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Show On Entering the New Year Every American should be ambitious am-bitious to make 1931 a prosperous and progressive year. Never have our resources, from the standpoint of capital, men ov machines, been so great. Never have we possessed such an abundance abun-dance of potentialities for future achievement. The nation is beginning to emerge from the 'depression wave which engulfed us more than r. year ago. There is nothing fundamentally fun-damentally wrong with America, and our ills are of the most tran ;-itoiy ;-itoiy sort. One of the hopeful signs for future national slabU.ty and progress is the vast amount cf effort now being given by lead-e:s lead-e:s in all fields of endeavor to fin1 worable solutions of our social and economic problems. Instead of being either overly optimistic or stupidly pessimistic they are approaching ap-proaching them scientifically. It is trite to say that future prosperity pros-perity will be largely t': result of industrial development. The electric elec-tric industry, rairoad. automobile, telephone, mining, oil progress in ony one of them is connected with j progress for all other business. I Industry's great future problems! will be mainly those arising from governmental policies tou-ard bus iness. Therfe is a strong, politically-backed trend toward soc.il-ism soc.il-ism in this country. Men in hish political ppsitions are seeking come sincerely, some for the sake' of the political capital it malcrs for them to put the government into various lines of business and pass unneessarily restrictive law?. The 1930 depression was unquestionably unques-tionably largely the result of political po-litical agitation to discredit industrial indus-trial leadership. Socialism in the United States will succeed only if the American public fails to recognize that it is a violation of the spirit -of our constitution, and a denial of thoss social and economic rights and liberties laid down "oy the founders cf the nation. In the same category must be included efforts to control the habits hab-its and personal affairs 1 of cur citizens through sumptuary legislation. legisla-tion. There is "no greater menace facing our people than the grow"i in scope and increase in power of an organized bureaucracy. Its ultimate ul-timate result will be to establish a Dictatorship of office holders, which can be prevented only by increasing increas-ing vigilance on the part of voters. If the sole achievement of 1921 is a start toward a return to fundamentals fund-amentals in the relation betw.oen government and industry, and government gov-ernment and the individual, it will be remembered as one of the greatest years in our history. Prom the purely material stand point, there is no reason why the new year should not be the beginning begin-ning of a new and greater epoch. The machine age has become firmly firm-ly established. Industrial and pgricultural mechanization is now ;m accepted fact. Domestic life, aided by labor saving devices and modern comeniences has reached new standards of comfort. Coin-mod-ties and services that w.'re on.e only possessed by the wealthy ar- r.cw in reach of all. The American workman, commanding iccord horsepower, leads the world wages and production. All thai preceding generations discovered, evolved and perfecicd is ours to use. No other nation Lver had so firm a foundation on .viiich. to bulla. But we must not lose sight of the fact that the modern world is i cooperative world in which no aation can stand alone and remote i.wTi the rest. n. oroad and tolerant tol-erant international spirit is supplanting sup-planting the insular nationalism or a earlier day. Friendly diplomatic diplomat-ic and commercial relations be-Hveen be-Hveen nations are the surest guarantee of world peace and pi ogress. The volume of our foreign for-eign tiade may, in coming yeau, mean the difference between prosperity pros-perity and depression in the United States. Local prosperity depends on buying and selling between be-tween individuals and industries -world prosperity depends on buying buy-ing and selling between nations. Political bickerings, sectional jealousies, local prejudices, industrial indus-trial depressions all must be conquered con-quered and forgotten in the work Ji accomplishing the greatest possible pos-sible good for the greatest possible number of people. |