The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1920-12-14
ON EARTH'S SUNNY SIDE

CTUDYING the front pages of many newspapers from day to day,
~ impressed with the amazing contrast between the character aud
size and gravity of Americas troubles and those OF the other SIDE o
the Garth. The contrast is one that might Justify more than lmpa-
Hence with those 9who complain the loudest about our condiuohsi
those constant fault finders who see nothing but evil on every hand
those fearful ones who steadily forecast disasters those compRmerS
who cannot accept without violent protest a modihed degree Oh pros
perity. hw.
traction that is bound to be painful. The process is the opposite OF
expansion and this is a world Of oppostes. We cannot escape them
or their effects. We knew that this period would come; Knowing
ii can ! e to Sl eom sOIE% now SU that it has come. Some Of us permit our
selves to become prophets Of gloom because it s upon us.
porarily arrested by broken markets for our principal products, wool
and meats and metals, We demand instant relief a relief tnt would
be nothing short of miraculous should it come instantly, we. forget
that winter finds the other side of the world without wool or is man
ufsstured products and with S , clothing g OF ,a any kn &C m n t%ts f@r
our metals but also furnish no work for millions who hunger. q,
from falling prices for grain, forgetful of the fact that the other side
of the world not only has neither coin nor credit with which to buy
We are right to be impatient to correct such of our conditions as
are wrong. We are very wrong when we permit those conditions to
make US prophets Of gloom or victims OF fear.
The front pages Of newspapers 9risls with with contrasts ntrs :; mi0or -.
tiers; Of erime-waves in cities; of the burden of unaccustomed taxes;
Of disturbed markets and uncertain prices for goods and labor-al
The news of the other side of the world is bigger news; far
graver news. That news is of foundations shaken down and OF fun
damentals of life that have gone to smash.
Twice in a week the president of the United States has appealed
to America for money to save people on the other side OF the world
from starving and each time the appeal has been in terms of mil
lions, not of money alone, but OF people starving. twenty % thirty hy
millions of the starving in China, one of these appeals pictured, while
that of yesterday was of three to four million starving children in
Europe .ain.,r,on will No
reached in April, a little more than four months away, our best bus
mess experts assure us. But who dares forecast now when the low
point Of depression and readjustment will come on the other side OF
the wohdf -.
Ours is the sunny side Of earth. We would neglect our duty if
we failed to attack vigorously every fault we find in our conditionsi
but we are snfuly mgrateful for our blessings and our sunshine
when we permit our relatively trivial msfortunes to make us proph
cts Of disaster and spreaders OF gloom.
When the business gloomspreader comes your ways as he is
likely to do; show him the picture of the two sides OF earth as it is
spread on the front page OF any handy newspaper
At the rate the New Mexico prohibition enforcement officers are
working these days the business Of boolegging is going to become
extremely unattractive before very long.