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Show Ij I PRESIDENT OF OPTIMIST CLUB 1 I BREATHES FORTH GOOD CHEER II Directly in keeping with his official t " position "as president of tho Optimist I Club of America. Charles A. Quigley, j manager .in 'tho .Rocky "Mountain region j for the Shidcbaker Wagon company, di&cussed Ihf financial condition Tucs-j Tucs-j (lay p.tternoon in his usual sanguine j manner. Ir. Quigley leaves Thursday noon for "Now York, where he will meet, xxith the optimists of the East, who il is understood air making big at- I rangcni'-uns to rpecive their president. "All this howling about threatened panic and hard times under tho guise of 'financial stringenc'' is nonsensical,'.' nonsensi-cal,'.' he said. "Of eourse. money may be a liltle scarce, but what good docs it do to keep crying about it? The proper thing to do is to keep plugging with :i smile and everything will conic out all right. "Perhaps some people think they have :i just reason for getting out. tho. -ack ejotli and ashes: .nod wailing about I hard luck and bad times. Nobody ever gels up against it so far but what somebody Msc can be found who is in worse straights. This world would be a dr.ary old plfleo if everybody was going around with a melancholy air i and a pessimistic face brooding about i tho hard times and t wondering how much wor.-o it was going to be before i it passed by. "Tho best way to '(mrothw; so-called ' financial stringency' is to forget it. Tn thn place of gaping at Ihe big. black Houds of panic that I he press has pic tured as sweeping from New York Westward, people should spend morn lime studying the resources of this country and finding out how utterly impossible it in for thin nativi to go to riiih. just because money is scarce or a few wildcat uromotcrs have gone broke. " ff Iho topic of conversation eveiy tiuie-j wo -friends iwct; is on how black the times look and how tougn il is go- iug lo be to pull through, :nu! now ov- rryhi-Mtv . iy going broke nw all that ' -;.', oi f-tiifT, wo ian'1. expert ir get llipjugli without having everybody H-ared and worked up and wondering j how badly they arc hurt. People will get to liguriog out how poverty will come to each and every one--that there 's ,llty'",va" ou'' tot it. that it will just sivi?-lrt 'nmo and tiio.y will expect 'Ai T beliee in watching out. r tho jiiHtre Just as mwh as anybody. 0k nd I i don't think anyboC!. ought to shut their eyes whrn they have to face an ipsito. "But this thing of worrying and Jwoodinj. about how much trouble thu future is going to bring and looking out. not to avoid but to find it, is bound to make things look blue. "Every little thiug that happens in' the busiuess world is magnified and distorted dis-torted to show the worst phase when maybe there wouldn't b anv bad dide at all if people werp not looking for il. Just imagine what kind of a condirinn we would havp if this pessimism would last forever. We would all get so blue there would be nothing left but to go out and commit, suicide. "f'll tell you a hearty handshake and a cheering word will go a long way in dispelling this hard-timo scare. If everybody would talk about something else something pleasant, this 'financial stringency' would be forgotten in two wccTtt. 4I3i en people right horc in Utah in Salt Lake in the best Slate and the best city in the Uniled States, are forgetting all about I heir wonderful resources and wealth and wondering it there will bo enough poorhouscn to accommodate ac-commodate us all! The land is just, as fertile as it was nh: months ago; the mines are just as rich and the mountains moun-tains are just as full of ore. Salt Lake is bound to bo (ho greaiest city in the Weet and nothing absolutely nothing can keep her prosperity down. That is what people ought to. think about, and as J said before, Ihe way to kill this panic, or seare, or whatever 3011 want to call it, is to forgot it and go talking about the bricht and bcautiLiil things 'in this world." |
