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Intercommunication is the first requisite for doing business. In 

 our grandfathers' day there was no concern larger than that of 

 the store owned and operated by one individual, for the simple 

 reason that an ox or horse team could not go very far, and they 

 were the only methods of intercommunication. Intercommunica- 

 tion has rapidly improved, thanks to the marvelous work of the 

 scientists and inventors, and as it has improved and extended busi- 

 ness has grown from the individual to the firm, from the firm to 

 the company, from the company to the great international corpo- 

 ration. The only way to stop this development, to set it back where 

 it was in our grandfathers' day, is to eradicate the causes that have 

 produced the results. My plea is, that our people be told all this 

 in plain, everyday language ; that they be told it by you, the men 

 who are so largely responsible for creating the cause that has pro- 

 duced the result. 



Until our people understand the fundamental cause, we are going 

 to have a conflict of titanic proportions. A campaign of education 

 is therefore imperative, for much that we learned in our youth 

 must be consigned to the scrap-heap, discarded altogether. We 

 must learn new methods of thought and of action. In order to do 

 this our people must have the facts. We cannot expect them to 

 readjust their thought and their action to such a great extent as 

 they must without facts that are indisputable. Who can give 

 them these facts better than the men who have created them, the 

 scientist and the inventor? 



Cooperation the Path of Power. Steam and electricity have 

 been the great unifying forces in business. With their advent it 

 becomes perfectly natural for men to reach out and command larger 

 areas of trade, to have great, practical visions of interstate and inter- 

 national conquest in trade. The people as a mass do not understand 

 this. They almost feel that supermen have come into the world 

 in the last quarter of a century — men of far greater mental ability 

 than ever existed before. This of course is not true. The men of 

 the last quarter of a century have accomplished what they have, not 

 because they were endowed by the Almighty with vastly better 

 mental machines than their fathers possessed, but because they 

 have been endowed by the scientist and the inventor with vastly 

 better material machines than their forefathers possessed. If our 

 grandfathers wished to talk with a man in the next block, they had 

 to put on their hats and go and hunt up the man. If a man living 



