The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-11-13
A Creed for 1881


the American Surety Company of New York and
has been read at the meetings of Commercial Clubs
and Chambers of Commerce. Optimisticaly it
ranks among the best sent out this year and is
plea for faith in our country during these trying
and depressing times. The creed reads as follows:
believe in the United States of America.
| believe in the American ability to beat any
beatable 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 half-Nelson and have pretty good time in
the bargain.
believe that in the long run fair weather over
balances the bad that all breaks are subject to
the law of averages that the expression good old
days" is relative and that everything comes out
right in the wash.
believe a little optimism never hurt anybody
and can be taken straight.
| believe in the capacity of the American in
dustrial leader and in the common sense of the
American working man.
[ believe that Uncle Sam is still at the old
stand with brave heart and clear head, and l
do not believe he is in any danger of losing his
pants coat, vest, or shirt.
| believe in the total inability of Russia to
change the course of the stars, to rearrange the
general appearance of the heavens to eliminate
the consultations to discontinue the daily rising
of the sun, to subject the rainbow to fve-year
plan or to make the American normal backbone
jump into hole and pull it in after him.
| believe American railroads are worth con-
siderable more than dime dozen.
| believe the United States Steel Corporation,
the American Telephone & Telegraph Company,
the General Electric Corporation and other big
industrial institutions will stay in business and
that none of them is in any danger of having to
take on side line of lead pencils or apples
| do not think there is any danger of seeing
John Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, General
Atterbury, Charles Schwab or James A. Farrell
throwing their jobs overheard and deciding to
make living as ferryboat musicians
believe that what the country needs more
than anything else is restoration Of the ducking
stool for professional pessimists, squawkers calam-
ity howlers and confirmed grouches
l believe In the ability, instinct, 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 auto
mobile, to put something in the bank and to look
adversely in the face and tell it to go to hell.
| believe the American people will continue
to own and operate automobiles and that there is
not Ch1naman's chance the conditions will arise
which will make them decide it is good idea
to go back to the bicycle and the buggy.
believe the American housewife will con-
tlnue to have an electric icebox and will never
again be satisfied to spend half day hopping
up the kitchen after the visit of the old-fashioned
iceman.
| believe the old-fashioned wash-tub has gone
for good and that anybody who thinks the
American housewife is going back to the old DAYS
OF drudgery and inconvenience is two-thirds cookoo
and one-third army mule.
believe three square meals day will always
be the American standard but that even if we
miss one or two it won't hurt u.s.
OelleVe IN common sense and natural
vision as opposed to the "fdgets" and the use of
smoked glasses when anything goes wrong.
believe the worst is over and that it was
never as bad as it was advertised.