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The Economy Drive
By George Peck
(EDITOR'S NOTE : George Peck is Chairman of the Board of the National Labor-Management Foundation and Executive Editor of its official publication, PARTNERS.)
Liu Tsung Yuan, a Chinese of the early Ninth Century, recorded for posterity a story that every one of our elected representatives’ (federal, o state and municipal) should read and reread. Here it is as told by Yuan and translated into English by H. A. Giles.
“In the wilds of Hu Kuang there is an extraordinary kind of snake, having a black body with white rings. Deadly fatal, even to the grass and trees it may chance to touch; in man, its bite is absolutely incurabler YcHf caught and prepared, when dry, in the form of cakes, the flesh of this snake Will soothe excitement, heal leprous sores, remove sloughing flesh and expel evil spirits. And so it came about that the court physician, acting under Imperial orders, exacted from each family a return of two of these snakes every year; but as few persons were able to comply with the demand, it was subsequently made known that the return of snakes was to be considered in lieu of the usual taxes. There upon there ensued a general stampede among the people of those parts.
"However, there was one man whose family had lived there for . three generations; and from him I obtained the following information: 'My grandfather lost his life in snake catching. So did my father. And during the twelve years that I have been engaged in the same way, death has several times come very near to me.' "He was deeply moved during this
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