Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-31
The Tired Business Man
Name and Address.
BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR.

Never would have thought it was so
easy to get large sums OF money from
banks and wealthy men," exclaimed Friend
Wife. They seem so trusting"
Have to have trusting men to officer
trust companies" exclaimed the Tired
Business Man. IF they didn't trust some
body 1t wouldn't be trust company, any
more than Millionaire who wouldn't give
up when told he resembled Washington
would be trust director. He directs his
trust IN human nature and occasionally it
gets misplaced and lands in side pocket.
Then lis aim may be poor.
This is the age of personality in busi-
ness. Hardened financiers who would look
with a cold. yea, clammy eye on any
proposition not as solid as Gibraltar or
their heads; men who wouldn't even lend
their deposltors money on schemes where
there was an even break, will melt and un-
belt in grand style to the accomplished
conversationalist who cutivates the OK
ford stroke In handshaking with the right
people and wears his cravats correctly ad-
justed
Apparently soft soap is as efficacious
nowadays In getting to large bales of
Treasury department Autographs, either
in banks or in the jeans of a wealthy phil
anthropist, as It was in the days OF the
Brothers James-referrng to the Missouri
branch Of the famiy--when they spread It
on the rails just before the midnight ex-
press reached Blue Cut Even the yegg
man uses soft soap for funneling soup
into a country postoffices mothproof safe
There seems to be an impression that using
soap sort OF makes for clean money.
THE modern art Of collecting money in
cumbersome quantities has become very
simple. Either you tate around a bunch
OF waste paper or you develop a slap on
the back which deadens the keen business
perception. OF course, you have dealt in
waste paper. Don't deny IL. You have
gathered together bales OF magazines,
famed TO the guards with the brains Of
the nation, hlghbFows on the evils which
are throtthng our nation and other fiction
features. And you have piled up stacks
OF newspapers, bulging with news red hot
from the press-oh, whole lot OF really
good stuff that you might send 20 some
hospital or missionary where fresh read
ing is scarce
But, no. You hoard It up until you have
upward OF a ton, and one day the man
who always acts like a smuggler and yells
like a circus announcer bellows along that
paper After haggling an hour you part
with a carload OF It for IL cents-if you're
a good business person. But that isn't the
way they do IN financial circles at all, at
all. / suppose travelling In financial circles
makes one dizzy. Hence an easy victim
when soft voiced person with a persua-
sive, genial manner whispers in his ear
that he needs a million or two, waves q
handful OF tastefully engraved stock under
the bankers nose and departs from thence
Or mayhap, II the visitor has had a must
cal training, ne sings a song and borrOwl
on that
Anyway. the trusting, trustful trust
company man never comes 10 until the
prosecutors and bank examiners come leap,
ing gayly through the holes in the de
poslts We're used 10 that kind OF
flnancier who can march into a bank like
a lamb and go out like a lion, but it's new
20 hear that one can 80 up 10 a great trus
millionaire wallop him between the Shout
'derblades tell him he has all the oompo