The Green Forest tribune., 1907-12-06
CURE FOR THE PANIC
Get Busy and Talk Business
 and Quit Your Grumb1ing
MONEY WON'T BE HID" LONG
Very Foolish Stampede Gre ates TT empest in a Teapot

The following cool-headed advice is promulgated by the Rogers Free Press and it covers the situation exactly:
 "Keep cool; don't get excited i; don't imagine that present mone- tary conditions are more than short lived; don't talk panic ]; don't think panic; create an at- mosphere of faith and optimism wherever you go. Some people lost confidence and that injured credit, and people who ought to be ashamed of such action drew currency out of banks and lock- ed it up. That can't last. Idle money soon burns a whole in your pocket and gets out. Men want their money to work "A hours day, Sundays and holi- days included. They want in- terest or income from it. Don t imagine that idle money is going to stay idle. It will soon be coming back into the banks, just as soon as it's owners come to their senses and realize that they have been more hysterical than a woman who yells because a poor little mouse happens in her room.
 "1'he whole scare would be Imaginable if it were not so serious in it's consequence. It's like a nervous man who wakes up sud- denly in the night and trembles with fear until he stops to realize that a banging shutter or snow sliding off the roof made the great noise. Then his nerves soon quiet down and he goes l peacefully to sleep. The coun- try's nerves were on edge, and everybody was under a little ten. sion because some of our public men, believing that there was a thief in a big crowd, concluded that they would try to kill him by smelling the whole crowd with grape and canister and take the chance of hitting the thief. Some were hurt and a few killed; while lodging cannon balls of this kind had kept the crowd, which in- cluded the great American pub. lie, so busy that naturally any sudden noise even of a banging shutter started them to running.
 "Now that the stampede is over, now that the injury of she'll ing whole crowd in order to hit one possible thief has been real- ized, the American people can resume business operations, get over their scare and do a little thinking. There are just as many people in the United States as there were a month ago, and possibly few babies more, just as many miles of railroad, just as mary bales of cotton and bushels of grain except what Europe has taken and paid for in gold, just as many people to feed and clothe and house. Some of them may eat a little less or wear their old -clothes little longer, but this sad condition will sooner be righted by a return of sanity.
 "Stop now for a minute and think. Do you see any fewer fpeople in the street cars or on the steam cars, do you see any few CT people moving up and down the street, do you note any sud- den disappearance of any large number of the 85,000,O00 people whose wants and activities will keep us busy even if somewhat less than during the strenuous rush of late years, which has been overtaxing night and day nearly every productive enter prise in America? These people don't stand still. They are trad ling one with the other; they are producing something; and con- sum;ng something; they are making necessary constant en- largements of all transportation l fo oititiocs fhoxy mo