South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-15

With the opening of spring this city
and its residents are looking forward
for big improvements. Already build
ingS are under construction and many
more are going to be built. Many new
bungalows are going to be erected and
several blocks Of new cement walks
will be put in. In fact this year VIII
wind up with many marked improve
ments. 1t will be banner year for our
good city. The farmers predict big
crops as there is now plenty of mois-
ture in the ground TO almost insure a
bumper corn crop, and with the occa-
sional rains there is no reason why
everyone should not be cheerful Good
crops help as much 10 big business
as any other thing we know of, and
the assurance for that certainly looks
encouraging. Let every business man
step TO il, reach out and draw in the
trade. No matter how far out they
live get them here; make things in
teresting for them. Let everyone pull
the same way. Forget others faults;
do your part and invite them TO do
theirs. They will; surely they won't
pull the opposite way. Work together,
pull together go after things that viii
make big Improvements and at thu
and of 1915 see what big things have
been done. Stanberry has bunch OF
live wires and bunch of up-to-date,
nuEllIk
heads get set one way, then look out,
something will be dOing.-Headligh
Stanberry, Mo-, April l, 1913.
Times are tight, of course, but that
there is plenty Of faith in Newcastle's
future is attested by the fact that local
building operations this spring are on
a larger scale than last year. Those
who are behind these extensive i'm
the present depression is merely tenn
porary and that when general conn-
dence has again been restored, the city
is going to enjoy the greatest boom
in all its history. The pOtenuallues
are here and further growth Is aDso-
lutely inevitable. Let business once
be freed from the hobbies of dema-
gogic interference and we shall Wit
ness such an awakening as few OF us
can imagine. Those who prepare now
prepare wisely for they are taxing
time by the OrelOck.-COurier, New
castle, Ind, April 3. 1915.
WESTINGHOUSE there are hard
times under the Wilson administra-
ton I have failed TO find II, said Ed
ward ID. Easton. president or the
American Graphaphone CO. of New
York in an interview here To-Day
Never in so years business expert
ence have I found business SO good
AS far as my own contract with the
comm ercial world is concerned. we are
now at the height of prosperity and
the best part OF it is that we are going
higher. Prospects everywhere, as tar
as my vision, are roster than they
have been for years.
LAS a practical illustration OF pros
perity. the American Graphaphone
Co. is about TO resume common olVl-
dends which were suspended under
the Roosevelt administration. Al that
time business men everywhere found
II necessary 20 Tetrench and TO cut
profits and dividends. This was es-
pecially true with manufacturers or
Injuries. or things other than neces-
stiles. However, despite all the clamor
of poor business and hard times We
have found Il possible 10 resume dlVl-
dends at a higher rate than We were
paving when forced To discontinue
them under the Roosevelt administra-
ton: and what IS more I have just let
contracts for the erection OF a 25O,-
600 addition TO our plant at Bridge
port. Conn. We are paying higher
wages than ever before in the history
OF Bridgeport. which is essentially a
factory city. and are giving the men
shorter hours for more pay than they