts are cited without effort or desire to place the
responsibility for this lack of co-operation, since the object of this
Reading Course is to help its students get at facts.
It may be truthfully stated that the high cost of living that everywhere manifests itself today has grown out of lack of application of the principle of co-operative leadership. Those who wish to decry present systems of government and industrial management may do so, but in the final analysis it becomes obvious to all except those who are not seeking the truth that the evils of government and of industry have grown out of lack of co-operation.