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Show The Average Rise Fine Whm vou read about General Motors, U. S. Steel or ther of "(he big ones" shooting up in prices, don't get -the otion that it is the best indication as to the state of national rosperity. The New York Stock Exchange is dealing in ccurities valued at some 75 billions of dollars and "the big nes" certainly figure largely and conspicuously in it, but here are thousands of others. The best feature of the sta-istics sta-istics is that the average market price of all listed -stocks ;..s risen, during the past year, from $63 to approximately G7.' ' . , . Prosperity, like a woman, is to be correctly appraised not iy the face, alone, but bv the tout ensemble, as it were. Whither He Moves Westward Ho ! Industrial loaders of the East are noting a great trek f factories to the West, Middlewest and South. The center f manufacturing is following the center of population westward. west-ward. The factory is being set up where the raw material is larvested. The textile mill is picking its cotton. off the bush, o to speak. The west can produce everything it requires '.nd already does so produce, in part, comparatively a small iart in respect of some necessities, and the long-Jiaul is loomed. The East will progress industrially; but, the trek of 1 lumanity and its affairs has, for long, been westward. It is :' ' iow on, in America, as never before. |