> Arrangement 201 



System and Cooperation. If every man en- 

 gaged on the work of industry, from the top to 

 bottom, understood til th of industry 



in its relations, there would be little use for sys- 

 tem, because that understanding would result in 

 such a measure of cooperation that the system 

 ;ld become automatic. It would be created 

 Kit of this understanding and the cooperative ef- 

 fort growing therefrom. Systems, methods, and 

 arrangements are not cooperation. They are only 

 the machinery by which a certain measure of 

 cooperation is secured in modern industry. 



system of the industry, where it is a good 

 one, will itself lead to a greater measure of under- 

 standing and a greater development of the indi- 

 he operations of the system become 

 less elaborate and less irksome. The measure of 

 cooperation secured today in this work of supply- 

 ing useful products or service is far greater than 

 it could possibly have been in the days of crafts- 

 manship, which required little mutual dependence. 



Back of all improvement, however, is the im- 

 provement in the individual human being. It is 

 this improvement which makes him more skillful, 

 more alert, more able to supervise himself. It is 

 this which makes him more responsible in his own 

 operations and more capable of reaching greater 

 efficiency through cooperative effort under the 

 intelligent leadership of capable foremen. 



