Rotary Luncheon - 2 - better ways of doing things. Industry is dedicated to advancing itself by finding means to render better service, to produce better products, to operate more efficiently. From the research laboratory to the field of retail selling the last twenty years have witnessed amazing progress - atomic energy, television, electronics, taconite, piggy-backs, shopping centers - the list is endless. In our own businesses we are always prepared to meet the challenges of change. We recognize that we must progress or die. The status quo is something to be destroyed by substituting in its place something better. The corollary of technological advance is obsolescence. The by-product of population shifts or changes in purchasing power is an out-dated distribution pattern. We accept these things as a matter of course and set about to solve the problems that arise out of progress. We solve them because we know that failure to solve them will cause our businesses to perish. There is no room in nature or in the competitive system for the inefficient. It is a surprise to me that men who will so readily accept the challenges of change in their own lives or businesses are sometimes so unwilling to recognize the same problems and do something about them in the field of community development. A city too must constantly change if it is to fulfill efficiently its part in the lives of the individuals and the businesses it shelters. Every day we businessmen are unleashing in the city forces that are destined to make the physical plant of our city unsuitable for what is to come. We strive to attract new people, new industries, new commerce both foreign and domestic. To the degree that we succeed, we cause ourselves problems of traffic congestion, parking, shortages of schools, inadequate civic facilities, all the symptoms of rapid