The Pulaskian., 1919-01-31
THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.
STANDING ON OUR HEADS.

ever" but whoever wrote 1t years ago
never ever dreamed of how the world
would be turned upside down in less
than five years. Revolutions of the
days usually dragged a slow length
along, but IN the 10th century changes
have been SO abrupt as to take away
the breath of any student of history.
There was a dreadful time for %
years after the French Revolution,
before Napoleon Strengthened out af-
fairs of France, and nobody can pre-
ditto how long it vii ltake to untangle
the present dreadful snarl in Russia
and in the defeated belligerent coun-
TREES, but there is hope in theNspeed
with which things now progress.
Upside down, or standing on It's
head, applies to so many customs and
things that contemplation is bewilder-
ing. Take the case at home. Who
could have dreamed rev years ago
that in the sixth consecutive year Of
a Democratic national administration
national prohibition would come
about by an amendment to the consti-
tuition. In those days gone by many
of us were taught that the word
Democrat was a synonym for rum.
Who could ever dream of a gross
war debt approximately $25,000,000,-
000 net debt probably S15,000,000 900
or less built up in less than two years,
yet curiously enough there are trench
dous monetary resources as yet I'M
tapped in the country.
Then that other upset, SO great that
it cannot yet be realized, the United
States turned from debtor nation to
the greatest creditor nation in his
tory
What happened to the farmers:
Complete reversal of financial condi-
tons, mortgages paid off, money i'll
the bank, comforts galore, and 1919
crop coming on which may yield the
gigantic sum of $25. 900, 100000 more
money in u months than the gross
cost of the war, and almost twice as
much as the probable net cost.
Standing on it's head is the old
''trust busting" theory, and with it
the old pastime of railroad batting
Nobody sees a gold dollar any more,
or a yellowhack gold certificate, and
nobody cares. A complete reversal
Of financial attitude. People know
there is nothing better than Federal
Reserve money.
Profit sharing with labor in an eff
fort to solve a world-old problem, is
another of the upsetting policies
which has turned this old world top
sy-turvy.
Women vote in almost every state
of the Union. They voted in England
for the first time few weeks ago,
and in Germany within week Mans
exclusive prerogative, 10 run things
political, standing on its head com
pletely helpless.
Volume of business, billions of dol
lars slipping as freely from the
tongues as few short years ago mil
lions were handled about; figures so
large that few realize what they
mean; taxes here, in the most pros
porous nation on earth, and the rich
est. unprecedented in volume any
waere at any time-all accepted as
"a scatter of course and yet one of the
greatelit revolutions Of all times
The President of the United
States sitting in . worlds congress
to help in making the world better
than it has ever been, and if possible
to devise something which will make
war impossible. The United States
not only in world politics, but so far
far largely dominating. Such an up
setting of traditions and precedents
could not have been imagined five
short years ago.
And so on through long catalog
of the new relations mankind desires
to establish, and on a new basis Of
brotherhood. Men all over the world
know each other better than they
ever did before, and all because of the
war
Worse than standing on its head IS
the world old doctrine of the divine
right" OF kings, gone completely into
the discard.
What does it all mean for business
which, in a way. is also standing on
its head pending adjustments TO
peace conditions? It takes time to
bring order out of an unprecedented
chaos just as when we were boys and
stood on our heads it took time to
come back to normal when once more
upon our feet.
War always upsets everything, bui
after every other war there was al
ways bigger and better business thar
before it. War. with its destruction
seems to stimulate faculties and brina
into play fresh ambitions and bettel
directed strengths. Now. with The
greatest of all wars ended, with the
world upside down, with more things
standing on their heads, than per
haps at any other time, why should
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