Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur William Dunn
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community's business, and the community has a right to expect
industry and honest, efficient work from every worker. Discuss the occupations named in answer to the two questions on page 26, from the point of view of their service to the community. To what extent is your father's business or occupation dependent upon the business or occupation of the fathers of other members of the class? Show how your father's business is also the community's business. What is the price of land in your neighborhood? Consult your father or friends in regard to the increase or decrease in price in recent years and in regard to the reasons for it. LIVING WITHOUT EARNING There are exceptional cases where people RECEIVE a living without EARNING it. One class of such people is represented by thieves, gamblers, swindlers, and persons engaged in occupations that are positively harmful to the community. Such people may be very skillful and they may work hard enough, but they take what others have earned without producing anything of value to the community. Then there are those who are incapable of productive work because of physical defects, or through the feebleness of old age. It is the duty of every citizen to provide, as far as possible, during his productive years, for the "rainy day" of misfortune or advancing age. For those who cannot do so, the community must |
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