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Show RECKONING DAY AND HOUR Workman's Thoughts Not Altogether Fixed on What Might Be Called Higher Things. Mayor William S. Jordan, at a Democratic Dem-ocratic binqu.'t in Jacksonville, said of o; lii.-.ism : "Lot us cultivate optimism and hopefulness. hope-fulness. There is nothing like it. Tha optimistic man can see a bright side to everything every tiling. "A missionary in a slum onco laid his hand on a man's shoulder and said: " 'Friend, do you hear the solemn ticking of that clock? Tick-tack; tick-tack. tick-tack. And oh, my friend, do you know what day it inexorably and relentlessly brings nearer?' " 'Yes, pay day,' the other, an honest, hon-est, optimistic workingman, replied." |