DEVELOPING WILL-POWER

young ones, are entirely traditional. Any
method becomes traditional as soon as a better
method is found to take its place. Every year,
some methods and machines become obsolete.

When oil lamps came’ in, candles became
traditional. When gas came in, oil lamps
became traditional. And when electricity came
in, gas was only able to save itself by the
invention of the Welsbach light. The new
drives out the old, or should do. The flow of
new ideas and inventions never stops.
We have too many small, old-fashioned mills
and factories. Every foreigner knows that, and
we are slowly becoming aware of the fact.
Hundreds of our mills and factories are hopelessly
 outclassed. They are waiting for strongwilled
 organizers who will combine them into
groups, pull down those that are hopelessly
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The great Hudson’s Bay Company was
started by sending out a 5o-ton ship—the
Nonsuch—to northern Canada. It came back
the following year loaded with valuable furs.
But the Hudson’s Bay Company does not
send so-ton ships across the Atlantic to-day.
Its furs are carried on great 30,000-ton,
40,000-ton, 50,000-ton ships. Our largest ship
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