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Show Things Can't Be So Very Bad j When September of 1930 shows a more definite and general improvement improve-ment In employment than an September Sep-tember for the last three years. No bunk about it, no guessing either; the statement is based on the re- port of the American Federation of Labor. When the savings accounts in banks all over the country show an increase month after month. When a dollar will buy more of most anything than in years. When you and I can buy a staple such as sugar for five cents a pound and "Call Money' is as low as two per cent in New York City. When about all that is needed to make things hum is a stiffening of the backbone, driven by full force of good old fashioned COURAGE. When to all appearances we have too much of everything (money included) in-cluded) rather than too little. When the picture shows are packed pack-ed at every performance the people are not economising on their pleasures pleas-ures very much, so not desperately poor the ball parks are filled to ; 1 overflowing, race tracks jammed, at every tee foursome waiting, and ice cream factories working full limit. When around every construction job you'll find good automobiles of high price, waiting to transport workmen to modern homes. When communities knowingly pass up opportunities to increase collective col-lective business all because it requires requir-es a little initiative, gumption, and some work. When people cannot see that the only way to get anywhere is to get together, work together, and STICK together. Any way you look at it, we're no worse off than others we're lucky to be where we are. If you don't believe that, think of a flooded flood-ed district where men lose their all, all at once, where men can't find work, where conditions are tougher than here. |