Reports from experts and observers. Wall St. Times, Barren’s magazine, various sources, give a gloomy picture of the economy.

Where personal pride, group pride and initiative are lacking, ethics has to be used as a substitute.

A lot of factors enter in, but money is suddenly very tight and many big corporations are threatened with bankruptcy.

Groups never seem to realize that their hard times are brought on by failures in responsibility and sharing the load.

Apparently some businesses are afraid to put ads in papers to employ people as they are unable to handle the resulting mobs of applicants.

In fact all slavery is the consequence of irresponsibility and failure to do one’s Job.

In times like these one has to manage very industriously and watch outgo very carefully and somehow expand income.

There is ample reward in the satisfaction of doing one’s Job and being part of a self respecting group.

This is no time to neglect areas or situations or to have an attitude of „nothing to do with me“. It does!

Riches and power spring from that base.

What one can do about it is pretty simple: WEAR THE HAT ASSIGNED ONE AMBITIOUSLY, WORK AS A TEAM, GET OUT REAL PRODUCTS.

Until one at least gets up to the level of a self respect­ing group with high Standards one can look forward only to poverty and hard times.

The usual reason one works hard with no product or an overt product at the end is lack of tech. One has not found or developed the tech necessary to do one’s post.

One has an Org to the degree he or she contributes to its perfection by showing initiative and handling what comes up. Individual Initiative, not orders make a true group.

Well, you’d be surprised how much time I spend in study. I find or develop the tech of what I do. Sure, there’s trillions of years behind what I do. But the here and now is a planet of limited tech in almost every line of country. So what’s here and now to do with and how is it done here?

Start adding your Job up to maximum on it and show initia­tive. Anyone showing initiative is liable to get into an occasional argument. The willingness to accept that too is all part of initiative. One can’t be totally safe in this universe. But one can at least be effective! It’s your world, your Scientology and your Org too you know.

One studies the area, one takes the data he can get, one develops what he can’t, one applies what he finds. And the result is a real product.

When times get worse or conditions are not of the best one has to study and work that much harder to make it.

There’s no question of lying back and letting it ride. That would be pure self-destruction. So the way out in life is the way through.

I want us and I want you to make it.