The awakened consciousness of the people to the burdens which society for centuries has been laying on its weakest members is a sign of social health and social progress. It points to the day when the unfortunate industrial worker can demand as a right the financial protection of society; a day when it is fully recognized that it is just as important to provide for wear and tear on men as for depreciation of inanimate machinery; a day when the strong will adequately recognize their responsibility to the weak. Social obligations, however, are two-sided. Workers as individuals and as an industrial group cannot escape their responsibility to the larger social group. All have duties. No one can stand aloof from the crowd. A mutual understanding of the rights and duties of each is likely to be the longest step to be taken in reaching what some consider the industrial millennium.