The Brinkley argus., 1917-09-07
LETTER FROM FAR
 AWAY CALIFORNIA
A Former Citizen Offers Some Splendid Sugges. .ti0ns for Our Peo.
 pie and City.

Redlands. Calif., Aug. 28, 1917. The ARGUS,
 Brinkley, Ark.
 With a heart full of gratitude to the Heavenly Father for life, health, and the many other blessings that are continuously be- ing showered upon me, I take another opportunity of writing.
 Now isn't it nice, in this rest less warning period of time that we can have so many good things come our way to ward off the un- pleasant ones?
 1 am one who believes in culti- vating optimism" versus pes simism. While it is true that just now there are many lower ing clouds to sbscure the sum- shine of hope, still we can know that there is peace for all those who will have it. A peace that passeth all understanding one for all who love and fear the Lord.
 One of the satisfying, solacing pleasures that come my way out here in this far away Western country is the letters 1 get from friends. and you don't know how I enjoy the letters in the old ARGUS columns. Here will be one from a farmer friend near Shiloh, where so many of my kin lie buried, or from Allendale where so many boys and girls were once my pupils or maybe a soldier boy away off at some point where he has been sent to lse himself ready for Uncle Sams service But of course these things do not appeal to all alike. Our environments and circumstances are different, and too, some feel that they have more weighty, or more impor- tant things of life to give atten- tion to. There is another thing I wish to call attention to, es- peciaHy for the consideration of the Brinkleyites. We notice that Mir. Folsom is continually jogging up the business men of Brinkley about cooperation and organization. And it seems to me that Brinkley is entitled to a good live Chamber of Commerce. I find out west here that. seem- ingly. nothing helps the towns and little cities to attract the stranger more than the live men who have charge of their Cham bers of Commerce.
 I call to mind when I landed San Bernardino from Prescott, Arizona. that the kindness of Mir. Kneedler. the efficient and obliging Secretary of s. B's. Chamber of Commerce. was a source of great satisfaction to me. And. by the way, this Mr. Kneedler speak of used to live in Helena, was. I think. city editor of the Helena World for awhile. Perhaps w. K. Sims of Brinkley may remember him. And I find here in Redlands a live wire in the person of Sec retary of Chamber of Commerce. And since you have a man of ability for mayor and so many good business men to cooperate in any and every good cause, 1t seems to an outsider a little strange that it should take so much agitation to get the neces- sary cooperation for more and better business. Your city clerk, the polite and obliging H. B., could serve you as Sec'y. of C. of c. Please don't construe these suggestions as coming from a medler. 1 am only wish ing the folks of old Brinkley we'll. D. you see.
 We'll I recently heard a Mir. AI Saunders, one of Billie Sun doy's trail hitters, give his ex- n6rience of conversion from q confirmed twenty year or more V iskoy sot to repentant De-I fo5ror in the Lord Jesus Christ