Evening star., 1914-06-05

10Cture6, Twelve ana a halI millions.
Crude foodstuffs. over four millions.
Partly manufactured foodstufYs, near
ly seven millions.
Here Is an aggregate Of twenty three
and a half millions out OF total in
crease of twenty-seven and half mil
lions. which is entirely in foods and ma
terials which our manufacturers use. The
balance is made up of an increase in fin
ished manufactures of five millions, less
decrease in partly finished manufac-
lures of two millions. showing a net In
crease in all imported manufactures of
three million dollars or about per cent
as compared with the month Of April a
year ago.
Exports for the Month.
Turning now to the exports for the
month of April, in which there is a de-
crease of thirty-seven millions for that
month, We find ten millions Of it in
crude materials for manufactures. four
teen millions of it in foodstuffs; over
five millions in partly finished manufac-
lures: making total of twenty-ntne
millions Eight millions out of thirty
seven millions is in fully finished manu-
factures, this last item showing the
smallest ratio Of decrease for the month
Of any of the great groups named. In
other words. it is In the line Of fully
finished manufactures that we have held
our pIOpOfIlOn OF business best.
''On the day when this was written the
Secretary of Labor read in the cabinet
i'll my presence a telegram from the labor
authorities of Missouri stating that 10000
men were needed in that state to help
harvest the crops. Another telegram from
the labor commissioner Of the state OF
Kansas calling for 10000 men for that
state for a like purpose was read, and at
the previous session he had read a dis
patch from the labor commissioner of
Oklahoma stating that 1900 men were
needed there.
Possible Justification.
TT is true that psychological depres-
sion is none the less a depression because
1t Is psychological. We may therefore
fairly look into other conditions to see
whether the mental state that exists has
a justincation in solid fact
1T is true, is it not. as one looks over
the country that all the conditions upon
which sound business should rest exist
in full force and vigor? Few will con-
tend that merchants are overstocked.
Rather is the reverse true. None are SO
rash as to say overspeculation exists.
Nay, on the contrary. the brokers COM
plain of lack of commissions. Money Is
not SO scarce that banks refuse legiti-
mate borrowers. The reverse Is true. We
have sent large sums abroad Of late
without cramping our financial resources
It comes to me from more than one
quarter Of the country that men who
are pessimistic in speech are prosperous
in pocket. Things are not tied up tight
when New York registers more automo-
biles than ever before and when that
great industry is pushed to the full.
Different Atmosphere.
If you and get away from the crowd
ed centers of our middle and eastern
states, where mental mourning exists for
conditions that can never return. since
the day of mastery Is over and commerce
must henceforth be a servant-ff. I say,
we get away from these centers into
which the light is breaking, but which
it has not yet fully Illuminated. We shall
find a different atmosphere. From far
off California and from Florida, from the
fields of Oklahoma and Kansas, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska comes the glad cry
There was no mourning in the orange
groves of California when saw them in
March, and Florida utters no cry OF
distress in sending $1,000 carloads Of her
fruit to market.
TT is a small and pitiful thing that
men should expect to reap political profit
out Of magnifying evils. However, the
too willing howls of the apostles of evil
are SO obvious as well as SO previous as
to be on the whole more humorous than
harmful. They make the judicious grieve.
but they bring no anxiety to the
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