The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-06

rathskeller to- roof knows all the biz
machinery houses Of the world, their
personnel, financial responsibiliousres
FACILITIES for doing business prlucip.
lines Of goods handled by each house.
extent Of territory adequately covered
by each. buying connections in London
and New York. name on linen, favorite
drink aud So forth.
During Schmuosio's last trip II sud-
denly occurred tu him, after ten years
as above whispered, that there was
stored III In his attic about 100000
worth Of foreign selling experience re-
garding certain goods and that he was
Il parbolcd lobster for not captaliaiug
this experience by selling similar goods
Tor himself instead of applying his
knowledge to- the advancement uf some
body else's goods in return for u small
annual salary and box Of cigars at
Christmas time.
Schmoos thereupon went and saw
certain American manufacturers and
they agreed to make similar goods for
him under his own brand. lie was to
buy these goods outright and resell
them himself to certain South Amer
lean. South African. Australasian anG
Eastern importers who he knew posi-
lively were in the market.
But In order to get the prices he
wanted Schmoos agreed to pay cash AZ
New York for all goods bought from
these manufacturers for export IIav-
ing only a small unearned Increment
| coming to him from the residue Of his
last expense account he was a little
short Of kopecks, and so he put the
whole proposition before a New York
bank He didn't ask for the loan of
million. He asked for a dollar and a
half, comparatively speaking.
The New York bank fellows said
| they would advance the necessary ru-
PEGS II Schmoos could procure an ac-
! Cep;ab!e ndorser There was nothing
| in that remark for Schmoos to get
| chesty about and so he didn't. He
simply sailed forth and got the accepta-
bic indorser-one Of the manufacturers
whose goods h. was to buy for cash
| and resell In the foreign trade.
! Then the war broke loose. The news.
| bad as 1t was FOR many. was certainly
| great stun for Schmoosie'S project.
Where he had normally good eXport
| proposition before ne now had an ali
! normally good one, because his only for
| cign competition was G. rman and Eng
I li'lls ~ NtN III blltf u tbLt u tbIklnE
chances Ter b.g agency connections thai
| he had moi banked ON. He scampered
/ Off To- the bank with the glad tidines
| Did the baul, rush up and hug him
| push IN" money across the counter and
tell MIN To- hurry up ana get started and
| land the business? Wei. not precisely.
| Here's what the bank told him They
I told him for heavens sake not to pu,
MS proposition before them now. he
| cause there was nothing doing War
had broken ont. Things were looking
| Omlnous And then to make tho
Omlnohs part more realistic they
showed him l.000 shares of perfectly
good dividend paying railroad stock that
some client had brought in that morn
ing In frantic attempt to realize
enough ready cash To- so and get a
shave. but couldni make it and had 10
turn his lilacS loose.
ANA tnen ia cap friend climax
SchmoC~ie received letter from the
acceptable .ndnrscr the very manu-
facturer whose goods he was To sell
abroad stating thar ION account Of the
war ne wouldn't care 10 20 on the note
and was very sorry.
So here YOU see We have n specific
case Of aggravated mosshaCl<ism start
.ng with panicky bank that expects
people to be reasonable and leave their
savings I'm it, care in times like these.
and eliminating with a manufacturer of
large glrth whose wares could now he
sold abroad like hot cakes II he only
didn't have head like a bantam egg.
This H. only "A dinny case OF course,
but II is typical, and it illustrates. with
out music or motion pictures. other
cases of far reaching importance
Also Il embodens us to suggest finally
that this nation can never hope to see
and grasp the gigantic possibilities that
this war has laid at her large rural fee,
so long az her government, her manu-
facturcrs and her moneyed men have
got the backbone of pawpaw and the
vision of farmland.
b tCopDri0htcd, 1914, Reed Publishing
CompaHp Of Ncrc York;
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