The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-12-28
PROGRESSIVE
ROSPERITY
| 0Y
III CHRISTOPHER
H C. HAZARD
10. 1929. western Newspaper Union.)

~ future and greet a New Year
want TO see upon the field OF
history, the figure Of prosperity.
1t may be that we think that
we do see 1t while we are really
gazing upon a mirage. Hope al
ways tells a ~iattering tale and Is
ready to be the father of thoughts.
Imagination Is akin to faith, but
requires no real basis. II op-
timistic outlook Is warranted 1t Is
so because we can believe in a
prosperity that Is to be real be-
cause 1t will be the product and
the possession of us all.
Civilization Is the sum Of coop
1erative intelligence. All the capital
In the world could not mine coal
without miners, and all the miners
In the world could not do 1t 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 un~appreclated 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.
nRussia is perishing under the in
-
= cubus of a "stagnant communism
that takes away the incentives of
progress, banishes leadership, lives
upon past accumulatfons while
they last, and starves afterwards.
The interchange of abilities Is cut
Off, the social circulation of
sary differences In people Is ar
affairs are withheld, production Is
ended and prosperity lynched. 1t
Is like a vast body wherein there
Is no circulation of social life
blood.
mAmerica has thriven and must
thrive upon the largest encourage
llCuI Vi lllulflludllNlH tndL q tIut
colIectivism admits Of. When the
crew cannot navigate the ship
there Is no advantage In killing
the captain. 1t 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.
mAfter all, men hardly expect to
Vpass for more than they are worth.
The real kick in our democracy Is
against false differences. Ours is
the land of a fair chance. 1t 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.
NIn doing this he will need and
1use his fellows. No one ever suc-
ceeded yet In being great or pros
porous as q 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?
ULet a dozen men, each man Ow-
y ing his neighbor five dollars, sit In
a circle. Let one of these take a
five-dollar bill from his pocket and
pay his debt to the man next to
him. Let this man pay his neigh
Dor and the next man pay his until
the bill shall have gone round the
circle and returned to the man
who started it on It's 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 II the first man had not started
the Dill going e would nave
been no such results. He would
then have Illustrated Russia, In
stead Of America.
THE secret of civilization is the
J circulation of ability. 1t Is the
secret Of prosperity. Let every
man circulate his worth to society.
so shall there be a true
ism, also a true capitalism. There
is a conundrum which asks why
one should prefer a dollar bill to
a gold dollar. The answer is, "Be-
cause, when you put it into your
you double it, and when
you take 1T out you find 1t In
creases." Prosperity progresses as
mass on what wa aro and hova