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Show The Test of Progress The test of progress is whether or not it benefits the average person. In past centuries the greatest progressive pro-gressive movements customarily benefited bene-fited ony the nobility and aristocracy. Social or scientific discoveries seldom touched the lives of the great body of citizens. Our American progress has scattered scatter-ed its principal benefits the other way. It is the every-day person whose life has been enriched and made happier by the great industrial developments of this century. The automobile, electricity, the radio such agencies as these have revolutionized civilization. We live in an age where prosperity belongs not to a single ruling class, but to every worker in every field of mdeavor. No discovery of the time has failed to do its share, great or "mall, in the social and economic prog- , ress of the average person. The Um- i ted States is in the midst of the great- est period of real progress in world history. |