Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1919 — Brains Necessary to Make Prosperity and to Prevent a Stagnation of Business [ARTICLE]

Brains Necessary to Make Prosperity and to Prevent a Stagnation of Business

The Latins had a motto, “First live; then be a philosopher.” Business is the thing which enables us to live. The workman of today, asserts a writer in Forbes Magazine, enjoys more comforts than the rulers of former ages solely because of the development of the vast, undeflnable, a’lcomprehensive thing we call business. Civilization can only reach its highest levels where business flourishes. Where business stagnates, the people stagnate. In regions where business l« undeveloped, there the people live rude, unrich, ignorant lives. What would be the value to China or Rus81a of a hundred, men of the caliber of Davidson, or Ford, or Du Pont, or Vanderlip. or Farrell, or Schwab, or Edison, or Coffin, or Rockefeller, or Replogle, or McCormick, or Thomas IS. Wilson, or Woolworth, or Heinze, or Patterson, or Baker, or Bush, or Doheny, or Gary, or Keith, or Perkins, ar Ryan, or Shedd, or Speyer, or Ste<--tinius. or Stone, or Vail, or our totvertng railroad giants?”