The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-07-01
zaiSer & zaiSe
A Greed
for 1893

Reprint from "The Sun
Dial" By II. I. Phillips IN
the Ne10 York Sun, Mag
26, 1881.
L believe in the United
States of America.
I believe In the American
ability to beat any beatabIe
set of circumstances and
come up smiling.
/ believe in the ability of
the American citizen to
swim upstream, hit fast ball
pitching, break out Of a
half Nelson and have
pretty good time in the bar
gain.
l believe that in the long
run fair weather Overhaul
ances the bad, that all
breaks" are subject TO the
law of averages, that the ex-
preston good old days" Is
relative and that everything
comes out all right in the
wash.
believe a little optimism
never hurt anybody and can
be taken straight.
1 believe in the capacity
of the American industrial
leader and in the common
sense of the American work
ingman.
i believe that Uncle Sam
is still at the old stand with
a brave heart and a clear
head and / do not believe he
is in any danger of losing
his pants, coat, vest or shirt.
/ believe In the total in
ability of Russia to change
the course of the stars, to
rearrangc the general APP
pearance of the heavens, to
eliminate the consultations,
to discontinue the daily ris-
ing of the sun, to subject
the rainbow to a five-year
plan or to make the Ameri-
can of normal backbone
jump into hole and pull it
in after him.
1 believe American rail-
roads are worth consider
ably more than a dime a
dozen.
I believe the Uni ID
States Steel Corporation, the
American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, the General
Electric Corporation and other
big industrial institutions will
stay in bushes and that none
of them is in any danger of
having to take on a side line
of lead pencils or apples.
1 do not believe there is
any danger of seeing John
PierpOnt Morgan, Owen d.
Y gu n g, Gen. Atterbury,
Charlie Schwab or James A.
Farrell throwing their Jobs
overheard and deciding to
make a living as ferrybOat
musicians.
believe that what the
country needs more than any
thing else is a restoration of
the ducking stool for profess
siOnal pessimists, Squawkers,
calamity howIers and con-
firmed grOucheS.
believe In the ability, in
stinct, capacity and power of
the average American to fight
his way out Of any difficulty,
to scale any reasonable
heights, to make the final
payments on the automobile,
to put something In the bank
and to look adversely in the
face and tell it to go to hell.
believe the American peo-
pie will continue to own and
operate automobiles and that
there is not Chinaman's
chance that conditions will
arise which will make them
decide 1t Is a good idea to go
back to the bicycle and the
buggy.
/ believe the American
housewife will continue to
have an electric icebox and
will never again be satisfied
to spend half day hopping
up the kitchen after the visit
Of the 0ld-fashioned iceman.
/ believe the oId-fashioned
wash-tub hiss gone for good
and that anybody who thinks
the American wife is going
back to the old days of drudgo
cry and inconvenience is two
thirds cuckoo and one-third
army mule.
believe thu ee square noeaIs
. day will always be the
American standard, but that
even if we miss one or two ~
won't hurt us.
L believe in common gene.
and natural vision as onno-aS
to the "fidgets" and the me-
OF smoke glasses wher anv~
thing goes wrong.
believe in the silver lin
ing, the rainbow afte- a.
storm, the plunge thron1s
center the infaIIibiIity of AZ
slogan Never lead with vo-.
chin" and the potencv 80 SV u
cries, Block that kick,n snS
Hold 'em, YaIe!n ana