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I was browsing through the files of this Journal published just before the crash of 1929, and in the Vagabonds I found this statement: "Look abotrt you at the world, and everybody is CREATING something. Everyone is working out plans for making his business more useful, more interesting, more beneficial, to the end that more people will use their products." Cant say that today. Too much unemployed money and man power is the consequence of too little of the spirit of adventure in business. In 1920 research to develop industry was just getting well started. There were about 200 concerns in this country operating research departments. By the time the depression started in L929 there were 1,500. IIow many are there today? Not nearly enough. Fear is still the answer; fear o{ taxation, of labor, of regulation, of interference of all kinds. Arthur Brisbane said that prosperity depends on the mental attitude of the people. The mental attitude of business is much better today than it was last spring. So business is better. ***
Private business has been much the same as the Arizona desert. Most of the Arizona desert has all the elements of generous plant production-except water. Yet without water those other elements are powerless to produce plant life. Business in this country has long had all