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Show THE COMING SMASH. You shake your head and mutter, I , "The world is in an awful condition. I don't know what It's coming to." Cheer up. brethren. Tho big prob-i prob-i 1ms and unrests we have loday always al-ways follow the great wars that come, roughly, every 50 ears We have labor unrest, business failures, fail-ures, undercurrents of mob nervous ness that occasionally resemble masr i insanity, and it takes a lot of brain 'cudgeling to make both ends meet Any old man will tell you th"9t they, (had, in principle, the same troubles latter the Civil war. They look might ier now, merely because the population popula-tion Is larger and the troubles are K.taged on a bigger scale The five-ring circus of 1922 is fundamentally fun-damentally the same as the one-ring show that, used to tour country towns It Is bigger now, because the audience audi-ence is bigger, but there isn't any more show "per spectator" than there used to be- So with troubles, result ing from the war A wise nerve specialist, in H O. i Wells' book, "The Secret Places of the Heart," comments "This sense of a coming bmash is epidemic It's at the back of all sorts of mental trouble. It is a new state of mind Before the war It was tbnor mal a phase of neurasthenia Now it : Is almost the normal slate with whole classes of intelligent people A loss of confidence in the general back ground of life. So that we seem to float over abysses." The world ate a lot of bad mental and economic food during the wai l The unnatural diet refuses to dig06' It ferments. While the medicine of deflation is at work, the world has j cramps. It is an old disease, easily recog- nized by specialists in the history of j economics, sociology and psychology, j The Important thing to keep in muni during these 6trenuous times, D that the malady causing our aches and pains ia not fatal. The world has recovered from it before It will recover again. A cheerful patient always recovers taster than the sick, man who sees nothing in sight except hearse plumes The more the world allows Itself to be discouraged, the longer the world will remain flat on Its back-Recovery back-Recovery already Is In evidence The patient Is sitting up, asking for nourishment. The agony is not all gone some of it may linger as long as I we live but the worst of It is over. I oo |