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V O L . LVIII. N o . 3 Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Jan. 17, 1914
listing Ourselves
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Conditions
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HE New Year is moving on, and from present indications I am inclined to believe that it
will be satisfactory in many ways. It surely cannot be if we start at the beginning in a
pessimistic frame of mind, inclined to look upon everything with doubt and uncertainty,
for doubt and uncertainty are bitter foes to business success and to peace of mind.
To make a success in life—and success is not always viewed from the dollar standpoint—we
must approach the solution of problems that confront us in a cheerful frame of mind. To be able
to sit down calmly and canvass the situation thoroughly is the best way to meet any emergency.
It is the calm, reflective mind that is the strong mind. The nervous, energetic mind may do
twice as much work, and make twice as much noise in the doing, but when the record of results
is examined it will be found that the calm mind has actually made good.
There are certain conditions by which we are confronted that we have to face. No matter
whether we like them or not they exist, and because we do not like them is not a sufficient cause
for their removal.
Nothing can be gained by fret and worry and becoming despondent over them. Sometime,
in some way, these conditions will be readjusted, but this will not be done by those who give way
to despondency and purposeless fretting.
None of the useful things that have ever be?n accomplished in the world were ever done in
that way. It has been the hopeful, courageous men, who approach difficulties calmly and cheer-
fully, who have finally succeeded in removing th:>se difficulties from life's pathway. Adjust your-
self to facts instead of getting into a fever over them. If a matter can be helped, help it; if not,
endure it or forget it.
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We have the new tariff to face and its adjustment to our present business conditions.
It is reasonable to suppose that it will not satisfy everyone. We knew that it would not at
the outset, but simply because it will not does not remove it. We must face it and adjust ourselves
to the new conditions brought about by this legislative act.
We have the new currency bill. Some claim that this will not work out to the advantage of
America's financial interests. Others claim to the contrary, and that it will aid business in a most
satisfactory way by making an elastic system of currency, which will meet with the contracting
and expanding demands of our mercantile world. Anyway, it is a condition we have to face and
not a theory, and we can gain nothing by denouncing it, because simply from the fact that we do
not all like the bill does not remove it from the nation's laws. We may as well face the situation
calmly and endeavor to make the most of it.
Students of psychology realized how important a part the mind plays in the control of the
body or in shaping the destiny of man.
It was only a short time ago that psychology was little more or less than a scientific study
of sensations; but gradually, step by step, the investigator has followed the sensations back to the
brain from which they emanated, and going still further has met the factor that we term the mind
—the something in man that has not yet been located and that we cannot explain.
Thoughtful men are now fairly well agreed that the science of psychology is to be the great-
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