The Detroit times., 1916-08-31
That We May Know Enough
To Get Together
~ Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915, by Frank Crane)

Inc road to the millennium is team
play.
The one idea that holds humanity back,
that EFFORTS an enormous toll Of waste,
disease, and death. and that rests upon
this nation of people as a thick smother
ing, paralyzing cloud is the idea that
liberty necessarily means competition,
that there is no freedom without fight
ing, and that Smith can only get on by
keeping Jones back.
And the idea that shall touch the ma
tion as with a golden spur, and send it
bounding forward to an undreamed Of
prosperity, is that Of intelligent cooper
alton organization
The end of all education is that we
may know enough TO work together"
Dr. c. f. Hodge of the University OF
Oregon recently pointed out how this
truth obtains in science, and the neces-
sity for civic cooperation in biology
We know enough to resist taxation by
a foreign country: we were noble free"
enough 10 throw the tea into Boston
Harbor; but we pay tribute # one-haf
of our very life blood in tuberculosis,
pneumonia, typhoid syphilis, rheuma-
uSm. grippe, diphthcria, besides malaria,
yellow fever the hookworm disease and
many other pests.
Science knows enough TO prevent these
diseases but the people DO not know
enough to organize against them. And
only by perfect organization can we at
tain success.
We feed our old-time enemy, the COM
mon rat $200.0oO,00O worth of good
American grain every year In return
ne destroys our poultry industry, in some
localities taking 80 per cent Of the hatch:
ruins millions of dollars worth Of mer-
chandise, causes floods and fires by gnaw-
ing, and is a chief carrier OF disease. 1t
is from his fleas we get the bubonic
plague. To fight him Smith drives him
from his place over to Jones's, and Jones
chases him back to Smith II the whole
country organized against the rat he
would soon be finished.
Mutual cooperation also can alone
cope with flies, mosquitoes. hookworms,
coil weevils and similar enemies.
Dr. Hodge estimates the bill we pay
Tor ignorance and lack of cooperation at
TX billion dollars a year. comprising
three billions Tor sickness and premature
death, one billion for fungous diseases of
plants, half a billion for weeds. half
Dillon for rats, and a billion or so to feed
hurtfu insects.
Through cooperation We could i'm
prove the breed Of all domestic animals,
and the strain Of all fruit trees and cereal
crops
Civic cooperation could secure for
us forest conservation, prevention of
natural water supply, and would save our
valuable game and insectivorous birds
from extinction.
Fish are still procured by pirate and
cave man methods We do not realize
per cent of possible production which
might be if our waters were properly
farmed
During a war nation realizes that its
only hope is organization. Without that
il will perish. When will the people re-
alize that cooperation is no less essential
in peace?
The prayer Of the wise man for his
country is that we may know enough to
get together"
DR.. Ehot's Religion Of the Future"
contained this item to which we all
surely can subscribe:
Working together will be one Of its
fundamental ideas-of men with Cod Of
men with prophets, leaders, and teachers,
Of men with one another, Of mems intelli-
gence with the forces of nature. 1t will
teach only such uses Of authority as are
necessary TO secure cooperation Of sew
eral or many people 10 one end and the
ing in the development of cooperative
discipline it will advocate will be train
good will"