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Show PROSPECTS ) 1 By BERTON BRALEY . ' - "Th bsst of sll nosslbls worlds? It's not!" ThAt way of talking la uttsr rot. Thla world la hardly tha least degree Th eort of world that It ought to bA. It'a full of selfiahneaa. greed and strife, A eort of Jungle of seething life. Of heedless cruelty, needlees pain. Where millions struggle and toll ta train. But that's no reason to sll and mope Bereft of courage and robbed of hope! For when Ha history we rehearee - Wa learn of old thet the world was worse And we slso know, It ws Are not blind, li s getting better, more ssne And kind; ' Bo, using thst as A starting place. We plsn for progress end hope for gTc. For ths optimist Is very far Krom liking matters tha way they are; He aeea conditions, ha knowa the facta Hut he thinks and figure and talks and acta Wllh the full belief that "the world do move." That men and women In time improve. And that, though proanecia at whiles seem glum. I "The best of all pnealble worlds" will come! -.Copyright, u:i, M. E. A. Service, lnJ ' -.1 |