How To Behave and Why - Chapter FAIR

Friendly
People find it easy to be FAIR.

Being friendly and being fair both come from believing
that other people have just as much right
to be alive and happy as we have.

The man or woman or boy or girl
who goes around gloomy,with a sour face
and is afraid that everybody else is going to make him
or her unhappy has a very hard time making friends.

There are a lot of nice people everywhere and the sooner we meet each other in a friendly way and get to know each other, the better the world will be for all of us.

Anywhere
You go with a smile and wish to like people,
you will find someone who will be glad to see you.

From Africa to the Artic Circle this is so.
People everywhere are like yourself in many ways
and most of them want to share happiness
and the good things of life with others
if you will do the same.

So..
Get up in the morning where you are
and go to school or play or work or parties
or new places glad to meet new people
and make old friend of them.

In
You own home is a good
Place to begin every dayBy being fair.

Our mother and fathers and sisters
and brothers make wonderful friends,
if we treat them fairly and
do our share to make home a happy place for everyone there.
Helping to keep it neat and clean

Sharing the work that has to be done.

Being quiet when others need peace.

And giving others just as much right as
you have to enjoy themselves with or without you—

There are all ways of being Fair
and ways to make people glad you live with them
from the time you wake in the morning
until you pleasantly, cheerfully go to bed.

Remember
the secret of fairness is sharing.

Selfish people who won’t share with others
find themselves left alone and unhappy
no matter ehat they own that could be fun.
Look out for the person who pretends
to be your friend but doesn’t want you to like anyone else.
That isn’t a friend –
it’s a selfish person who is trying to own you
and hasn’t learned to share to be happy.

Poor sports who can’t lose games without squawking
or won’t take turns are not fair

And
Neither is the lazy lump
who never share the work that
has to be done by someone.
We know now what it means to be FAIR.

and we learn all through life
that the friendly person is a happy person most of the time.