Show BAIN ON 8 AUTHENTIC statement STAi STATEMENT EMENT 81 special locial to THE EXPRESS is 13 optimistic WHATEVER arpena DAUS tj IPA K AASS I 1 am m a ot a pol itlean moot moat statistic tiU cian latis promise the th impartial truth while most politician appear to promise what will get them the most votes As A a result of the latter the following facts are entirely forgotten people allow themselves to get seared scared and vote foolish urns sums of money thinking that they wu will thereby havo have security fre freedom edoin from accident and employment note not th sheals Fit fur although the daily pers per feature crime yet only orle one in 10 will tomorrow suffer or witness any crime when a man inan Is killed by lightning it la is reported all over the country yet only one man out of every ever will be killed by lightning in the next very bad storm dullness business failures failure are increasing but they are decreasing on a percentage basis the stock market has to go down before it can turn up tip it if treles trees grew any higher they would blow down everything which hap pens Is for the best during the past ten years the population of the U S has increased 18 the gross na lional product has increased almost 70 consumer in come even after taxes has increased 60 no figures on crime accidents or juvenile delinquency can equal these increases cost of living downward the politicians clany and labor leaders present figures to tao show that the cost cm of living is constantly going up this thi is because new products product a greats great er conveniences and other items have been added to the list which makes up the in dox dex if it covered just the things I 1 had when I 1 was a boy to in gloucester and my father waff a do merchant uie t iti V 5 coat of living it in dex v would be only one half the figure now published from every point of 0 view I 1 am an optimist even the ac and deaths by auto mobiles are much less than those from the horse and buggy when figured on a mile basis the cost oi of light heat and power has ally decreased even food has haq dropped in price for the saml rome menu which we had in my boyhood days day and we were then as healthy and strong as are the young people tofta we made pur our own candy picked our own ap plem plea and nade our own cid er soft drinks were not then for sale unemployment Is I 1 optimistic when unemployment sta increase they are feat ared as aa dangerous and the stock market goes dawni yet the social workers tell us that the chief cause of juvenile delinquency is the fact that all others mothers are engaged in in austry and away from home all day when I 1 was a boy no mo mothers worked in factories we e kids were trained to help about the house and to help take cere care of the large camill es which most of our mothers had I 1 grew up as a I 1 baby titter sitter but never received or expected any pay therefore in those days the ers carried only news with no entertainment features we used to subscribe to the youth a companion or the st bt nicholas magazine while our mothers had fatih ion magazines and cut pat terns from tissue paper for the clothes which they made now all these and many oth er r features come freely from the excellent newspapers all ali that glitters is not gold but much is gold that does not glitter what eighty years year taught me M every sunday I 1 read a chapter from bertha condes A way to peace health and power at the end oi of the book are several blank pages on which I 1 write a line each month about something I 1 had worried about that never happened then when some new problem comes I 1 read those notes they are better than any tranquilizer pill sill the same optimism is needed in business things run on about the same from generation to generation ilu man nature is not changed we continue to spend one third of our life in steep sleep and the less we eat cat the better we feel the more we exercise the longer we live the world is very slowly but surely get ting better we lill all should be optimists |