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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 FEBRUARY 1964
All Heads of
Organizations
HCO Sees
Dir Admin
Administrators and
Supervisors of
Companies.
THE EQUIPMENT OF ORGANIZATIONS
The person in possession of organization equipment is responsible for
the
equipment. On its loss or damage through carelessness or neglect the person
in whose
charge it had been placed, not only the person who damaged or neglected it,
is liable to
have to recompense the company or myself for the cost of the repairs or
loss of the
equipment or some portion thereof.
Stock cards for all equipment possession or issue in organizations shall
be
prepared by the administrative head of the organization. If equipment is
not so
accounted for and is lost or damaged the administrator of the company, not
having a
stock card of issue on it, becomes liable financially to the organization
or myself for its
repair or replacement.
The idea of "company property" is both stupid and dangerous. That which
is
"owned by everyone" is actually owned by no one and falls apart. A company,
corporation or state does not live or breathe and so it cannot care for
anything. The
doubtless noble experiments of totalitarian communal states such as Cuba or
Russia
starve and fail because of this one idee fixe: only the state owns. That
leaves nobody to
have or take care of anything. Their enormous five year plans never
materialize because
their tractors will not run. Their tractors won't run because they belong
to nobody.
Saying they belong to the state is a way of abandoning them. A company
can't really
own anything since it has no concept of ownership. And you see how "company
property" falls apart.
Look at it this way: You own those things that are in your charge. When
you take
over a position you become richer by the things that go with it. You stay
rich as long
as you keep them in good shape. You get poor to the degree they go bad or
won't
work or get abused because you incautiously lent them to a careless fellow
worker.
Righteous indignation because "you messed up my typewriter" or "you scarred
up my
auditing table" is not peculiar, it's quite in order.
Look around you and see what you own in your position. If two people use
it,
only one, even so, can own it.
It is curious that around orgs my own personal possessions are given
good care. I
never worry about my Mest being in org hands. And a lot of it is. If it's
Ron's, it's
taken care of. That's a long standing observation. But "company property"
gets badly
abused at times. If you figure that I own everything in Scientology and you
own the
things that go with your position, we'll have more and have it longer.
___________________
There are three kinds of possessions in Scientology organizations.
TITLE A: These are permanent installations, buildings, walls, radiators,
anything
fixed in place.
TITLE B: Valuable equipment which is not expendable. These are desks,
typewriters, mimeo machines, blackboards, chairs, furniture, rugs,
decorations, cars,
etc.
TITLE C: These are expendables. Office supplies, paper, chalk, stencils,
dust
rags, mops, etc. They are issued on the understanding they will get used
up.