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Show DON'T LET THE GLOOMS GET YOU Ono of our business neighbors neigh-bors mot us tho other day with the most doleful face you could feel his gloom a block away. Whut's tho use? Sure, business is not as good n." it was a yeor or two ago. But what of it? All lifo from tho dawn of tho human germ has been ups and downs. All nature has been ups and downs sinco tho burst of creation. Todny's depression is nothing now. ' Thero hnvo bcoi hnril limes boforo and thero will bo hnrd times nguin nnd again all through tho coming centuries. cen-turies. Have you beou knocked down by this particular slump of 1920-21? "Well, well" as Edmund Vanco Cooko says, "What of that? Como up with a smiling face. Tho harder you aro thrown, tho higher you bounce," because action follows reaction and bad times today are only tho forerunner of good times tomorrow. If your business is bad, if you havo lost yom job, if today to-day looks bluo to you, don't lot tho glooms got you. It is up to you to bo up and doing. Let in a little hope and imagination. imag-ination. DO SOMETHING, oven if that something looks lamentably littlo under the circumstances. cir-cumstances. You nobody else aro tho . m muster of your own fate until ( you let circumstances or some other follow conquer you. If you permit that to happen, you aro not much more than half a man. Read Henley's poem again and get its meaning mean-ing deep into ypur soul: "Gut of tho night that covers mo, Illack as tho pit from polo to pole, I thank whatever gods may bo For my unconquorable souL In tho foil clutch of circumstance I havo not winced 01 cried aloud. ' Under tho bludgconlngs ot chanco My head Is bloody but unbowed. It matters not how strait the gnto How charged with punishments tho scroll, I am tho master ot my fate, I am tho captain of my soul." |