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Show DON'T LOS1 VOIR HEAT) In every cr md there is tOtntbodj1 who is randy to yell "firo:" Then the' panic startH. When order is restored ' overyliody wonders why evcrbody ! c!so Vst his head. When Prcsiilcnt Wilson issued his prnrluiniiition and railed upon the P'nple of the United States to conserve con-serve their resorres for the itTUggtt fehMd, he did not mean that they! should stop spending money. He did j not mean that unless expenditures' should stop, hut that was nothing ' new. Busness consists of buying; and selling- Certain kinds of liusness are sellinsr. Certain kinds of business are I fundanient.il. The bttfldtng bu.iiness is J There need be no curtailment in . building or road constructing. lt both public and privute useful build-inprii build-inprii construction proceed. Production and handling of buildinff materials and public construction work are fundamental industries of the coun-ry. coun-ry. Any tendency to suspened or pos-potM pos-potM building projects is inconsistent! with m.-iiiii uitnii"- our prosperity. ! The (ountry is prosperous. Building investors .should not hesitate to go a-hiiid a-hiiid with their plans. Railroads should spare no effort to suply the' building industy with the cars needed to transport materials, (ioverament, State. County and municipal athor-Itici athor-Itici should the continuance of all kinds of building. Road and street im-1 piovcment should go ahead partic-, ularly bad roads and streets are factors fact-ors of first importance in the present! hih cost of food stuffs. Never before was the importance so essential of the improvement of roads. The lumber, brick, cement, lime, sand, jjruvel, stone, and other buildinKj materials industries are basic. Neither Government regulation.; nor railroad restriction should be imposed unnecessarily un-necessarily to interfere with them, j If any action is taken which results in the prostration of so fundamentally Important industries, there is a real danger of a surplus of unemployed labor, a surplus of railroad cars and a crippling of business that will seriously seri-ously emburrass the Government in financing the war, |