The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-09-22
BACK TO NORMALLY

this is the one station on the railroad OF DuSl-
ness that every one wants to reach but that
no one is willing to pull the bell cord and stop
the train long enough for the passengers to
get Off
We have about reached the decision that this
''back to normally" is condition of minds OF
men and women rather than a business condl-
ton and that the trip back is going to be easy
when men and women bring themselves to the
place where they want to understand what
normal" condition is and where they want to
do their part to bring such a condition about.
Back to Normally means an end to wearing
silk shirts seven days in the week and getting
back to the place where silk shirts were for
Sundays sand holidays with madras and per-
Gale for the rest Of the week It means trad
ing week day silk stockings for Isle and cotton
with the understanding that the silk stocking
means something that goes with the party
gown or the wedding festivity
1t means laying aside lot of extravagances
which have come easy during the war years and
getting back to the normal living where luxus-
les were "luxuries" rather than implied neces-
stiles. It means making dollar earned and
dollar in purchasing power worth a hundred
cents. It means getting down out of the alti-
tudes and coming back to earth with the under
standing that we are going to be governed by
the time honored laws of supply and demand
in fixing the prices of labor and the products
of labor It means that old time better feel
ing between the who work and the men
who invest capital in order to provide work
for the rest. 1t means a common sense basis
of realization that the piping times of war are
over and that the piping times of peace have
returned.
It means that we must recognize that Amer
lea is sluggish with congested resources and
that the real way back to Normally is to get
these vast resources working. Not working
for the benefit and profit Of few people but
with benefit for all the people alike.
1t means that we are going to stop being
so crowded with comfort and good fortune that
some Of us are going to stop long enough to
diagnose the conditions of others and take
little stock in the good old Golden Rule" and
follow it.
We will have to realize that Europe is pros
trate with hunger, loss of blood and with
empty tills and granaries and that in America
we must do something to make it possible for
these people to buy.
There isn't the slightest cause for alarm on
account of the resources of the country. Bank
deposits all over the nation are increasing and
loans are decreasing The recent rise in cot
ton prices has brought 'new South, crops
are good and the farmer is doing his basic
share to start business moving.
What we want now in order to better pave
the way to normally is confidence in ourselves
and confidence in the nation and it's ability to
produce and to sell at a fair price.
Normally is coming only when all Of the
people get the understanding that the war is
over That the supply and demand of war has
ceased and that conditions which were brought
on by this abnormal deRnard and lack of supply
have been done away with.
Normally is located in the minds of the
people They must find it there first and ap-
ply their own common cause, the greatest asset
of the American people to spread the ideas to
others. They must learn to live normally buy
normally, save normally and spend normally.
This does not mean the lessening of business
but very large increase in business. 1t means
instead of extravagant expenditure for things
people do not want common sense expenditure
for things that people need 1t means forget
funess of lot of foolish habits and return
to right living along lines which make possible
fair treatment for every one. 1t means a live
and let live theory Of living with the false
promises brought by war time initiation
eliminated
The thing is for you to get your mind set on
normally, get your purse opened to normal
living and closed to the extravagance>which is
wrecking normal business and fostering unfair
competition
Kenosha can pull the bell rope for that won
derful station of normally if the people of
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