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Show SEEING THE LIGHT Samuel Guggenheim and Stephen Birch, prominent men in the mining industry have just returned from Europe Eu-rope where they have been looking over the business situation. Mr. Guggenheim Gug-genheim says: "What American business men must learn to do is to build up a domestic market for their products and alsp try to firmly establish themselves in (neutral (neu-tral countries. This should be their first thought and effort instead of depending de-pending upon Europe as an outlet for their goods. "Europe is sick, very sick and while reconstruction will mean big demands for products of all. sorts, this will not develop for some time to come." Many of the brainest business men and students in America have been arriving ar-riving at this same conclusion. Europe in months and years to come will offer an outlet for large "quantities of our products but in the meantime the two Americas and the countries across the Pacific seem to offer the great field for development. If our own congress can only be moved, after its years of obstruction, policies, to see the necessity for passing pass-ing measures permitting development of our great natural resources such as oil lands and water power site's, coal lands in Alaska an dother locked up treasure, great fields for expansion and uses of our metals and other products prod-ucts will be opened up. If coupled with this our government could be induced to throw the bars down so that the American ship owner would be given an even chance and a free field to compete with foreigners, the initiative of American business men would soon take up all slack in the industrial situation. Why is it that industry, which means bread and butter for all of us, has to submit to the shackels of inactivity, placed on it by theorists or self-seeking politicians? It is high time that every American citizen awaken to the situation right here at home and demand that the bats of obstruction bo lowered and American labor and capital be given' a chance to go ahead. The policies of restriction and uncertainty which is killing business must be eliminated. |
