The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-12-16

The Bard of Avon his masterpiece makes Hamlet say
There's nothing good bad but thinking makes
Whether you agree with the melancholy Dane depends
upon what you think about it. Does that mighty
near proving the of his statement?
To the old old question: rs life worth the living there
are One general the other personal The
first depends upon the liver The second is 1T depends
upon your liver
Take it as you will Life in a large is what
make it, and according to thoughts do fashion it.
The European is the crime of the ages No man
begin to compute The least of its is its
cost that stagges the mind Its chain of dollars
would circle the globe The debt will pile up generations
not yet greater than the circulating of this the
greatest Nation of the world And that takes account OF
the broken and desoated homes and widowed
and orphaned children and wrecked and ruined lives and the
long trail Of poverty that will follow in their wake
The effect Of that confined to Europe 1t is
world wide far effect business and the fortunes
of men is concerned Business and institutions this
country thought be conservative and safe upset
by the unprecedented crash when Germany fired the that
rang round the world that they topped and tell The
revebeaons of that upset all the best laid plans OF the
world and who caught short on working
capital and institutions caught long material on hand had
to throw up their hands and quit
of the great lessons be learned from this one
of the great truths it teaches Nation veh itself
We dependent upon another and the man
the other side OF the hemisphere is our nelghbor
man was working in the pney woods of Forrest coun-
ty Uneered untutored. Very plain, very common earn
ing his living by the Of his face What matters to him
what goes on in Germany? What if little Belgium is
run by foreign foes What has the woodnan the Forrest
county forest do with it? What business is it of his?
He has thought give to it, And yet the shock
of that gun fired Belgian soil shocked this western
hemisphere that the in the woods called from his
work and his daily occupation for time and he
condemned idenes and his family to plnchlng pow
erty for long and dreary months.
No nation iveth itself.
Devastation followed the firing of that gun. 1t
BRIDGES and and railroads and vehicles OF
every and description. Following this ruthless waste
of the God of War must rebuilding The war itself
have something to feed upon The bridge that was
burned be rebuilt The railroad pieces and scat
tered the Winds be re-esablshed he wreck OF
today be repaired tomorrow And the workman IS
called back the woods and the demand for his and
the product of his mill greater than before Lumber
that rottng the yards called its Prices
that took tumble climb back their normal place. Wages
that cut are renstae Gloom gives place gadness
The depression of the night fades Prosperity bells
in their glad acclaim with Christmas cheer.
The loss of business profit this from the Euro
pean 1914 and 1915 incalcuable good deal OF
it. a great deal of it, came because thinking made So
There was sound economic why cotton should
slump Just the slumped and the slump the
South millions OF earned profits There real
for the slump lumber. Lumber good then
but the lumber market did think and because of that
price lumber low that mills met interest charges
and other fixed expenses by saving lumber and selling
less than actual cost of production
But history repeats itself AS we olden times there
were lean years years of plenty the dark depressing
days and weeks and months that have passed with