Show AN OPEN LETTER salt lake mining review salt lake utah gentlemen for a longtime we have been systematically fed on pessimism through the press postal channels trade organizations the banks and our friends all trying to prove in one way or another that business particularly our business and that of the government has the molly grubs doddles doldrums or what not frankly we are sick of the diet the worm has turned the time honored silver lining to the cloud is getting so hefty t that pretty soon its going to turn that old cloud foreside to you yau know it and we know it then why the molly grubs now dont call us nuts or some other postwar post war pet name because weve cut out the pessimism we are losing a little money so is everyone else we knew we were going to lose it so let us be good losers whistle I 1 its better for the community if thin things 9 s are not exactly lively in business and we dont know just what to do next remember member the fellow who had hold of the grizzles grizz lys tail he had a near up problem fully equal to yours and ours but history does not say anything about his having let go theres lots of business to be done its just around the corner why not go after it and help get things started try smiling attempt a joke if it does sound a little thin and hollow it may provoke somebody to laugh or smile at your temerity laughs and smiles are what we want now cultivate the bac cilus cheerfulness get out your forgotten warm handshake that used to stir the c ackles cockles of your friends heart let us walk around like we had something important to do what are we afraid of anyway bugaboos Buga boos or goblins rileys wileys story about goblins was for little orphan orphah 1 annie not for business men with a worlds problem if we have failed to do our share in adjusting prices and wages to where we know they must go letus do it now deflate for we are going over and there is no room for sl ackers or profiteers but plenty for the real american the finest title in the world give harding a chance his politics dont matter he is president of the united states of america the greatest country on this old terrestrial globe give him a square deal give congress a chance get out the constructive ideas that we have a grasp on and fire them along to our cop congressmen gressmen and senators they are human and will like it it will help the country give the stars and stripes a chance to flutter in a real american commercial breeze we know how lets go yours very truly SMITH EMERY emeryd CO san francisco oct 10 1921 |