Show MONEY LAS 0 OLD LD MAN HARD TIMES is in the hands of the tile undertaker none mourns him cceal the crafty few who always make money during alard times by IY applying th the screws to the unfortunates who get caught in III the corner all signs point to a steady return of general prosperity ly throughout the nation naton money rates are down encouraging business activity failures arc are decreasing automobile industry dust Y is near capacity new ew building construction started in april broke all record for a single monh and may figures when compiled apparently will show t that lat the fast fas pace is being maintained maintain edL so it goes in nearly every industry prosperity return so far it is mostly in the torm tom rr a a gain in physical volume volu ne of business but money prosperity y wll T HOMAS A EDISON MISON said last o 0 As I 1 approach 1 M my y birthday let me ine repeal that I 1 have been through five business depre depressions Wons during iny MY business hf life I 1 hey all act alike edison is 13 right with the single exception that the present reco recovery ery comes conics sooner rind faster fuster than formerly TA 1 1114 pig iron production the barometer of general busi bus ness conditions the panic of 1907 call 1 pig iron output to aroi dro until if reached the low point of j gross tons in t lanuti tY 1908 it was mus 18 months before more pig iron output again reached ched the normal ij point in the lucent business depression pig iron iro output reached rea chet it its low point tons last july in nine it lias has limbed lo 10 0 o and passed the lons ton month point and the crob cah has ims been ken at al a rate irate that should by be we sul summer linler bang production to the average ot 1913 a good formal car ear so fioco the iron and steel industry so gues general bus bini pessa that old baying holds as good today as when our quy sald tl it in 1873 |