The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-03
DAILY THOUGHTS
By R. L. H.
Success Spells Success

Success or failure is largely a re-
suit of the individuals point Of view
Talk war and act war and you will
have war, admonishes the sage. AnC
history has borne out his contentious
Likewise talk success, act success
and live success and you will be sue
cessful But talk calamity, and its
kindred spirits and that will you reap
AS rule those people wno are al
ways talking about the evil conditions
of the day, about the bottomless pit
to which the nation is striding aud
all the other rubbish about the sins
of the present and future generations
are the very people who never get
out of life any pleasure or seem to
succeed at anything.
They are SO set on seeing, feeling
and believing calamity that they cam
not but imbibe the spirit of sheir
mental depression. 1t is impossible
for them to think or feel or act along
other than gloomy, hopeless, despond-
nature of despair and its consequent
ruinous effects has invaded their very
beings.
Such people seem to "have no luck
with whatever they go at. If farmers,
they can't make a success of :aising
produce or animals. The wheat will
not come up or the calves die before
they are ready for market. And so
on.
Whatever they touch seems to bear
the stigma of disfavor with the con
trolling forces of the world. At least
that is what they are forever saying.
They are gloomy, foreboding in their
thoughts, in their actions and what
ever they do bears the marks Of fail
ure written in bOx-car letters.
1t seems to be part of thei- Pc
culiar makeup that accounts for this
They apparently dc all
that their more cheerful and more
fortunate neighbors do in the way of
work upon what they attempt, but
the attitude with which they live and
strive seems to breed the same kind
CT products.
On the other hand, take the persons
who are always cheerful and spend
their time being happy and talkirg
success. The results of thel.. tolls
lre very different and their company
mucn more pleasant.
Anything they attmept seems to
prosper and increase and they live
IN the fat of the land. They are al
ways hard workers and they always |
i've in the land of now and try 70 /
make the way bright and sunshjny
IS they go.
They are never filled with thoughts
If catastrope, calamity or with any
If the other thousand things that
weight SO very heavily upon the
minds of the other class of people.
they seem to make their motto hap
'iness and in living that motto with
tut fear or qualming they go through
life meeting success on every hand
On every side of use we see these
,eople who are jolly, even unto the
xtent OF carelessness, but who have
chieved much in possessing worldly
GODS. Though seemingly thought
ass of the morrow or of the "woeful
igns Of the times" they SOW with
leasure and they reap success in all
hey undertake.
And what difference there is in be-
lg in the company of the two. The
loom caster by his continual remind
lgs that we are all headed towards
cath and destruction, individually
nd collectively, casts shadow
round him that s about as welcome
) fur coat would be at the equator.
But the buoyant spirits of the other
pc radiate sunshine and happiness
all with whom those persons come
contact. They are SO full of life
I'd the things that make life worth
lille that the efflorescence of their
ature instills within the hearts of all
ear the unconscious feeling tina life
worth while and that all is not
FADED toward seven-headed destruc-
IN.
And the people of the cheerful type
e always talking success. They /
mot think in terms of anything
se, 1t would seem, and the very at =