. Book of the Royal blue . THE THBRMOMETKIl OF THE TIMESTHE KAILROADS INDICATE THE DEGREE OF PROSPERnY Cartuon by , in Juaiie, July J, 191(i The Cost of Living to Railways *By EDWARD W. HARDEN From The Outlook. April 9, 1910. T IS hard for the averageman to imagine any well-managed corporationotherwise than prosperouswith the countrj^ at largedoing a full volume ofbusiness. Most of us, ifwe give the matter a thought, think of acorporation as charging the purchaser agood round profit for what it provideshim, and getting the profit under any andall variations of the cost of
. Book of the Royal blue . THE THBRMOMETKIl OF THE TIMESTHE KAILROADS INDICATE THE DEGREE OF PROSPERnY Cartuon by , in Juaiie, July J, 191(i The Cost of Living to Railways *By EDWARD W. HARDEN From The Outlook. April 9, 1910. T IS hard for the averageman to imagine any well-managed corporationotherwise than prosperouswith the countrj^ at largedoing a full volume ofbusiness. Most of us, ifwe give the matter a thought, think of acorporation as charging the purchaser agood round profit for what it provideshim, and getting the profit under any andall variations of the cost of any large number of corporations findthemselves between the same upper andnether millstones of rising prices for thenecessities of life and rigidly fixed incomeas does the individual wage-earner or pro-fessional man today will strike perhaps ninereaders out of ten as a biased, if not whollyunwarranted assertion; if one should saythat the most important single class of cor-porations in the country has been for yearsless able to help itself in this predicamentthan the least skilled of its 1,500,000 em-ployes, his unsupported statement would bealmost everywhere dismissed with a it is proved by an abundance of quiteu
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