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Show CONDITIONS NOT AS BAD AS PAINTED. Business conditions in St. George arc not as bad as some would try to lead us to believe. We cannot agree with those who endeavor en-deavor to cast this town in a bad Tight in comparison with other towns between here and Salt Lake, either as to progress or business. There has been more building, both residential and business, in proportion to population, and this town has progressed more in the last five years than any town south of Salt Lake. And it takes no Sherlock Holmes to see the truth of this statement. A visit ..and a little investigation in the towns to the north will bear it out. But the calamity howlers would lead us to believe that St. George is cn its last pegs, that instead of moving ahead with the other cities of the state, they say we are almost al-most out of the procession. As to business conditions here, traveling men say we are in better bet-ter shape financially than most other towns. Business is like most everything else you get it if you know what you want and go after it. "Business is poor" is often due to a state of mind more than to anything else, as illustrated by iie following story : A professor of psychology, in order or-der to write a treatise on the lirain power of fish, provided an aquarium with a clear glass partition. par-tition. He put a fair sized bass in one section, and a number of little minnows in the other. Immediately the cannibalistic bass sensed a banquet fit for a ting and headed for the nearest minnow with mouth wide open. He struck at the minnow, and was prepared to close his eyes with joy as he swallSwed the tasty morselhut mor-selhut what was that? There vas nothing but a stinging sensation. sensa-tion. He struck again. He lunged liere and lunged .there and kept it up for several days, until "forced to quit because of the bruised condition con-dition of his mouth. The minnows -still swam around gayly, and by hat time the bass was prepared to subsist on the food that was dropped in his section of the aquarium. Then the naturalist removed the glass partition. The minnows swim around the bass, but he didn't strike at a single one. He had been thoroughly sold an the idea that business was poor. Moral: Don't be a poor fish. |