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August 9, 1913, there was reprinted in the “Outlook” “A Little Catechism on Money.” One of the questions asked is, “What are the things which are exchanged in modern commerce?” The answer given is, “Those essential things which are bought and sold, as we say, in modern commerce are food, water, clothing, shelter from inclemency of weather and climate, human intelligence or skill, and human strength or labor.”

The writer of the catechism failed to mention one very vital element in modern commerce, namely, transportation, unless he included it under the general terms “Human intelligence or skill and human strength or labor”; all of which are needed of the best quality in order to produce the high-grade Rh