Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1921-03-10
BE Il ROBIN, NOT A RAVEN.
By Guy FIenner


they can only sell for greatly de,
! preciated CURRENCY bale of ii
wouldn't buy a bungalow apron in
this country.
The people of those countries in
many instances have not had a real
square meal in many, many months.
Yet travellers returning from those
countries report that the people and
the business men there are cheerful
and optimistic and say that condi-
tons will shortly improve and that
everything will come out all right
in the wash.
In this country today we do not
know what hard times are, still
many people are talking hard times
and imagining hard times and curl
ing up with their chins near their
knees, and denying themselves I'M
necessarily and keeping money out
of circulation and making it bind
ing, all right, although not produc-
ing such hard times as they imagine
exists and as those other countries
know.
The other day a man who had
visited some of those countries made
speech in Boise in which he said he
felt ashamed for Americans who
were pessimistic and who exhibited
such lack of faith in themselves and
in the resourcefullness and stability
of their own country.
II can't help thinking that such
people are cowards," he said, "peo-
pie who are afraid of their shadows
and who begin to SILVER and pale at
the slightest reverse"
We wonder if he is not right? May
it not be legitimately charged to
cowardIy instincts when one runs to
cover at the first sign of little slack
ening up after an orgy or war spend
ing? Is it the proper spirit for peo-
pie to go around talking adversely
and hurting themselves and every
one else?
1t may appear to some a wise |
course to fall into the "do-nothing-
but-peddle-gloom' habit, but that
croaking bird always comes home to !
roost. See how it works. Let us typi-
fy the pessimistic part of the public
as X. He gets the crepe and hangs
it all over himself, with remnants
for all with whom he comes into
contact. He buys nothing. The
merchant can't buy from the manu-
facturer. The manufacturer cannot
maintain his pay rolls. Then the
bird starts on its return trip home
to your home and my home; and
when it arrives it finds us with mon
ey hard to get, because X. had
his money from eireula-
ton. Work is scarce because money
is scarce, and what wages are paid
are lew and father comes home
Saturday night with a few weinies
instead of a beefsteak.
If it is not cowardly, is it not at
least foolish to engage in such prac-
tice in the light of the fact that we
are fundamentally the most pros
porous country in the world-the I
worlds creditor-the great bread &,
basket of the world-enjoying privi- .
eges and blessings unknown to
most people in foreign lands?
our land is here, our industries
ire here, the money is here. Why
lie them up with the strands of an 4
ibcession? 4
There is no trouble anywhere ex- j..
.epting in the minds of the gloom
;allopers. The whole thing is des-
as a mental depression-an :
lmost insane fear-the trembling of Z
he lotus eater. 4
Let's get the hook for the crepe /.
langer.
Let's go on about our business
nd our work in a normal, sensible :
ray. 4
Let's buy what we need and live :
ike white folks and not, even temp :
rarily, crawl off into the cave with .
stone hammer