~ AY man v aoseed in ‘any business whatsoever: ata. -Jooks' for success without: exercising his faculties to achieve that. end, is not an. optimist, but a fool ‘Pwo things: make advertising . almost: a ‘synonym for “optimism. ; One ‘is that the advertiser. ‘who would. be. ‘successful must : be an optimist. -The.other’is that: when - an advertiser loses his optimist he generally. concels his advertising, 7 “Business is rotten,” exclaims ‘the manufacturer, and ‘forthwith, ders all his. advertising. stopped, little realizing that his. own action is ‘one of the principal causes ‘that * -smakes business-rotten.. _ Cancelling advertising is 50 easy ‘aust + be a an ‘expehise, the advertiser. a” - Therefore to cut: it: off ot “Teasons. . ee ‘Therere ‘spreads his own lack of” faith in, . himself, his. ‘country, his _ Boot and the future to other bus- “iness‘men who are perhaps: on the verge, of doing . the same thing.” - Without i in any way. minimizing. - the crisis ‘which the. world is now ~ -: facing, ‘without ignoring the fact °. ‘that a long, expensive war in Eur-. - . ope will result'in'a great deteriora- - tion of--values arid’ a. -tremeridotis adjustment of finance: and. com-"*. |. merée when it is over, ‘there i is ney- ertheless sufficient ground for ‘be _heving that this country is: ‘going. - on, that the. manufacture ' and-con- . sumption of goods’ ‘will continue, ‘and that the manufacturers: who. || a “ enterprising,” far-sighted. and alert. enough to take. advantage of. existing” and: new. markets. and. to.’ * push their business as: ‘they “would ‘- in ‘ordinary tithes, are going to be- ~'nefit by their. actions. “OF it will not. If it does not, busi- “te, among other things, must g - In.our own eountry” it. must * --go-on now. olt. cannot wait until ines the war" 4s over, °