Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1915 — LOOSEN UP. [ARTICLE]

LOOSEN UP.

Do you want to see a wave of prosperity strike this community and push everything along in front or it? Then open your wallet and loosen up!. Don't content yourself with telling the other fellow to do it, but (To it yourself. Imagination plays a mighty big part in our scheme of life, and to a very large extent we have been afflicted in late months with an aggravated case of imaginitis. Some one got out in the street and yelped “hard times,” and immediately the cry was taken up' and handed from lip to lip until it really began to a semblance of truth. An then everybody commenced co tighten the strings to their purses; pennies and dollars were herded and withdrawn from circulation; buying lagged, and apprehension stalked abroad. People imagined we were in the midst of hard times. The fact that the community held just as much money as ever before was entirely overlooked. The fact that exports; with the possible exception of cotton in southern states, was as heavy as before was also forgotten. , Money continued to come into the community from outside sources, but it was promptly hidden away instead of being placed in circulation through the usual business channels. Pessimists bajjlced on every corner,

calamity howlers were in their element, and even sane men commenced to worry.. And all because some fellow opened his mouth and yelled “hare times.” But let’s put an end to the farce. Let’s do our spring buying early —let’s do much of it now—let’s pull our money out of its hiding places and put it to work where it will be of use to ourselves and to the community. And let's buy our goods from our home merchants—from those who have borne the brunt of .the so-called hard times—from people we know and whom we know we can trust. Let's trot out Old Man Prosperity and give him the front seat, and then let’s all go to work and keep him there. Imagination has been worked to a frazzle. Now let's have a dose of common sense, and the imaginary malady will soon cease to exist. Let’s loosen UP- .. . .