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Show Intriguing Henry Ford comes forward with the viewpoint that "the depression is a wholesome thing, in general." His argument is that, the continuance contin-uance of our previous false prosperity pros-perity would have done more harm. While there may be something some-thing in this idea, the fact is that the present depression, largely caused by the mismanagement of business and financial leaders, has wrought great injury to millions mil-lions of innocent people. These unfortunate citizens had no chance to protect themselves. To be perfectly frank, we hav-j been somewhat intrigued by insistent in-sistent advice from the "big business" bus-iness" boys, who have constantly urged the public to buy because prosperity is just "around the comer." We have even been mildly intrigued with the Administration's Admin-istration's insistence that Industry and employers in general maintain main-tain former wages and retain employees em-ployees in the face of the fact that the Government itself is setting set-ting an example of stringent reductions, re-ductions, which apply, according to the President, to even "meritorious "meri-torious projects." While everyone is forced to realize the serious condition in which the country finds itself and that this is aggravated by lack of general confidence, there seems to be no escape from a persistent policy of "everyone for himself." This will end in time but to prophesy pro-phesy when would be risky business bus-iness even for a professional prophet. |