The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-01
BACK TO NORMAL
Governor Allen Sees Business
Revival in Middle West.
Return Soon to Former Pros
porous Conditions.
N. Y. PLANS FOR HARD WINTER
Big Crop Year Will Benefit
Eastern Cities.
Employer and Emp1oye Will
Talk Things Over.

Optimists and pessimists of big
business are more nearly agreed than
| ever before. That is the analysis of
business conditions from down east as
! brought to Topeka today by Governor
Allen.
The optimists don't think things
VIII get any worse" Governor Allen
said in commenting on his survey of
New York's financial outlook, "and
the pessimists believe it will" But
there isn't much cheer and hope in
the view of the two extremes regard
| ing immediate prospects
Return to Normal Conditions.
Out in the midwest, tho, there is
possibility of early business revival
| possibly a return to former prosper
: Gus conditions. New York and the
eastern industrial centers, tho, are
planning for a winter when the soup
| lines will be popular and well filled.
A big crop year in the agricultural
states-so the down easterns ana
/ lyze conditions-wiu mean a start
back to the good old days of prosper
! ity. In the meantime, tho. the COVER
nor believes there is a growing ten
dency by employer and employe to sit
| down and seriously and frankly talk
| things over.
There is more nearly an agreement
between the business optimist and pes
sirnist than ever BEFORE" said Gov
ernor Allen in a discussion with news
paper men today regarding the busi-
ness outlook which he found in New
York 1.-THE optinist doesn't believe
things will get any worse. The pessi-
mist believes they will 1t is all a
question of whether we have hit bot
tom-not whether we have started
back"
Bottom Has Been Reached.
The governor asserted that a gen
xie4n VITO
ton and building costs must be defi-
nitely established-a universal feel
| ing that bottom has been reached
/ before a return to prosperous business
conditions can be expected. There is
also the international banker who
| looks to restoration of European cred
| its to insure purchase of American
lover-production. That, in the bank
er's mind, is the avenue which will
open the way to improved business
| conditions.
THE Observation-Disclosures Judge
Gary and Charles NJ. Schwab," said
Governor Allen, "are leaders in the
| thought that there must be reduced
| transportation and building costs to
restore normal conditions. An active
| building program-such as would
bring the country up to present build
| ing and housing demands-would pro-
vide labor for armies of idle men and
would give a feeling of optimism to
the present situation. That also in
wolves transportation costs.
Conditions Will Improve.
There is a very decided feeling that
| out in the middle west conditions will
| improve during the summer months
with the harvesting of good crops
Building trades people believe there
will be improvement in their lines
when prices reach point to Insure
revival of building activities"
The governor admitted that there
were comments regarding soup lines
for the industrial cities Of the east un-
less conditions improved before winter.
| In an effort to determine relative
conditions Governor Allen today
directed a survey of living costs in
Wichita, his home town. The survey
will be made by staff reporters of his
Wichita Daily Beacon. His paper will
publish comparative figures regarding
former and present costs Of clothing,
food stuffs and other essentials.