SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
But, how does the employer regard his employee? In some instances, 
as a man who is trying to do as little work as possible for as much 
as he can get. Doubtless this is sometimes true, but is not the go-slow 
policy more often an unreasoning protest against conditions which the 
worker does not appreciate? 
In neither case were these the attitudes of mind of the community 
when war broke out, and all joined hands, prepared for any sacrifice 
for the good of the country and Empire. Tt is this attitude of mind 
which is wanted again. 
Admittedly, there are ignorance and faults on both sides, and, 
being pretty close in touch with both, it is difficult to say on which 
side the faults are greater. What is required: at the present crisis is 
not criticism so much as constructive suggestion, and, to my mind, 
one main idea is basic. We need to abandon the theory that a minimum 
wage is essential, and adopt, instead, the conviction that there should 
be, and must be, a minimum amount of happiness right throughout 
the community, with as much over and above, and to the good, as the 
united brains of the community can, by proper co-operation, evolve and 
develop. 
It is no use our taking steps to inaugurate any number of new 
industries in this country unless we face and settle satisfactorily this 
great problem we are now considering. 
If we—the whole population of the Commonwealth—do not admit, 
and are not prepared to make the necessary immediate sacrifices, and 
will not devote ourselves towards realizing the present serious and 
regrettable state of affairs, and will not face the fact that contentment, 
and contentment only, is the basis of true efficiency, of all good work, 
and all reasonably satisfactory results, then the only alternative is to 
muddle along in the present haphazard, unsatisfactory way, and await 
the inevitable. Surely we possess enough constructive ability 
and ideas to be up and doing—to say to our fellow-citizens, “Let us 
adopt certain basic facts, and talk matters over dispassionately, realizing 
that our mental attitude towards life is changing, nay, has already 
changed, and that all desire to reach a better understanding, and 
co-operate for the good of our country and for the benefit of our 
dependants.” : 
Somehow or other there must come into every man’s heart pride in his 
job, so that he shall truly say he is proud tobe engaged on a certain 
job, and knows and respects his employer, and that his employer 
respects him, for it is not what a man earns in wages that counts, but 
what he gets out of life. The solution of the problem seems to be in’ 
co-operation—co-operation in interests, co-operation to promote health, 
co-operation to reduce the cost of living, co-operation to see that every 
one is properly housed, properly protected from the effects of sickness, 
and, if a man does the fair thing, he should be further protected by 
co-operation in all that goes to make life worth living. 
It was by such co-operation between officers and men that the Aus- 
tralians saved Amiens and made their famous and successful night 
attack on Villers-Bretonneaux—co-operation based on a mutual con- 
fidence and a mutual respect. All experience teaches us that only 
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