WILL-POWER IN BUSINESS
The daily press made fun of it. Doctors said
that the shock of taking regular baths would
be dangerous.
The legislators of the State of Virginia tried
to stop the spread of this devilish idea by
sticking a [6 tax on every bath-tub. The
cultured city of Boston prohibited baths except
upon medical advice.
We laugh at these people to-day, but we
had better ask ourselves if we are not opposing
other new improvements which will be uni-
versal in 1940.
In the past sixty years, inventors have had a
hard time in Great Britain. We have driven
out some of the greatest inventors who have
ever lived. They went elsewhere and made
other nations rich.
There was Edison, for instance. ‘We have
forgotten that he came to London in 1882 and
started the first electric light station. He was
driven back to America by Parliament, which
threatened to take away his business.
There was Howe, the inventor of the sewing
machine. He was starved out of London. He
invented the right sort of needle with the eye
in the point. Before Howe began to think
about needles, all the women in the world had

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