Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur William Dunn
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Can you think of some way in which your family is indebted for its
living to the British nation? to France? to ancient Greece? to the Phoenicians? to the people of Brazil? Which is the greater, the debt of your family to the world or the debt of the world to your family? What is a "parasite"? Could this term be appropriately applied to any of the people referred to in the last few paragraphs of the text above? GOVERNMENT INTERESTED IN PRODUCTION Each citizen has a right to feel that the government is interested in his individual prosperity and happiness; and it is, for unhappy and discontented citizens are seldom good citizens. But the government represents community as a whole, and has the interest of the community as a whole in its keeping rather than the interest of particular individuals. Its interest is primarily in what each citizen PRODUCES, for it is upon this that the strength. of the nation depends. THE "NATIONAL SERVICE ARMY" OF PRODUCERS A few days after war was declared against Germany, the President made an appeal to his fellow producers countrymen, in which he said: It is evident to every thinking man that our industries on the farms, in the shipyards, in the mines, in the factories, must be |
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