The average woman is easily frightened. Just the presence of a mouse in the room will cause more commotion in a woman’s meeting than a bull in a china shop, but still, woman is not near so timid or easily frightened as Money. Some men, so-called business men, spend much of their time in their stores or on the streets talking about how scarce money is, and what dire calamities are going to happen before another crop is matured, and then wonder why the farmers and the farmer’s wives are not spending more money. Why? Because that farmer goes home and tells his wife what Mr. Jones said about the “hard times” we were going to have, and he preaches it to his wife and to his children, and to his neighbors, and finally it has grown to be almost a panic, all because some one has said times were hard and there was no money in the country.
Many a bank has gone bursted because some one started a rumor that the bank was getting shaky, and so it is with a community, begin talking hard times and sure enough you may expect hard times, while on the other hand if every one goes along about his business in the usual way few think about the times, spends their money for such things as they need and times are good. It is not altogether how much money there is in the country so much as how well that money circulates. Keep it moving and we all handle it, pay our debts, buy what we want and business is brisk, but just begin to talk abut hard times and money hides in all kinds of places—sometimes in an old sock, behind the chimney corner, anywhere just so it is out of sight.
The truth is, a pessimist is a mighty sorry animal at best and the less attention paid to his croakings the better off all will be. BOOST, don’t overdo the matter, but be optimistic and see how much happier we will all be.
From the editorial page of the Roxboro Courier, March 25, 1925, J.W. Noell, Editor.
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