Hang on to your home, and if in a few months or a few years the mills begin booming again you will be secure for life.

But if the iron industry doesn't revive, give up that trade and find other work here.
If necessary go out and work on a farm, for the farming industry will always have to be carried on." Father saw the force of our argument.

So he stayed and kept his home.
He has it to-day.

But if he had wandered around as millions of us did in those hard days he would surely have lost it.

This was my first little attempt to work out an economic problem.