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Show Fault Finders Continual fault-finding is a dangerous habit to acquire dangerous in an individual and dangerous for a people be- cause of the great harm that it can cause. Constant fretting and complaining will corrode the morale mo-rale of even such a happy and prosperous country as our own. The attitude that something is wrong will drag us down. Rather our dominant thought should be, "What's right with America?" Instead of of one investigation after another anoth-er to attempt to find sometning wrong, why not an effort to focus attention on the good qualities of our administrators, our citizens, our professions, our institutions and our indus-tries indus-tries ? The most useful patriotism is optimism not senseless but sensible optimism.Anyone can be optimistic by thoughtfully thought-fully summing up the advantages of today and comparing them with conditions of twenty, even ten years ago. The person who complains should be ashamed because there is so much about us so much better than ever before in the experience of man, that the plea of the fault-finder resolves re-solves itself in a wail of selfish discontent. Of course, there are too many laws because there is an Dver-regulation of everything. But the fault-finders are responsible re-sponsible for this. They have popularized the idea that everything can be corrected by law which has built up an inherent in-herent resentment against the continual "Don't do this." " |