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Show PROTECTING YOUR POCKETBOOK Here are some facts concerning industry that have recentlv appeared,: Electric power output has made a number of consecutive weekly gains over the same periods in 1932 and each gain was larger than the preceding one. Car loadings, during the week ending June 10, were 12.5 per cent greater than in the same week last year. ; For several months the number of business failures has been declining. . The commodity and security price levels have been climbing steadily for a number of weeks, without recession. The rate of climb is tending to become steeper. - This is what a few of the best indexes say concerning industrial in-dustrial conditions. It means that recovery is actually underway that the unfavorable factors which have been uppermost for three years are being subdued by favorable factors that the present era of low prices is doomed. At the moment, almost everything we buy can be found on the bargain table. Hut we can'tjsxpect that table to be overcrowded much longer. ; the wise home-owner will appreciate the significance of this. The chances are that his property needs improvements, additions and alterations. He can get work done now for a great deal less than it is going to cost a year from now or six months from now. And, at the same time, his money will be going into the pockets of workmen and the coffers of industries where it will be an influence in speeding recovery. He'll be showing his faith in the maxim that "Investment and employment are cheaper tii an charity" and he'll be adding measureably to the value of property without emptying his pocketbook. rv " |