Where personal pride, group pride and initiative are lacking, ethics has to be used as a substitute.

Production is the basis of morale.

Groups never seem to realize that their hard times are brought on by failures in responsibility and sharing the load.

If one can get a unit producing and actually accomplishing worthwhile production, then their morale will rise.

In fact all slavery is the consequence of irresponsibility and failure to do one’s Job.

Thus, it does not matter too much how one starts a unit producing so long as it does get started.

There is ample reward in the satisfaction of doing one’s Job and being part of a self respecting group.

I was given a good example of this with just one person who has been on MO lines. She is actually well now. She is miserable. There is nothing wrong with her at all except she is out of the action and is not producing anything.

Riches and power spring from that base.

This has been noted in other fields. The “idle rich” are the most miserable people you ever wanted to meet. “To Have and Have Not” or some such title by Hemingway talks about it for the best part of a book.

Until one at least gets up to the level of a self respect­ing group with high Standards one can look forward only to poverty and hard times.

One has an Org to the degree he or she contributes to its perfection by showing initiative and handling what comes up. Individual Initiative, not orders make a true group.

Start adding your Job up to maximum on it and show initia­tive. Anyone showing initiative is liable to get into an occasional argument. The willingness to accept that too is all part of initiative. One can’t be totally safe in this universe. But one can at least be effective! It’s your world, your Scientology and your Org too you know.

[Note: The original mimeo copies of this policy letter incorrectly labeled it as “Esto Series 41” which has been corrected above.]