Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-01-18
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ton will be grown up?

) tion will be grown up?
A man who can make money
/ should know how to use It, When
, he makes deposit he acknowledges
he does not know a desirable way
to use 1t now. The man who can
not make money might desire to
borrow, but he is a poor risk for
bank to take. When a successful
business man retires to live on in
4 come, from his earnings, he ceases
A to produce. His employees are out
of jobs but still must eat. The mid
4 die class who are still at work be-
come fewer and their burders
greater as they must support both.
/ We should save our old folks
| from poverty. We will not give
them that hateful adequate" an
nuity but the full average living
that we are capable of giving all il
| production has free rein. We will
save our young people from futility.
| despair and crime by making it pos
sible for them to find a place in So
ciety where they can make an hon.
est living. We will save our coun-
try from isms by making it possible
to have ham and eggs without vot-
ing politicians into office to prom
ise, and may be, provide them.
Economists may save their jobs by
awaking to the idea we are grown
up as a nation and abundant life
for all is possible.
Once we were a debtor nation.
We toiled and saved to catch up
with our debts and pay them OF.
War came and our economic rabbit
turned the other way. We became
creditor nation, but kept on as
before trying to sell others more
than we bought and landed on our
ear in the depression. II We are
going to be creditor nation and
take tribute from others in the form
of interest and profits we must use
more than we produce. II we have
ordinary humanity and common
sense we can and will raise the
standard of living of the submerged
third and bring them into the status
Of consumers of our surpluses.
Giving politicians good salaries
to pare down the dole to our aged
to a bare subsistence will not care
for troublesome surpluses. The old
folks should sit at the first table
and get as good as the rest. Who
can better guide our money into
channels of trade than those who
have attained wisdom and expert
ence with the years? What they
buy determines what must be pro-
duced to have a new supply. If
they buy cars, more will be made.
If they want homes and furniture.
more will be built Their trade will
make barber shops and beauty par
lors prosperous. Workers who are
busy supplying their needs can
raise and educate their children.
These children will not graduate
with "W P. A. Here we Come"
The miser has always been
wrong. When money is boarded
its share of business cannot be
done. When a bank boards, its sin
is greater because of the multiplied
credit withheld from trade, that
might have been used in produc-
ton. No one expects bank to
make unsafe loans. We are all to
blame if we permit conditions gem
orally to become such that banks
cannot risk loans, investors fear TO
put their savings at work and one
third of our people are on short
rations. Wars and depressions in
regular sequence offer no satisfac-
tory solution for an enlightened
people Save yourselves from this
oerverse generation!-James K.
Lindsey, Pullman, Washington.