The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-26
COMMITTEE OF
OPT|M|ST CLUB
TO Be ENLARGED
Prominent Men Hold ROusing
Meeting and Plan for Mon
ster Convention.
BUSINESS MEN JOIN
THE BOOMING PARTY
Rev. DR.. David R. Frazer Says
All Churches Should Teach
optimism.

The standing committee of the Opti-
mist Club Of New Jersey had a r~ousing
meeting last night. Reports of the
most encouraging character were re-
ceived from members of the committee
regarding the enthusiastic assurances of
cooperation by business and profess
sional men of Newark and its environs.
regarding plans for the great get-to-
gether meeting of the Optimists, to be
held in a large hall in this city in the
near future.
The committee determined because of
the rapid growth of the movement to
enlarge Its membership. The new menu
bers of the committee will be selected
from members of tho Optimist Club and
will embrace many of the most promi-
nent and progressive men in Newark
Clergy and laity have joined in the
crusade to Danish gloom from the bust
ness, financial and social world. The
| committee is now assured of the sue
cess of the proposed meeting, and hay
received promises of heartiest support
from all sides.
Arrangements are being made where
by noted speakers will address the
meeting. which will be arranged with a
view of appealing to every thoughtful
and progressive member of the com
munity.
Probably one of the most striking eX-
amples of what the optimist movement
really means is the cordial manner in
which the clergy of the city welcomed
an Optimist Sunday. On May 81 the
philosophy of religious optimism will be
preached from many pulpits in this
city.
The Rev. DIR. David r. Frazer. who
recently celebrated his silver jubilee
as pastor of the old First Presbyte-
rian Church, said:
81 am an optimist. and indorse the
Optimist Club and its aims, for every
clergyman breaches optimism to his
people, telling them never to despair
of Gods mercy INC to always look
upon the right side of everything. We
tell people to remember that there Is
a silver lining to the blacklist cloud
and nat the sun shines after The
~fiercest storm, and that happiness
comes to men and women after the
greatest trouble.
THE organization of the Optimist
Club at the present time deserves com
m~endation, for thousands of our me-
chanics and laborers are idle, and have
been for several months. Therefore
they are naturally Respondent, and
they worry about the future.
THE optimistic articles in THE
EVENING STAR and the cheerful let
tiers of optimists that are printed daily
must encourage the Respondent, and
show the people that the longest pc
riod of enforced idleness for hundreds
of thousands of men and young women
In our country in panic years has
always been followed by a long period
of great prosperity and activity In
manufacturing and all lines of bust
ness
81 hope the Optimist Club will be
made permanent and that parents will
be enrolled in it and teach their boys
n girls to be optimists, and the chill
dren should be taught that a smile
makes friends, but a frown and a
gloomy face never does. A pessimist
is one who looks on the dark side 81
everything and is always looking for
disaster, always worrying, and worry
is a demon that ruins the ervou sys.
tenn and has killed many thousands.
AT the last meeting of the Wednes-
day Club the editor of Life made an
interesting address that was very opti-
mistic, and the audience vigorously up
plauded his advice to them to be opti-
mists and be cheerful and hopeful, and
never despair of a bright future. no
matter how serious their troubles"