Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1922-06-15
THE CLOCK
HASSTRUCK

six. It's now the hour for everybody
everywhere in the United States of
America, to get up, washup, buck up
and go to work-go to work for the
| opportunities that are now beginning
to present themselves.
| For long time many men have
| been so bothered that they couldn't
sleep we'll a. night, and naturally,
some have done some sleeping or
| yawning during the day. Thousands
of troubled men have been watching
the hour hand on its downward trend,
and during these depressing hours it
has certainly called for courage.
But now, it's half-past six. The
hour hand indicates the morning of
a new day.
Steadily this old first finger kept
dropping at every tick, but it's now
past the Wakeup hour and quietly
climbing in it's curved course toward
noon.
This little thought is not written to
illustrate theory, but to illuminate
fact
Take steel, the acknowledged baro-
meter of business. Steel companies
are now about 73 per cent of level ca
pacity. Last July they were down to
% per cent.
The bond market is brisk and the
speculative bucket shops are busted.
The farmer, the cattleman and the
sheep raiser are all in better shape.
Merchants feel better and manu-
facturers begin to see the right relief.
Cotton has recovered about 76 per
cent, wheat about Al per cent and
sheep about 13 per cent.
The freight shipments in 1921 were
about Is per cent lower than in 1926,
and in January of this year they were
at the lowest ebb, but today they are
about 155, 700 cars a day. Some i'm
provemeSt.
1t is a fact beyond controversy that
we are nearer stability, which means
progress, and progress spells prosper
ity.
Spring and summer always give
promise of greater possibilities. These
two seasons have a great mental and
material advantage.
All over America you may note
increased advertising, and publicity is
proof that the season is open for
hunting and fishing after business.
There is decidedly more building, a
great deal more buying; and what
could bring prosperity back sooner
than these three things-buy, build,
work?
The foreign exchange rate will right
| itself in due time.
Farmers are busy now and the in
creased activities of the farmer are
always reflected in trade.
Copper stocks are being lowered
and the price of copper is getting
more firmly fixed.
Our imports from Europe are in
creasing.
| Each week new dividends are being
announced.
Commercial failures are on the de-
cline.
Truck and pleasure cars are now
being sold in unexpected numbers and
this means more employment.
Railroad employees have settled
down to work.
There is dark cloud and this cloud
will be dissipated before long. It's
the high-rent cloud.
Banks are exercising sound judg-
ment by encouraging loans to respon-
sible business men, and these loans
are being made at a much more reas-
enable rate of interest.
Investment securities have reached
a new high level.
Several of the large industries have
increased their number of employees.
Most people have stopped talking
about hard times and are now doing
hard work with their heads and hands.
An almost unlimited supply Of
money is on hand in this country to
back up any worthy activity.
The recognition of Mexico as gov
ernment is increasing the interest in
the wonderful opportunities offered
by that country.
The ultra conservative says:
'sThere is a good background for SEN
sible optimism;" and when the con-
|servative says this, it means much
The Silent Partner.