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Show Did You Ever Stop to Think By Edson R. Waite During the warm season one likes to stop at a hotel that has installed a good cooling system so one can eat and sleep in comfort. It is warm outside as I write this, but delightfully cool and comfortable all over the Oklahoma Okla-homa Biltmore Hotel at Oklahoma City, where I am stopping for the day. No great accomplishment in life was ever achieved by x pessimist. It has always been the optimist who has done big things. When business is lagging is the time to spend more money for advertising. Those business concerns who do so feel a depression much less than those vho cut expenses ex-penses by cutting down advertising. A lot of cities nowadays act as though they believe in "saying it with flowers instead of saying it with action. ac-tion. ii it Some men who are constantly throwing cold water on projects that mean better business often get into "hot water." The city that thinks it can get something without-working without-working for it is just dreaming, and so long as they keep dreaming just that long will they get no real development. de-velopment. ' You should never forget the importance of the van- j ous industries that make your city possible and never I lose an enportunity to encourage and assist them in : their grevrth; for therein rests the success of your com- i murdty and the welfare of all who live and work there, i . j The ever-changing conditions of civilization are a : constant challenge to the resourcefulness of those in charge of Industry. Every citizen is an asset or a liability to his home town. ..Which are you? |
