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lems before they arise. We must team-play for the future.
 . . .
The more we consider the growing productiveness of the
United States, the more we reflect upon the problems that
have arisen in our industries—and on our farms as well—
the more definitely we become convinced that our difficulties
come, not so much from the growth of our productive
capacity as from our failure to provide proper team-play
among the forces of production. . . .
Just as we substituted electricity for steam in our march
toward mass production, it should be possible to substitute
a scientific system of cooperation, a far-sighted balancing
of production and consumption, for the elementary teamplay
 which we have found so serviceable in the past. . . .
Above all, we must have a widespread understanding of
the fact that to meet the problems of this newer day we
must pass on from team-work within single groups or single
industries to that broader cooperation where every group
and every industry will consciously relate its expansion and
development to the growth, the stabilization and the prosperity
 of the nation as a whole. . . .
There is no thought that, in so fundamental a matter, the
eventual solution can be found in any one organization, or
‘hat any small group of men can achieve a result which
requires the approval and support of industry as a whole.
Before we can arrive nationally at this newer, brighter goal,
we must have the intelligent sympathy and assistance of
every unit in the industrial machine. . . .
No one who understands the true spirit of American
industry can doubt that we shall be able to evolve this
higher form of cooperation once the practical method of
achieving it shall have been found.
The business world, which has found by experience that
the promotion of general prosperity is the highest form of
self-interest, will not hesitate to give its aid to any movement
which aims at the common good.