The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-08


 full acknowledgment of defeat by the am enemy, there must still remain months
 of discussion before the many prob
 lens which have become so inter- -1 woven by the titanic developments of
 the last few years can be adjusted in way to assure lasting settlement
 EF TO, But the financial markets are not Sati Sss otn, ely to await the formal unscram- Main Eng of this remarkable omelette. A Streets. iiceable feature of the week has demand for the so-called peace
 MOk1 ks'-securities of those corpora .ONEy rrc' likely to benefit most by the ul- third morte change from war conditions to also will b, of peace. There has, too, been st, Mtller,ted some buying on foreign &C., .on |. In fact, a substantial degree Tnetoha- M 3tivity in Stock Exchange circles rate hv \ 4hown itself which may be con- All Warn sd doubly significant in view of .-~- act that the money situation has
 M9 placed under complete restraint YPEwRIT the very purpose or cnecklns EtenogrerT ulation of all descriptions and dis Meigs Blt aging competition of other invest 3unn ea7hts with the new war Foan, which st be subscribed successfully. The
 M1s scessities for full subscription are TANO T's great if, indeed, not greater, today Threeas they were when the campaign be- populasan one week ago. The time to Mrs. achieve completeness of victory is RHnwhen the enemy is on the run. He pie7.. must not be permitted to recover and JkIvn recuperate. Military, naval and finan- sin1i- cial preparations should from now on va1rv go forward with redoubled vigor. very There must be no letting down of ef- n ex- 1ort uhCh Ihe enemy dckhoWleuseS thing deIeat-untll our Wofh mas peen com tured pleteu III every ueta!l. A large over +bo+ subscription of 5000, 000, 900 loan will fans be appraised at it's full value in Ber-
 lin, and by inevitably shortening the ,,,oro war will be calculated to save thou +a1,o. sands of lives of American boys lover 11,o there"
 ,,,oa As to the postwar problems, they 4t are even more complex and divergent Louis, nan -o1I al o<'e . - was unexpectedly precipitated Then, t' everything was thrown into confusion 3NLv Oldest economic laws seemed at fault, .. Peace, at any rate, will have the great
 5 advantage that the consternation of | |4 surprise will not be present and that II, -r W tno ample time will be afforded thought S full persons to arrive at their own con- o"l 1- clusions. It is not my intention at ~ this writing to attempt to foreshadow 4 .,- tlo the effects of peace upon the market IIl tnree for securities. Ample time for that oii oH will be available later. But one or "a d,, dcta" two Fundamentals will, perhaps, prove ! m of interest as a first basis for indi- or vidual consideration. In the first coh- place, the world must turn more or t the 1ass sudden1,- from war ,,renarat tione car to pursuits identified with peace. This n1tn will mean that corporations whose d the n-odrc+s can he cbsnead +o roaa+ tte l ana demands of peace will benefit. War ufas has been expressing attention so con- 'rheIS pletely that sight appears to have 7ly to been lost of the fact that the require orld's }1o mo ooo so,1s have noo.n,,hi1e rock boan occunouIo+ing Nev bui1di,,. /. 0, for oo,s+r,,o+ior for ios+.,,oa ,,,oe fis, suited or+i.11, s,,sne,,dad as Q ,.as,,1t oe +t1e n the intarference of bigb cos+s with +be taken oossihi1i+1, If inodaorota ,.s+t,r,, or end. .i+I oa 1a+ar L tl, oo1,aa4 4
 the Government that all but abso-
 1ute1y construction should be suspend hlES. ed in order to prevent competition - with necessary war work. Thus to, oel ;. day we are in arrears to the con. is the struction of necessary public build. S fall ings, such as schools, etc., as we'll as owing in the matter of office buildings, and t Sat especially in the instance of apart. Fresh ment houses. Here is an urgent de Ohio mand which must be filled as soon a:
 channels of industrial life can be Uni turned from war to peace Then 'roken too, clothing manufactur have beer compelled to cut down their civilian
 trade. In this direction we may ex'
 pect an immediate reaction A com
 plete ban has recently been placed tn all upon the manufacture of pleasure au. IS, is tomobiles. Here, again, is prospect Satur- for an active demand And so or ton of throughout the long list of our indus is ar tries may we expect bursts of peace eft of activity. The return of our railroads mittee and telegraph and telephone lines lission to their owners will constitute sepa- it is rate problems which will stand more est or less upon their own foundations. Major Labor will, Of course, probably pre- hester sent the paramount peace problem Park Its >ramihlcauons enter into all oul
 national endeavors. In their connec.
 ton with our foreign trade our high
 wage scales will present an apparent
 ly insuperab ble obstacle. We will m have, for instance, millions of tons o1 m new merchant marine. To maintain m this profitably we must have cor.