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Show CARRYING ON Now that the new year is safely safe-ly started, we begin to turn our attention to our Individual problems. prob-lems. How best to carry on during dur-ing the long pull up the hill again to the heights of prosperl-ity. prosperl-ity. It appears that there is no royal road out of the depression. depres-sion. The various aids which congress and the president can render are being put into effect as speedily as possible. But we ought to realize by this time that those things cannot rebuild prosperity. They merely afford the opportunity of which we may take advantage if we will. They smooth out some of the rough places in the road, but they do not pull the load up the hill. Therefore we see in the future a period calling for earnest, persistent per-sistent endeavor in whatever we are doing. Business, trade, labor la-bor all call to us to buckle down to the job and pull a little harder than uisual. And if the grade is a little steeper than we are used to or the load is a little heavier, we may be cheered by the knowledge that the heights to which we are going are more glorious than any we have yet surmounted. In every age there have been depressions in business just as destructive of values, just as distressing to mankind, as that we have just come through. And each recovery has taken business busi-ness and enterprise to greater heights of prosperity than had heen known before. It will be so this time. The advance of science and civiliza-. civiliza-. tion cannot be stayed. The march toward better conditions of life for mankind will still continue. It depends upon ourselves, however, whether we shall continue con-tinue with the march of progress prog-ress up the hill or tamely give up the effort and abandon ourselves our-selves to destruction in the slough of despond. This is the day of opportunity more alluring than any we have known. All who carry on the march up the hill will surely achieve new heights of prosperity. pros-perity. ' . |