Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-01-31 | Page 4 | Mourning is Futile

ar Mourning Is Futile I we we can ever get ei up off the mourners mourners' bench r and stop worrying about our troubles we shall find findS that that there is enough work to do to keep us busy from now on on on-lf if n not t longer These are pe re sentiments penned by Henry Ford in a stimulating stirn- stirn article in American magazine is It t is s his opinion that that there is so mu much h us useful ful work in this count country county y crying to be done that w we should be able to use every employable person f for r a long t time me to o finish the the jobs He bases his convictions on the equally se sensible sible conviction that we we nevet never nevez have had overproduction overproduction only verp only only b tion In td too many minds the thing that engages the their r violent is the working out of a scheme to Ii limit nit production of all alj kinds to our consumptive c capacity pa it lS Surely IY in iri Ws' Ws the there is no vision of a amore amore amore more a abundant dant life Not until a a. a practical al scheme to increase consumptive capacity can ih there i J hope for lifting g submerged elements elemen of o our r p pe people ople up to a plane plan of living of which as asa a a nation we may be proud All our our talk of the theA A American ned an standard of at living will remain as a reproach to us s un until il pov poverty and all the evils in its ts tr train iIi are wiped out I It is s in increased production that hope lies the the hope t raise the impoverished up to a plane of well-being well we have nave have never known bce befOre be bc be fore e. e We have one neof ne' ne of the largest and richest countries on earth inhabited by an intelligent skilled energetic people and gifted with busin business business busi busi- n ness ss and industrial leadership At our r doorstep lies the the- worlds world's greatest market back of it it itis is the most remark remarkable ble agglomeration tion of raw materials ma ma materials ev ever r s seen en with the finest fines f factories tories ever built waiting to o turn the materials into finished products Th That is js the he setup of f which an industrial so society society society so- so might dream wistfully as something glimpsed over the e walls o of Utopia We are not Great Britain With an economy geared to a avast vast export trade which h may prove to be gone gom forever for for forever ever v nor are we Germany with a great p productive product product- tive system strangled for waI want of raw materials and aid markets no not are we Italy made poor by a aland l land d' d ot pf barren soil and bleak rocks We ll have all th the things for which those hose countries countries coun coun- tries ies are pr prepared a to fo fight a and 4 we have have m many y more they coul couldn't get even if it th they y did Id f fight t for jar t them em r hf