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Show i S"T I.KT TIIK IXDPir ANT 1 AM) THE DONKKY (iKT 1 YOI.' It GOAT. 11 vor sinfre we can remember , Unit dates buck to the time ! '; n Hiry wore currying wnter to , I ' e t lie rivers prositlontinl year . 1 been t lie business man's lmga- hen wc were young men just , Li ik in business, we were told ! I ld time merchants that we , 1 L look out for presidential f j , because it always put a '' p in business. Relieving at ' lime nearly everything told us, I -oinmenced to prepare for this il event far in advance of its i J i ng; and that Is Just who some , ' i are still doing. . i i the days gone by we have i !ed our way to our homo after 1, dint a campaign meeting, 1 ' ' ny and despondent, sore dis-' dis-' j1' ed with the thought that if j particular party did not re- iu power the country would I ' smash generally, emphatically, ' in its entirely. ; ,' ?qt up! We have had presl-i1. presl-i1. ' i al years before, and we man-- man-- 1 ' I aged somehow to live through them. It's reasonable to assume that we'll do so again. Do you know the real reason presidential years are reputed to be "bad for business?" Well, here's the deep, dark secret : When the circus managers bring out the donkey and the elephant and begin to dust off the old band-wagon, why we all 6top work to watch the parade. pa-rade. And no one ever waxed wealthy watching a political parade. pa-rade. There's no reason in the world why the man who keeps right on hoeing his row shouldn't come out 'way ahead in a political year, just the same as any other time. Truth to tell, he should do better than usual, because there isn't so much competition. Now, for goodness' sake, let's face this presidential question sensibly. sensi-bly. Just so long as we hold to the superstition that walking under a ladder will give us chilblains or burst our appendix, just so long will we hug it to our breast that Presidential Presi-dential years are lean business years. 1 |