Nogales international., 1933-06-17
Nothing Can Hold Back The Dawn

After ALL the heart Of man is the most resilient
thing in the world For rebound and for comeback
there is nothing earth to compare with it. Regard
less of geography, race or creed, they're all alike
men will bend but they will not break.
We've just had demonstration of it here IN the
United States
A short time ago you could nave cut the gloom
with cheese knife.
Today the whole nation is smiling.
Tomorrow they will have pretty we'll forgotten.
Why?
Simply because it is human nature to live in the
future tense
College professors write histories. We read them,
most of us, because we're supposed to, but we don
really care where we've been. All we want to know is
where we're going.
The trouble with the depression was the fact that,
in spite of all we could do it remained In the present
tense. We wanted to push it behind us-thats the
way the human animal gets rid of his troubles. Now
we think we are more less rid of 1.-THE effects,
no-but the thing itself decidedly, yes.
Il remember back in 1892 when business was IN
a terrible shape
ooh shut up! Call up Bill and let's make 1t a
foursome eor tomorrow"
And >nat's the way it goes Out Of sight-out Of
mind
We feel that whatever allied us is by way OF slip
ming back into the blur of things we choose to forget
The noan-in-the-street is walking with springy
step Smiles have crowded out the worry wrinkles.
Again we see life ahead of Again we believe Again
we hope, laugh, and plan. Three months ago, it was
like nightmare. No matter how hard you tried, you
couldn't move. Nothing mattered. One brain, one set
of muscles, and one was just about as good as
another. Today every man feels that once more ne
has fighting chance to win out.
Down deep from somewhere there comes low
rl1nbe-a vibration-a something other that
sounds like the presses starting in newspaper build
ing-eyery newspaper man knows what mean.
song writer would say-"happy days are here
again The conservative and, for the most part,
wrong-guessing economist would perhaps call it the
beginning of a new cycle. We business interpret
it as merely meaning that, after all these months OF
idIeness and rstng the wheels are once more begin
ming to turn At any rate, let us hope that wherever
we are going, we're way. 1t will take careful
driving-but the big thing is that at last NOV
ing And from quick glance at the new banking
setup it appears that we have plenty of gasoline.
Meanwhile, however, let us not come back SO
quickly that we forget the real heroes May recon-
mend that the following be cited for bravery in ac-
ton:
the man who in spite of his lost job and his
lost hopes, managed somehow to keep his
family fed;
the wife who went through it all, uncon,-
planning and smiling;
the merchant who, in spite of the rush to the
store across the street, refused to cut the
quality. preferring to die by his standard
rather than to desecrate it;
the manufacturer who kept the shoddy out
of his product;
+ the dairyman who didn't water the milk;
the man who, In spite of advice kept his as
sets in his name
the cop who shot it out with armed bandits
and took his share of lead at the few dollars
month that he didn't get;
the landlord who wasn't overy sQueamish
about the rent;
the banker who protected his depositors:
and last, but most noteworthy Of all the good
citizen of any lard whatsoever who kept his