The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-08-31
That We May Know Enough
To Get Together
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

The 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
thus 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 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
foreign country; we were noble free
enough to throw the tea into Boston
Harbor; but we pay tribute of one-half
of our very life blood in tuberculosis,
pneumonia, typhoid. syphilis, rheuma-
tsm, grippe. diphtheria, 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
Ionly by perfect organization can we at
tain success.
We feed our old-tlme enemy, the COM
mon rat. S200000,0OO 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 If the whole
country organized against the rat he
would soon be finished.
Mutual cooperation also can alone
cope with flies. mosquitoes. hookworms,
boil weevils and similar enemies.
DR.. Hodge estimates the bill We pay
for ignorance and lack Of cooperation at
/ six billion dollars a year, comprising
three billions for sickness and premature
death. one billion for fungous diseases of
plants. half billion for weeds half a
billion for rats. and billion or so to feed
hurtful insects.
I 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
Ifarmed
During a war a nation realizes that its
IODly nope - OTPdilHdIlpi NINHpul lHat
il will perish When will the people re-
aize 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. Eliot's Religion of the Future"
contained this item, to which we all
surely can subscribe:
Working together will be one Of It's
fundamental ideas-of men with God, Of
men with prophets, leaders, and teachers,
Iof men with one another, Of mems intelli-
gence with the forces Of nature. II will
teach only such uses of authority as are
necessary to secure cooperation Of sew
eral or many people to one end and the
ing in the development Of cooperative
discipline it will advocate will be train
good will"