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Show ! PRICES DROPPING; FUTURE BUSINESS. Each week Bradstreet's give what is j known as food index number, which tells at a glance tho tendency of I prices. Last week, based on the prices per pound, thirty articles of food dell de-ll clined from $3.66 the weok prior to jj 3.49. A year ago the same articles 1 sold at $5.10. V This proves that in a week tho drop j was 4.6 per cent and In a year 31.5 j per cent. j Here In Ogden th big slump In I prices did not become effective until Hga' within the last few days and now there is n genuine scaling down. What will be the course of prices in the next ninety flays? The answer tq that question roquires an answer to the broader question What is tho general business outlook out-look I The head of the Chamber of Com merce of tho United States sa.vn the J country is close to the bottom of do-Illation do-Illation and soon after the first of 1JI21 'the mending Will boRin. He should he 1 in a position to know One of the big financial papers saya j pessimism Is less marked in some I banking cirrlos than in others, and is some bic lines there arc some slight J signs of a heartening up. There an' students of the business situation who look for a long period of I readjustment, because other depres jsions in the United States have been slov. in passing Hut they overlook the fact that the United States has become be-come a creditor nation within the lasl few years and has more money per capita than ever and more developed resources and simply needs a restoration restora-tion of confidence to re establish nil industrial actl ities. .Many of (he big employers arc beginning be-ginning i talk of taking back man of the workers they dismissed a month ago. The railroads are notifying those who had good records to report for iui soon after the first of the year. Tomorrow the big industries could restore confidence by pursuing a general gen-eral policy of optimism and enlarging their fields of employment. |