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Show VOTE FOR PROSPERITY. Prosperity is up for election, run-n'ng run-n'ng to overthrow Depression. . . It's for the people to decide which will be chosen. Every man and every woman is privileged to ballot every day. Depression has no rightful place with a hundred . and twenty million people, exchanging goods and scr- ices capable accustomed and willing will-ing to work more highly skilled than ot her peoples leaders in efficiency and progress jveness backed by the natural resources of the United States. When we make . it possible for the Iran who works to have a job we make it possible for him to buy food for his family and so help all business, busi-ness, including that 'of the farmer. The rest, of the world is of small importance compared with that free market of 126,000,000- people homogeneous homo-geneous of like tastes, habits and; aspirations living under the same; laws free of. trade barriers. Foreign trade may be troubled by tariffs and revolutions, but at their peak our exports ex-ports represented only five and a half billions of dollars of gross business in a year out...o.f . a total American income in-come of ninety billions. Stagnation of circulation is what's the matter with agriculture and with Business. Everyone can help to get that circulation moving again. Government can't make Prosperity alone. Bankers and other business leaders can't , make Prosperity alone. It's the people united. in opinion and purpose and courage, who determine Prospertiy. They can elect it none other. Ballots that will be validly counted count-ed for Prosperity are of many kinds. ooiue one ui - uiem evtuy man tiiiu woman can cast. For example: Help a deserving man or a woman wo-man to '.get a little paying work or better, a . regular job. Spend vvisely and not too timidly, tim-idly, and anticipate scheduled expenditures ex-penditures so far as is practicable. practic-able. Turn the. deaf ear to false, mischievous mis-chievous srumorsr and don't repeat re-peat them, if you. do : hear them. Be willing to pay a fair price. Don't take advantage of the other man's necessity! Recognize that he has as good claim to a fair profit as. you. When a vampire that fattens on the miseries of others shows'-up, shows'-up, help to make him unpopular. Discourage calamity howlers. Keep business moving evenly, and. remember that, to the. aver- -age man, his job is his particular business. When possible, reassure him against his fear of losing it. Save, but save wisely, not in fright. Invest for the profit that . sound enterprise pays and for the added profit that will come after tlie hysteria of pessimism has passed. |