Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-08 | Page 3 | Walt Mason

it T Wait Mason e THE PEPTIMIST. 'I he pepUmh)t is one wno works with! most eve. e.ling im, and seta example to I I the shirks who may keep tub on hlin. So many men, with drugging feel go to their tasks each day; wllh frowns thev shuck the ears of wheat and thrash the bales of hay. With scowls thev ply Ihej shining sow or wield the useful churn, they're onlv happy when they draw the. pay they think they earn. And when I i there la a slump in trade, and workmen must be fired these delegates uio Tirst to fade, they've niiulo the bosses tired, 1 The peptimlst iias taken pride In labort safe and sane, whatever tool he mav hava ' plied, a corkscrew or a plane. He did not g w llh drawing step when mornlne-j whistles blew in every motion there was pep. no sulky fits ho threw. And when a slump In trade appears, and i workmen ore laid off, the boss announces 'luoiiKh his tear, "We'll keop this hu ' tlmg toff. We can't nffojd to let him go. he s such a useful Ivan We'll keep him, though to Tom and Joe we must attach the can." The peptimlst Is n demand de-mand v horever commerce dwells he makes his progress through lh land "and wears 1, 1.1 sirlnc of bells