The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-05-25

1900 VuAy y $~OV,UVV,VVV P"
$1,OOO 900 900 worth of our products
would be needed by foreign govern
ments at war, the flow Of prosperity
became a flood, and we still feel It's
effect.
How tremendous then, will be the in
crease in business prosperity that will
follow the expenditure during the
next IL months Of the s7,oOo,0OO,ooo
recently appropriated for wal pur-
poses?
Have you any conception OF how
much $1,000, 0O0, 900 is?
There are 6,363,OOO farms in the
United States. If the seven billion
dollars were all spend for farm pro-
ducts it would be the equivalent OF an
$1100 order for each farm in this
country.
There r approximately 3,OOO
counties in the United States. If the
seven billion dollar order were d.
vided equally by counties, the aver
age would be two and a third mil
lions.
Would orders totaling S2,3333,333
farm and manufactured products OF
placed in your county this year for
all descriptions help your business!
Would it increase property values!
Would it benefit your farmers, your
retail merchants, and your travelling
men? Of course it would.
In Wisconsin with its 81 counties,
the total for the state would be $751;
100000.
A little thinking will convince any
of us that it is not business depres-
sion that awaits US just around the
corner, but business prosperity such
as the United States has never seen
before.
Prosperity Necessary for Victory
The cost of the war in money will
be enormous, and sooner or later the
taxpayers of the country must foot
the bill. Americans to pay this war
cost, must have the utmost in pros
perity. Prosperity is needed in war
time far more than it ever is in peace.
Happy it is for our land and for
our people that conditions are right
for even greater prosperity than we
have heretofore experienced. How
foolish, then, at this time when hui
man needs Of all descriptions are
overwhelming our factories, and the
demand for labor is greater than the
supply, to do those things which put
the brake on prosperity, disarrange
commercial activities and interfere
with the normal course of business.
Panics and business depressions
may easily be brought about, wholly
without any basic reason, simply by a
general pessimistic state Of mind.
If retailers and business men, gen.
orally, get the idea that this is a time,
simply because war is on, to curtail
their purchasers, to retrench rigidly
and cut down aggressive sales efforts,
the effect of business prosperity may
be that Of using the emergency brake
when the car is running at high speed,
The shock may be ruinous.
Don't Retrench
If folks generally, simply because
\ war is on, believe they should re-
l trench rigidly in their personal expen-
5 d~itures, wear their old clothes, buy
no new furniture for the homes
hoard their cash, postpone new build.
ings, stop the construction of roads
and other public work, they are put.
ting the emergency brake or n~ationa
prosperity, at a time when our Ia
tons future may depend on n~ationa
: prosperity.
Warming along this line is timely
because some folks, eve high in off
1 cial circles, have given this subjec
y too little serious thought and ar
e making the mistake of advising cur
tailment of all expenditures of what
e ever nature, stern retrenchment ant
rigid economy.
e Some states and municipalities ar
3 stopping road building and other pub
y lie work.
j. Some folks are boarding cash whe
e gilt-edged securities are available i
n any quantity. Some factories eve
e are closing down in the presence Q
s urgent demand for almost everythin
n that machinery and labor can make
e a tendency is shown to withhold tn
purchase of anything beyond the az
ID tual necessities of life.
is Business As Usual
~ There is, Of course, the usual nee
Of for the elimination of waste, all alOn
he the line, and particularly preventio
Of of waste of food and other thing
needed in war. Thrift there shoul
be, just as there should always |
i'll thrift. Economy there should be, fl
n economy is one phase of etficienc.
RS but we should not forget that econ
my is best defined as the judicious e:
MS penditure of money.
on We should all remember that OF
p success in the war may depend on OF
or national prosperity-that "Busine
in as Usual" is demanded of each al
ut, every one of US from the standpoi
y - %r,,o y,%r,