Show t D Danger n-ger n Men 1 at Work York Nations Nation's Business l 1 We arc are entering let us hope the final stage of our folly The Theair Theair C air is charged with rumors The whispering campaign is on N No O business is immune Have you ou heard about such and such a bank Do you know of old d So-and So So is going to the wall I hear the Doe Doc Company is headed d for receivership The Roe Hoe Company has passed its dividend Only by wearing ear car muffs can one walk a block with without ut having having haying hav hay ing his confidence shaken Of or comfort let no man speak Lets Let's talk of graves of worms and epitaphs Depression is on every tongue It i is the most widely advertised advertise d product of our times Headlines headlines everywhere and n none no noone noone o one stops to think And our vaunted salesmanship I Give a salesman time enough t and hell he'll paint sq drab a picture of the future that a likely prospect will replace his fountain pen pen and and lock the safe Of unemployment I suspect there are more idle tongues than tha n idle hands The folly of too many of f us is to accept the echo of the locker room and club car as the Voice of America For example consider 1930 lately interred Now lies he there ther e and none so poor to do o him reverence Yet that much-maligned much year car loaded and unloaded ed freight cars and with three thre e million trucks on the job too It made and s sold ld a new automobile e for each ten families at a cost of and saw registrations 7 highest of any year ear with a gasoline consumption of 39 million barrels an time all record It saw electrical production hit its highest mark Nineteen hundred and amI thirty manufactured four and a half hal f billion yards ards of textiles and n million pairs of shoes the usua usual l two and a half pairs to the person It provided work for odd forty-odd million men and women an and d earnings through dividends to the amount of Nineteen hundred and thirty saw to to-it to it that expenses living of-living g did not exceed income as evid evidenced by hundreds ds of millions o of f dollars increase in savings banks and eighteen and a half billions billion s of new life insurance Nineteen hundred and thirty added one million in population n to our consuming public public public-a a city the size of Cleveland With all its faults 1930 f furnished a national place market e where goods services and labor were exchanged to the extent exten t of billion dollars and the returns are not all in yet One would think from the wailing waiting that we had all been wiped wipe d out by a terrible catastrophe of Nature Nature Nature-a a Noahs Noah's flood a shifting shifting shifting shift shift- ing of the Gulf Stream or by dreadful holocaust Yet we are all here The stores arc are still open The trains ar are e running You can get that number on the telephone The traffic C problem is still lively Young folks are arc still getting married l Preachers thunder against the laxity of the age Amos n ii Andy are still in the taxicab business Doctors and dentists make appointments ap ap- l ointments weeks ahead La Lawyers Lawyers' ers briefs are j just st as long Hardy 0 commuters make the in less than nothing flat And under unde r Natures Nature's white coverlet bud and blossom await the sure coming comin g of spring r If these commonplace signs of life as usual betoken national l instability then there is a public menace in the familiar warning DANGER I MEN AT WORK |