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Show THERE MUST BE , MORE BUSINESS THAN USUAL Howard K. Coffin, of the advisory commission of the council of national nation-al dofense, says: "No radically new condition confronts us. State activities, ac-tivities, road building, public works, private Industries, all must go on as before. Business must bo Increased', labor employed and tho country kept going strongly ahead as a successfully success-fully economic mechlno. We must havo successful industries If successful success-ful tax levies are to bo raised." There should bo no curtailment In building and road construction. Let both public and private useful construction con-struction proceed. Production and handling of building materials and public and private construction work aro fundamental Industries of tho country. Any tondency to suspend or postpono building projects Is Inconsistent Incon-sistent with maintaining our prosperity. pros-perity. Tho country is prosperous. Duilding Investors should not hesitate hesi-tate to go ahead with their plans. Itallroads should spare no effort to supply tho building industries with tho cars needed to transport materials. materi-als. Government, state, county and municipal authorities should encour-ago encour-ago tho continuance, of all kinds of building. Iload and street Improvements Improve-ments In particular should go on unabated. un-abated. Dad roads and streets are factors of first Importance in the presont high cost of foodstuffs. Novor boforo wnB tho Improvement of highways high-ways so essential. Tho lumber, brick, comont, limp, sand, gravol, stone, and other building build-ing materials aro basic. Neither government regulations nor railroad restrictions should bo ImpoBod un- r necessarily to interfere with them. It any action Is taken which results In tho prostration of so fundamentally fundamental-ly Important Industries, there is real danger of a surplus of unemployed labor, a surplus of railroad cars and a crippling of business that will seriously seri-ously ombarass tho government In financing tho war. Keep on building! |