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Show WiLILii bliVhuLY liiiXS. Well all I tnow is just what I read in the papers, pa-pers, or what I have read in the pa- pers in the last I -vear- 1333' 'ou are "Leaving v -fr C Cheyenne." Now yT. 'ets kinder add frr up arul see wnat tlie old year . JrSiy (fT dealt us. Qiyr J ne Pened on frpys the tail encl ot yPS the "RePubli- X y cans Last Round Up," and she is jlK ending on "Many New Deals." She held a lot of hope when she come in. Mr. Roosevelt had just been elected elect-ed by eome unearthly majority, forgot for-got how much. Lots of folks felt like it might have been better if Mr. Hoover had resigned and turned the office over on or about the first, as it will be from now on. That would have given the new President a chance to get his plans started ten weeks earlier. Had the bank holiday been called ten weeks earlier you would have saved ten weeks of continuance con-tinuance closings. In fact some of the banks ought to have been closed before they opened. Well there wasent a thing could be done, or that could happen in January or February, as naturally the old Administration couldent put over anything. They had been diss-credited diss-credited at the polls. So January and February were a total loss as far as action. Congress was in session, ses-sion, but they were just bidding each other goodbye, for it was a sad old bunch. Many an old timer that had been In those old halls for years, and did his best, was ousted. Lots of cases the voters dident know what they were getting in his place, but they dident care. They just wanted want-ed something else. So January and February were null and void. But brother when March came, things begin to pop. Mr Roosevelt was sworn in about eleven A. M. and before lunch he had every bank in the land shut. He called Congress in extra session ses-sion while he was having his desert for lunch. Well from then on you got to think fast as to what happened, hap-pened, (I cant remember either) but just about everything that we had never thought of happened. First thing he had to do was to get the bankers out of hock. This brings us up to about June, and they had an Economic Conference Confer-ence in London, (but we better let that drop). All 1 can remember was that William Allen White went over and wrote about it. T hats about the best thing in it. Well I guess the deligates came back. 1 dont know whether they did or not, for we cant remember who they were. That brings us up to July and August. Au-gust. Right along in there somewhere some-where Congress adjourned. If it interests in-terests you I can look It up and find you the exact date. No? All right we will go ahead. Around in there somewhere we went off the gold. 1 like to forgot that, as it dident interest inter-est me at the time, or since then -either. All I can remember is England Eng-land and France were broken-hearted, so it must have been the right thing. And say wait a minute, the N.R.A. came in there someplace too. Then the scare over inflation. That has been a daily dozen since we dived off the gold. Then we were oupyuaeu to De wasnea up if we dident stabilize the dollar. You couldent have a thcimomoter dollar. Well here it is going Into another year, and. we still dont know its value. An Englishman wont give us but sixty cents for one, but then an Englishman has no use for it. I wouldent know what to do with one of his pounds either. As Fall crept on us prohibition crept off of us. We were allowed to sell liquor, but nobody knew by whom it was to be sold. Now these and a million of other Important things have happened this Past year. Now we got it down lets add up what did the year bring I 'Kv us? Well for the " , - . , ( lAOfC 1933' w first and best yj- thing it brought vfp? us a year nearer TN j? to the old pros C ) ' perity corner Jv Lots of benefi- WJ cial things have Ms?! happened. Some j. schemes havent pv worked out 100 'df, per cent, but there has always 'Ofsaasja been a constant effort to help the unemployed, un-employed, and the little fellow. Roosevelt wauts to see the big fellow fel-low do well, but he wants to make sure that he gives an even break in the accumulation of his wealth. But, taking the year all the way through, you can mighty easy report "Progress." ' This depression was deep, and you dont climb out of any thing as quick as you fall in. Its certain, y been a yeai of excitement, not a dull moment. 1 think we can binder got time to relax in 34, and give some of these plans a chance to jell. So, S3, yon are liable in some future World's Alamac to c pointed out as the turning point. MiS'auth: rt:Mtica!t, Inc. |