I SPEAK FOR JOE DOAKES

By Roy F.Bergengren '03. Harper & Brothers, 1945,164 pp., $2.00.

Joe Doakes is the ordinary average worker and this book is his plea for more co-operation in domestic affairs and in international rela- tionships. Joe Doakes is international and his problems are much the same in all parts of the world. Furthermore, improvements in transportation and communication have placed all the Doakeses in intimate relationship with each other.

After pointing out the effectiveness of organization as demonstrated by the number of Christians in the world, bewailing the loss of the peace after the last war through party politics and personalities, and enumerating some of the wrongs of the rugged individualism which characterizes our capitalistic system, Mr. Bergengren states that the close of this war brings a second opportunity. "Joe Doakes wants an international congress, an international court to interpret its laws and a powerful international police, with Uncle Sam a full participating partner in the whole business, taking his full share of all the responsibility involved."

He outlines the history of the co-operative movement, especially co-operative credit, with evident pride in its success. The spirit of cooperative service is the new motivation, so badly needed, for the creation of a "great new world." The profit motive has been tried for a long time and has failed. The rediscovery of America means taking stock of our assetsphysical power, race mixture, democracy, productive ingenuity, skilled labor, and a common school educational system—and making the most of them for the good of all.

Joe Doakes wants even employment, a decent wage, a free government, and eternal peace. Mr. Bergengren has had a long and intimate acquaintance with Joe and is certain of a "better chance for permanent peace in an economic society in which all people are thinking co-operatively." For this he makes an impassioned plea in simple straight-forward writing.