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Show ownership" is here in its ideal form. Railroads, big buildings, public utilities, util-ities, factories, improvement district, school:-;, canals a thousand things that used to be more or less exclusive exclu-sive picking for the few political or financial giants, are today for the many without regard to wealth or position. po-sition. America was never as truly American Ameri-can as today, with almost every family fam-ily owning 1-on.e form of industrial mcurity tnat pays a lroiii. This is a fcafe and sane condition. SAFEGUARDING AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE A notable change may be seen in the trend of advertising nowadavs. Not so "many years ago, the really big advertisers were patent medicines medi-cines and baking powders. Today, financial advertising is featured because be-cause fhe public has more money to invest; wageworkers who in the old days barely existed, today have a surplus. Prosperity is general; there ' is at least a little money everywhere, and the public has the desire to invest. in-vest. The old day of individual ownership own-ership of every business is passing on. Men buy and sell collectively; they invest collectively, to get collective col-lective service that no individual capital could provide. They buy as corporations, where the very volume of the investment, and its creed of ' universal service, makes it more safe from radical forays of every kind. The corporations of today are "our" corporations; we everybody finance their building and buy their products from ourselves as owners. "Public |