The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
FAITH IN US. IS INSPIRATION
Forbes Of Buffalo Sounds
 Slogan All Should Follow

~Have faith in America is the best thing I know to inspire one with opti- Mism and confidence" said Myron B. Forbes, President of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company, of Buffalo, N. T., recently in talk given to members of the Pierce-Arrow distributing organiza- lion in Boston, Mass. f
 History gives any one all the facts they want to back up that feeling. Why so many people seem to overlook this is an enigma. Go back one, two, Ave- eight generations, or more, and there were times when 6 lot of peo- pie were pessimistic. But the optimists went right ahead and worked things but to the country's advantage.
 t'We had all sorts of wars. In the Revolution we were supposedly finished several times. If I could arrange it all the school children in America would at some time see Valley Forge, study what it means in our history. We are neglectful. To count up our prominent men who have never been there would surprise one. However, we won.
 f"We were to be cleaned up in the war of 1872. No big Navy, but lot 6f intrepid fighters with skill on the water, and soldiers who could shoot better than Waterloo veterans ended that. Mexico could not stop us. Our Civil War seemed destined to wipe us off the map as a Nation. But we came back. The Spanish War gave the people on the seacoast many a scare from the threatened attack of Cervera's fleet. So many moved inland.
 "Our World War showed the final hupreme test of what we can do. And s0,t when you add to these occasions when black clouds hovered about our horizon all the time to the other times when business conditions slumped, we have not lived under glorious skies 100 per cent of the Nations life. ~
 eBut we came through always. There was a certain percentage of our peo- pie who refused to bow their heads and lament. Instead they had their. heads up and buckled down to hard work. They are doing it today. And lot of others are now beginning to get their Inspiration from them.
 ssThese optimists knew the conven- lions were not going to last all Sum- nier. They saw the Nation continued on its course in the past when Presi- dents passed on in office. They real ized that this is a country of opportu- nity where the one who wills and does gets somewhere, while the fellow who stops to lament struggles out of the line of march.
 ga"We are going to have an election E. AL Ht,ll xxysN hau uN their say as to what they want. No matter what the result is there will be large portions of the people disappoint- ed. Yet these people are not going to start an armed rebellion. A few weeks later they will be busy rushing to the counters to buy Christmas presents, as we do every year.
 You have the example here. Were 1t not for your people who discount pessimism you would not have your broad thoroughfares for transportation i; your increasingly valuable properties lining them; your big industrial and mercantile establishments; y. IT General prosperity, and by prosperity l mean in reality where your banks for 1925 show cd an increase inssavings of more than E10O. .O00,OO0 oyer 1922.
 .'Nor would New England have more Rhan 100000 motor vehicles supple menting it's transportation system. What you have here others have in kheir sectors. When one is able to visualize 1t through travel and to ana hyze what it all means, how we are nll part of a vital mass that seems to have q faculty to do the right Rhing until peoples in other countries Envy us and feel we have some Divine kuidance, it should not be difficult to have faith in the United States.
 'Therefore, if each unit, gathering for any purpose, would preface its meeting with a few remarks by the presiding officer to emphasize this fact, and first of all, before tackling it's job, would stop a moment and get the meaning of what faith in America will accomplish, tasks would be made cas- fer. So will your tasks from now on. And as you go about your work, carry this message everywhere, so that 1t win get an impetus to minimize pessi- mism when next it starts around. It is losing ground here with textile, leather and other trades opening up \ again here, and shall carry these facts back West thankfully"