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Show spec. One Instance that was told me: A man was borrowed to his limit; he' could get no more, but he . had some securities which "he would put up, good too, and let another j borrow for him, and would give (in this hour of ' pressing need ) $1,250 bonus to 'feet a' $5;o00 loan for a year. Too much! His friend shied at the; offer. ' ' I personally1' took occasion to see about employment; I" saw' men by the score waiting' outside employment employ-ment bureaus, looking for work; I even yaw a line of men on the sidewalk side-walk waiting for the door to be opened; and how they did scamp.er in. eager to get to earning! I saw at one place a man and ,'tiis wife stand off at a' respectable distance from the blackboard and scan it wistfully, the need of work only too plainly apparent on the countenance of each. Things have changed ' in eleven months.' Then men were Independent; In-dependent; with a swagger, "I'll lake none of your lip gimme my time" attitude they disdained accepting accept-ing even so little as a meager six and seveu dollars a. day "Why, such and such a mill pays more." That day is past. . The writer stopped off. in a big mining camp to ge,t the situation first hand. ...Only two .mines., working . practically all the rest . sfiut . down, and . hundreds, more or, less idle. .' Yet. the show houses Jammed tp the H.ds. '. ' Everybody concedes that it Is a period of shaking down. Even a glue-factpry. worker had-better stick to his job. r And yet, through, the thickest of It is the rift '.In the-distance which shows that it is all-.normal', the usual condition after- any. period of: inflation, infla-tion, and just exactly as was the period per-iod after the Civil war, only better. The prevalent- tone of optimism Is bouyant. All will be-well with the mines, workers and farmers'' in a short time. - It- 1b merely''' a matter of shaking down to a new basis .and starting over again. Work, ; economy, econ-omy, prudent management; business ideals adhered to; honesty predomr inant just those'same factors which built before will build again now. .-. But to come back to. the opening thought; small town stuff with its little rancors, its little hates, its ;pe(-ty ;pe(-ty jealousies, its real downright small littleness isn't it little? Now, really. isn't. it?. And. ..shouldn't we be big enough, to be too. hig for It? The city business man is above it; why not the. country . business- man? Or is he smaller in nature .as in vol--ume of business? . , " But he can- be bigger than at 'a first Impression. Let's get away from, small-town stuff. ':'" " - '..! '' OUTSIDE IMPRESSIONS It 19 good to get outside impressions; impres-sions; it is just the same as setting our watch according to a standard timepiece. That is, provided, however, how-ever, that the source of impression is worthy, just as we should not set our watches by every whistle that blows. The other day at a luncheon in the city we sat at table with two competitors com-petitors two men in the same busi-ners. busi-ners. Now, if that had been in Delta Del-ta or any other little burg, it would have been the usual small-town stuff of hatred, ill will, slams at each other, oth-er, and other manifestations of peeve. But in the city they are above that thing. Those men sat at table with the best of good feeling, called each other by their first names without ceremony; were free and easy; jollied jol-lied and joshed; and yet, were business busi-ness to offer, each would keenly compete with the other. Sometimes the constant wrangle, row, fuss, scrap, turmoil that necessarily neces-sarily grows out of contact in a small place gets so irksome that one lays down all effort as hopeless and gives up. resolved to let events take their courses without opposition. Financially all the thinking men of the city are united that costs of production must come down; and entering en-tering In as a great factor in that cost Item Is the matter of transportation. transporta-tion. All are agreed that railroad freight and transportation charges, fares, and berth charges must and will come down; that they will be compelled to come down. Wages will come down, but wages will not be alone in coming down, for the railroads themselves must come down step by step along with what they pay less to employees. The Federal Reserve Bank lowered low-ered the interest rate a significant token and broadened its rules on what it would accept. All Notaries Public of Utah must add their place of residence hereafter here-after on all papers. The law has been so changed that a Notary authorized auth-orized for Millard County, say, can make an acknowledgment in any county of the state; hence, to locate that notary for after occasion he must put on his residence. This follows fol-lows Idaho custom, which the writer was familiar with for two years. Fundamentally the nation is sound at the core: big business Is still in business, at the usual old stand: hut wary, watchful. careful. prudent. Banks are accommodating only legitimate legit-imate needs of long lime steady customers; cus-tomers; not a cent can be had for |