Are any of the national organizations in the list on page 35 represented in your community?  What are their purposes? (Consult parents and friends.)

READINGS

Lessons in Community and National Life

Series A:  Lesson 1, Some fundamental aspects of social organization. 
          Lesson 3, The cooperation of specialists in modern society. 
          Lesson 7, Organization. 
          Lesson 8, The rise of machine industry.

Series B:  Lesson 4, Feeding a city. 
          Lesson 25, Concentration of production in the meat packing
                     industry. 
          Lesson 26, Concentration in the marketing of citrus fruits

The publications of the United States Department of Agriculture have a wide range of material relating to practical cooperation.  The following selected titles are illustrative.

The threshing ring in the corn belt, Year Book 1918, 247-268.

Boys’ Pig Club Work, Year Book 1915, 173-188.

Poultry Club Work in the South, Year Book 1915, 193-200.

How the whole county demonstrated, Year Book 1915, 225-248.

Organization of rural interests, Year Book 1913, 239-258.

Organization of a rural community, Year Book 1914, 89-138.

Cooperative purchasing and marketing organizations, Department of
Agriculture Bulletin No. 547.

Cooperative grain companies, Department of Agriculture Bulletin
No. 371.

Cooperative stores, Department of Agriculture Bulletin.  No. 394.

County Organization, States Relations Service Document 65.

Farm Bureau Organization, States Relations Service Document 54.

See note on reference material in Introduction with regard to method of applying for this material.  The assistance of the local county agent, the state agricultural college, or of the congressman, may be enlisted if necessary.

Cooperative enterprise in North Carolina, North Carolina Club Year
Book, 1915-1916, pp. 47-49, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, N. C.

Publications of the State Agricultural College and Experiment
Station of your own state, relating to cooperation.

Tufts, James H, The Real Business of Living, chaps ii, iii, viii, xv, xvi.

CHAPTER IV

WHY WE HAVE GOVERNMENT

GOVERNMENT A MEANS TO SECURE COOPERATION

We are now in a better position to understand why we have government.  It is a means by which to secure cooperation, or team work.

IN EDUCATION