Show MODERN INVENTION BRINGS PROSPERITY X The pessimist of bf today is calling attention to the upward trend of wages and the falling trend of com corn Can we still be prosperous prosper ous S 0 Over a period of years the trend of wages is Js upward and the trend of commodity prices Is s downward The result is a higher standard of living The common laborer today has more comforts comforts' than a so called I rich man of a century ago The effect of rising ages and declining prices would seem to lead to diminishing profits Yet these trends have been going on for many decades and our country is still prosperous The answer of course is the In IncreasIng Increasing increasing In- In creasing volume of production t tc I gether gather With added economies i i i. manufacturing costs In the past machinery machiner has always been invented invent invent- ed ad in In time bf need which has enabled the tre nation to keep up its volume of production They say no no- ce sity is the mother er of invention If Ir she she will have hav some more mere children children chil chil- dren there will be no need to worry Copyright 1925 Associated Edi Editors dl- dl tors Inc |