The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-05-11
NOTHING CAN HOLD BACK
THE DAWN
Can Editorial)
By COLONEL FRANK KNOX

EAIlSl eRllS IlC llCoIG VI q IlCll 10
the most resilient thing in the world.
For rebound and for comeback there
is nothing on earth to compare with
it. Regardless of geography, race OIL
creed, they're all alike-men will
bend but they WILL NOT BREAK.
We've just had a demonstration of
it here in the United States.
A short time ago you could have
cut the gloom with a cheese knife.
Today the whole nation is smiling.
Tomorrow they will have pretty
well 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't 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
that's the way the human animal gets
rid Of his troubles. Now we think
we are more or less rid of 1.-THE eff
feet, no-but the thing itself-decid-
eddy, yes.
81 remember back in 1882 when bus
mess was in terrible shape
ooh, shut up! Call up Bill and
let's make it a foursome tomorrow"
And that's the way il goes. Out of
sight-out of mind.
We feel that whatever allied us is
by way of slipping back into the blur
of things we choose to forget.
The -the-street is walking
with springy step. Smiles have
crowded out the worry wrinkles.
Again we see life ahead of us. Again
we believe. Again we hope, laugh and
PLAN. Three weeks ago, it was like
a nightmare. No matter how hard
you tried, you couldn't move. Moth
ing mattered One brain, one set of
muscles, and one man was just about
as good as another. Today every
man feels that once more he has
fighting chance to win out.
Down deep from somewhere there
comes low rumble-a vibration-a
something OF other that sounds like
the presses starting in newspaper
building - every newspaper man
knows what l mean.
A song writer would say-"happy
days are here again" The conserva-
tive and, for the most part, wrong
guessing economist would perhaps
call it the beginning of a new cycle.
We business men interpret it as
merely meaning that, after all these
months of idleness and rusting, the
wheels are once more beginning to
turn. A, any rate, let US hope that
wherever we are going, we're on our
way. 1t will take careful driving
but the big thing is that at last we
are MOVING. And, from a quick
glance at the new business set-up, it
appears that we have plenty of gasO
line.
Meanwhile, however, lei us not
come back so quickly that we forget
the real heroes. May l recommend
that the following be cited for bravery
in action:
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 il all,
accomplishing and smiling;
the merchant who, in spite of the
rush to the store across the street
refused to cut 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 assets in his own name;
the cop who shot it out with
armed bandits and took his share
of the lead at the few dollars a
month that: he didn't get;
the landlord who wasn't overly
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and last, but most noteworthy of
all, the good citizen, of any land