if there is one thing we are interested in it is our future more than anything else we want and we are going to get our earn our money build better homes have higher standards of living one thing is certain our grandfathers never dreamed of the patents which american industry has achieved in recent years a pattern to well this progress that makes this american system of ours take well when we look at a big plant like this it all looks pretty complicated but the truth is there is a pattern of progress and it's just as simple as a b c not you never expect to find the secret in a little mail like this  but let's turn back the clock a hundred years or so and take a look at what's going on in that mail about a century ago a matter and help her seventh a rough board table in the gathering dust they had worked since early dawn grinding not one stone and the little wheel we have here how can we get the money for a bigger mound mr scott and mr burton had some money there other of our neighbors who like shall ask them to put in their savings and with this additional money we can build a larger mill can you get mr scott and mr parker to put in their money i can we offer them the other seven and three quarter bushels this work so well for everybody that the money partners that is the investors began putting part of their share back in the business as a result more jobs remain more grain was ground and the company grew bigger and stronger and thus the miller had more money also he bought a fine house of four rooms and a bunny to ride in he worked only from day like to does and had a suit of star clothes and even meat on his table twice a week and asked for john his helper he had a house with two rooms good food and yes sundays said the other helpers had as much as john and no one had to work quite so hard anymore because there was a new fangled thing called automatic machinery coming in to use wiring in a twelve hour day a man could produce enough flour to have all day sunday to him sel at the year's war john the helper succeed in the old manner then john grew older too but the work grew easier machinery did many of the hard jobs now own and the lowliest helper because he could produce more with a machine that with his two hands live better and had far more in easier than the old man or himself ever enjoyed and that the male prospered so did the farmers instead of selling ten or one hundred bushels of grain to the mill they sold a thousand or ten thousand and with the money they got from selling more weight they began to buy more of the products of industry and as the years roll by johnson's and his helpers sons and the sons of the money partners and many new comers carried on the business there was a new canal called the heartless carry the man who was now the head miller had one and here and there another as helper could be heard to say that he expected to own one someday then came a day when depression stuck the land men became scared and not only did many foolish things but made equally fully statements overproduction they cried the system is all wrong let's remake  on radio set and in the passing crowd it became impossible to distinguish between the man who worked in the mail and the miller himself and so it was with the farmers to step by step as the mail prospered the farmers got more money until day like the miller and his helpers could buy automobiles and radios and electric light and the other conveniences to make farm life easier and happier today in industry the money invested to back up each way younger jobs give him more and better tools to work with and the resources of science and industry working together make it possible for him to produce more and that's earned no wonder the american workman has become the highest paid in the world with the greatest amount of leisure time no wonder too that we consumers have benefited through the production of continually better good at lower prices yet it seems so natural that sometimes you and have far superior cars at an average cost of around seven hundred dollars and the result twenty four times as many passenger cars were around in america mass year as in one thousand nine hundred fourteen that's what happens when they make a better product at a price more people can say here is a family's pride and joy in one hundred twenty four a radio set cost around two hundred dollars and today set far better than that one can be bought for as little as twenty the result millions of radios in use today and what is killing these industries has been repeated in almost every one you or i can name with the result that more comforts and luxuries are steadily being made available to more people and so this is the pattern of american progress the only way to get ahead worker is management and money part striving together to produce a better product at a price more people can pay and that they succeed can have more of the good things of life higher standards of living