Modern cities : progress of the awakening for their betterment here and in Europe / by Horatio M. Pollock and William S. Morgan.

  • Horatio Milo Pollock
Date:
1913
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    the same lines of business are no longer com- petitors, but associates, or fellow-workers. They may not share in each other’s profits, but the prices they charge and the mode of con- ducting their business are determined by mu- tual agreement. Likewise the laboring man enters into social relations with his fellow-la- borers in the same line of work, and instead of competing they endeavor to render helpful serv- ice one to another. This spirit of cooperation has come into the city life and is producing a marked effect. Many of the changes we have noted in the foregoing discussion of the causes of the modern city would not have been possible without a high degree of cooperation. The tele- phone, whether operated by the municipality or a corporation, is essentially a cooperative method of communication. Likewise the electric light, the trolley-car, the water supply system and many other utilities of the modern city are brought into being by the needs and contribu- tions of large numbers of people. Cities differ greatly in the extent of their cooperative enter- prises but there is no mistaking the trend to- ward the enlargement of municipal undertak- ings. The successful cities of Germany above referred to are the ones that have taken to themselves the largest measure of the business of the municipality. We might almost say that [12]