The Arizona copper camp., 1919-11-08
The DEMOCRATIC TREND OF Big BUSINESS

the exercise of political influence.
This will be done for the same rea-
son that working conditions in the
average plant have been improved
because it pays.
Greed is graft-getting something
for nothing, and it will finally have
no place in production or distribution
the trend is against it; for it af-
fects the market prosperity, or the
general power to purchase.
There are two ways of arriving at a
conclusion: one is thinking about it,
to arrive at it from a selfish point
of view; the other is feeling about it,
to arrive at it from the emotional, al
truistic viewpoint. While the results
may be the same, yet as l said in the
beginning we have been feeling about
our problems rather than thinking
about them; and the individuals who
really do the worlds work change
their minds and act more quickly and
continuously in their selfish interest
than from any altruistic or feeling
motives.
Right and truth and justice are not
right for their own sake, but because
they pay in pleasure and profit.
These measures are efficient-dem-
ocratic
To illustrate how it is possible for
any of us to come to the same con-
clusion by opposite processes, think
ing or feeling, selfishness or altru-
ism:
| have a friend, a poet, who is
vegetarian because he docs not be-
lieve in killing animals. | am veg
etarian, because l believe that by not
eating meat / will have better health,
live longer, work more efficiently and
earn more.
The poet arrives at his conclusion
by feeling, altruism; | arrive at the
same conclusion by thinking, selfish
ness, and the results are the same.
Mr.. H. D. Norvell OF Cleveland, at
the head of a corporation that con-
trolls the ice delivery system of sew
eral central west cities, convenient
points over all residential sections OF
these cities-about like gasoline fill
ing stations, now common enough
everywhere.
A little boy with a toy wagon or
man with an automobile can get
ice at one of these stations about
so per cent cheaper than the same
amount delivered to household re-
frigerator.
A lady remarked on noticing one
of these stations: what humane
thing this is-a fine thing for the
poor!"
Mr.. Norvell did not have in mind
the poor in conceiving these serve
self ice stations, although most Of
them are in the poorer districts; he
did not have in mind the sale of more
ice, and whether his motives were
selfish or altruistic the results are the
same.
Every efficient thing is humane
1t used to take eight or ten men
six or seven hours to reload an old
type of open hearth furnace in
steel MILL and all the while they were
exposed to a cruel heat.
A few years ago the Wellman-
Seaver-Morgan company, Cleveland,
brought out a device by which two
men could reload an open hearth fur
mace in 20 minutes, without being ex-
posed to any heat at ALL
Now this concern that brought out
this device did not consider it's hui
manitarian aspect at all; they In
vented it to save time, labor, money,
but the humanitarian results were the
same.
the argument in favor of prohibition
from that of pure morals, feeling, to
that of good conomics-thinking.
Safety first movement was started
and carried out by the railroads OF
this country as an economic meas
ure, not as humanitarian one.
The railroads of this country have
circulated millions Of pieces of litera-
ture on Courtesy" TO their employees
not courtesy for mere courtesy's
sake, but because it paid.
The banks of this country started
the savings movement not from any
altruistic motives, but to get money
out of stoves, bureau drawers, stock
| ings, and fruit cans, and into their
institutions as deposits. And it has
! had the effect of promoting thrift,
prosperity, and happiness.
Through the alliance of the me-
chanic and the business man the aver