Show BUSINESS NOW AND A YEAR AGO With 1927 sll sU l young oung business II Is asking the lb question will 1 1927 27 be a an as good as 1926 1 26 from Crom a bus bus- business iness Incas and Industrial standpoint Near lie close of ot 19 1926 1920 6 a best lIesl I attitude was disclosed In some lines lilies of oC Industries which continued through early January but within the last two weeks there are signs sign that the tho country Is going forward In lu Il a most nor nor- normal normal mal manner An eastern banking house In close touch with Wall all street makes this Ibis analysis of oC the tb situa situation lion tion Alter some little seasonal reo re recession cession movement ot of freight has again resumed Its lis upward course the total loadings for the last re re- re reporting re porting week beIng cars ahead of ot those of oC a 0 year ago coal particularly which had bad been ex cx expected to fall Call I ll oft off on en account or of orthe the some somewhat hat lower export de demand mand showing allowing a decided increase over the corresponding corresponding- week ek or of last year ear Business turnover Cr In Inthe inthe Inthe the textile industries remains large and new nel ord orders order rs ore ale satis satisfactory factory while hilI in slight slight- slightly slightly II ly reactionary tendency tendency- noted the tho has apparent apparent- apparently apparently I in year ear Iy ly gone cone no further For art Forward or- or orders or orders ders den as reported by automobile manufacturers and others have bave been Improving and the general business condition p throughout the country is showing showing renewed renewed activity preparatory to toa toa toa a substantial spring sprine trade Latest returns published by bythe bythe bythe the government g for Cor exports of finished products product show continued advance In the quantity of o manu mauu manufactured goods which we ire have been 11 able ble to export All MI these factors actors the basis forell for well ell sustained prices as the th year ear pro pro- progresses pro progresses greases furnishing the th for current expectations of o in increase crease in demand for Cor or the securIties ties ties or of o the better paying paying- compan compan- companies t lee ies Buyers Duers have hate been quite noticeably tending to shift Into Inlo these issues a and d to ga go out ot ot those In which which-f the return forthe for for- Corthe forthe I the past year ear now In hand laDlI are not making an sn altogether r s alls tl showing |