The Pensacola journal., 1914-10-04
Well Known Chamber of
Commerce Man Talks
Optimistically
NOTHING TO FEAR
AS TO THE FUTURE
Thinks Pensacolians Should
Be Optimistic and Should
Be Thankful for What
They Have and Are Ger
tainly Going to Get in the
Future.


Grosvenor Dave, chief OF the edi-
torial division of the Chamber OF
Commerce of the United States, who
spent yesterday in Pensacola. and
spoke at the Greater Pensacola Club
luncheon, sees a splendid future for
the Deep Water City. He thinks there
fore that Pensacolians should be op-
timistic, not pessimistiC and that thoy
should be thankful for what they nave
and are certainly going 10 get rather
than put on long faces about what
can't be helped. To a Journal repre-
sentative last night, Mr.. Dave said.
LOOK CHEERFUL, ANYWAY.
Seven years ago, 1 met a young
man on the streets or Montgomery.
who was in newspaper work. He called
on me, as secretary Of the Commercial
Club, nearly every day. He was So
depressed in his behavior that finally
! said TO him, For PHYS Sake smile.
You come here looking as though you
had lost your last friend. You may
be unhappy, but don't show it, You
will win more by looking cheerful th0n
by being downcast' Strange to say.
happened on this young man in an
other Florida city yesterday, and he
assured me that the advice given him
seven years ago had been acted on
right then, and there, and he had never
let the world know since exactly how
things were going with him.
Il had not been in this city two min
utes before / began to hear OF un-
fortunate things that had happened,
how slow business was, how disap-
pointed different enterprises had been,
and how things that were expected 90
produce great results hadn't done &C..
Just what was said to the young man
is exactly what should be said to any
community that is passing through
times of depression. Don't advertise
that things are going wrong. Assert
to each other, and in your own heart,
that things are going well, or will so
well I'm the immediate future
RESOURCES TO THE NORTH.
Several years ago, was in Pen
sacola, and took part in a meeting
held at Nicks. It was a meeting Of
the Commercial Association Of that
day. / said then, and ] repeat II now,
that the prospects OF Pensacola 3
greatness lie north OF IL. in the great
est country whose prosperity has de-
Veloped most rapidly Of any portion
of the globe; and that through the
harbor lying at the foot OF your
streets, you are in actual physical con-
tact with every port OF the Seven
Seas. That being true, and the Io-
sources of the nation still being nor,h
of you, and the needs Of the world
destined to become more insistent.
then you have nothing to fear as to
the future Of your city, and your whole
business is to believe that II today ig
gray, tomorrow will be sunshiuy that
hy-r4V1R,N Hfuu fvlt
tomorrow will bring success 10 fhOso
who dare believe, and act accordingly.
This affirmative spirit apple in
it's results just as much to a com
munity as il does 10 an individual and
IL is the spirit that must enter into
your every transaction. 7 know, and
you know, that some mems pockets
have been depleted in the last few
months through no fault Of their own;
but while there are resources. While
there are opportunities, while there
are challenges to effort, no man has
right to say, Die as long as there -
spark OF life in him: and when he
is dead, he can't say Die so, no man
has any business to talk In any such
way
COMMERCE THROUGH PORT.
THE things that you nave TO sup
ply, the world must have. The Medi-
terranean countries will be crying for
lumber, because North European sup
plies are cut off. The soap Of tho
world needs your rosin. Every sheet
Of paper has rosin as the sizing. Ten
thousand barrels go into fly paper.
The disarrangement Of your shipping
is only temporary. The tramp steam
ers of the world must come to Ameri-
can ports for cargoes In the near fu-
ture. as this country IS going 20 %
the only great producer Of heavy car
goes, while the present European con
dition lasts. The embargos laid ON
e,,norts by the warning nations. and