Show THINGS ARE AEE LOOKING UP from what we hear from different parts of the united states it is new york city that is deepest in in the slough slouch of despond right now while tm in almost every other section the sunshine is begin beginning abir to shine through the clouds of business depression it has been a tough year there is is no denying that what with the financial slump that began more than a year ago aeo and this years widespread wide spread drought and the tumble in the price of wheat and cotton and the shut tin tins down of factories we been through such a hard bard times year since 1921 but it has its compensations sat ions by comparison with previous similar situations commodity prices have not zone gone up but have come down most of those thrown out of work had something ahead to tide them over the main thin the matter with the country right now is timidity the head of a big bank said the other day our bank has more money in it right now than it ever had but where is it t it is mostly in time deposits drawing interest or in savings accounts people are ho hoarding ardiney instead of spending if everybody would spend ten per cent of what they have saved up it would then start the wheels of industry going again speedily and we hear that the buy now movement which started a few weeks azo ago has spread around the country and that people everywhere are bezin beginning nine to take the dimes out of the savin savings banks and thle thie dollars out of the checking accounts and buy the commodities which are for sale everywhere at bargain prices this is going to be a useful christmas from all indications people generally axe are planning to give as christmas gifts drifts things which are not merely ornamental or luxurious but such useful presents as new things for the home that is all to the good for it puts money circulating cula cu tinz in channels where it is most needed some smart fellow proposed a few weeks ago that everybody ought to spend ten cents a day dav that he had not intended to spend that sounded foolish to some but a lot of people have taken it up and the accumulation of dimes thus started on their merry way is beginning to show its effect biz big money is not timid one large financial house announced the other day that it had clients ready to invest any anything thine from a million dollars upward they didat want to bother with trifles worth less than a million but they would buy into anything profitable in million dollar units the ones who are holding back are the ordinary folks like us but if we believe in the future of the United States we can prove our faith by beginning eirin inz again to spend our money for necessities and a little bit more and when we are all doing that the hard times will be over |