Show TRADING GOODS in the times before modern factory development much direct trading of goods could be done business depressions were not so serious if times were bad in some town so go that orders could not be secured for the products of the community then the various trades could swap with each other if the shoemaker could get no orders but lie he needed a suit of clothes and the tailor could get no orders for his garments but he needed shoes then the shoemaker could walk over t abo th t tora arshop or hou shop and fix it up with that gentleman antle that he would make mini him one or more pairs of boots in return for the needed suit so although the circulation of cash was impeded by the hard times yet the various trades could find work b by y swapping between each other the business machine has now become so extraordinary ly y complicated that the same remedy is not available some people have halle thought 1 that that old principle of barter might be applied even in these times they have argued that some factor factory y or group of factories making shoes or other products might swap their merchandise directly with factor factories les making garments or other things and thus both groups of producers could find work and satisfy their need even if orders were lacking it is conceivable that such a scheme might still be worked e d but in all probability the needs of the people are so complex and individual they 1 all demand so many different things that such a plan is not practical but although the complication of modern business does lead from time to time to serious depressions yet no one wants to goo go back to the old primitive tinis times when people did not have a twentieth part of the he well being of today if our people all woke wae up tip tomorrow believing that business was going to be good and all placed orders and made pu based on normal business needs all depression would b be over within a fortnight |