New Britain herald., 1917-05-18
YANKEE INGENUITY
 ID ]. WIN WORLD WAR
Dr. Johnson Makes Bright Fore. cast in Speech Here

Over 700 people attended the lec- ture by pr. Joseph French Johnson of New York University at the Cram mar School Assembly hall last night and although Dr. Lphnson'ss sub- ject. Business and the War" was serious one, his good natured humor drove the main points of his discourse home with force. Profes- sor Marcus White of the State Normal school presided. This first success of the Efficiency society of New Britain indicates the interest of the general public in what the society is trying to do. and gives the assurance that future speakers will have an enthus- iastic audience to hear them.
 Dr. Johnson stated that the Efficiency society would have no difh- culty in the future in securing such speakers as Frank A. Vanderlip of New York. president of the City Ma tional bank and Dr. Jeremiah w. Jenks of New York university.
 Dr. Johnson said in part that a man
 needed first of all conviction that he could do a thing and then, even if he did not possess the necessary technical knowledge to do a given piece of work, he could acquire it, as he had done after he had been ap- pointed financial editor on the Chi cago Tribune. Then he told how his investigations led him, first, into the Wharton School of Commerce. and later to New York university, where he now has over 1000 students under him in tthe School of Commerce and Finance.
 Later in speaking of the war, he said that American ingenuity would successfully combat the submarines and win the war, just as the applica- tion of the same ingenuity would suc- cessfully meet the financial and com mercial, reaction which must neces- sarily follow the ending of the WAT. And this would be accomplished by the real thinkers of the country at tacking conditions as they would be at that time
 Never before in the history of the country were men studying their bus1- ness as now, and although the war. l and postwar conditions would modify l business conditions the world over he ] had no reason to worry about com- mercial relations, as the careful study WQlcn men were mahluB OI IIc SuU- ] ject would make America a peerless 1 region of business.
 Dr. Johnson urged that everyone 1 should save. but not to a point that 1 it would be a fault, and subscribe freely to the Liberty Loan." as these l were practical ways in which every citizen could show his patriotism in | a practical way. He counselled pa 1 tience with congress and the govern 1 nent, and gave every assurance that the principles of democracy, as they
 were applied in this country, were sufficient guarantee foD the future and that the principle of a monarchy,
 autocracy, and aristocracy were too ! dangerous for anyone to attempt to
 carry them out
 ! A mark of this fact, he said, was the generous and patriotic spirit with
 which the American people were now turning back again to the allies, the
 millions of dollars of unsought profits
 which had accrued as a result of the
 past three years of the great war
 The other warning nations had lost
 money and men. After the war the
 United States would still have both sI and. this fact alone. assured ths
 triumph of America.