Vagabond Editoriafs

(Continued from Page 6) is particularly true of building things-then the lumber industry is every day building up a reserve that will hasten its pick-up when the pick-up starts. It is normal for human beings to build. Under ordinary conditions there is what we are pleased to call a normal volume of such build- ing. Human need for housing and shelter will never grow less, but will increase. So when for two years humanity builds only a small percentage of that normal, that hous_ ing and shelter NEED is being pyramided by nature itself.

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You may not be able to measulre it right now, but it is there just the same.. When things are as they have been of late, people contract their housing uses and their housing needs. When the warm sun of normalcy starts to shine again, the housing and shelter need very rapidly expands. Today people group together to save shelter ex_ pense. Tomorrow things improve, and everyone expends his housing desires and demands. you can't put your finger definitely on that sort of potential business, but we know that it is there, and that when it comes back, it comes fast. *** conditions and is surrounded with normal potentialities such as just referred to, should be the first to come back. Prosperity will be like Lady Luck; she'll run to meet the fellow who is seeking her best.

Nehemiah said: "The ;.r; "; freaven He will prosper us, and we His children, will arise and BUILD". \M€'re all ready for the prosperity and the building both. But don't forget ! Nehemiah said, "Arise". ***

Speaking of arising to the situation, a retail lumberman in an agricultural district in Arkansas is accepting oats, wheat, corn, or hay as half payment for building materials from farmers. The other half must be cash. ff everyone would do a little something of that sort it might help a lot.

The Federal Trade "r;J"r;r has re-written and reworded the trade practice rules they entered into some time since with the millwork industry of the United States. If the Federal Trade Commission could re-write and re-word it so that the words "net profit" could be found in the industry somewhere, in fact as well as fancy, wouldn't it be "a grand and glorious feeling"?