The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-20
OPTIMISM WINS ALWAYS.


OPTIMISM WINS ALWAYS.
There are really but two modes OF thought IN
the world--constructvc and destructive We
call the one optimism. tho other pesymsm.
ono builds, the other tears down; results In
happiness, the other In misery. one ia hope. the
other despair; one leads to succen. the oihor to
failure; one breeds contentment the other dis
satisfaction.
God is an optimist his Satanic Majesty the
original pessmst.
Just now tn ooptmsts are having a time Of
h with the possimists Tho latter hang crepe
aver the country is going To the dogs. that tho
good old days have passed forever and that
business OF profitable nature will never again
be realized. Because enormous and trouble
breeding profits OF the war period have shrunk
TO legitimate proportions, they feel that life
Is not worth living.
Yet all the while the country, Is growing hot
ter In business way well as moral way and
tho future In unfolding n panorama OF hope
that gids even tho valleys OF fear and timIdity
and bathos tho mountain peaks OF confidence
and patriotism In a perfect flood OF brilliant
light,
No man ever lost netting the stars and
stripes. No living man will. Fundamont-
ally this country Is as sound the Rock OF
Gibraltar Is secure. still spsrsey settled, com.
pared to the Older nations pf the earth ana with
natural resources but yet barely touched. 1t
promises certain and aboundlng prosperity FOR
generations TO come to those who move con-
fidenty forward with courage and that hope
which springs from tho spirit OF optimism.
Even now, after period of readJustnent as
necessary as the phases OF the moon. business
Is gathering itself for forward movement Of
splendid proportions, And fast as men come
TO understand that war profits arc only pos
sibic during a period OF war that now in the
interest OF fairly diffused prosperity ana roa-
sonabe consideration for their fellows all must
be CONTEXT with something less every line OF
human activity is ovineing signs OF rcnas-
sance that means prosperity and contentment
for all
And what is true OF the nation In 10 an ever
greater extent true OF Tulsa. Ia gratitude and
not in spirit OF boastlng, we say that Tulsa
Is in many respects the most fortunate COM
muny in the United states. It was the last
10 be touched and the least touched by the
readJustmont process OF any community on the
American continent This is not our own judg-
ment, but the judgment OF others who are not
of us and yet capable OF rendering judg-
ment
From that moment when Tulsa. mere
whistling station on "A branch railroad, shook
itself and permitted the birth % ambition unto
the present moment no man has lost betting
on Tulsa. 1t has been said time and again that
no man who has invested In Tulsa real estate
has ever lost dollar. excepting In those eases
where sickness or death or the slngs OF for
tune made forced sale necessary Many mon
who were IN manner forced into owning real
estate in this city dozen years ago have seen
their hoidings turn into a fortune before their
eyes.
Tulsa real estate is one OF the safest invest
ments available today Not only safe but cor.
tainly profitable IL It is nvId with conftlcprc
and released with judgment, Thorc is porhaps.
not section OF the city OF any importance hut
will continue to appreciate for years TO como
Other forms OF Investment may offer a spcodier
determination OF tho hazard uf spcculauop
Straight gambling appeals TO the durlng he
cause ono can ascertain the final decision hv a
mere throw of tho dice
But for an investment, Of oven spocuI,ti,r
where the thought IS OF security as won. we
know Of nothing moro secure and more pron,
ising than Tulsa real estate Tor there ia
city in process of building here, not morcly
city OF 75,00O such as we have TODAY. but
city Of 900 that is to serve a nopulous ou-
vronment OF a million souls possessing tbe
material resources which viii cnabIo then, fl,
buy literally.
The nation IS in the morning of nov ana
wonderfully prosperous business day Not
everything done by the bankers or tho whole.
salers or by the speculatlng public, As going to
prove universally popular, but nothing, we
mink is more certain than that We stand on
Sha threshold OF an era Of unoxamplcd btIsl