Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-31
bUS|NESSLEADERS
PREDICT GOOD YEAR
Prosperity Seen for Agri-
culture, Labor and All Lines
of Industry.
~ tho Associated Press.


CHICAGO, December 3l.-Fiuanciai
industrial and agricultural leaders
hail 1926 as promising to lead the
Nation much farther away from the
buEaboo of postwar depression.
Representative of the wholesale
and retail dry goods, the railroads.
farmers. labor and banking, both in
gricultural and live stock regions and
in Industrial districts, agree that the
new year will marshal in an era OF
better times.
This outlook comes on the heels of
Il record breaking Christmas buying
season which closed "A most success
ful'' year during which many business
ncordS were broken.
4 rising standard on living viii see
mn upward trend in wages and com
modify prices, business executives be
lcvc.
The farmer is on tho threshold Of
prosperous days, industry and manu-
features will increase production and
need all of the available labor, the
railroads Will be busy with heavy
traffic. and the year will he one OF
large but conservative profits, is the
ConcenSuS.
Ample Credit Predicted.
F'irmer money will tend to
moderate Slackening of stock and bond
activity and speculation in real estate
ana other fields, it is felt. The pre-
diction is for ample credit at salts
factory rates.
The peak of this period of pros
pcrity probably will be reached during
1926" says col. Leonard p. Ayers
nf the Cleveland Trust Co., nationally
known statiStician. in the earlier
months Of the year the course Of
general business promises TO be as
ending to that peak. and during the
Inter months of the year descending
from it,
The farmers condition is. on the
whole, the most favorable since 1920,
says Samuel II. Thompson, president
Of the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. but much remains to be done to
put agriculture on prosperous basis.
year of Prosperity
With business strong but Conser
vative, in balanced proportion. the
year ahead of us should be one of
genuine, widespread prosperity for all
classes throughout all parts of the
country" IS the inspiring forecast
voiced by James simpson, president
Of Marshall Field & Co.
In so far as one can forecast the
coming year, 1926 should be a year
that of 1925. a year for the correction
Of those disparities which still exist.
2 year for consistent expansion Of
constructive business" concludes
Walter w. Head, president of the
omaha National Bank. centered in
the agricultural belt.
Prosperity is now an established
fact and the outlook is Splendid said
Frank L. Carey. president of the Chi
cago Board of Trade. Underlying
farm conditions are healthy and sound
and the farm credit situation is good,
the balance between farm products
and other articles having attained
more equitable status.
Miles w. Lasiter, president Of the
Wichita, Kans. Federal Land Bank,
which serves Kansas, Oklahoma, Colo
RADIO and New Mexico, thinks: The
year 1926 probably will be the best
since She so-called period of deflation'
following the war. In this Southwest
country, a purely agricultural and live
stock district, there is a steady. dis
tinct business revival going on. affect
ing every line of the basic industries.