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GOINGTOWORK 53
into partnership with him. In referring to the growing practice and prospects which justified the expansion, Father wrote: "I give Providence the Glory; but I did the engineering." That sounds a little like the famous phrase allegedly coined by a chaplain in the heat of a Pacific battle: "Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition." On the other hand, while recognizing that "the best-laid plans of mice and men" sometimes go astray, Father was equally clear that difficulties and mistakes were often of our own making and that it was precious little use to blame them on someone or something else.
To finish the job.
This was so ingrained in me that once, when I was suddenly asked to write on a slip of paper the thing that I most wanted, I simply wrote the four words: "To finish the job." Whenever I have felt that I had the privilege of being connected with something of value and had any responsibility for it, I have never wanted to give it up.
To enlist the service of others in projects for the common good.
Father could always get along with people and was eager to work with them. He was easily the most proficient person I ever saw in getting people to do things. In a little while he was able to influence any group into which he entered, and always by a kindness and a subtle persuasion which brought everyone into step toward the desired end. If I have had any one goal above others in the projects with which I have been connected—civic, political, industrial, or philanthropic— it has been to get people together for common action which they considered good.
To think of capital and, labor always as co-workers.
Personally, I have never thought of anyone as working for me, but always as working with me. It was natural enough to acquire this viewpoint when one grew up in a small town where the most respected worker in the church, the grand master of the lodge, and the leader in charity work were, respectively, carpenter, coal miner, and brick mason —actual instances, these. The New Testament tells us that Joseph was a carpenter. In surroundings where one man is regarded as better than another only when he behaves himself better, one gets well grounded in the opinion that fundamental rights are equally sacred and sacredly equal. In Sullivan, labor and capital also knew that in the shifting prosperity of the community all went up or down together.
To believe in the possibilities of arbitration.
When I was a boy there occurred a local strike which had causes warranting a real protest but which was unfavorably affected by action that was thoroughly un-American. Honest laborers who were neighbors