. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Keep a Firm Grip on Things The question is being asked, What is wrong with business, not only in the lumber line, but in every other activity, for almost without exception, there prevails in every arena a depression. When will there be a revival? When will the wave of agitation and unemployment cease, confidence reassert itself, and the buyers' strike, as it is commonly called, come to an end? Have quotations reached the bottom? Will purchasing be active
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Keep a Firm Grip on Things The question is being asked, What is wrong with business, not only in the lumber line, but in every other activity, for almost without exception, there prevails in every arena a depression. When will there be a revival? When will the wave of agitation and unemployment cease, confidence reassert itself, and the buyers' strike, as it is commonly called, come to an end? Have quotations reached the bottom? Will purchasing be active this fall? How long before large speculative building and industrial extensions will be undertaken? Has the process of economic readjustment reached a point yet where it pays the man of average means or moderate wage to build a home for himself rather than continue paying rent? What is going to be done this winter with the unemployed? Times are, in all conscience, uncertain enough just now, but what will they be five months hence if the weather is cold, fuel commands its present high prices and rents continue to climb? These and many other queries are being asked and no one seems able to answer them satisfactorily or comprehensively. In spite of predictions to the contrary and the utterances of the most sanguine that the worst is over, it would appear that the situation grows no better and that the bottom has not yet been reached, either in the way of receiving values or industrial inactivity. For a year now there has been a gradual dropping off in trade and a lowering of prices. Each month seems to be a little worse than the preceding one and conditions are far from approaching normal. It was semi-officially announced that there would be a radical improve- ment last spring. This not materializing, other seers came forward and intimated that there would be quite an alteration of affairs in September. Now, as that month comes near, we hear the prophetic oiies suggesting that it
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