Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-08-19
THE IMPROVEMENT COMING FROM WITHIN
The Christian Science Monitor sees more heartening

THE IMPROVEMENT COMING FROM WITHIN
The Christian Science Monitor sees more heartening
days ahead. \
And it is not because stock and bond prices are
slowly creeping up, not because mills and factories are
re-openAng, not because people are going back to work,
or that the general business outlook is for the better.
The Monitor goes deeper than these super6cials. That
paper says:
"These are more heartening days. Not because
that long-heralded corner around which prosperity was
believed-or hoped-to lurk, seems, perhaps, less far
away; not because reports are creeping in from many
sections that mills and factories are re-opening; not
because slight rises are indicated in the indexes of price
levels; not even because of that splendid international
gesture by which the specter Of reparations has now
been laid.
'In so far as the former things are true and the
latter a fait 'accompl,' they are cause for rejoicing;
each slightest amelioraion of distress strikes a chord of
gratitude in a world which realizes as never before
that each individual is his brothers keeper. But if
these surface indications were alone the cause for re-
jocing would be less bright. No, the cause for re-
joicing has root in deeper soil.
'There is a gradually widening conviction that, as
a world diet, depression has gone stale, and that it is
high time to cast it out of the economic and social
food chest before it c~ontaminates all other wholesome
nourishnent, such as hope and faith, constancy and
courage.
1.-THE resiiency of good that is fundamental in
humanity, and which has refused to be quashed in a
long testing time of adversely, is one of the most
hopeful and cheering signs Of this epoch. Mankind
does realize, even if but dimly, that good and not
evil surrounds it. When the complete story of these
times shall be written, the height to which men rose
as the props of sheer materialism fell will be discerned
as a stepping-stone in the history of mankind.
There is great encouragement in the fact that a
wise optimism has not waited until all the clouds have
rolled by. Actually the change for the better is more
in peoples thought than in outward material condi-
lions. Senator Borah in his speech broadcast from
Washington the other day, made articulate the thought
of millions:
"T feel that the outlook for relief from the condi-
tions of today is brighter than at any time since the
war began. These sacrifices, known to every people,
are beginning, it seems to me, to call out the best
there is in men The great leaders of the world
have not appeared in days of ease and comfort and sun
shine
Remote corners of the earth will return echoing
response to the profound truth of the senator's state
ment:
@~=s.sThis is a man-made depression. Nature has not
failed us. We are not victims of famine or flood.
Seedtime and harvest and the industry of the people
have constantly attended through all this depression
1.-THE thicket may still mask the way out of the
wood, the silver lining to the cloud seem rather thin.
But the gold Of human character shines brighter.
These are more heartening days."