Show LEFT HANDED OPTIMISM T THE IE most profoundly discouraging remarks sometimes I come from the l lips ps of at ODA op OD- OD r i i A A short time ago an economist issued a s statement a ement about business conditions He l took a rosy view of things The depression I he explaIned was not an Inexplicable world- world 3 shattering catastrophe It J was simply a normal nor nor- nor nor- mal Inal recession In activity We would woul be out i. i fi w of at I it l tl presently and ana n tl a few lew x years hence we would meet another very like it All AU of this this' was meant to be be optimism But very few people have ever given us a e darker view of our economic status Probably the one thing that h has hs s pre pre- pre pre- served the stability of ot the great mass of Americans i through the past three years has hasI b been en the belief bellef that out of this l. l I TV fn economic dis- dis j aster astel we would draw knowle knowledge ge by which we could avoid similar disasters in the t future t Probably Pr bably it Js Is chiefly for that reason that there has been not the slightest danger of R a revolution or anything I resembling one I l' l t ti A. A depression of course means one thing thine t. t r to a c comfortably situated gentleman who never knows what it is s to go hungry to S lack lk lackI I t a a. place to sleep or to worry about how his family is going to find means to exist and It means something entirely different to o a ti hf wage earner who has has- lost his J Job b hisS hIs savings his savings J hi his home and his hope Those who have been I lucky n never ver forget that difference |