| Show Lets Let's w Start Over Ove Again By VASH YO YOUNG NG THE TilE DEPRESSION SPIRIT The story of mankind as everyone knows is not written in r red d ink There There here have been hundreds of wars thousands of blunders countless set- set backs acks And there have been man many I I business depressions But But gains have outweighed losses always in m the long run un Otherwise there would have been retrogression instead of progress Take these depressions or panics as we call them and often they are depressions de- de because they are panics in the minds of men They tome now and then but what is more moreo to o the point they go Yes every ery last miserable depression so far has vanIshed van van- shed into oblivion This one also will move move jove out and away The course of ofle the le thing is Ls about run now but it will linger nger on an until we the thc Individuals do o something about our inner lives our ur viewpoints When we we decide it its is s over the turn will have come Within the past few years the pre pre- diction has been made thousands of times that better conditions were just around round the corner and a few persons peeped fearfully around to see if it were true That's no way ways to win wina a victory over depression Courage rather ather than a cautious glance glanc is isn n needed ceded I must act act- you yo must act We cannot af afford ord to wait for somebody some some- body ody else to solve our problems for us I see the present as a distinct challenge to everyone It is to the advantage of each one to win the vI victory vie vic tory as soon as possible Therefore the fie Intelligent thing to do is to fight Campaigns are not won on fear or worry or too much caution Thomas Macaulay writing in 1830 spoke poke of the state of ot mind then ex cx- The present moment is one of great distress said aid he But how small will vill that distress appear when we think hink over the history of ol th the last 40 years a war compared with which all aU other wars sink into insignificance cance ance taxation such as the most heavily ly ily taxed people of former times could not have conceived a debt larger arger than all the public debts that ever existed in the world orld added together to to- gether Progress Merely Interrupted Yet is the country poorer than In 1790 We believe firmly that in spite of all misgovernment of her rulers ulers she has been almost constantly becoming richer and richer Now and then there has been a stoppage now and then a short retrogression but mt as to the general tendency there can be no doubt A single breaker may recede but the tide is 15 evidently coming in Sounds like today doesn't it Read some more from the same man and the same essay I To almost all men the state o of things under tinder which th they y have been I used to live seems to be the necessary aary sary sai state of things We canno cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point that we have seen seers our best days But SO said all al who ho came before us and with jusas just jus justas justas as as much apparent reason On what wha principle Is la it that when wesee nothing nothing noth noth- ing but improvement behind us we weare arc are to expect nothing but lion before us Ther There must have been a business depression on in those days and Macaulay Macaulay Ma Ma- caulay was trying to show people that tha all aU they needed to do was to take a anew new grip on life look ahead and start star ahead The only way we c can estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate the future is is by studying the past the past has been mainly good The The- sensible course therefore is to to decide that the future will be mainly good and live hopefully today I cant can't do anythIng about bout yesterday nor can I project myself into tomor tomor- row But today Is u with me now ant and my job is to make the best of it I If ev every y today is made a success theris there ther is no cause to grieve over the past o or doubt as to the tho future I I The Panic of 1857 Back Baek in fri 1857 these these- United States State had bad a real depression and voices vokes' were L I raised in doler doleful l tones This su surely ely I was was the end of or a promising experiment ment ment America Liberty had been won A vast and rich domain waited to o be used But here is how a writer lof of those times looked at evens even's It is a gloomy moment in history Not jot for many years years not not in the lifetime lifetime life- life time ime of many men inca who read this pap paper aper r Harpers Harper's Weekly Weekly has has there been icon so much grave and deep hension never has the future seemed so o incalculable asat this time In our country there is universal commercial prostration and panic panI and thousands of if our poorest fellow citizens arc turned out against the approaching winter vinter without employment and rid without without with with- out the prospect of itIn itIn it itIn In France the political seethes and bubbles with uncertainty RussIa han hangs S as usual like Uke a cl cloud ud dark lark and silent upon the thc horizon of or Europe while all the resources re- re sources and influence of ot the British Empire are arc sorely tried and are yet yeto yetto to o be tried more s sorely rely in coping with the vast and deadly Indian insurrection in- in and with its disturbed relations re- re relations rc- rc lations in China It Is a n solemn moment and no man manan can an feel foci an indifference which hap hap- no man pretends to feel in the issue of events Of our own troubles no one can cance see ce the end They are fortunately as yet mainly commercial and if It we weare weare weare are only to lose money and by painful pain- pain rul ful ul poverty to be taught wisdom wisdom- th he the wisdom of honor of faith of sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy and of charity charity no no man need ived ed seriously despair And yet the very haste to be rich which is the occasion occa- occa ion sion of r this widespread calamity has also tended to destroy the moral forces with which we are arc to resist reUst and subdue the calamity Good friends let friends let our conduct rove that the thc call comes to tomen men who have lave large hearts however narro narrowed ved their heir homes may be who have open hands lands however empty their purses In n times Umes of p peril ril we have nothing but manhood strong in fn its faith in Go God o rely upon and whoever sho shows s himself himself him- him self elf truly a God fearing man now by helping however he can will wilI be blessed and loved as a 3 great light light light-in in darkness That also aLSo sounds like today doesn't S it t S Thursday Nc New Actors on an Old Stage Copyright 1933 by Vash Young I Published by arrangement with th the I Merrill Bobbs-Merrill Company I |
