Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-06
COUNTRY URGED
To HELP BIC
BUSINESS
Administration Can Not Set Back
Hands Of Economic Clock,
Says Forbes
BY 3. c. FORBES.

America Is a big country 1t has
won its way by doing big things in a
big way To still forge ahead. 1t must
do bigger things in a bigger way
The Wilson administration is trying
TO stay this foreorda!ned process,
business men declare
Savages do not know enough to ef-
feet organization Each goes his own
way. Corporation in supplying wants
IS unknown. Consequently they get
no for'arder.
But the United states can not 20
back to the happy -go-lucky individu-
alism Of the savage. And no admin
istration can turn the hands OF the
economic clock backward
Bigness is too often COMPOUNDED
with badness.
Littleness is not necessarily vir-
tue.
VIII any sane man argue that
America could hold her own in the
worlds market places were every
large business concern to be split into
small units? In the hury burly Of
foreign competition the giant Is apt &c
overcome the Tigmy, the powerful to
defeat the weak The $4,000 organi-
cation stands slight chance Of cor
duering new continent n 500
100000 combination is also In the fleid,
Corporations represent cooper
ton. And surely cooperation Is not
in itself crime. Is not virtually
every great movement a species or
operation
Government Is nothing but one
form Of cooperation; indeed, 1t Is
the biggest Of all combinations.
Educational systems are the EN-
bodiment Of cooperation
Religion is propagated by co-opera-
ton and counsels t.
without cooperation we would
have had no transcontinental rail-
roads. An individual can run stage
coach but can not build or operate
railroad.
steamship services are established
and maintained through cooperation
But an individual can row a small
ferry boat.
When nails were made by hand, an
individual couldS set up as a nall
maker. But the twentieth century
iron foundry or steel mill calls for co.
operation.
Machinery Invariably involves co
operation. both fol Its manufacture
and its operation. And machinery is
only in its infancy.
Industry has graduated from the
rudimentary one-man stage. II now
necessitates grand-scale action. II
demands more capital than one purse
can supply. II need the pooling Of
MANY purses and the cooperation OF
more than one pair OF hands
our Governments whole concep-
ton misconception Of economic
laws must be changed Ana me me
sooner IT is changed the sooner will
idle men find work and hungry men
food.
In a nutshell. Big Business must be
regulated II can not be abolished,
To seek To tear apart every large
enterprise is the quintessence OF pln-
headed folly
hut to effectively regulate every
enterprise in the public interest were
the height or craftsmanship.
That ought ia be the goal OF our
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the German Government. admittedly
among the most advanced and the
most successful industrially I'm the
whole world
The thing can be done Most Of
our business leaders are willing 70
aid in bringing il about II the poll
ticians would study fundamentals
more and their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT
less the task could be carried out
peacefully and eNpeditiously Some
OF the so-Called auti-trust-bu In
reality anti business, little as well as
blE Legislative proposals reveal gross
misunderstanding OF the very rudi-
ments of ira le and commerce II en-
acted into Law and riEidly enforced
chaos would he precipitated. The
trainers of these impossible bills pro
TESS TO moan well, so do an sChemcrs.
But n HIS workaday world men are
usually Judged by results, not hy their
Intentions The public have little pa
thence with ignorance that brings ruin
10 innocent parties.
Were America to prohibit b'Eucss
iu business her foreign competitors
would quickly pass her I'm the race Tor
markets. Cooperation Is essential To
twentieth century Industrial success