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Show BUSINESS NOT AS USUAL When war was first declared, the call went out to the country, "Keep Business as Usual." At that time it was feared that the war scare would have a depressing effect upon the industries of the country and caiuie business to "staer close to chore." Ordinarily this might have been the result, but In the present instance the very opposite has been the case. Instead of curtailing business In any direction, the war has givem such a stimulus to business in all lines that the American people today are more prosperous than at any time in their history, and this In the face of the huge sums they have been called upon to contribute to the various war activities. Now the slogan is not business as usual, but business NOT as usual greater than usual, with more vim and vigor than we have ever before put into it. We are called on to make every minute and hour of our days to COUNT. The manufacturer is urged to speed up production, the farmer is urged to multiply the yield of his acres. Every mill and factory and shop in the land s urged to give its best efforts to swelling the volume of business because only by keeping keep-ing the volume up to the highest possible mark can we be enabled to respond to the tremendous demands that are being made upon the resources re-sources of the country. We have been accustomed to boast of the immense NATURAL and UNDEVELOPED UN-DEVELOPED resources of the country. coun-try. The time has come when those resources must be DEVELOPED. An unopened coal mine must be 'opened 'open-ed and its treasures thrown on the market. Mineral deposits must be developed and their contents given to swell the total of materials. Valuable Val-uable tracts of timber that are needed for manufactures must be laid under the ax and the saw. The RESOURCES of the country must be brought into USE. While prices of all commodities are high, the country has money millions and billions of it. Almost any kind of a workman in any branch of industry can command a decent salary, and good workmen are in demand at wages never before dreamed dream-ed of. But in order that this may continue, con-tinue, ALL must work and earn and spend. The purse strings must not be closed on the dollar that is in hand, but it must be spent freely that a crop of dollars may be the result. What if raw materials are high? The world is crying for the finished product at figures even higher. The demand in all lines is, supplies, supplies, and more supplies. There is no limit to the demand except the capacity of the country. Let the order be "Full Bpeed ahead till the war is won." |