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Show Speaker ks Membership "The workings of our fee economy, strictly speaking, cannot be taught in a classroom or explained in propaganda to employees or the public because they have to do more with the practical than the theorical. Such lessons relate to the real, not the ideal world - to experience, not theory. For this reason, understanding un-derstanding is best gained through involvement," members of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce were told Tuesday works, in terms of progress to improve the quality of life for people, because the uncertainty of survival, inherent in the word competition, lines up with how the world is, short of the millennium," he advocated. "Prior to this happy day, a condition of survival is to put more into the world than we take out of it. The difference in a private business ... is called profit. The yardstick of profit is monev. a medium of exchange. But the one mistake and only synonym for profit is progress. A common mistake many ot us make is to mistake profit for money, which is to confuse the yardstick for the yard. "I stress this difference because the duty to put more into this world than we take out of it, as measured by progress, is motivational and can be shared with others. The aim to make money isn't and can't be," he suggested. Attempting to put his remarks in prospectus he contended that our economic way of life is competition, a word that means freedom, and the goal under our free economy is profit, a word that spells progress. The difference, dif-ference, he said, to achieve progress is made by people and the key to success is cooperative action of involvement. He concluded his remarks by stating that "I came here to enlist your understandings of our free, competitive economy -your acceptance of the uncertainty un-certainty that goes with it - and your commitment to the responsibility for leadership to put more into the enterprise you are in than you take out of it and to make the difference in profit, which means, progress, for tne sake of us al. evening by David Bigler, director of public relations, Mountain States District of U. S. Steel Corporation. The remarks were made at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce where Bigler was the featured speaker. "We live today in the most exciting period in history. Our frontier is now the universe. As we reach outward to the planets and beyond, we also possess unparalleled opportunities to improve the quality of life for all men here on earth," Bigler stated. He further commented that "At the same time, the opposite side of this coin always viewed by a few, is that the time in which we live is surely the worst of times. Depending on which side one sees, the potential for positive action and achievement is always accompanied by the reason - one might say temptation temp-tation - to curse the darkness and surrender to chaos." The public relations experts suggested the economic system of our country has been called many things, including capitalism and free enterprise, which, he suggested does not quite fit. He further suggested that a free economy, to the degree that it still is, is a "competitive economy, "the most people-orientated people-orientated on earth. "Our competitive economy |
