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Show Tan editorial by 1 i florence da vies i ; SEND ME AS OPTIMIST I "Get out and send mo an optimist'" Henry Ford followed an age-old .precedent when he'sald that to a man I who was arguing with him. in the i, id days messengers lulng-jing lulng-jing bad tidings were beheaded. The. potentates weren't logical about it. They didn't stop to reason that the Iman who carried the bad news wan innocent enough, an' more- than Henry Ford cured to consider thut ,the man WMo tailed to agree with him WSS probably saying what lv bonost- I 1. believed. 1 But both Henry Ford and the an-Cle an-Cle nt kings were fjulte human. Nobody likes to hear bad news nobody likes j to talk to a pessimist Nobody likes to be disagreed With You may be honest in leiiin the boss what's wrong with his business. But if you know what's wrong and he doe-jn t ask you that may be One o: the the times when Silence is golden. Suppose you let someone else convince the boss that he's all wr ing, and you concentrate on some Of the things that arc right. There must be nu-n who feel like saying to their wives 'tet out und send me an optimist-- I want to talk to an optimist." Some women arc for- j ever tulklng about how hard it is to be poor, what a drp;.dful cross It 11 to gi-. tlie children Ics.i than the best. i They don't exactly reproaoh their ims-; ims-; bands, they J'ist cniarg, upon the drawbacks o; their lot. A man Wll comes home after trying his be st, even 'it tnat best is rather pitifully Inadc-jquatc, Inadc-jquatc, must feel like crying with Mr. i , l'ord 'Get out and send me an op- Itmist!" If you waut to get ahead W V.r. 1 Ford's, business or In ; our own. you'll hp, clall.e on tho promising side oi . . : altualloh. Vou need'nt necessarily, be a hypo-i erite to talk success. There are people in business who at- ways go around telling what's wroilg With the manager, what's wrong with the policy, v. hat's w rong with th" waj things are run. They may le- conscientious consci-entious objectors, but nobo-ly likes to h ar bad tidings, and redks today are just as human as Henry Ford atio those old kings who chopped off th beads of the mnooent messengers who brought them bad nuws. Let sonic-ibodv sonic-ibodv else hand on tta bad news. People as a rule don't want to b-'corrected b-'corrected even for their souls' good. they want to be approved. I , -oo |