The Holbrook news., 1922-12-29
PROGRESSIVE ! PROSPERITY \ 0y !
 N| CHRISTOPHER A| C. HAZARD

N Iuture ana greet a NeW Tear A there is one figure that we want to see upon the field of history, the figure of prosperity. It may be that we think that we do see it while we are really gazing upon a mirage. Hope al- ways tells a flattering tale and is ready to be the father of thoughts Imagination is akin to faith, but requires no real basis. If our op- timistic outlook is warranted it is so because we can believe in a prosperity that is to be real be- cause it will be the product and the possession of us all
 11 Civilization is the sum of coop 9erative intelligence. All the capital in the world could not IT. coal without miners, and all the miners in the world could not do it with out capital. Idle wealth has proved no more than accumulated useless ness in eastern countries; men have starved to death in the midst of vast but unappreciated natural resources. While the employment of money and the wise direction of labor have given to the West its immense advantages of social and economic riches and well being. III Russia is perishing under the in- J cubus of a stagnant communism that takes away the incentives of progress, banishes leadership, lives upon past accumulations while they last. and starves afterwards. The interchange of abilities Is cut off, the social circulation of neces- sary differences in people is ar rested, the rewards of a genius for affairs are withheld, production Is ended and prosperity lynched. It is like a vast body wherein there Is no circulation of social life blood.
 mAmerica has thriven and must 0thrive upon the largest encourage ment of individualism that a true collectivism admits of. When the crew cannot navigate the ship there is no advantage in killing the captain. It isn't necessary to have tyranny in order to have a captain, but society and business must have leaders and governors, and there cannot be two captains on any ship.
 O After all. men hardly expect to 0pass for more than they are worth. The real kick in our democracy is against false differences. Ours is the land of fair chance. It is the home of opportunity. No crust keeps merit down. In an inter- change of values every one here has had and must have a chance to make the most of himself. mIn doing this he will need and 0use his fellows. No one ever sue ceeded yet fin being great or pros porous as hermit. We climb up upon each other. It takes us all to make and to keep civilization. A man owes himself and his fortune to society in a very large degree. Are we not all members of a great and wealthy body polite, wherein no one can live to himself or die without loss to the rest?
 Hing his neighbor five dollars, sit in a circle. Let one of these take a f1ve-dollar bill from his pocket and pay his debt to the man next to him. Let this man pay his neigh bor and the next man pay his until the bill shall have gone round the circle and returned to the man who started it on its round. This man may return the bill to his pocket with the happy conscious ness that he has paid his debt and also received what was due him, and that every other man in the group has the same satisfaction. But if the first man had not started the bill going there would have been no such results. He would then have illustrated Russia, in- stead of America.
 MThe secret of civilization is the Circulation of ability. It is the secret of prosperity. Let every man circulate his worth to society, so shall there be a true commun- ism, also a true capitalism. There is a conundrum which asks why one should prefer dollar bill to gold dollar. The answer is, Be cause, when you put it into your pocket you double 1t, and when you take 1t out you find it in creases." Prosperity progresses as we pass on what we are and have. ~@@p@lo-@aH