Show outlook bright signs are beginning to multiply that after a brief but drastic backsliding back sliding in the last two months of the year we are once more about to make progress on the highroad to prosperity and better things in a recent statement given out at the white house the president said that reports which have come to him since the conferences with business heads a few weeks ago indicate that 1930 will be 0 a bigger building year than 1929 partial returns have been received from a survey of twenty nine states and these returns indicate an outlay of in coriat construction ruction during the present year which Is a tidy sum to say the least the figure will of course be co considerably larger when the complete returns are in up to this time there 11 are re complete estimates from only sixteen 0 ot f the forty eight states prom item various r sources there are reports of growing optimism I 1 bough nough and while few are optimistic e enough to believe that 1030 1930 will be a 06 I 1 record breaking year the opinion Is geni crony expressed that it will be a good business year with steady improvement as the time goes on Is in his statement given out to newspapermen pa the president said aid our drive for increase in construction and improvement work to take up unemployment Is showing most encouraging results and it looks as it if the work undertaken will be larger tor for 1930 than for 1929 the department of commerce now has complete returns from the governors of sixteen states covering public works to be undertaken in 1030 1930 by the state I 1 municipal and county authorities they have partial returns from thirteen more tates states the total so tar far reported and including the federal government Is about and in nearly all cases larger than tor for 1929 the surveys are coming in dally daily and should be completed by mid january the preliminary estimate of the railways for construction and betterments for 1930 was and tor for the public cutill utilities ties including the telephones the total of these items so far as this does not include the balance ot of the a state it a te municipal and county work nor the building construction nor the industrial and factory improvements which h ich latter are now under survey by the special c ial business committee the a teel steel companies inform me this morning that the effect of the drive la Is already showing in their orders which are beyond their expectations f while this Is of course no time for foolish speCUla speculation tiOu or the spending of money tor for sp endings sake bake it Is equally true that it is no time tor for pessimism the man who is frightened by shad shadows and who draws himself into his shell will only help to bring on the dangers which lie he Is seeking to avoid the basti best way of course Is to 0 go o ahead carefully I 1 and constructively doing the best we can to make 1930 a prosperous and happy year in the united states I 1 |