\0/hat Do You Mean, NIRA? Will Visit Parson Simpkin Memorial

In that article the above writer attempted to advance the thought that the profits of a business should bear the same relation to the business that real property bears, and any attempt to destroy these profits should be considered as an attempt to destroy the physical propgrty of the business.

Recently we have been going through the transitory period of evolution in business principles, and while it is developing, much confusion occurs. For the past three years we have been besieged with articles, speeches, lectures, miles of words, Technocracy, Budgets, Taxes, Bank Holidays, and a confusion of ideas that leave us stranded and unable to grasp the significance of the NIRA.

NIRA is but the expression of an evolution that h'as been developing for the past fifty years, and had its in,ception in the transition from an agricultural to an industrial development.

Something had to happen with the growth of the industrial feature, the further we developed this, the stronger the socialogical development grew away from individualistic effort. Individualism had to give way, and as we progress further individualism will become a thing of the past. Nature in all its functions demands this, and civilization is merely following natural lines in its evolution to a better group development.

This does not mean Socialism, or Fascism, or Sovietism or any other isms, these experimental theories are but gropings for the light, they are a forced evolution without sufficient preparation through growth. They are an attempt to 'catch up in a race that is already finished., We in America have passed this stage and are now entering a phase that we have been preparing for. 'We are in commen,cement, and because of the pioneering that America had to do in its ,creation of a new Empire, we are one hundred years in advance of Europe.

We have assimilated the ideas and hopes of all Nations, and fused them into one grand effort that gave us the progress we have made during these past hundred years.

We are evolving to a new and better condition, and in all evolution the transition from one condition to another has been accomplished through pain and suffering, the history of business and the history of mankind is a history of pain and suffering at stated periods when in the throes of a transition from one condition to another.

The depression was this very thing, it has not deprived us of anything as a whole. It has caused suffering to many, but it is through this suffering that we have awakened to an exercise of our better qrialities that were becoming dormant.

It is only within the last century that we have been thinking as a group. During the Dark Ages the job of thinking was allocated to the few. A man had to have a scholars license to be able to think. Today even students and lumbermen can think in a straight line, and while we have made progress in this direction we have yet a long way to go. We have taken on new standards through trial and error. Tomorrow we will discard these standards for better ones.

A large number of lumbermen with their families and friends are planning to visit the Parson Simpkin Memorial Tree in the Calaveras State Park near Stockton, Calif., on Sunday, October 8, 1933. An interesting program is being arranged for by the Committee, and those attending will also have an opportunity to visit one of the large Civilian Conservation Camps which is located immediately back of the Calaveras Big Trees Hotel.

The Calaveras Big Trees are just a two-hour run by automobile from Stockton and an excellent paved road goes right to the park. All lumbermen, their families and friends are invited to attend this enjoyable outing in the mountains at this season of the year. The Committee would like to have those attending to arrive as early as possible and to bring a picnic lunch.

It is only recently that the term "Caveat Emptor" has been ,considered as not according to Hoyle. Business up to the last ,century was a dirty game and had been conducted along dirty lines for ,centuries. It was degrading to engage in business. A banker had to disguise his calling. A tradesman was beyond the pale of good society, and the very nature of business called for trickery, dishonesty and deceit. These were the three fundamental requirements for a business career. 'We have gone far from that time,.but we have yet a long way to go to purge these three principles from the business stru,cture.

In olden days Governments looked upon traders as necessary evils. Today Government is realizing that its life depends upon the success of the commerce. Politics in the past meant Government as it pertained to the deportment of individuals. Tomorrow all Governments must shape their ,courses to direct the deportment of industry.

We need never fear the old Bugaboo that Government is going into industry. Industry is the Government. It simply means that an orderly government of business is as necessary to the life of the Nation as the political government. We have only existed as a Government half way. We have already completed one half of the job. Now it's up to industry to create a uniform Government. It is industry's job and not a political one. But we need the force of the organized political body to support our efforts until the job is accomplished it is not a temporary thing of TWO YEARS; it is a permanent, progressive move to a better life. It is a human necessity; it is as inevitable as the rising sun, and were it not for the awakening of the politi,cal government to this necessity it would be accomplished through revolution which in all cases has been the slower method of progress.

NIRA has merely started the ball rolling. The Government is not in your game; you must play it yourself. Make your laws, be a government within yourselves, regulate your craft so as not to come in conflict with other crafts. The Government is merely holding the whistle to call the fould.