El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-05-03

seTHE way some people Is acting
1 about this here Victory loan,
9Iawruss, ABE Potash remarked,
you would think that they was all
presidents Of a First National bank
and that this here Carter J. Glass
has already made a big overdraft
and II he don't like the line Of credit
they are giving him. he should be so
good as TO take his account some
where's else, understand"
Then same people probably think
that investing their money in any
securities bearing interest at less
than Is pei. cent per annum is, so to
speak. the equivalence from giving
money 10 orphan asylums and hospl-
tails. understand me- Norris Perlmut-
ter said " I'VE already give them
Liberty loan schnorrers $500 towards
the expenses OF their rotten war they
probably say, and still they amt sat
fsfied-
And at that they don't mean moth
ing by it," Abe said, because there is
a whole lot Of business men in the
United States which couldn't even
give up the family housekeeping
money every week without anyhow
saying TO their wives: Here take my
blood: take my life. What do you
want from me, anyway"
Everybody a SHlesman.
Maybe they 90 and maybe they
don't mean nothing by II, Abe" Nor
ris said, but Il would be a whole lot
easier for this here Carter J. Glass II
everybody would act as his own Vic
tory bond salesman and try to sell
himself just one more bond than he
has really got any business buying
understand"
at would be a whole lot easier for
this here Carter !. Glass, MaWruss,
but It would be practically impossible
for pretty nearly everybody else" Abe
remarked. which human nature IS 50
constituted, MaWruss, that the only
time a man really and truly uses some
high class. silver tongued salesman
shin on himself is when he IS trying
20 persuade himself that It IS all right
for him 70 do something which he
knows in his heart It is dead wrong
Tor him 10 do"
wei, at least. Abe. IN this here
Victory loan campaign, every man
should ought TO try 70 put himself in
the place OF the salesman which IS
trying TO sell him some Of these Vic
tory bonds" Norris continued, $50 We
would say, for example, that you
would be a Victory bond salesman
Abe. and you are calling on a teller
which he is a pretty tough PROPOSE
ton in such matters by the name OF
We would say. for Instance, Abe Pot
ash"
Regular Insult.
why don't you make the teller
which the salesman is supposed TO [
call on a really and truly hard boiled
egg by the name, We would say for
instance, Mawruss Perlmutter?'' Abe
asked Which when you put up TO
ne a hypocritical case, Mawrusss why /
is it you must always start in by get
ting insulting already"
What do you mean getting insult I
ingZ" Morris asked. 4 am only put ]
ting something Up TO you for the sake 7
OF argument not arguments"
well, then. why not call the tough I
proposition which the Victory bond ]
salesman Is visiting some body by the ]
name OF q competitor like Leon sam /
met, for instance7" Abe suggested.
Because I am trying to make you
put yourself in the place OF the Vic 1
tory bond salesman who Is trying to I
sell you bonds" Norris declared.
Put your OWE self in the place OF I
the Victory bond salesman" Abe eE-
claimed. which, IL you want TO give j
ne any hypocritical cases for the sake i
Of argument Mawruss. I have seen
the way you practically snap the head /
off e collector Tor a charitable fund 4
enough times TO appreciate how you
would behave towards victory bond I
salesman 80 20 auedQ On Lle OASIS i
that you are the tough proposition
and not me"
a charitable fund Is one thing and I
this here Victory loan another" Nor
us said
Taeeinated Against Generosity. I
Il know II is" Abe agreed. but at
the same time, Mawruss. a whole lot 4
OF people feels that IL ever they give I
q couple dollars 10 an orphan asylum, I
they practically got vaccinated against /
future attacks OF the same complaint I
and. II three years later the collector :
for the orphan asylum calls on them 4
again they say: Why. already gave I
you 81 for that orphan asylum What /
did you done with II all? And I bet
yer that just as many people consid- I
cred that the $50 dollar bond which 4
they bought during the first Liberty !
loan campaign should ought TO have D.
set Up such a strong antiseptic in I
their system that they would be i'm ]
mune 10 all other Liberty bond cam
paigus, no matter II such campaigns ]
would continue until there was. God (
forbid, a 50th Liberty loan already"
Some people never even got, so to I
speak. jabbed the first time" Morris 4
observed" and the way they avoid =
Liberty bond statesmen, Abe. you
would think that such a salesman was
2 sort Of Liberty bond Typhoid Mary 3
and would infect them tightwads with .