Arizona republican., 1921-08-13
SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST ls. 1921
That can pever be reasoned doaUn iUhich has not been reasoned up.
 Fisher Ames.
Follow tho Clubs


 If people to know how much of valley this is good things there in 1t. what anti dotes for depression. let them follow the Rotary and the Kiwans clubs around their weekly wander ings- There is much going here than the average citizen suspects Not one in ten knows of the extent of the meat packing industry. Probably not one in five has heard of the big fruit packing plant near Chandler The milk condensaries have come back almost unheralded. And then thcre is the dairy COW with her unobtrusive return to the valley.
 Phoenix is all right and the valley Is all right. They taking only their share of the slump which whole country feels almost everywhere else more acutely than we feel it. But we had become used prosperity that to look upon 1t as some thing that circumstance could disturb or halt We should have known better. Perhaps nothing less than. the war could have disturbed it. We might we'll have thought that it could have been dis turbed. Have we not an unfaing and abundant water supply for irrigation? Have rot an unequaled soil in s0ooO0 which wants nothing produce the highest fertility? Surely this com traticn justified our sense of security
 But there were few things entirely without experience which did not take into consideration, though we may have observed them casually. One was that there was most abnormal demand for the things we produce. We should have. considered that reaction follows abnormality. We knew too. that the dollars which were piling were all inflated dollars that the time went to war they were worth only 70 cents; that later they worth only 50 cents and that later they touched the low mark of 47 cents We did not consider that if the deflation of these dollars caught them in our possession would have to pocket the loss; that in the same degree. all property which Is represented by dollars would similarly defated and the holder would be the loser.
 That is what happened. A time came when the Tn orde to f1Yrn back one must stop come to standstill That is what the country did. sudden of rapid progress always produces confusion. You have some time seen long procession halt at suddenly inter- posed obstacle The whole line is disturbed and it Is with some difficulty that the step is regained.
 But we have been marking time listening the count doing little than that taking short steps forward We will soon regain our stride We may regret the time lost in the halt but will wonder what there was about it to confuse so much.
 We will slightly change the figure of the pro- cession as one illustrative only of general country wide conditions. and of changes in the forma ton Certain localities favorably situated than others kept moving forward and taking advanced positions. None of them however could get in ad- vance of the procession. but those that able could get the head of 1t and be in readiness for the general movement
 Phoenix is in of these advanced positions so near the front it detect already the begin ming of the forward movement
 There were some things could not do imme- dately. things that require time well as energy. It was physically impossible to resume at once full production at once There other adjustments to be made by necessarily processes. But there were things could do without waiting and them we have been doing
 Never in the history of Phoenix has there been od depression has witnessed, and never have under taken such volume of public improvement we have assumed within the past year.
 Let keep following the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs around and will find out how well of we are.