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Show KEEP ON BUILDING ABOUT that improvement you are planning Why not go ahead with it? Every reason in the world says you should. At no period in our history have we been so sure of the future. The eastern world's stomach is feeling the pinch of hunger, and its demands on the products of America's broad acres and American industries are growing with every passing pass-ing hour. A great market is opening-wider opening-wider and wider. Honest and fair profits in all lines of legitimate effort are certain. There should be no curtailment in building build-ing and road construction. Let both public pub-lic and private useful construction proceed. pro-ceed. Production and. handling of building build-ing materials and private construction work are fundamental industries of the country. Any tendency to suspend or postpone building projects is inconsistent with maintaining our prosperity. The country is prosperous. Building investors should not hesitate to go ahead with their plans. Railroads should spare no effort to supply the building industry with the cars needed to transport materials. Government, Gov-ernment, state, county and municipal authorities au-thorities should encourage the continuance continu-ance of all kinds of building. Road and street improvements in particular should go on unabated. Bad roads and streets are factors of first importance in the present pres-ent high cost of foodstuffs. Never before was the improvement of highways so es sential. The lumber, brick, cement, lime, sand, gravel, stone and other building materials industries are basic. Neither Government Govern-ment regulations nor railroad restrictions restrict-ions should be imposed unnecessarily to interfere with them. If any action is taken which results in the prostration of so fundamentally important industries, there is real danger of a surplus of unemployed un-employed labor, a surplus of railroad cars and a crippling of business that will seriously embarrass the Government in financing the war. The right thing to do is to keep on building. |