Show L u Mental Normalcy Needed i rE WOULD like to commend the remarks made a few days ago by Mayor Hylan of New V York in respect to the conditions affecting the p needle edle industries of the metropolis He declared that the f the people throughout the country have read SO much about hard times and talked about it b much th that t there is little doubt that they have their troubles and refused to make J Mei customary purchases ses' ses because they were aid i aid of what harder times they might be called to face in the future This is what I call calle e e wrong mental attitude It is a case of oft t or of looking for a worse side of l gs that that each each individual ha has to to face This l t the condition or the state tate of mind which has lie corrected before real progress toward f ent can be made t I he remarks of May Mayor r Hylan tend to indi- indi Jile ile that the American people have not fully recovered vered from the seasons of hysteria due to toe 1 je e reaction of the war One ne of these seasons is s t 1 by an n business boom from hysterical buying and which most i lly caused prices to o soar Almost over over- t 1 the pendulum swung in the opposite q and ad the American pu public became afflicted ted i the hysteria hYtena of latter form of hysteria has been sub- sub T 1 for some time but it is not proceeding at rate that the reduction in prices justifies s. s What is needed is a return to normalcy in mental reasoning i- i son ng in the daily routine of business and in flie fhe buying of necessities and comforts of life ever ver iver in the history of the world has there been more more real wor work to do and seemingly never has there i been a greater sc scarcity of real workers and nd real thinkers 2 Th The American nation today is is more sub sub sub-j J than ever before r What we must do is I t fp place our feet firmly on the ground in this his I Iland I l land ld d of liberty and arid sustain a mental equation that 1 might Ibe expected p t r of ot a a a country that h. has s made the advancement suc such as ours has has has' done and whose great future is absolutely assured |