Show STOP THAT HOWLING it is the newspaper mans lot to be in steady contact with the people lie be is serving and in our case this means all people 0 of the county business men farmers professional men people who mingle with the society set and those who stand aloof and confine all their energy to their homes it is for the most of it not only an interesting but at the same time a very pleasant part of the journalists duties but as far as we are concerned we are getting disgusted with those of the people we meet who unceasingly complain about hard times business depression financial stringency and who constantly I 1 howl calamity get that out of your system look around you and you will notice mr calamity howler that h a t you are wrong that where e ever y you 0 I 1 ook look there is less justification for pessimistic talk now than at any time since the close of the war I 1 sevier being first and above all a c county of farming communities let u consider the agricultural conditions first we admit that the farmer is not in as good a condition as he should be because his dollar speaking relatively will not buy as much now as it did in prewar pre war times this shows that further readjustments are necessary in the economic situation but they undoubtedly will be made the market reports ot the department of agriculture show that both corn and wheat are selling higher now than they averaged for the prewar pre war period sugar heets beets brought a very good price last year and another bonus check tor for last years crop is due in october this year an exceptionally good crop is 13 to be expected and the price will 1 be very good again sheep are beginning to move at a good price wool brought a very good price and even cattle is slowly picking up should not we rather rejoice rejoice than howl calamity industrially we in the united states are better oft off than at any previous time in the count rys history As a whole the industrial plants are running capacity or near ly so in view of the fact that during the war the capacity for output of nearly every industry in the united states was increased very materially in many cases doubled the statement that industries are now working capacity means that they are turning out more goods than ever before in their history this Is proved by the figures during the past year the following industries have made production records pig iron cotton textile steel ingot crude oil motor vehicle and locomotives in addition there has been during the last year the largest volume of mail order sales ever in the history of the country the largest volume of retail sales and the largest volume of railroad car loadings athis the national banks on june 30 this year showed an increase in deposits of 0 over the corresponding date last year the savings deposits as reported by banks throughout all section of the united states for july showed an increase of GOO compared with july a year ago the mercantile agencies report the business failures for july the smallest in number since november 1920 and the liabilities of these failures were lower than any month for two and one half years this is a most encouraging sign because as a rule july is one of the heaviest months in business failures the employment situations continues satisfactory the U S employment service shows that during the month of july which is usually the month of seasonal layoffs lay offs 37 cities showed increased employment as against 27 showing slight decrease in employment as compared with june classified by industries nine of the fourteen basic industries showed an increase in july as compared with june As compared with july a year ago the reports show a tremendous increase in employment in all the basic industries cant you read those signs yes you can and because you can stop that calamity howling throw away the hammer and blow the horn born |