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Show NATURE TEACHES CO-OPERATION !: i; Ages ago, scientists tell us, the sabre tooth tiger roamed ruth-!" lessly through prehistoric forests. Fossils or other creatures more;; terrible than lion or leopard and more predatory than Bengal tiger j or jaguar hunted and killed everything that crossed their paths. j And a few million years before that the swamps and plains of ' the mesozoic era were ruled by the most horrible race of monsters this old world ever saw. Nothing with one tenth the fierceness, the ' armor, or the natural equipment to prey and defend itself has since appeared. But ail of these monsters roamed, hunted, and .fought alone; ' and therein lies the explanation for their disappearance. Gadually,' species by species they vanished, and in their places came the gre-j' garious animals the creatures that learned in union there is strength, j' The animals that traveled in herds, in packs, in swarms and in I ' flocks gradually took over the dominion of the world and com- j menced his few1 thousand years of reign. All doctrines, all creeds, and all utilitarain philosophies have elaborated on this need of co-operation. Dependence upon one another an-other and co-operation with one another is the leson taught by the combined experience of the ages. Here is a lesson for the citzens of Gunnison. Cultvation of the spirit which makes co-operation possible is a great virture. Co-operation, of course, demands certain surrender on the part of the individual; individ-ual; it is sometimes hard to learn to work with others for the common good we all cherish notions of individual indepedence. But nature teaches us that if we would survive and prosper we must first learn to co-operate to work with each other. This applies to the individual, the community, the state, and the nation. It is a " lesson, we have heard often, but it cannot be so forcibly emph-sized. emph-sized. For we still have a long way to go before we fully learn the art of helping each other and thereby helping ourselves. |
