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Show BUSY DAYS COMING Period of Stress Ahead of the American Worker. Labor Day an Excellent Time to Think of the Future That Mut Be the Result of the War in Europe. ' Every American, whether he works with his hands or with his head, will take full advantage of Labor day, the last of the summer holidays; everyone every-one will appreciate the fact that there is a long period of work ahead of him. This fall and winter is sure to be a time of readjustment in many lines of American commerce and labor, due to the European .war, which not only shuts off some of the things we buy, but is filling our warehouses with many of the things we sell. How to manage without the particular things we have always Imported and how to get a market for the things Europe cannot buy must engage our serious attention for months, perhaps for years. There may be some failures in the effort to readjust, but there will be more successes, and great ones. No doubt about the future need be in the heart of anyone. The best thing about the whole situation sit-uation is the stout heart of the business busi-ness world and the people in general. They enter upon a combat with uncertainties un-certainties with the old Yankee confidence, con-fidence, backed by the knowledge that in the fundamental items of physical life we are safe. We can feed ourselves, our-selves, clothe ourselves, warm our-selve. our-selve. The rest is only a matter of time and adjustment. There will be no hard times if the hard work is well tackled. Business must not wait "until the war is over," for nobody knows when that blessed day will be. If we are prepared for a long v.ar, so much the more prosperity if the war is brief. It is a splendid 1 time for every American, from the housewife to the capitalist, to study American economies econo-mies and get a better knowledge of values. |