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rVrs THE D ecem ber 28, 1922 WESTERN AM ERICAN >3 55 -~.il . . . ------ J. -LIU1" ■ of unsurpassed sceny: lo/cllness and natural advantage*, offer ing" to all com&a tnw nless opportunities in all the useful way* of life, every good citizen should have the concentrated purpose of doing hi* utmost for the common good. This would mean not only wealth for himself but blessing in many forma for ail within the ncope of hia effort*. In this time of universal stress, financial sod industrial, RM THE HABIT OP THINKING of p r o s p e r ity , Rood luck when thousands are out of work and many famines are suffer^ end happiness. A m u im a positive mental attitude against everything neg ing through no fault of their own, every worthy citizen ia alive to these conditions, to his dally opportunities for doing good, ative and harmful. giving the right IPftd-ef aid and thp hand o f comradeship. Avoid the appearance of worry and adveralty. The kingly man will lose w y chance to bffitow the kindly Priceless blessings are coming to us, are ours of right, if neighborly act—not as charity we will adopt the hopeful, courageous mental attitude, casting j ^ but from man to man—that.Avill give the unfovfcitut* neighbor all doubt behind. - Having fixed the goal, visualize it, think of it, until it new life, new hope, new ivtirag* and incentive. The self-centered ipan thinks only of hiiaflrii and for him fills and dominates the -mind. Work steadily through all ob the reward will be b it. It is a time demanding the spirit of stacles. Where there’s a will, there’s a. way. Every cloud has broad, liberal hunuputununism. u silver lining. These are truisms. This ia no time to even things up w ith "enemies," who How to Use With Effoct the Mightiest of Forces Thought is the mightiest of all farce«. Half an hour each merely advertise the object of their hate with their lies and «lay, or at night In the silence, if one will contemplate with negative criticism. i ' * DID NAS POWER TO GIVE HEALTH I AND STRENGTH TO BODY AND SOUL F fixed attention, with concentrate«! purpose, the goal of a right-, eoua desire, visualizing the good that will come of it; especially for others, declaring it to be a success,. the victory won, yield ing never for one moment to the idea of defeat, asserting an Invincible will to win apd hla right to the blessing, declaring id s rank to be what it'is —that of a royal prinee, son of the omnipotent Creator who made and who rules this beautiful world and countless others—will free the mind from fear end doubt and substitute a superhuman and all-conquering courage. r Curse That Drives Man Into Bogs of Despair PEAR IS THE CHIEF DEVIL that drives man into the bogs of disease and adversity. Today all the powers of civili zation are at war with fear in all of its forms, and, ultimately, fear will be conquered. The mind’s ideal and heart's desire must be In harmony, of course, -with natural law. The purpose must be honest and altogether good. "T h e first step toward victory is the adoption of the poei- tive mental attitude. Fix the goal of the mind in vision form at the point of success, demanding the aid of all the latent faculties. Justice only survives, all else must crumbte to dust. • Oregon’« Wealthiest Person and Secret of Success The wealthiest persons in Oregon is the one who is the most useful to the public, whose loss 'would be the most keenly felt by the greatest nutober of persons. The idle, selfish millionaire really is a pauper, parasite, o vagabond in comparison with the citizen who, though poor in money and property, still finds daily ways and means of being useful to his neighbors, of bringing sunshine into darkened lives and blessing to the discouraged and the needy. The best citizens are those who are the most useful to society. The noblest and bravest are those who combat the dark forces of evil and misfortune to promote contentment and goodwill /Among the people.__________ ' - ihsye tta SaMe C 4 sr of ktfai The The But And man who wifyt is the man who heart cvrte of the envious in his ears, who goes hia way with his head held kiyh pastea the wrecks of the fa For he is the man u<%o wins. GREAT STATESMAN TDK TO T U ' SOT ACKNOWLEDGES MS DEFEAT r M O R SE i t H ICK S ( total** - Farmbhtec* - tfcses JLaSW Hhw* set Heslerj PIM M W a ln u t 0371 Open Svenine* K lllln p a w e rt* A v e., P e rU a n S , O re g o n ( <<TF THE RAGING AVARICE which, without regard for • W affle*. — S ta n k * • C hop* * mankind, increases and develop« by leapt *«nd bounds— I to t C a t M •Real I n n Cssklag" * we will not say from year to year, month to month, or day to day, but from hour to hour—could be chechgl by *°me re- j G A L E ’S Otto W. D* Lea hr iutt, Prop. yard for moderation; or» i f ...the welfare of the people could tol- MUS I I S * A. M. to 2:00 P. U erate calmly this toad license from which it aufffirs in the worst 03 Me T R U U nirti T H STR E ET, N E A R S T A R K possible fashion, some ground would appear, perhaps, for con-, P h o n e A uto. 0 1 4 1 cealing the truth and saying nothing. "Inasmuch as there is seen only a mad desirt to gain profits, DR. L R. PUGH beyond control of law’ or reason, to pay no hes#to the needs of D e stisi the many, it seems good to us, as we look into the future, to us O ffice: R oam * t « n ò 1 LaaeK B u ild in g • 7 th a n d F o e ta r R oad who are the protectors of the people, that justice intervenes to t. tod.: 4111 71*4 S E. Portland. Oregon settle this vital question impartially, in order that results which, • long hoped for, hunianity itself could not bring about, may be B ro a d w a y 7231 Q. A. D a y secured for the common good of all by the r^todies which o u r, Karwful — K lean — K om petent care affords. "Who is of so hardened a heart, and is so base and so un touched by a feeling for our common humanity that he has not D raaaaS P a u llr y O u r S p e c la ity P o rtla n d ^ P r ä g e n noticed that in the sale of wares Of common necessity which are 1 U F r o n t S tr e e t ■ y — * sold in the markets, or dealt with in the dailjL business of the cities, an exorbitant tendency in prices has' gfibad to such an - extent that the unbridled desire of plundering is held in check neither in abundance nor by seasons of plenty?” While denouncing the ignorant and malevolent Red. who knows that the United States is the best and the most free t country on earth, don’t forget his twin and more loathsome evil, Today, as "Yesterday,” Still Defying Natural Law the malignant shape in satanic black whose mind pursues the president Harding’s address ? No. Clemenceau ? Lloyd deceptive symbols of power, the possession of money, the win George?- No. It is a literal translation of a proclamation by ning of fame and social preferment, giving no heed to the rights Diocletian, last of the bard rack emperors of Rome, who reigned! of others. 21 years, 284 to 305 A. D., 1,636 years ago. Oregon’s Positive Forces Should Be Mobilized—Now The record was taken from Mommsen’s Corpus of Latin In- i Oregon's gravest need at present is to mobilize all of its positive mental forces and to.concentrate th e » Upon the com ncriptions, Vol. 3, pp. 1926-1953. Diocletian, holding the power of life and death, determined i mon task of winning dominion over the growing evil of fear in to conquer old H. C. o f L . He issued a decree fixing arbitrarily all its deceptive forms. »• the highest price which it was lawful to ask or give for each one Community thinking, concentrated upon the glorious real of nearly a thousand' articles o f daily use, including food and ity of health, wealth and prosperity for everyone alike in Ore clothing, and also fixed workmen’s wages—about one-tenth of gon, with invincible action upon the confident assurance that what they receive today. The prices of necessaries were higher these blessings are here today, waiting only to be claimed, would than those of today. evoke a feeling of goodwill and optimism within 48 hours so Civil ware had caused national confusion. Production was powerful as to cause a public sensation and the proclamation of reduced. Prices were regulated, then as now, by supply, de a jubilee. The ease with which this general prosperity can be at mand, and perhaps by combination on the part of great con tained, which already exists, in facl will appear with the first cerns. The labor saboteur was not unknown. Human life was the cheapest thing in the empire, and so it concentrated community effort in behalf of the general welfare. proved when the emperor undertook to enforce hia decree. Cap Portland the City of Friends Dreamt of by Great Bard ital hid Itself. Industry hrited still further. Employment was Portland can become famous, if its thinking people will scarce, indeed. Famine stalked everywhere. In the emperor—a unite, as the great City of Friends dreamt of by Walt Whitman. veritable Bryan of his day as a champion of the poor, but a fiend1 Here is the picture: incarnate in his persecution of the Christians—acknowledged ig- i “I dream'd in a dream, I saw a city invincible to the at nominious defeat. He learned the leeson of supply and demand tacks of the whole of the rest of the earth; —th a t production is the first essential to prosperity—that em-l "I dreamed that was the new City of Friends; "Nothing was greater there than the quality fit robust loye ployere cannot pay out money that is not earned—that business!1 cannot be run at a loss. —it led the rest; Diocletian enforced hideous penalties, but he did not change; "It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that the result. Tiring of the king business, in disgust, Diocletian re -: I city, signed hi* throne and retired to a ranch. When pressed later | "And in all their looks and words.” on to resume the purple, the ex-emperor wrote from his ranch: Warning for Every Man Avoid Negative Thought " Could you come here and see the vegetables that I raise in From memory’s gallery now recall the merry Buster Brown ... ---- a--- ». ■iVMi rtrtesJ*** ; ii . — / v t . l / J ««A •M A « * « ♦ # » !!• dea and hia wise saying, which applies perfectly to the conleuuiuH of empire.’' industrial forces: " If a man thinks everyone is against him, he will treat Julian Fails and Surrenders to the Galilean them so they will be. If he thinks everyone is a friend, he wilt Sixty years later Julian the Apostate was emperor of Rome. treat them nice and they will be friends. If a man is suspicious He revoked Diocletian’s general price and wage schedules, but of everyone, they will be suspicious of him. You get just what fixed the price of grain. There was a Hoover in that day, and ia coming to you good or bad—th at’s sure. If you keep on he, too, found it impossible to restore prosperity and maintain fighting, you get licked some time, good and plenty.” living wages and low prices of goods except by maximum pro How to Aware Prosperity for Everybody in Oregon duction in the essential industries. There were labor guilds in In Portland, rightly called Queen of the Northweet, a city that day, too. Sixteen hundred and thirty-six years have elapsed, and still *T~ man has not learned this simple lesson in common Bsnse. He still is raving about high cost of living and high prices and striv ing to maintain high wages and low production! I t may seem incredible, but it is true. N A B S TO IF B C IA L OKDBR Emperor Julian diverted himself, as did Diocletian, by per H ig h C la s s R e p a ir in g secuting the Christians. Finally, in a victorious battle with the For your holt trouble* oonault us Persians, mortally wounded, he pondered deeply the story of the Cross. 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