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Show Seen in the Rainbow Washington, D. C There is a native thinker In Everytown who has come to the conclusion that if only 5 million people were out of work that the lazy would be better bet-ter cared for, and if the additional 10 million who are now unemployed unemploy-ed could be given jobs that the Nation's troubles would be over. There is another native thinker in Everytown who is convinced that if everyone would start buying buy-ing everything he needs that the 10 million unemployed who really want jobs would all be called back to work to supply what the professors pro-fessors and experts call "the demands de-mands of the consumers". The native thinkers in Everytown Every-town are keeping their eyes on the same rainbow, and in the variegated var-iegated colors they discover the end of the Nation's troubles. A good old lady that I know keeps a little table of statistics of her own that show that most procession that pulled the Nation out of the last depression. Now the Nation is given a temporary tem-porary running-start by the National Na-tional Government and the industries indus-tries must get into the race and win it or we're sunk. But the United States never will be sunk. It never has been, in times and under conditions worse than now. What difference does it make which comes first consumers, or jobs? It works out both ways just like the affair between the hen and the egg! oi the telepnones, radios, automobiles, automo-biles, electrical appliances and other possessions , to make life more cheerful are owned by Americans. Am-ericans. She tells her friends that she "counts her blessings every morning." She grows old gracefully. grace-fully. The thinkers in Everytown make their own personal surveys of fine streets, lined with shops and stores, and as they catalogue their fellow citizens and neighbors they are glad that they live in the U S.A. instead of Europe or Asia The thinker who wants everybody every-body employed cannot miss seeing and watching the moving streams of automobiles that constantly pass his door. And when he looks into his own car and considers how it came out of the line of science, skill and planning, he is confronted with material facts. The metal that comes first from the mines and steel mills and factories fac-tories is in that car. And the machine ma-chine is partly made of lumber from primeval forests, that was finished in mills and factories. It is partly glass, made from sand It is partly leather, from the hides of cattle that graze on ranches and farms. It is partlj coal, mica, clay, manganese, salt, sugar cane, wood-pulp, copper, wheat straw, chromium, turpentine, turpen-tine, asbestos that come frorr nature's riches in the bowels oi the earth; or from the surface oi the land or from the laboratories and work shops where Yankee ingenuity in-genuity produces its wonders There is wool, mohair and cotton in the upholstery. There is cotton used as the basis of lacquers that give the car its rich coatings. The thinker in Everytown who wants employment for 10 million people who need work is vocal in insisting that if all the great industries in-dustries that contribute to making automobiles were busy, that the business of all the States that are affected would boom. If the cities and countryside boom, a thinker in Everytown visions huge waves of buying. A few of the business "charts" are easy to understand. The easiest eas-iest chart of all is the one that blocks off the months in a square with one waved line that shows how consumers are buying goods and products. Another similar line 1 runs through the chart and shows how busy the industries 'are. The 1 clearest chart is the' one of the 1 automobile industry; because the automobile industry is something that interests 30 million owners of cars. It is a National picture of local significance because stores, service stations, eating and drink- ing places, salesrooms, and other : classes of business in every settled area are a part of that chart in all ' the 48 States of the Union. The automobile industry led the |