GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS AND VALUES,

by Beardsley Ruml '15. Harper and Brothers, New York, 52 pp., $1.00.

Beardsley Ruml '15, delivered the subject matter of this little volume in a series of lectures at the University of Omaha in the Spring of 1943.

Mr. Ruml explains that, in our democratic society, the individual consents to government by a number of agencies, both public and private. One of the private governing agencies, business, displays many of the higher qualities such as initiative, resourcefulness, efficiency, and responsibility. But it also exhibits greed, arrogance, cunning, and similar baser qualities. Government should see that the baser qualities do not dominate. This can best be accomplished by proper planning and cooperation between business and government. A more secure and prosperous America will result and the human values to be found in private enterprise will be retained.

The author advocates the development and protection of the value called "homefulness." By this he means that the feeling of familiarity in one's surroundings, whether they be home, community, nation, or world, should be cultivated carefully by education and other means. Government, therefore, should not change the rules and regulations so rapidly as to upset personal equilibrium and destroy "homefulness."

Business men and "bureaucrats" especially will profit from contact with this expression of Rumlian philosophy.