Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1918-04-11

Can you picture an average Ameri-
can family seated at q table In the
average American home about to par
take Of the average American meaiI
II IL ! familiar snOugh sight. There
IL the table covered with its white
cloth. the utensils made from porce-
lain. steel, glass and silver, and there
a the food-braad and butter, milk,
tea or coffee, salt and pepper, sugar
meat, vegetables, fruit, etc. But
scarcely anything there Is the direct
result Of the labor Of any person who
sits about that table
when you SIT down to meal do you
ever think who provided IT. Do you
even know, IN most cases, where the
different components Of that meal
came fromf Did the salt and the pep
per drop as mama from henvenf DID
the fax or the cotton which forms the
tablecloth grow upon the home placer
We're ne absrs spun into yarn by'yeur
heusahsep4f, and was the cloth woven
On the household loomf DID you rear
the animal which supplied the meat
Tor the repastf DID the fruit come
from your orchard7 Are the milk and
the butter the products Of your COW
Who delved into the earth for the Sill
YER, the steel, the lead, the clay which
have been used to make up the utensils
necessary for your most simple mealf
And who changed those raw products
Into the knives and forks and dishes
zen uaef
No thoukhtful man can consider
much questions without being tremen-
dously impressed with the utter de-
pendence Of even the most independent
man In our present civilization upon
che co-operation Of hundreds OF thou.
sands of his fellow men whom he has
never met and probably never heard
o. largely engaged In some occupa-
lion different from his own and scat
tered about, not only all over his own
country. but many Of them located In
far distant parta Of the earth
II makes no difference what vocation
man follows. He may be farmer
and cause two blades OF grass to grow
where only one grew before. He may
be manufacturer, retail merchant
n mechanic or q bankcr-no matter
what he II, he depends for his very ex
istence, not only upon those who I'll
the soil and deal In Its products, hui
also and 10 the same extent upon the
great organizations of manufacture
transportation, communication ant
finance which are scattered about al
over the earth.
IL has taken the combined efforts
the cooperation Of thousands Of PEG
Ole and organizations concerning which
the average individual may know
pothing, 20 bring about the develop
mrIiS ~ wnat W. call or faoder~ sis
flization. The economic valuc Of you
efforts and those of your employee o
of your employer. as the case may b.
both depend upon the value of the ei
forts of millions Of other men, and IN
ecoromic value Of one cannot be dan
aged without impairiug the economi
value Of all.
Lei US not become 20 thoroughly spe
cia.!sts lhst we forget the other fellow
II our work narrows down at least lie
our knowledge and sympathles broad
en-. II we do not know something o
tie problems Of each other and hav
some sympathetic interests IN thos
pro- irr's we cannot hope TO attain, e
thef Individually or collectively. n
yer. g.cat BENEFITS which are known
be h direct results OF helpful co-oI
erstit L-Industria Conservation, n.