The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-15
OPT|M|ST CLUB
CLEARING NEWARK
OF ALL DULL CARE


bring about more cheer in business, as
we'll as in the homes, should be COM
mended. and if a mass meeting is
called for the purpose of instilling OPP
timism into the people, | am with you
from early morn until late at night.
So keep up the good work"
Rudolph j. Goerke. hea of the
Goerke Company. laughingly replied
that he had been an optimist since the
day he was born, as he was born on a
rainy day and his arrival served to
bring cheer into the home of his par
ents, and he has been of sunny dis
position ever since.
Seriously speaking" said Mr..
Goerke, II do not sc any reason why
anyone should be a pessimist now, at
this season of the year, when the earth
is giving us such cheerful things to
look at. the trees loaded down with
blossoms and the fields filled with
beautiful flowers. where a few months
ago everything had a desolate appear
ance.
To-day, even, business men will tell
o that he is doing more business
than he did a year ago, so that there
is no reason why we should feel blue.
I'VE have done more business in the
last two months han we did a year
ago, so we have no reason to com
plain.
"By all means have a mass meeting
and you will be doing a most COM
mendable thing, as it will help to ac-
celerate the pulse of the people in Il
big city and adjoining towns. L will
lend my assistance in the movement"
New Jersey in Lead.
New Jersey now leads in the glad
campaign for happiness, and her opti-
mists propose to hold hat lead. The
big business men of Newark and her
and through all sections of
the State are responding to the call of
THE EVENING STAR to enlist under
the banners of the hosts of those who
simply Won't let the bright future of
city, State and nation be interfered
with. They realize that this is a nation
won't let up, and that all the
pessimists in the world are to be in
that they arc not to butt in.
oh, you Genera Crouch, and your
sour-pickle faces, your cohorts and
of black despair and blacker
care, already you are on the run and
routed by the smiling and intrepid
army of Gladness and Hopefulness and
Belief in the Goodness of Things and
Persons.
Your thinning ranks of "knockers''
and sinister wiseacres who refuse to
see the light of progress. and can only
see the darker side of things in gen
eral, are being decimated by the men
and women, the boys and girls that
smile.
Very soon there is going to be a
get-tOgether meeting, under the au-
spices of THE EVENING STAR, of
business men and women and of all
who propose to smash the sOrdid
pessimism of those who have stopped
the march of glad events, who have
cIOgged the wheels of progress and
tried to spread doubt and misgiving
throughout the land.
Noted Divine "A True Optimist.
Here is the genuine, sure-enough
sunny philosophy of optimism by one
Of Newark's best-known and popular
divines, the Rev. Henry r.. Rose;
the Optimist Editor:
Success to the Optimist Club! / am
an incorrigible optimist-one of the
cases in Newark. An orthodox
Ministerial friend of mine whose re-
igious views were quite liberal, was
asked: what is the difference be-
.ween you and Mr.. Rose?" He an
with a twinkle in his eyes:
My friend Rose is so blame sure of
everything, and 1 amt" Now, 1 con-
Tess to being sure of one thing, and
blame sure of it." and that is that
all things are working together for
he good of man." Just as l know that
is as important as spring or
summer or autumn: just as 1 know
hat clouds and rain are as useful as
sunshine and balmy breezes, so l know
hat failure, trouble, sorrow and all the
so-called hardships Of man are