Show HOW WOULD WE REACT TO PROSPERITY NOW By BRUCE CATTON Daniel Danl l C. C Roper Uncle secretary of commerce spread himself himself as the old year died and announced that he are all aU gradually gradually grad grad- getting ilch richer Ith r. r 5 Mr Roper had the figures to tol to prove it It too Factory equipment has gone up by such and such a percentage factory payrolls by ly some other percentage by still sUll a third percentage and 20 so on lAdd rAdd l r Add It all up and you do semi Hem as Mr Roper insists to get a total toW which reflects a rising tide of t wealth I i But before we get calluses calluses' oni on our shoulder blades from patting ourselves on on the back over all this it might be sound for lor us UJ to sit lit I down and figure put out j just t what we weare weare wr are going to do with all an this money 1 If if as and when wo we get It 1 Suppose in other words that that feverish condition we recall as prosperity ret returns What wJ wet are we going to make of it Are we for lor instance in our great cities clUes going to spend millions mil lions of dollars bull building dIng aki kj scrapers we really could without ut while W we permit thou thousands thoU sands upon thousands of our pe pepIe peor 1 pie to swelter in slums JI J JAre Are we going to go back to u the theold i old fever of ol land speculation fl fr fX another instance so that we l ro gO over building lots Jots i isome iS 11 some seaside subdivision while We permit erosion and bad practices to ruin some of the w od fertile ferUle farmland on the gle Are Arc we going to revive the theold old custom of building up our ft f eign trade by loaning money M the foreign customers always alway U creasing the loans just a little 9 faster than the trade inert so that In the end both they we go broke |