Show BUSINESS RE REVIVAL demonstrated D IN FIGURES predictions of prosperity to come have been taking much space in the public press tor for the last year opinions of many men supposedly qualified to speak nith ith authority have been sought and eagerly published but here is not a prediction based on hope or general conditions but upon statistical facts some new york banks took the trouble to gather up the facts and present them as real evidence according to these figures bank clearings in cities are per cent higher than a year ago industrial du employment in new york state 11 per cent and throughout the country 15 per cent pig iron production per cent zinc production 84 per cent copper production 20 per cent automobile 59 per cent sugar meetings mel niel tings 78 per cent electric power production 21 per cent building contracts gl 61 per cent etc these figures are the true index of what has happened and a firm foundation on which to build a tremendous prosperity for the immediate future from these facts the banks draw the obvious conclusions that real rea prosperity Is here and but waiting the settlement of upset industrial conditions to be visible As an officer of one of these organizations puts it when all allowances have been made for the clouds now overhead and for the great seriousness of the forces of disorganization as ox ex pressel in the strikes the domestic economic position presents pleasing contrasts with that prevailing one year ago when american business was at the lowest ebb in many years to measure some of these contracts is to gain the twofold two fold conviction that business recovery has been substantial and that when strikes are settled the revival will logically continue many months before reaching the crest of a new prosperous era |