Show QUIT KICKING AND GO TO WORK continual howling about reduced tArn earnings ings of many corporations ie Is doing much to prolong the depres sion ion intimidate the indi individual oddal and druc money into hiding inay hy corporation and Iri late earnings fall below the peaks of two or three years we were then lying under alnor mal al conditions when an automobile saleana without any capital could open fin in expensive how allow room and lell sell auto aut mobiles as fast as he could get them we were net living in normal hires tires uben a boni boul salesman gal ciman with tout out any practical caal tal or kno ledio of the intrinsic value alue of the securities ties he be handled could open an office equipped with expensive furniture and oriental rugs and fell sell securities bonds stocks it oclis etc to a clamoring public and make meney money faster than thin hs 1 ever dreamed of ordinary caution should have warned anybody con editions were not normal when a real estate operator could take pric finally worthless land and fell sell it at fabulous figures which no nor aral crop value could justify it have hae been self evident that there was something wrong and SO S on through every line of indue indus trial agricultural and ficano fi nanal lal activity during ten years vears of inflation countless persons came to think thit that by own ability and they were creating wealth for them themselves seles by tion when as a matter of fact most of f them were creating nothing and nothing while they lived in a fools paradise sd which they I 1 yuill baim last forever the m of persons have mere today than they had in pro pre war times but they complain OM ont having less because they are mak ing comparisons on a tilso t ilso basis this js is true of individuals and it Is true rue of companies industrial concerns any nor mil requirements they hive en deavo to maintain ope irions on an ali inflicted vials which cannot be done because here is no longer any artificial demand to maintain such production all our the nation boneman one man in east pastries ries and oneilian iian tion farms are ale tt arti again on a deflated basis you can cau drive drie through the country and see little liffin shacks springing up en cheap lind and in the far avay may places the occupants ot of these little homes are going to produce their living and gradually make a little surplus surilus the big farmen farmers who bought high priced land on the lie strength of it high priced crop crops as a well as a the industries which built and equipped plante plants at st peak prices and buildup built up peak are all going to ha hai e to readjust to the b asis of the swin who is stirling ting at the bottom io today the laboring man who exi joed wartimes wages for the past decade is in the same boat vibe the same inflation that affected industry and the also affected govern mi merA and taxation aei and go eminent la to among the last to recognize conditions and deluce re luce ita its mushroom cipin expansion according 13 1 the with government is that its it ina manager our bublie officials and public servant servants will ivill not reduce their ova own function volun tinly the reduction will hue bae to be forced by a tax weary people who mho after thy they have adjusted own oun personal pers per onil souil and business affairs will turn to kilell government go eminent all problems which in a large measure they haze bae permitted to ex by their own indifference without check during the past decade emphasizing the term hard times has become more or less a ticket r indulged in by a growing army of theorist theorists who would reme dy our ills through schemes which try to create employment at public expense thereby further discourage ing industry through exorbitant taxa fion thus creating more anem I 1 loyine it josf pf our economic econom 30 doctors are iorala to state in plain english that we are on a new aisis that products of all kinds will be gelling selling at prewar prices that a 1 large I 1 part of out unemployed are going to have bane to wilo w il o employment for at wages ages inore more near ly vi elhat bat they receil ed before tl ti u war many of the jobs aly enjoy cd ed will r or ettin because the th conditions that prod aced them are goja forever unless we ire start an other world wide war which would be a terrific price to pay to seimu late it may be I 1 ari ara medicine to take but it is clity re clity and the sooner we lecomp recognize anze the conditions and a I 1 just ourselves to them the sooner v vill ill we conquer the depression depre ision by merely returning to more bonnal normal standards of living |