Identifier: communitycivicsr01dunn Title: Community civics and rural life Year: 1920 (1920s) Authors: Dunn, Arthur William, 1868-1927 Subjects: Country life Publisher: Boston, New York [etc.] O. C. Heath & Co Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Text Appearing Before Image: © Underwood and Underwood. The Signal for Cooperation in aCity Street (Traffic Policeman.) 46 COMMUNITY CIVICS Laws, however, are more than signals of cooperation;they are also rules by which cooperation is secured— rulesL of the game. Wherever people are dependent rules of upon one another and work together there must the game ^e rujeg Q£ con(juct. One kind of rules consists of what we call etiquette or good manners. We havedoubtless all observed how much better an .athletic contestmoves along, or even the ordinary sports of the playground,

Text Appearing After Image: The Roadside Sign where good manners prevail. Good manners include morethan the party manners that we put on and take off onspecial occasions, like party clothes. They consist of theaccepted rules of behavior toward those with whom we asso-ciate. In the home, in school, in business, in public places,there are good manners that are recognized by custom andthat make the wheels move smoothly and without jar. We donot need a law or a policeman to require a man to give way WHY WE HAVE GOVERNMENT 47 to a woman, or even to another man, in passing through adoorway; good manners provide for this. Even on the publicstreet much confusion is avoided by an observance of goodmanners, or custom. Thoughtful people instinctively turn to the right in passing others (in England and Canada the customis to turn to the left) without thinking whether there is a lawon the subject or not. Now most of our laws that regulate the conduct of indi-viduals are simply rules that experience has proved to be ofthe grea

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