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Show WHERE IS THE IMPETUS TO PROSPERITY? The lending of money to financial nstitutions, the creation of public woiks and the providing of adequate ch;.:ity have not brought back prosperity. pros-perity. We may better face that fact than to hide from it. To be sure, the things we have done in an effort to end the depression have been valuable. valu-able. They have prevented the situation situa-tion fioiu becoming worse than it was :.:! is jn.l they have placed us in a position to go forward if the impe.us is given, but where is the impetus? The impetus can come only through a ie:-U!':i;.tion of production. The eight or to:i millions of unemployed would surply that impetus if ;.hey had work and wages. And right' here we come against one of the fallacies of argu-iv.er.t-that the major cause of our dflicultUs is overproduction. There can not be overproduction so long as there is undovconsuinp.ion and no ecc ucmict, business leader or states-rat.;! states-rat.;! v.t.uiJ have the hardihood to say ; thttt c.HiUi.iption has reached its limit. There can be no overproduction in ; this eouatiy or in the world at large ' so long as there is a single person who nejds and should have some article ar-ticle that he is unable to buy. That is worth repeating: There can be no overproduction in this country or in the world at large so long as there is a single pi i son who needs and should have some ai tide that he is unable to buy ! The great obstacle in the way of prosperity's return is the inability so j to adjust our affairs that the con-S con-S surr.er will be placed in a position to buy the tilings he needs and should have, and this condition will not improve im-prove until some method is found to ' give employment to those who wish to work and who cannot now find productive pro-ductive labor. One who can devise a way to get the millions back on their jobs at good wages who now are working occasionally oc-casionally at low wages or not at all, will have solved the entire problem, j And it is a problem for America to solve for Americans. We need not woiry much about our foreign trade if we can keep all our domestic trade and see to it that Americans themselves them-selves aie able to purchase the goods they need and can produce and would oroduce if given the opportunity. |