SUGGESTED READINGS FOR COMMITTEE REPORTS

1. Chapters II and III of Ely and Wicker's Elementary Principles of Economics tell of the various stages of economic development.

2. Chapter XXIII of Fairchild's Elements of Social Science—The State, the Law, and Crime-discusses the political organization of our government today; compares the agencies of control in modern society with those of the early stages of man's development.

3. Chapter I of Leavitt and Brown's Elementary Social Science gives a clear description of individual wants; of community wants; of institutions; of the satisfaction of economic wants; of what is meant by the terms land, labor, capital, and property. This chapter will help to make clear society's interdependence and coöperation.

4. Have a report on the imports of the United States. Reference: World Almanac and Book of Facts. With this report as a basis, get the class to discuss our dependence upon foreign countries for food, clothing, and shelter. In the light of this dependence, what meaning may fairly be given to the phrase "one hundred per cent Americanism"?

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS AND TEACHERS

1. Fairchild's Essentials of Economics: Chapter I, Coöperation in Labor.

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2. White Fang and The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, personify the different economic stages through which man has passed.

3. Read Franklin's Autobiography to learn in how simple a fashion such civic enterprises as street cleaning, lighting, the police force, higher education, were begun in Philadelphia.

4. Williamson's Readings in Economics, Chapters II and III, shows how the Indians and the Colonists got their living. Compare with modern methods.

PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF FAMILIES ACCORDING TO TENURE OF HOME, BY STATES

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CHAPTER III
HEALTH

"O blessed health! Thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue-He that hath thee hath little more to wish for! and he that is so wretched as to want thee wants everything with thee."

-Sterne

Only the Healthy Need Apply. When the United States. government drafted men for the Army, in 1917, they made every man whom they called take a physical examination. They tested his

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life. When a boy or girl goes to apply for a position, the employer looks him or her over, asks questions, and finally decides whether he or she is qualified for the work. education a boy has received takes first place in the employer's judgment; but if the employer has to decide between two boys equally well-trained, one of whom is

hollow-chested, pale, with an annoying cough, while the other is strong, tanned, rosy-cheeked, and muscular, nine times out of ten he will look at the latter boy and say to himself, "That is the boy I want to work with me." The best are taken first.

Keen competition in modern industry makes good health as necessary as skill.

A Fair Chance to Health. Modern industrial life demands much from the men and women who work together to supply our needs. Training is needed first of all. Employees must not only know how to run the machinery in a factory, but they must have the strength to do their work. A great deal of the life of the American pioneer was spent out of doors. These pioneers walked long distances to their daily work.