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a Le TR in ia eight months of this year, the United of products. WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1921 19 The Business Situation One of a series of especially prepared articles surveying general business condi- tions. It is customary for some pessi- mists, in speaking of the business outlook, to say that the United States can not be prosperous until Europe recovers its normal condition. As it will be some years before Europe recovers pre-war prosperity, that makes the situation look blue to the average mechanic or business man. He feels in the grip of world wide forces which he can't improve, and in which his country as a whole can't modify very much. Yet this point of view ignores the fact that our exports during recent years have been only about 10 per cent'of our total production. Before the war they were considerably less than that. Even under the depressed conditions prevailing during the first States exported $3,227,000,000 worth Before the war our ex- ports for a whole year were running only about $2,220,000,000. Of course the recent figures look bigger because they are based on higher prices. But after price dif- ferences are allowed, the volume of exports to-day compares favorably with that existing before the war. And as our exports are only a small| part of total production, we could lose a considerable fraction of them and not suffer seriously, if conditions | were right at home It is worth while studying these figures a little, to refute the idea that this country must drag along for years without recovering its normal times, owing to bad conditions in Eu- rope. If there are troubles in busi-| ness here, they are principally due to: some internal dislocation, some lack! of a proper balance in our affairs, | which our people should be bright | enough to study out and remedy for themselves. An increase of foreign trade would of course start things up a good deal in this country. But Europe is buy- ing heavily of us today so we must look nearer home for the difficulties that most impede the return of full prosperity. GENIUS ONLY A GERM; SAYS NCTED SURGEON London.--According to Dr. S. T. Irwin, a prominent Irish surgeon, genius is nothing more than the pro- duct of a germ that gingers up the gray matter in our brains. The microbes of various diseases, such as tuberculosis, gastric troubles and appendicitis get into our brain- | cells, kick up a shindy there and| make us think bright thoughts and other things. It is an intriguing thought that if you are healthy you cannot be clever, and genius is to illness near allied. What a hive of microbes shake- speare must have had. And Charlie Chaplin must be full of complaints. Look at his poor feet--all caused by the genius rioting round in his cere- bellum. The more one looks at the doctor's idea the more there seems to be in it. For example, who are the strongest and healthiest man in the world? Dempsey, Carpentier, Hackenschmidt and the Terrible Turk: Now, it is asked, has any one of these gentlemen ever written a great play or a sonata? Of course not. Could Hackenschmidt have written Gray's "Elegy"? Why he doesn't even know the language. As a composer Dempsey isn't worth a row of beans, even though he does occasionally put people to sleep. Then the other end of the scale? Who are world's geniuses? Shake- speare, 'Titian, Botticelli Wagner, Beethoven, Franklin and Napoleon. Cast your eye over the list and what Special New Singer 828 Davis Street FOR CHRISTMAS Special New Singer Electric... ... $58.00 Special New 5-drawer Singer : 209, Discount on Shop Worn Machines Open Evenings Until Christmas EASY PAYMENTS ATTERSON BROTHERS Sewing Machines 64.00 Evanston 654 ment. 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