The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 9

THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, 1919. ORWARD-AMERICA' The world is now looking to us, as never before, for leadership. It is our golden opportunity to set world standards. Every day sees some splendid new enterprise. Every. day some new tool is set in action to make less irksome the tasks of the man who toils and to increase his efficiency. We are making more rapid progress than ever before in history. Rapidly rising prices are a most powerful revolutionary bd f force in commerce, industry, society and incomes. They pro- High Cost @) duce great changes in the distribution of wealth. They pro- mote speculation, extravagance and thriftlessness. The unparalleled advance in prices has shaken the indus- Living aramount trial, financial and political world as it has never before e been shaken. It has produced labor and political disturb- Question Today ances which make the High Cost of Living the paramount : : question of today. Increase in wages from time to time has been neutraliz- ed by subsequent rises in prices until today the demand is not so much for higher wages, but for lower cost of live ing. The continual increase in wages, followed by immediate rises in prices, does not get us anywhere. For the first time in our history we have ships of our own F f to bring us into immediate contact with other nations of uture O the world, assuring great wealth to our land. In 1914 our country had the goods to sell, but no bottoms on which to Americ a’s Industry ship them. Only 6 per cent of our exports were carried in American steamers; 94 per cent of our exports were carried B i h in vessels belonging to foreign countries. Within a year our rig t country will have ten millions of tons of shipping capacity. Heretofore we have sold simply the raw materials, and made but little profit. Now, however, we will sell the manufactured article complete, stamped “Made in U. S. A.” ~ aia The good old American virtues of energy, thrift and fore- For the Individual, the Most sight must not decline. The views of a shallow soapbox 1 orator or a more pretentious politician that everyone will Important Thing Today Is the be made happier and wealthier by the acceptance of his Way in Which He Uses His theories, or the enactment of laws, or the persecution of Own Time and Opportunities large. business enterprises must be discredited. Blaming in- stitutions and other people does not get a man anywhere. This Page Contributed by Representative Seattle Business Concerns COPpYniGHTED