Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.

NEW YORK,-n straws show which
way the wind blows, the turkey in the
straw may be even more revealing. With
burghers throughout the land COM
planning that their Threats were slit
from ear to ear in the stock market
the Nation sat down to its biggest
turkey feed in 80 years.
At the headquarters Of the worlds
largest turkey distributing house, IT
was stated that never before with
in the last three decades had there
been such demand for turkeys, and
that the national Thanksgiving day
consumption would far surpasS that of
any other year. Chain markets in large
Eastern cities reported the same record
demand.
There was a similar unprecedented
demand for the fixing to go with the
turkeys. Dealers were unable to meet
the demand for large turkeys and
premiums were offered for birds weigh
ing more than IL pounds. With the
public having lost billions in the stock
market, 1t is appalling to think Of what
the turkey demand might have been had
the bull market continued.
Eastern merchants did not stress
Thanksgiving in any special campaign,
having decided to concentrate on
Christmas and start their Christmas
campaign earlier than usual In spite
OF this, even luxury shops, handling
high-priced trimmings for Thanksgiv-
ing dinners, report the usual run of
trade and the usual demand for food
Injuries A London newspaper re-
marked last week that Americas
bloated prosperity is having the wind
let out OF 1t. Already, distressing
money stringency is being felt and the
prospect of bread lines looms ahead :"
One eloquent answer is the Nations
biggest dinner. with the pie lines, as
well as the bread lines, forming in 4s
States.
While only one month has passed
since the first big market slide, the psy-
Geological pressure gauge already indi-
Gates that Wholesale public adjust
ment has been made. There Is plenty
of evidence that thousands of market
dabblers, having survived the shock, are
picking up their old jobs, or the threads
of neglected business. This was cor
roborated by the head Of the personnel
camille establishment.
II believe the next six months will
reveal a much more healthy condition
in the working personnel of the coun-
try" said this Official IT do not wish
to appear to be moralizing about the
gambling in which the country has been
indulging, as have done my share of
1t myself, but in the personnel studies
which we have made / am convinced
that great popular concentration on the
market has in o very real sense taken
the country's mind of its work. Now
we are beginning TO get back on the Job
again.
Personally, have been intensely In
tereSted in this as a supplementary fac
tor OF what President Hoover and the
great industrialists Of the country are
doing to jack up production and keep
the wheels moving at full speed. After
all, the basic wealth of the country de-
ponds on the concentration of innumer-
able people on basic money-making en-
terprises. The general state of mind of
the job holders and small business men
Is, In my view, an extremely important
II have in mind the case of a friend.
an electrical engineer, who became q
jobber in electrical apparatus. He had
a sound little business and was getting
along nicely. About six months ago he
told me that he had sold his business
that 1t was just a picayune affair and |
that he had been making 10 times as
much In the stock market as he made in |
his business in year. saw him again