LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE
As was wisely pointed out by A. H. Oversmith in his five-minute address at the chamber of commerce luncheon Tuesday, the important thing, next to winning the war, is preparing for the future after the war is won. It takes no prophet to look into the future and see a bright outlook for everything American. That this country will stand at the head of all nations when peace is declared is doubted by no one with common intelligence. The United States will be in better condition financially, politically and geographically than any country in the world.
This country will be hurt less by the war than any other nation. It has greater natural resources, is populated with men from every nation in the world and has wonderful recuperative powers. Just as soon as the war ends the entire world, or that portion of it devastated by the war, will look to the United States for the supplies needed to rebuild its shattered or ruined business, its towns, its farms.
It will require the most intense cultivation of every acre of America's fertile soil to supply the agricultural products needed by the remainder of the world. Every factory will have to work overtime, not in supplying the munitions of war, but the necessities of peace. Every horse will be wanted at a good price and oat, every cow, sheep and hog will be needed either for food or to rebuild the herds and flocks of Europe. Every hen will be needed to supply the food needed in the countries that have been devastated. 