Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-01-10
BUSINESS ON THE UPGRADE
"The Blessings of the New Deal as
Compared With the Republican
Philosophy of Government and
Economics"

A check-up of the Industrial and
business conditions over the nation
has revealed buying surge during
the Christmas season just past
Christmas trade since the begin
ming of the depression. Stores all
over the country We're jammed
mails overtaxed with Christmas
gifts, wires humming with tele-
graphic messages conveying to low
ed ones all over the nation the
greetings of the season, and rail-
roads reported Christmas travel
rush equal to the year 1880. Dun
& Bradstreet, Inc, report this years
trade 20 to 80 percent ahead of
1880. They report trade even bet
ter than this in Pacific coast cities.
The New York federal reserve bank
reports, the first Il days of Decem-
ber, trade was 12.7 percent greater
than 1898. The National Retail Dry
Goods association, reports a survey
made of 70 key cities during De-
cember just passed, shows an in
& Bradstreet report bank clearings
in major cities for week ending
December %, total of S6,160,6SS,-
900, which gives the nation gain
Of 1926 percent over 1888. This is
the best total clearings in three
years, and indicates only one thing,
A WIDER SPENDING POWER,
AND PEOPLE DON'T HAVE MON
Ely TO SPEND UNLESS THEY
HAVE WORK
Postoffice authorities report 25
to 80 percent increase in mail and
packages over last year. The Christ
mas mail rush was so great in New
York that great private trucks had
to be pressed into use. One Fifth
Avenue jeweler reports he sold a
necklace valued at 100000, the
first sale of such value in several
years. Another Fifth Avenue shop
reports it sold a coat valued at
many thousands Of dollars, the first
for many years. Silver companies
report the Christmas buying was
tremendous; automobile industries
report Improvement in their condi-
tions, and the heaviest advanced
ordering for new cars in years.
Other cities all over the nation
are reporting a real boom in busi-
ness. Atlanta, Georgia, reports it's
trade back to the 1929 level. Kan
sas City, ST. Louis, Chicago, and
leading mid-western cities report
their Christmas trade the heaviest
since 1880. New England reports
trade excellent, and at it's best since
1880. There's only one solution to
the question. "By THEIR FRUITS
YOU SHALL KNOW THEM" "GOD
BLESS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
AND THE NEW DEAL, AND LONG
MAY 1T LIVE
This article will not be published
in any of the large metropolitan
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS in order to
get "SYMPATHIZERS WITH ONE
TRACK MINDS" for people would
naturally expect that paper and its
readers to agree with what we say;
SO we regret that we will not have
any letters from PEOPLES COL
UMN" or 'rrHE SAFETY VALVE"
AGREEING WITH WHAT WE
SAY, SO AS WE CAN PUB
LISH THEM AND SING OUR
PRAISES" So don't look for an
editorial 'cIub sandwich" And then
too, it isn't healthy policy for a
paper to be printing too many let
ters from the same source, which
glories in newspaper publicity, and
get a thrill from seeing their name
in paper. People tire of this "stuff;"
it's disgusting and nauseating.
We believe in giving someone else
a chance to see their letters in the
paper variety is the spice of life"
The old ''shibboleth" of the
spending spree" and federal ap-
winning the last cleo
tion which was one of the best
"skinnings' the devout followers of
Herbert Hoover and the Republican
party ever got, and a stinging re-
buke of public Indignation, is mis-
statement of truth and facts, and
the administration has proved that
many large appropriations were in
tentionally delayed until after the
election so as not to unduly in
fluence voters. Every fairminded
knows this has been proven true.
'IONG LIVE OUR GREAT
AND THE NEW
DEAL"-XX