Show 0 0 0 I E E Economic Situation Clearing I 0 4 0 DOUBTLESS r many residents of Salt Lake were 0 surprised to learn in an n article published in inThe 0 The Telegram of the material reduction in the j 0 prices of food products during the past three 01 months and that in some instances these prices 5 have approached proa hed 0 within hailing distance as it w were re of those which prevailed previous to the I 0 0 outbreak of the war 0 Possibly many ho housewives have defected detected a 1 decre decrease se in the prices priceS' of many arti articles les which e enter ter into household economics but as s usually is the case favorable developments are not I I accepted with a degree of joyfulness equal to the feeling of regret or or- resentfulness over ver the advent i of a reverse reverse condition n. n I However this may be it should be a matter for general rejoicing that the economic situation situation situation situa situa- tion should have been so far adjusted ste in the direction n of normal without tile the c country experiencing experienc experienc- ing ng a real upheaval v f Dire p predictions had been made that American industry expanded under forced war ar draft could not be contracted to I II I within any measurable distance of normal without without with with- out resulting n Ln an economic tragedy It has been demonstrated however that the American can people having be been n resourceful enough to bring about a change in the tle fortunes fortun s of the great world Avar var ar possessed initiative to readjust their economic affairs without a complete in industrial industrial in in- breakdown It cannot be denied however that the initial change was so so unexpected and spasmodic that it shook the coun country ry up to a certain extent but now as a res result It of the process ol of readjustment proceeding in a saner and more logical manner the changes pass practically unnoticed With the economic situation cleared to such sucha a satisfactory extent it is now now natural to expect that there will be be exp experienced a material revival of the spirit of individual l enterprise which for for formerly merly was the national characteristic |