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...case for the pessimist, he itemized as follows: 1) potentiality of credit inflation due to our abnormal gold reserve; 2) uncertainty as to the continuance of large industrial profits, as seen in declining commodity prices, the steel industry, etc.; 3) probability of attack, and its possibility of success, by radical Congressmen upon the Transportation Act; 4) unsettling influence of Presidential election, bonus agitation, possible tampering with Federal Reserve Act by farm bloc; 5) Germany drifting into bankruptcy, England faced with a Labor Ministry, France feeling the results of debt inflation, reparations still unsettled...
...pessimist reporter may urge, a boyhood of such dazzling brilliancy promised so much more, say an assistant professorship at $1200 a year, that a position as a clerk is failure. And yet what does entering college at 10, passing the anatomy examination at the Medical School at 11, and winning a diploma at the age of 16 mean beyond a receptive mind turned prematurely into a narrow channel and trained through constant, self-centered attention? These early achievements betray few elements needed for later success, nor were they sufficiently startling to proclaim the youth a genius...
...Your true pessimist," remarked Col. Bygad sententiously, "in only an optimist in an advanced stage, everything is bound to turn out so much better than be expects...
...market, thus far the most accurate barometer of public opinion regarding future business, has been in the main dull and hesitant, indicating the inability of the ablest judges at the present time to read any clear meaning in the confused and contradictory trade outlook. To the confusion of the pessimist, the iron and steel output continues at record-breaking figures, while the optimist is bewildered by the evident climax reached in speculative building, the strange unfavorable trade balance, and other disturbing events. In the absence of a willingness to undertake either buying or selling commitments, it is natural that...
...quite ridiculous. The very presence of Americans is a compliment to British scholarship and aids in the maintenance of a tradition, of no small value to both countries. Not until whole crews, track teams entire, and complete chapters of Phi Beta Kappa sail for English shores can the pessimist, English or American have any grounds for worry about the gravity of that American problem...