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Show Lights of B O J WALTER NEW YORK TRUMBULL Since stocks have gone up, our boiq leaders of finance and industry have stuck their heads out of the cyclone cellar, but are ready to pull In their necks at the first cloud or new puff of air. Still, it seems natural to some of us, who can remember the storm of 1929, to hear once more In homes and restaurants the talk of investments Instead In-stead of wails concerning the depression. depres-sion. People actually are giving each other tips again. And they are be-gining be-gining to take a little gamble on the market again. They figure that this time they will sell at the top. Of course, they won't. Anyhow, it is a lucky break for brokers'. clerks. Some of them are going to work again. Lunching at The Players recently, William P. Beazell pointed out that the depression really had caused the start of a new cycle. First, there were a lot of small businesses. Then came corporations and consolidations, which eliminated the little fellow and resulted result-ed In big business. When the depression depres-sion arrived, big business had to close up or cut down and there was a terrific ter-rific increase in the country's unemployed. unem-ployed. The less resourceful of these sat around and waited for their old employers to start hiring again, but there were others who decided to take a sbot at something new. For example, exam-ple, Mr Beazell told of one youngster who had worked for a big chain store, tie went to a number of customers in a certain neighborhood and told them that if they would agree to buy their groceries steadily of him he could save them money, because he had no overhead over-head and would not have to allow for waste. He worked up a profitable business. Now that youngster would not go back to his former job if he could. He is his own boss and doing well. The chances are that some day he will open a little store, and it will grow larger, and he will either form a chain or sell out to one. Then the new cycle will be complete. But that time probably Is a couple of decades away, or more. Another youngster, who always al-ways has been a clever carpenter, mechanic me-chanic and electrician, has built and sold a number of ice boxes. Others have made jobs for themselves. By and large, there will not be much trou ble about youth. Youth can adapt it self to any conditions and it is fitted to survive. The ones who feei the hard going are the middle-aged, who do not find it so easy to suit them Forty-third street, 5 cents will get you hear soup, creamed codfish on toast bread pudding, and coffee with cream. Or, still for a nickel, you may have pea soup, vegetable stew, doughnuts, and a glass of milk. Beef meat cakes are 2 for 5; beef stew is a nickel even Patronage is brisk. . 1932. .Bell Syndicate. WNTJ Service. selves to a changed world, fitted only to a ferrous breed. One of the most prominent New Yorkers is Frank J. Sprague. the sev-cnty-flve-year-old inventor who built the first real trolley line, worked out the multiple unit system, and did a lot -about high speed elevators. He now has perfected some scheme by which two elevators can run in one shaft without colliding, and I think he is doing something about big elec- ? ,.- l H trie signs, r tji a iimu ui any a' iSprague keeps busy. John N. Wheeler claims to know a man so absent-minded that he puts a nickel In the slot every time he goes through a turnstile coming out of the subway. In the 1-cent restaurant on West |