The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-03
LET US CHEER Up.

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Early in the spring of this year it
was announced that all crops would be
short because of the lack of labor on
! the farms. The wheat crop could not
be harvested because of the scarcity
OF hands. When the test came there
were laborers for all jobs in the wheat
/ growing districts of the west, and the
outlook is for bountiful crops in every
! line. There is even a possibility that
( the cotton crop, instead OF being less
| than 100000 bales. may prove to
be well in excess of IL, 100000.
Just now we are worrying over the
certainty of disastrous coal famine
this winter. We have the coal in the
ground, we have the men to mine it,
and We can get the cars to move it if
i they are kept busy at the work of dis
| tribution.
We are worrying about a shortage
of houses, shortage of capital, short
age of credit and a lot of other things
crises and collapses that will over
whelm civilization. No sooner is one
problem solved than we begin to be.
certain that our talents will not be
equal to the next one. It is true that
1.-the solution does not please all of US, or,
perhaps, many of us. But at the same
time we seem to be jogging along with
out falling over the precipice.
! Instead, of bewailing the approach
of calamities which in all probability
never will arrive. We should devote our
!
existing conditions that are inimical to
the public welfare.
A recital Of the terrors we have
faced in the last six years. says The
Wollman Review, ought to give US
| courage to- meet the relatively simple
problems that are ahead of US.
Won Kluck's armies got within
eleven miles Of Paris, but the capital
of France did not fall
When the Germans made their drive
in the Ypres sector late in 1914 they
did~not reach the Channel ports.
In March, 1918, the Germans walked
right thru the British Fifth army
Then they attacked farther north.
Haig told his men they were fighting
! with their backs to the wall. It
seemed impossible to stop the Ger
mans. but they did not get thru.
| Meanwhile. in this country and in
the entente nations there was frantic
anxiety over the failure of America to
get her re-enforcemepts over in time.
It did not seem possible that the COL
lapse of the allies could be averted
But our troops did get over. and Ger
many's dream of conquest was ended.
/ England was not starved by the sub
marine warfare.
The world did not turn Bolshevik
after the war was over.
Great Britain's credit structure did
not collapse. Her labor did not go on
a general strike. She did not sink into
a second or third rate power because
of industrial and financial exhaustion.
Russia's communistic Propaganda
did not spread like wildfire over the
earth. Russia probably is not nearly
so Bolshevistic as she was year ago.
| In this country we did not have a
coal famine that stopped production
in 1913. After the war was over the
! Red" outbreak at Seattle did not get
beyond the confines of that city, The
steel strike called by the radicals was
a failure.
The Plumb plan for the railroads
was not enacted into law. We actual
ly got a constructive railroad bill, al
tho everybody said we wouldn't We
have had a loe OF freight congestion.
but it is being relieved more and more
every day.
Prices kept going up and up to-such
an extent that it was feared that it
would be impossible for the middle
classes" to live. But they have started
down in the face of the fact that pro-
duction is still inefficient and a short
age exists in many lines.