Show BUSINESS WANTS ANTS TO WIN LN WAR AR FOR AMERICA AMECA i Captains of Industry Sacrifice lice fice Profits Pay Taxes i and Buy Bonds If I S The equanimity Ju with which h business t interests are taking losses tosses Is one of ot tho surprising ln features of this remarkable k P ported nod A manufacturer figures ver er very sly y to get set a war ar order and no sooner w at work on it than a plus cost-plus con- con 1 JI Ji tor entices his men away with offers much higher wa wages lII Instead of com com- the manufacturer finishes the theand b and then boasts about the smallness i Ws rs loss says sas George L. L Walker In the v p IS Commercial J Doing I Doing business for profit threatens to flO out of style Of or course It will take tale v business men a long while to break TV themselves the of their fixed habits They plan n to inake a profit f a as a matter r rr of J JJ J It eP custom not because u they want one A r ago someone declared that profi- profi F r ring peering stood In tho the way of winning the v war Few stopped to analyze this statement state- state fc ment Business already had made up Its nind that the work of ot winning the war t waa Was of first and all Importance Noth- Noth mg must be allowed to stand In the way There would be time enough afterward afterward afterward after- after ward to make profits Taxation may be excessive unequally distributed and unjustly apportioned but complaints no longer are heard In busl- busl J nees e 8 circles Everybody is read ready and willing to td pay Men e who o have devoted olal g 1 Pt d their lives I to tl the study t of Investment And nd learned how to mal male make e their money earn big returns are putting all the dol- dol are they hey can rake and scrape Into Lib- Lib Otty dY bonds The growing willingness ss to sacrifice profits is a dangerous tendency If the war is to be prolonged a stupendous s amount of capital will be required to finance it and there is no other reservoir to draw upon than profits and savings The being g capital cPr already accumulations af Invested U are not of ot t the available ill past t They will help by enlarging the volume of production O and e equally by making da ln oRf profits to pay y taxes s and buy bonds When the war ar ends the tre business ad advantage advantage ad- ad vantage of the whole world will be held l by y the thc country that has the lar largest est amount of ot liquid capital That country will be possessed of ot the means mean to conduct conduct con- con duct business Its working people will willbe be M given ven employment and its war Indebtedness in indebtedness In- In will wilt be liquidated easily and anti antip p quick quickly Profit has play played d the most important part of all economic factors in the worlds world's Industrial development It simply Is the excess of income over expenditure the amount available to pay for expansion and improvements Without it there could have been no progress ss |