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...industry on the cooperative plan. These men are seeking knowledge of the world's work by measures more authoritative than books. Commenting on one of these men last week, a foundry superintendent said as follows: "When I was asked to put your student on our cupola gang, I thought he would be doing well if he stood the pig iron carrying about three hours. Well, I forgot about him and didn't think of him again for three days. I then found him on the job and immediately transferred him to another place where he could learn another situation...
...many officials who are investigating the stricken area. If evidence is forthcoming to prove that such is the case, a serious problem is at once presented. So widespread is the district affected that whether the responsibility lies in a deliberate plot on the part of "reds," or of a gang of fanatical firebugs, the matter calls for the fullest examination...
...amount of trouble is caused by failure on the part of the management to pay attention to these subtle but extremely important distinctions. People should appreciate the fact that workers of every type from top to bottom, from the manager's office to the shovellers in the laborer's gang, are trying to demonstrate their importance by the nature of their jobs...
...discipline only toward which this principle works; that is the negative side. A sense of cooperative responsibility is sought. Curiously this instinct is higher in the criminal than in the so-called upper strata of society. At any rate a warped form of it known as loyalty to the gang is all-important among this class, while the tendency is all towards individualism in modern society...
Social service offers a chance to know men--men in the making. The boy of the street today is the voter of tomorrow. The city councils and state legislatures of the coming generation are more likely to be recruited from the boy gangs of today than from the colleges. A group of adolescent boys, undirected, may become a social menace--lacking respect for chastity, for property, and for law. That same gang under the guidance of a wholesome personality may be rendered law-abiding and constructive, playing an important role in the service of its street or district...