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Show I MUST COME DOWN TO EARTH At a meeting in Chicago. Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City company of New ork, gave some wholesome advice. "It rests with us." Mr Mitchell Bald, manufacturers, merchants, bankers, laborers, to determine how i-u..n Olid prosperity can be brought about Dc (lation must become equalized Md that industry, that trade, that class of labor that refuses to take its share of 1 the burden and sorrow of the defle tlon is temporarily standing in the way of and retarding early recovery, and If tbey perslal in their refusal the H strength of the economic law will as sert Itself and ?hak- them to LLLLLI I Voir MltM ' Mr. Mitchell estimated the number of unemployed at from 8,00Q,00Q to I. 000,000, and said they were living on the fat of their pavings As to how far deflation would go in 1921, he would not predict, but he asked thoBC ; present to consider the farmers, whose 1 products have declined 30 to 50 per cent, as refusing to purchase Impll -H mcnts, whose prices remain un , changed; to consider the laborer and' H his attitude in regard to working for ! a reduced wage in the making of steel j H for farm implements so long as he J H finds clothing, food and rents and oth- ( H' at things that enter into his necessary R living expense not commensurately re- j j -In other words," he explained, j B "there must bo an absence of demand H tor commodities, accompani.nl by a B jnarked degree of unrest and a con H current falling in production, until de- H Oatlon has extended itself to an ap H proximately equal degree In every H community every trade and every H body of organized and unorganized la H Mr. Mitchell Is right. Every line H of goods, every industry, every form of labor must como down to earth be-H be-H lore there can be a restoration of nor- Hri li oo |