Show f o I The Cause of Prosperity I IBy Io By DR FRANK CRANE It should be remembered that the MUle ot of pros putty In ft a COuntry Is not only its Ita ability to prO but Its Ita to consume Am Is pro prOsperous us not anI only bemuse because Its lis tibor Is Ia efficient It has haa ret skill kill and anil produces b lArge of goods 1000 but also Alao It contains Avery A 1 very nry large proportion of at people lo who wAnt A great t many things The up superiority ot Amerl over Is not only by the fecundity of the tho American n workman but also by the supremacy of Am American wants Recent tl figures s show that real W f'S In the th States that 1 b. b wages In t terms nn ot of food tood clothes and rent re M says George Georg W. W Hinman Are double double dou- dou ble the real BEU In Great Britain And t ft or tour four times the real wages on the continent o of Europe Eu- Eu rope This Is II due not only to our enormous sup sup- pile but equally equall due to our enormous normous demand de In Inthe the prosperity o of a 1 COuntry must be taken Into acCOunt account ac ac- COunt It to manuto and transport ort but ut equally Important Is III it Ita ability to consume The ad advertisements nta In the tho n Are con con- creatIng new desires among our people They Are stimulating th the want for more and tier better thinKs things and thus creating an enormOus for our products product Thus Thull there Is direct connection bet between be- be t ten tween en u the superior ne ot of the United tatos and Its Ital su superior prosperity I Whatever A people ople to want more and better goods Is valuable as well as whatever latea to produce more and better goods It must always be r remembered me that p prosperity ortt Is two ul tWO It must Include a sharp demand as as n. n sharp supply Because the of this country live so vell and ask so man many luxuries th there ro Is a constant demand tOT for the goods we pro pro- duce duco We sell much goods Abroad and the profits from our ut external trade are consIderable Dot Dut those prof prof- HII Are small compared with the advantage ot of our internal consumption Andrew Carnegie gle said some years ago that the Pennsylvania railroad atone alono cur car mOre goods goode than the tho entire shipping of Great Britain Copyright 1926 by McClure Newspaper Syndicate |