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Show 0 QLLAR-fl-YEAR IN CONFIDENT Prosperity Coming Again in Sprina. Industrial Leaders Predict WASHiNGTOlt, Dec. 11. Mon ihan , a hundred of the men who served the government at a dollar a year during tile war returned today for ! ihclr second annual reunion, confident confi-dent readjustment was jrolng forward it Isfactorliy Former members of the war indus-irl indus-irl liK.inl met to organizo a permanent perma-nent society, . purely leaders said, to 1 perpetauate war-time friendship. At .he same time, however, the opin- I ion was expressed that informal discussion dis-cussion would lead lo a broader utt- di rfttanding of business problems Daniel U IMard. president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, declared the reasons Were obvious why this country should soon be on a normal forward moving basis. Everything i Iho nation has to have is found within its borders, he said, and its railroads ; had fell no recession in business and I foresaw none. similar expression cimc from Al-I Al-I exander L.eg?e, general manager of ! the International Harvester company. He said he was concerned about the decline m farm commodities, but be-llevpd be-llevpd thai relief would come soon althOUgh It would he gradual. "It will come." he continued, "through a broadening of the pro-; pro-; duce markets " B m Baruch, former chairman ot the war industries board, asserted j there was "nothing to prevent the country from experiencing prosperity.-j prosperity.-j He warned against "too much pes-slsmlsm," pes-slsmlsm," sayiqg th.ir the worst of j the troubles were over and that the ; pessimistic tone should not be overdone. over-done. J L Replogle, who was director of steel supplies for the war Industlree hoard, predicted brighter and better I business conditions in Ap:il and Mu |