Plentywood herald., 1931-09-24
"HANC ON"-

Our great great granuIdthcIS, "ci@ my
alive. would tell us about the business de-
pressons they went through, but never be-
fore has there been one so worldwide as
that of today Those grandfathers problems
were nothing to what most OF us have to
face today. If they wanted to send mes
sage, there was no fast train, no telegraph,
no wireless, no inter-communlcatlon with
foreign countries, which in those days were
months and months apart, and in these days
are less than seconds apart.
Even if there were troubles in foreign
countries, they didn't worry your grand
father, because by the time he heard OF them
the troubles were over with; but today their
troubles are ours, and we cannot get away
from that fact.
We can all think of our personal diff
ficulties, our crop failures, our bank failures.
our stock speculation losses--we can do
whole lot of thinking about ourselves, but
after ALL we must realize that we are only
one of many. Ask your next-door neighbor
if you are friendly with him. about his troub-
les If his brother-in-law, his father-in-law or
of job and ism dependent upon him, then
he is in luck. But your talk with him about
his troubles (if he is friendly enough to tell
you) will be a real comfort to him.
No one in these days is without troubles
If he has anything he is worried about keep
ing it. If he hasn't anything, he is worrying
about how to get hold of something.
We were recently told of man who
had one hundred millions two years ago
J j L
millions in the red What he had then is
just as good now as it was before; and if he
doesn't die before times change he will
probably have his one hundred Millions and
more back, but he has got to hang on. His
only loss is in paper shrinkage--and that is
true of lot of us. And wherever you lose
a thing, that is the place to hunt for it, and
it will be found if you hang on hunting for
The other day we read in the daily pap
ers that the government had sold seven and
one-half million busherl of wheat to Ger
many. Was selling more to China That the
price was 49c per bushel Those papers
made a great too-do over this sale. Figure it
out for yourself Seven and one-half million
bushels at 49c is less than $3,75O,OO0.
What drop in the bucket that is! 1t is a
much smaller sum than any one of the great
national chain of stores take in every day
in cash over their counters. And there are
scores of such chains. That $3,750,000 is
less than the daily receipts of the soda foun-
tains in the United States. But it gets the
head lines in the dailies
Reading further in these papers we got
the ideas OF many prominent people as to
what should be done to remedy the situa-
tion For example, one leading politician
said: Let's put sales tax on all merchan-
disc sold, so that the Government won't
have deficit" This would merely add to
the burden of the common public.
The Mayor of Boston proposed that
Beginning on January lst next he would
solve the unemployment problem by estab-
fishing five day week, without reducing
the pay" In other words, he would add
20fo to the payroll, which would mean add
ing it to the tax payer.
Another ingenious politician said
I'VE should increase the death tax, and
raise the rate to men who have incomes over
100000 year" Another said: We have
got to stop growing cotton for one year.
Reading all these things, each one ap-
pealing in itself, we could not but think of
these men who were telling us how we
could get out of trouble had not personally
had any experience in getting out Of it them
selves. 1t is no time for theories! We have
got to get down to the practical side OF
things.
Reading and thinking our mind went
back to newspaper story of long ago, when