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
When a schoolhouse is built to-day, it is not done by combined manual labor, as in the pioneer community. As in all building, there is cooperation of a highly organized kind in the production and assembling of the materials and in the construction of the building by workmen of different kinds. But more than this, since the schoolhouse is a PUBLIC BUILDING, the community cooperates in paying for it. This is done by means of TAXES. The people pay taxes not only for the building, but also to meet the cost of operating the school, paying the teachers, buying equipment, and heating the building.