Show f 1 J Speeding Up Production I APPARENTLY A Y the only drag on the chariot of progress in the United States at this period in the new year df 1920 is that of gf reduced output Evidently the people as a whole have become resigned to the he continuation of the prevailing high cost of living and prepared to leave it to tm time to bring about a return to normal conditions I c capital pital and labor have to a large extent adjusted their differences and the markets of the world are open to the products of American American Ameri Amed fc can can h factories mines and farms all now that is needed is an in increase in- in cr crease in the output in order that the demands at home and abroad rna maj l. l be Je met L w 4 2 According to well informed and conservative men in the t world there now exists a shortage of steel iron machinery q Textiles ex s sugar petroleum food foo products automobiles tires lires leather other japer p- p pp paper p r coal tobacco and various vanous other products This shortage it is claimed would still exist even if there sho should fd be a material decline In n the exports The only discouraging i feature as stated is the fact that the supply is not equal to the I demand and no relief is in sight It is declared that there is a shortage of labor although there is in iq existence an army of unemployed unemployed t p oyed either wholly or partially 1 i There can be but one reason for this st state te of affairs and that is that many workers who took advantage of the extremely high i-high high wages prevailing paid by war industries l during the progress of the struggle are living Jiving on their savings during that period I t It should be realized by labor that personal efficiency y is t labors labor's greatest asset and that when this is dissipated he is without 1 material value |