The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

first without program. But this prelim-
mary work will furnish the very facts
that are needed to build programs.
Never put your programs in such
form that they cannot be modified
when new facts are discovered, or when
supposed facts are found not TO be facts
at all.
| Members of the General Technical
Staff should not act as heads of de-
partments. You are not going to
change nature in LIano. You are only
going to let it be human and natural.
! am tired Of hearing people say that
it will be necessary to change human
nature before the altruistic co-opera-
tive state Of human society is possible.
There is nothing further from the truth.
So you will always have jealousy
to deal with in Llano as you have here.
The head of department, if he also
makes the program, will try to make
them so that his department will be
prominent. And there is nothing
wrong in that. That kind of jealousy
will be the best possible thing for Llano.
1t will make the head of every depart
ment work at top speed to produce re-
suits, but if he also makes the program
| tor his department, he will, conscious
| ly or unconsciously, do himself a good
turn now and then. And he will want
to bring under his direction as much as
possible of the work that does not i'm
mediately fall under another depart
ment-the work that lies on what might
be called fringe Of the main plan.
In doing this he will be showing fine
spirit, even tho it might be called jeaI-
ousy; but it might easily be that his
jealousy would produce an unbalanc-
ed organization. Now, what you ought
to do is not to attempt to change hui
man nature, but to let human nature
work freely.
Say to the head of a department:
Your Job is just begun when you pro-
duce the goods called for by the pro-
gram. Your big job is to produce MEN
men trained in the very best way to
do the job. In fact, after the pro-
gram has been met. Llano is not inter
ested in just more goods. If we want
ed more goods, we would have shown
it on the program. What LIano wants
and what America needs, what the
world must have is men who under
stand industry.
IF head of department is judg- |
ed, not only by the amount of goods (
produced with the minimum of labor
and energy, but by the number of train
ed men it could spare for other LIano
industries and for the cooperative
movement. that makes the necessary
change in the environment that will
enable human nature to work freely.
If you would say that to the heads
of the departments, and even to the
men in charge further down on the
scale, you would sudden
ly find yourself without bosses, for ev-
eryone W no started out with the idea
of being boss and giving orders would
find that it was to his interest to be-
come a teacher and give instruction. 4
Human nature would remain the same,
but the difference would make new
thing in the world.
The success Of man is measured
not by the work he accomplishes him
self, but more still by the work of the
men trained by him. Especially is this
the case in the cooperative movement,
in which the problem is not only to or
game the industries, but more still to
create and train the men who can or
game and direct the industries. The
greatest would be the man who can I.
point to the largest number Of men
who have gone from his department
and his training and have made good !
in organizing and directing co-opera-
i've industries. :
Unless industry is socially organic !
ID. it is necessary for the individuals |
peace of mind that he make some pro-
lision against misfortune. But when
,ver society takes over any industry,
he individual ceases to worry. You
lon't know of anyone in New York who n
las full cistern Of water in bis house E
because he fears that long dry spell il
nay come tomorrow He has learn Q
d to trust in the engineers Of the wa a
er department. 9 3 3 When we organ II,
re all industry, on the same social ba- i
is as that on which we~haye organic t
d our water departments. no one will p
link Of his little cisten full Of mon Il
y as against rainy day. No one y
vii think about compensation. There Il
5 no real connection between COM S
,ensation and work. If man Is a e