Show I SPRING AND HOPE I By A. A H H. H WINDSOR In the tha April Number of Popular Mechanics Magazine As children and adults we look forward forward for for- or- or i ward to the tha coming of or spring with re renewed renewed renewed re- re hope Even though the autumn means the tho gathering of harvests the fulfillment of 0 ho hopes a something accomplished ac ac- It docs does not afford that re renewed renewed renewed re- re action and awakening to effort that th the tho softening breezes gentle showers and mild skies of spring call can canto to life lite A great planting Is In r ress ss In the South much of It has half already al already already al- al ready been done and like a vast wave W Is sweeping from gulf to lakes Probably Probably ably never hoover In to our history have so 80 many acres ares been plowed and planted as this year for we wc have not only ourselves but other lands land to feed We look and hope for an unprecedented yield That's encouraging The Tho railroads having Secured the rate rote Increase so 50 long withheld are striving to float loans and secure the money necessary to repair their roads and rolling roiling stock long Ions neglected Already a total of oC to be Le spent In its this way wat Is announced and the result Is Iscar Iscar iscar car car shops are op opening their long closed cloned doors and man many a n small plant which has hal been Idle kilo for months is getting ready to resume and furnish the ape ape- the they manufacture That's Thais tuneful hopeful The steel teet mills have ha sent flent out the thA welcome news and thousands of workmen workmen workmen work work- men who have been beon Idle all winter now hasten each morning toward the tho goal of or their dependence Not ot nil all nit are arc needed yet et b by an any means but the number is Increasing every week That helps The shelves of the country country- dealer are arc arcas areas as 19 nearl nearly empty empt as possible so 50 arc are the storage rooms of the wholesaler and Jobber Yet let the they ha have ha e been adle to weather eather the gale Jale for the tho failures allures have been remarkably few tew In number there Is no l inflation in merchandising and once tho the tide lido turns as ns It must In Inevitably inevitably In- In bl do one of 0 these days the wires Ires will almost melt with the tho frantic appeals to hurry hurn up orders nn and ship shIp- ments Tho The factories will wilt be bo working night and da day and the tho wheels of commerce com com- merce will merrily turn again All this Is no dream but the Inevitable le Some unforeseen cog ma may slip and occasion some me delay but signs surel surely do point to a splendid resumption of or business from rom now on That's promising What's hals the matter with u us anyway Big crops for two years and antl now war wartime wartime time prices for grain and the mone money piling up In the banks The deposits in Chicago banks alone increased ed the first six weeks In 1915 Vo We are arc better belter off than we know stronger er than w wo wa o realize We re have not lo lost t our skill nor Initiative nor vitality Were We're scared Wo We 0 are arc like a lot of people at Lt u a funeral the IW 14 I over o Its It's time to go everybody wants to leave and each hesitates to be the first to start mart Tho The bu buy 11 It now and the build it Il now and a lot of do It are nrc nil all right While our sympathies for tor others In distress naturally depress 9 us It h Is time to rise above our fears and with firm hands an and bravo brao hearts march confidently out Into our future and our destiny And do things |