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Show GET THE INDUSTRIAL IDEA The West has three great primary industries, lumber, oil and mining. Many states have lumber or oil or mining, but few other than the far West and Pacific Coast states combine the three in quantities quan-tities sufficient to help supply the world demand. These three great basic industries, upon which hundreds of thousands of persons depend for a living, are vitally affected by economic eco-nomic conditions and political agitation. They must meet world competition in many forms. They must maintain sound labor conditions, con-ditions, as the bulk of their money is spent for labor, and it is a constant con-stant effort to operate these properties in the face of increasing or new tax demands for local and state purposes. If the public could but realize that in" the long run it is the people peo-ple and not great industries which are hurt the most by conditions that prevent their successful operation, it would be more active in its efforts to maintain: conditions which would insure their steady operation oper-ation with resulting employment for labor. Every man should acquire the industrial idea to realize where his individual prosperity is hooked up with industrial prosperity. The East and South have basic industries which) correspond to those in the West and the same conditions apply so far as their ability to operate is concerned. |