The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-05-12

where the trade goes hand in hand
with the flag, war has actually help
ed business. England herself is do.
ing ain enormous trade with all the
acknowledgement world and Is actually
financing her enormous war expenses
from the extra war tariffs she is ex
acting from the great profits tina.
have come to her business houses
since the conflagration~ broke out.
Canada reports unprecedented condi-
lions of material prosperity even with
a half million of the best of her nine
or ten million people under arms.
South Africa, Australia and New Zea-
land, despite their sacrifices in hui
man material. find money plentiful
and general trade thriving in con-
dition of rapid and generous profits.
In America we're afraid and 1t is
the very element in business that
should worry least that seems to be
apprehensiye. The little fellow who
runs his local retail business is afraid
that the intangible, underlined some
thing that goes along with this coun-
try being "at war; is going to para;
lyze his trade, although the first few
weeks of II have shown him things
getting better every week. Not so
the big business house. The Satur.
day Evening Post is the national
barometer of business confidence and
opportunity. When it is running 100
to 150 pages per week II means that
II has an extraordinarily heavy run
Of national advertising, The shrewd.
est business and economic brains OF
the nation are at the head of those
nationally organized concerns which
advertise in periodicals of continent
wide circulation When they are us.
ing big space and all of them are buy
ing II means they see an era OF plenti-
ful money, OF individual prosperity,
OF general liyelness aboard in the
land, Consequently they advertise in
immediate advance of II to get some
OF II. The Post has been carrying
unprecedented business in recent
weeks.
Every national business is going
boldly into the field to reap the ma
terial harvest the Provisioning bust
ness brains see already ripening for
the reaping. 1t is only the little fell
low the first and most immediate,
the most considerable beneficiary of
good conditions--whoi is scared and
tender.toed at this moment,
The reason for the faith in great
prosperity for America is founded on
the soundest of principles making for
world conditions-th certainty OF
great sums of money being turned
loose all over America In return for
products to so TO other countries
which must pay the bills. We are
about to add $4,000, 100000 of English
and French money to our own avail
able existing wealth, TO porduce the
materials for which ii will pay, every
ounce of labor energy, every factory
wheel, every plowshare and hoe In
America will be called on for the
most continuous service at the high
est wages ever paid for like service
anywhere in the world We are not
sending this $4,000. O0o, 0OOe across
the water These loans are merely
credits we extend to these two Gus
toners who will pay our merchants
aud brokers and producers in the oe
legations these bonds represent, oui
government stands behind the valid
ity OF the bonds and the banks in tn
federal reserve can transform then
into new currency as fast as their Gus
toners put them up. In other words
the Allies give us promiSsory note
which our government endorses Il
full and which our banks viii dis
count at par,
Thus instead OF taking wealu
away from America we are addin