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Show of brains and science, America's workers work-ers will beat the world. OUR RICH COUNTRY. The United States, they say, possesses pos-sesses national wealth valued at $360,000,000,000. Germany's national wealth is estimated at $80,000,000,000. So, with half our population, they have less than one-fourth of our wealth. All other nations are poorer than we. How did we get this great wealth ? Can we keep it? In part, it is due to our rich natural resources. But our people have wasted these resources. Now they depend on their own energy and brains. J The people who went before us worked hard over long hours. Our modern mo-dern folks are bright and ambitious, but they do not work as they did formerly. for-merly. They give far more time to play. Can the pleasure-loving Americans compete with Europe's workers, who are spurred on by poverty to toil so laboriously ? It does not follow that the people of Utah and elsewhere need to work longer hours. Protected labor dulls the mind and weakens the body. But unless we keep awake, the plodding toilers of Europe may distance us, as the slow old tortoise outran tho speedy hare, when the latter lay down and fell asleep. Yet with concentration and full use |