The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-21
DEPRESSION WILL
 PROFIT THIS CITY
GUS STRAUSS SHOWS WHERE HOT SPRINGS OUGHT TO Es-
 CAPE BUSINESS DEPRESSION.
Ought to Be Able to Convince the Big" Business Man That This Isl His Opportune Time to Get Ready for After-War Business.

We have stirred their humor. Now perhaps that they are interested, we may be able to stir their zeal in tIe upbuildng of Hot Springs said GUS Strauss, nominee for president of the Business Mems League on the Blue Ticket, yesterday after reading the parody the Red Ticket nominees had published on the platform of the Blue Ticket candidates.
 eve are concerned about this mat ter, continued Mr. Strauss. We rel alize that business conditions are gen orally disturbed, but we hold <o this concrete fact-it doesn't matter how much commercial business is off ia connection with how many people need the health giving waters of Hot Springs. It doesn't matter HOW much commercial business is off, there are still as many men who need recreation here It doesn't matter how much commercial business is off, there are still innumerable wealthy Americans in the field for a visit to an Ameri- can resort
 The thing for us here in Hot Springs 10 do is to push Hot Springs as a resort and get as much business. if not more than if a war existed and business lines are upset. This is the ideal time for the big business man to take month or two off and come to Hot Springs, only we don't impress this fact on him. It is the i'd al time for the average business man run down with big business. but now less busy, to come here and buill himself up for the big business that will be bigger than ever after this war is over"
 'I can not see" continued Mir. Strauss, "why Hot Springs should be engulted in business depression be- cause we are not a business town. H looks like the opportunity of our lives. If we depended on manufac- tured wares and there was no mar kat; if We depended on jobbng lines, and there was no market; things might be different But this is the most oppoTune time of our history to reach out and convince the sick man and the Jagged business man that a month or two at Hot Springs now will fit him for the stress of business that he knows win foll5w when world peace is restored
 Incidentally the members of the Blue Ticket are campaigning the field for support They believe that tn V have the enthusiasm to put new gin ger into this commercial organization and they want to win 10 take tty a. the game. Every man on t.c ticket IS zealous in the su-po-, Cf very other man and the nominees of the Blue Ticket have already formed a compact organization with the object of getting accustomed to .-olCrat m so when they are elected they will be ready for the harness.
 Also the Red Ticket nominees are at work soliciting support regardI ass Of the fact that the head of their ticket is taking a vacation out of the city
 MT. Stallc1p is just cooperating a bit to prepare 10 come back and ge Into wnirlwind campaign that will Huy the Red Ticket over the plate" was the explanation offered by an en- thusiast for this ticket yesterday.
 The election is now II days off. and already there is sufficient inter est in the rivalry to be certain that a fui vote of the Business Mems League will be boiled on the after noon of June l. and that the ticket that does win will have solid and enthusiastic support behind it for the worS'to bo taken mp for the future of Hot Springs.