Semi-weekly herald., 1914-01-19
those that make for hard times, fail

soon eliminate those things we have
done that have spelled failure for US
in the past, and, by eliminating them,
we leave only the good things and the
things we can do good, and the things
we should do WELL
Thinking, talking and believing
prosperity, success and happiness will
bring them to US just as surely as
thinking, talking and believing fail
ure and sorrow brings these misfor-
tunes upon us, for after all is said,
1T is as a man thinks"
Unfortunately, too many of us are
inclined to accept pessimistic edi-
torial of some newspaper as being
gospel; accepting the thought of the
man who wrote it, without doing
our own thinking. Many times the
editorial is written by dyspeptic,
Crouch, or one "down on his luck"
yet we, also gifted with brains, with
the same God-given dominion, will ac-
cept his diseased thought" as our
own, instead of employing our own
healthy mind to the healthful and
harmonious conduct Of our own af-
fairs.
What better resolution can we form
this new year than to resolve to do
our own thinking and to thing sue
cess, not failure-in other words to
look ouly upon the bright side of
things and to reflect the sunshine
of optimism, dispelling the darkness
of the pessimist.
This country of ours in truly great!
You believe it! So do we. Then why
should we sit in fear and trembling
as to the ultimate results of the reso-
lutions (or laws, if you will that
our federal legislature may finally ap.
prove.
Does the prosperity of this great
country of ours depend on the man
made laws of congress? Are you
content to elect president of these
United States and by his election rest
serenely in the belief that now your
business will be successful, and the
country prosperous?
If so, get out of commerce now,
today; and be satisfied to take your
capital and deposit it in savings in
stitution and live or starve on the in
terests.
Realize that prosperity comes out
of the ground, not out of the mouths
of politicians.
Has not this years crop been the
largest by 1927, 100000 of any in the
history of our country? Then why
permit this hard times scare to per-
meate and grow until you, too, become
infected by it?
AS people, we are for too clever
to permit condition to stulify our
effort; not to rise above it, so, that
instead of nursing any beliefs regard.
ing the detriment to commerce and
manufacturing the recent passing of
the new tariff law may have occosion-
ed, let us adjust our affairs to meet
the conditions and give only such
thought to it as will enable us to
more quickly make the adjustment.
We feel, as rubber manufacturers,
that the government has not given
us the protection we deserve when
the high wages we pay our workers is
compored to the low wages received
by foreign workmen in similar fac
tories abroad, but, could our worry
ing about it alter the situation?
No! we quickly realized that these
conditions would remain the same fol
at least another four years and we
quickly set about to meet the condi-
tions.
Being natural-born optimists, and
having faith in our country, our peo-
pie and ourselves, we have, by ap-
plying the proper thought with ac-
complained optimism, worked out our
problem, with the result that in our
immediate vicinity we are the only
factory that is working "a hours out
of every day in the week, Sundays
excepted.
Men insist on eating three meals a |
day, wearing hats on their heads and
shoes on their feet, and just so, the
man who owns an automobile, he. |
too, will insist upon running his car,
and to run it, he must have tires.
Now, from whom will he make his |
purchases Surely he cannot buy
from the merchant who has been scar
ed off from carrying a stock of mer-
chandise, and all because this mer-
chant has only seen the dark clouds |
of pessimism and has nothing else |
to offer!
No, he'll buy from the optimist, |
the merchant who looks ahead, who
knows human nature and the wants
of the people-the man who has the
goods to SELL This is the merchant |
whom all people respect for he is the
successful trader.
What becomes of our friends with |
that f,,n e WI