Show t tS tr r BABSON'S S AUTHENTIC r REPORT Roger wI W W. I r Changes Com Coming ing j i Before my late wife suddenly sudden sudden- ly passed away as the result resul I of an unc unexpected heart attack we had been talking about the I. I great ac changes we had noticed in only the past few years CHANGES IN TRAVEL At Al the time he learned of ol my wife's death my grandson Roger Webber was eating lunch in Paris He hopped on onI ona ona I a jet plane and in seven I. I hours was at my side in BosI Bos Bos- I ton It seems that some of the airlines run specials from Paris to Boston every day dar I This is common knowledge but we forget the many dif dif- different ferent lines of business affected affect affect- I ed thereby RAILROAD STRIkE STRIKE I E EI I have no fear of a railroad strike but what one could mean to every supermarket and household is ble In three days the shelves of most supermarkets would be bare Wo would be completely completely com coni in the hands of the Teamsters Union and their I president James Hoffa I OTHER LA LABOR OR UNIONS I Is As s companies and md their thew stockholders continue to combine combine combine com com- bine into larger units the are arc sure to do dothe dothe the same Hence to avoid a aI I dictatorship in this trus country I the laws designed to prevent I and break up monopolies must be amended to include labor unions This is something for which the Presidents President's brother Robert Kennedy the Attorney General should be BUILDING CO CONSTRUCTION With the possible exception of old fashioned hotels in our I large cities the days das of the hotels are slowly coming to toan toan toan an end At present resent they are being changed over into apart apart- ments But they will gradually gradual gradual- ly be torn down and their sites used for the building of mot motels cIs of one or two stories WHAT WILL come after the motels I do not know but bu some new change will follow With the increase in superhighways superhighways super super- highways and supermarkets more people are arc living in the suburbs and the motels are arc merging into motel apart apart- ments In fact I visualize these bordering bordering bordering bor bor- dering the main highways be tween cities on land which is isnow isnow isnow now barren or else taking the place of small farms lining routes a block away from the main highways THE TYPICAL frame houses hous hous- es now being built in most suburbs will be torn tom down Zoning laws will be enacted to prevent the building of such single wooden houses LAND NEAR OCEAN As I have e heretofore emphasized emphasized emphasized sized land between a superhighway superhighway super super- highway and the ocean or near neal to large lakes or rivers will vill continue to become more val val- For many hundreds of years there will be a surplus of ordinary land but the supply supply sup sup- pl ply of land bordering navigable navigable navigable navi navi- gable waters will constantly become scarcer and more in demand DONT DON'T PUT all your money into stocks and bonds Well- Well located land and well-behaved well kids will become the best investments whatever o 0 our u r form orm of government PREPARE FOR CHANGES I think it was President Franklin Roosevelt who slated stated stated stat slat ed The only thing we can count on as permanent is change Hence this is my thought this week The rhe form of schools and colleges will I completely change Many l patients patients pa- pa clients and customers now with independent doctors lawyers awyers and Indian Chiefs will vill become more socialistic Taxes will be higher but the average householder will get more for lor his money IT WILL be harder to live on inherited money The old richer saying The rich get and the poor get poorer willbe will willbe willbe be revised Our children and grandchildren will prosper according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to what they contribute contribute contrib contrib- ute in honest labor to the general general general gen gen- eral welfare of all |