"How I Earned My First Dollar" Contest is stirring up much interest
among "old timers" in the ranks. First letters are beginning to come in.
Please do not delay in sending the facts about your early start. Two
hundred words are enough to give the main details--and are soon
written.
_Some People in the East and the West are Whimpering and Whining!_
Pessimistic over the outlook for spring business.
Some people think the bottom has fallen out of things, when the
fact is things are as good as ever they were. Only that with the
getting back into the condition that prevailed before the war
prices are falling, and many people have contracted a fever which
was very prevalent in the States a short time ago called
Pessimania.
_We've Got to Do Our Part to Create a Spirit of Optimism_, for if
we all join the army of pessimists, it's going to be bad for
ourselves, bad for the Company, and bad for the country too.
_Besides, we have every reason to be optimistic and here are the
reasons_--First, there is the good news of lower prices on nearly
all kinds of goods, and people who have been doing without can now
buy freely again. Second, the government has abolished the
undesirable luxury tax. Encourage your customers and friends to buy
now, for prices cannot jump down below what they are now for the
spring, and the more they buy the more it will add prosperity to
the country. No country's prosperity was ever built up on fear, but
faith. The low prices are here now. People have money for
necessities and we must do our part by talking and thinking
hopefully for the coming spring. That's it! Have you ever stopped
to think of the wonderful power of thought. Like the pebble dropped
in the lake, ever widening in circles, your tiny thought of
hopefulness and helpfulness will have an ever-widening effect.
Every word that you say with belief behind it stimulates other
people to be optimistic, and so your influence increases. This is
what makes _power_.
Every added sale that we make will not only increase our own record
but it will add its quota to the prosperity of Canada.
Let everybody think good times, talk good times, and buy for good
times' sake, then the ranks of the unemployed will melt before the
sunshine of prosperity!
Won't we make a resolution to start being _peptimists_ to-day?--_F.
S. Garner._