Science and Progress 
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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 the}' 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 
