Let's Have a Prosperous Presidential Year

By Jack Dionne

Wouldn't it be a fine thing for everyone if we would just upset the old bugaboo about hard times in Presidential Election year, and pull off a good and prosperous year instead? It would be one of the best things that could happen to the nation.

The world is mental; the times and conditions are mentally created and controlled; prosperity and depression are both the result of mental conditions becoming widespread Lnough to have the physical effect.

If a sufficient number of people get to talking and thinhing HARD TIMES for the next year, they will act in a way that will bring about just what they fear.

That isn't psychology-it's just common sense. Every act is the child of a thought. Every condition is the result of a mental situation.

That's why Presidential Election years have become such business bugaboos. Sometime, away back yonder, elections were so important that everyone quit ever5rthing else and gave their undivided attention to the election Quitting business makes business bad. And when the business they had quit became bad, they said the'election was the cause of it. It was not. It was the way they acted that year. But the impression became prevalent that Presidential Election year made business bad. And they've been talking it ever since.

And so, every four years, we hear this same line of talk about Presidential Election year, and prophecies of bad times. They fear it will happen again. They HOPE not, but it always has. And they reflect that thought in their business, and business naturally sufrers.

It doesn't NEED to be. We can have a big year next year, just as well as any other year. We need a bettet' damper on our jaws, more optimism in our:hearts, and more of that practical philosophy that realizes that the $'ay to meet a threatened depression is to hit the ball harder, think straighter, smile oftener, and think more frequently of the eternal RIGHT, rather than the threatened wrong.

It would be a grandlthing if we turned the thing around the other wan and had a fine year next year, and each man can do his share to bring it about by acting as though it were sure to happen.