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Show power, and that purchasing power is bound to keep business going at a good volume." We believe the average citizen will agree that Livermore is right. Thrift and saving is a fine thing, but spending money makes prosperity. For instance, people have become accustomed to buying buy-ing autos, and this buying makes jobs for an army of people. In turn, the men who make autos spend the money they receive, thus keeping the people who make and raise the things they have to have also employed. The more we spend for legitimate purposes the more jobs there are and the more prosperity to be divided among all of us. Common sense, i of course, has long ago shown that when a man makes more and spends more he also saves more. We can't have luxuries and necessities unless we create them so it's plain that we have to produce if we yant more. Humanity can't consume con-sume more than it produces, and the only time that men could sit down and depend on the ravens to feed them passed thousands of years ago. We've got to produce and we've got to spend tb have prosperity, And we can do both and still save a little at the same time. TIMES AHEAD According to an interview in the daily papers with Jesse L. Livermore, known in Wall street as America's largest stock market operator , the business outlook in America is good. He says: "During the past few years the people of this country have become be-come accustomed to living on a higher standard than heretofore, and they are not going to be satisfied to live any other way in the future. The money they spend must necessarily vnean a large purchasing |