South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-25
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Dress you upGr says Atterbury;
i should say not. Just as you are
you re worth more 10 the business
than a whole roOmful of the things
they pin chrysanthemums on. You're
10 play the part or the solid but
disheveled capitalist from the far
west You despise the conventions.
\ ouve got SO many stocks you can
AFFORD TO shake socks. Conserve
tive, nomely. rough. shrevd. saving
that's your pose. It's winner in
New York. Keep your feet on the
desk and eat apples Whenever
any body comes in eat an apple. Let
EN- see you stun the Feelings IN
drawer OF your desk. Look as
economical and rich and rugged as
you can"
l followed out Atterbury's instruc-
tons. 1 played the Rocky Mountain
capitalist without ruchins or frills.
The way l deposited apple peelings
10 my credit in a drawer when any
customers came in made Hetty
Green look like a spendthrift /
could hear Atterbury saying to VIC
Tins, as he smiled at me. indulgent
and generating. That's our vice
president Col Pickens for
tune in western investments
delightfully."- plain manners, but
could sign his check for half a mil
lion wonderful head
conservative and careful almost TO
fault
Atterbury managed the business.
Me and Buck never quite under
stood all Of H. though he explained
IL TO us in full. 1t seems the COM
pany was a kind of cooperative one,
and everybody that bought stock
shared in the profits. First. we Of
ticers bought UP q controlling inter
est-we had TO have that-of the
shares at 90 cents a hundred-just
what the printer charged us-and
the rest went 10 the public at a
dollar each. The company guaran-
teed the stockholders a profit Of 10
per cent each month, payable on the
last day thereof.
When any stOckholder had paid
i'm as much as 500, the company
issued him a Gold Bond and he be-
came a bondholder. 1 asked After
bury one day what benefits and ap-
purtenances these Gold Bonds was
TO an investor more so than the
immunities and privileges enjoyed
by the common sucker who only
owned stock. Atterbury picked up
one OF them Gold Bonds, all gilt
and lettered up with fiourishes and.
a big red seal tied with blue nib
bon in a bow-knot, anu he looked
at me like his feelings was hurt.
MY dear Col. Pickens," says he,
you have no soul for art. Think
OF a thousand homes made happy
by possessing one OF these beautiful
gems OF the lithographer's skill!
Think of the JOY in the household
where one Of these Gold Bonds
hangs by pink cord TO the what
lot, or is chewed by the baby, carol
ing gleefully upon the floor! All,
see your eye growing moist. Col
onel-I have touched you, have 1
not?"
You have not" says I. for I've
been watching you. The moisture
you see is apple juice. You can't
expect one man TO act as a human
cider press and an art connoisseur
too"
Atterbury attended TO The details
Of the concern AS / understand It,
they was simple. The investors in
stock paid in their money, and
well 1 guess that's all they had to
do. The company received II, and
Il don't call 10 mind anything else
Me and Buck knew more about SELL
ing corn salvo than we did about
! Wall St. but even we could Sc how
the Golconda God Bond Investment
Co. was making money. You take
in money ard pay back 10 per cent
Cf Il; it's plain enough that you
make q clean, Legitimate profit Of
1ru
as the fish bite.
weeklies and Washington hand press
dailies Of course" says I when we
was ready to make contracts.
Man" says Atterbury "as It's ad-
vertising manager you would cause q
Linn burger cheese factory to remain
undiscovered during a hot summer.
The game we're after Is right here
in New York and Brooklyn and the
Harlem reading They're the
people that the streetcar tenders and
the Answers 10 Correspondents col
Umns and the pt~kDocket notices are
made for. We want our ads. in
the biggest city dailies. top of col
umn, next to editorials on radium
and pictures of the girl doing health
! exercises.
Pretty soon the money begins to
oil in Buck didn't have TO pre-
tend 10 be busy: his desk was piled
high up with money orders and
/ checks and greenbacks. People
/ began TO drop in the Off e AMI buy
stock every day.
Most OF the shares went in small
amOunts-s10 and s25 and $50, and
a good many 81 and SO lots. And
/ the bald and inviolate Uranium OF
i President Atterbury shines with en-