Vagabond Editorials

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vaults of prosperity. Many of the business magazines are publishing cartoons and editorials elaborating on this thought.

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Curtailment of industry is the refuge of business as a general thing when trouble comes along, yet every thinking man krrows that curtailment, with its attendant reduction in the purchasing and investing powers of those who depend on that industry for their livelihood, must necessarily add fuel to the fire which brought about the curtailment in the first place- Curtailment, except as a temporary expedient, is always dangerous. It is unquestionably necessaqf at times, but intensifies rather than solves the problems of business dePressions

No business economist or financial wizard has yet solved the problem of rapid emergence from business dips. The wisdom of Solomon would seem to pale at tackling so hopeless a task. But certain it is that the good old fundamentals, intelligently applied, will do lots of good. A grin, in- stead of a frown; a cheerful word" instead of dire foreboding; a muzzling of unnecessaryr dannist uttcr.nces; a hopeful aftitude and an optimistic word; a dispLay of cooperation rather than selfishness; dl coupled with a cheerful faith that everything will soon be dl right' and that each of us can do our durndest to make thi.gs all right; all tbese things, and dl other tbings of a hopeful and positive character, are of practicd value in bringing back good times. ***'

The entire lumber industry of ttrc United States should get solidly and militantly behind the movemcnt to bar Russian lumber and Russian pulpwood from ttis country. An organized protest that cannot bc dcoicd should be raised against Soviet-produced matcrials. Whcther it be produced by convict labor or not' should not bc riat€rial. Lumber and pulpwood rna& from confiscated properties and forests, manufactured cithcr by convicts or Comrnunists, sbould be dike distasteful to Amcricans and to America.