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PoNZl REALIZES GOOD THING
~ WON'T LAST FOREVER.

"Of course" he added. with dry
smile, ''it won't last forever. No good
thing does. But | figure on two or
three months before the International
Postal Union meets in the fall and
rcvises it's rules, and that's time
enough to make good many more
millions. have offices all over New
! England. / want an office in the
heart Of the financial district in New
York. In fact, | want to make this
thing Nation wide. might NJ well
get It while the getting is good. At
least, give the other fellows a
chance TO get theirs.
"rve simply taken the sort OF ad-
vantage Wall Street and Big Bus-
ness take right along. But they
! share it only with their own crowd.
I've given everybody a chance. NV
first investors were italians, because
I'm Italian. + suppose but now they
come from every nationality or group
81 take sums az small as $40. and
indeed those are the investors | like
best, although they're most trouble.
But | feel they are most in need OF
that 80 per cent"
you've been there. Yourself" I
suggested. rs II true that YOU used
TO work as clerk for SIC week."
| For the first time IN our hours
talk, Mr. Ponzi laughed aloud
i've worked for good deal less
than that" he exclaimed. when |
/ landed In Boston, seventeen years
ago, at tweuty-one, had $3.50 in my
| pocket I've always had it--I mean
/ I've never had less than that and
always have earned my way.
There's almost nothing | haven't
done. My first job was that Of clerk
in a grocery store at s. n week. I
have been walter in restaurant,
house painter, sign painter. inter-
/ prefer, clerk, and have held many
agent Jobs, I've pecn all up and
down the Atlantic Coast. didn't
like the country at first; ] couldn't
speak English, you see. although /
had had college Cducatiun in Italy.
MY father held a Government po-
Sition, and was an officer In the army
My mother was a lady Of the old
school. She Joined me, by the way
Just two ana "A half weeks ago, and
is living here with us in our new
home,
81 always have felt as n I wer,
looking for something / couldn't find
came to America because / felt
was wasted ON Italy Mr. Ponzi re
marked with smiling arrogance, a
quoted at the beginning OF this story
, but | never could settle down any
, where until I married my wife, al
italian girl here In Boston two anl
"A half years ago Even then | didn'
Z prosper at FIRST although ] have sine
paid the debts con "0ctcd in my frui
business and in o. u'dertakings.
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BOSTON. July 30.-Arnim w. Riley
head sf the flying squadron Of De-
partmcnt Of Justice Investigators Of
alleged profitccrs, said to-day that
his inquiries and observations had
convinced him that clothing prices
were coming down. and that by fall
$50 would he the high mark for
mems rcady-to- wear suits. The peo-
nff. he said, making lower prices COM
pulsory II there - 10 bcA0ny busi-
ness
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Parley p. Christensen Of Salt Lake
city. Presidential nominee Of the Thlrn
or Farmer-Labor Party, arrived here to-
day to confer with national and local
party leaders on national campdgE
plans and to attend conference called.
10 complete nominations for the New
York Stata ticket with selection Of two
candidates for the Court of Appeals
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OFFSET THE WEARING
effects N hot sutrv weather BY taking Father
len's M.dhus Ad,i
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ated unto this day. Moses, Aaron, Da-
vid, Joshua, Daniel, Eliza, Elisha, Of
old testament history, and Mathew,
Mark, Luke and John, Peter and Paul,
of new testerment fame-all these
developed their lives into proportions
such as to give them significance in
all the periods of the worlds history.
from the date of their transition from
the common sphere of life even unto
the end of the world.
Enoch, marked the advent of his
first born by a complete transforma-
ton of his life, entered into absolute
companionship with the God of all
the world and maintained this relation
ship uninterruptedly, on this earth
for a period of 300 years, when
God rewarded him for his loyalty and
devotion by translating him, thus spar
ing him the pains and ordeal of death.
medieval or modern so glorious an
example of the process and develop
ment of the powers of the human
heart, into the realm of mans loft
lest altitude such as is revealed in
the matchless achievements and at
tainments of this colossal man of God.
cd.
So, it is evident from this and nu-
merous other instances of the sub
lime and limitless achievements Of
man in the spiritual realm, that 1--WE
can make our lives sublime, and de-
parting, leave behind us footprints
on the sand of time" And as it is In
the realm of spirit, so it is in the
sphere of material life-We can make
our business lives, our professional
lives and our spiritual lives any size
we want them.
And reader, try to imagine the
grandeur of life on this mundane
sphere, if only men and women every
where had the ambition to make their
sphere in life as deep, as extensive
and as lofty as it. were possible to
make them, and we're making siren
uous effort 20 realize their high and
noble aspirations.
In conclusion, let us all believe we
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YOU CAN MAKE 1T ANY SIZE YOU
WANT IT
To the Editor ocaIa Banner:

To the Editor OcaIa Banner:
The writer received letter from a
friend in South Carolina, not long ago,
proposing business partnership be-
tween us. saying 1--WE Can Make it
Any Size we Want it, This set the
writer to thinking of the limitless
possibilities to red-blooded Ameri-
cans imbued with the faith of the writ
er. A young man launching his life
upon the agricultural arena, if he has
vision. energy, enthusiasm and zeal
can make his farm any size he wants
it, for no vocation in all the world Of
fers greater possibilities for expansion
than does agriculture.
Its dimentions-depth, breadth and
attitudes depend alone upon ambition,
will power and determination.
This vocation is mentioned first
because 1t is first in Importance, and
because it is the only absolutely in
dispensible business.
So, young farmer. do you want your
farm big? If so, you can give it de-
mansions commensurate with your
faith and determination.
A young man entering the ministery,
by conservation of heart and life,
with all the facilities for the study Of
the theolcgies and doctrines of the
bible, can give his Ministerial career
a degree of majesty and magnitude
limited only by his vision and desire.
The lawyer, the doctor and the
teacher can. by the exercise of their
endowments and their facilities, de-
velop their professional careers to the
ultimate limit of mortal mans
achievements.
The christian can incorporate into
his character all the qualities and
principles-divinity majesty and holi-
ness of heart and life that enter into
the formation of christian character,
and with these he can explore all the
dimentions of the moral universe.
Abraham, of old, had vision and
lived large in his day and generation
and the majesty of his life is perpetu-
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can make our lives any size we want
them; and let us get busy.
G. n. WILLIAMS.

For several weeks past the tomato
fields around Ocala have presented a
busy scene of activity and the pack
ing plants inside and outside. Ocala
has been a perfect beehive of indus
try. Never before have such crops
been gathered or have such high
prices been recorded. Our tomato
growers have played in big luck.
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The Lancaster (Pa.) Daily Intelli
gencer evidently does not like the
ticket selected at Chicago, for it says:
Go to it, republican brethren. Your
representatives in congress have sow
ed the wild oats of Wilson discord
for nearly two years. You are likely
to reap a crop of your own undoing
in the end-Tampa Tribune.
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Hoods advertised work shoes for
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tory manner upon the hearth. Cups
and plates basked upon the floor at
.he side; rolls were in the basket.
You wandered about, you talked, you
smoked cigarettes; when the spirit
moved you toasted another sausage.
And then the talk-real CONVEX
sation; people like the Coreys, who
wrote book reviews; they were real
authorities upon Freud, and were, in
the opinion of Fenton Royce, the
only two serious critics in America
There was Fenton Royce, who, ac-
cording to the Coreys, was one of
Americas three real poets; Wallace
Bird, the painter, who scorned the
Cubists as old fashioned; Anne Proc
tor, the interpretive dancer, who
turned purple when you confounded
her sort of thing with what Isadora
Duncan did, Isadora being a mere
illustrator, according to Anne, who
really interpreted; and little Marcel
Poir, the violinist, Anne's acknowl-
edged affinity and collaboration, who
found the musical phrases which
the unstudied movements represent
ed and was going to combine them,
some day, with certain colored
lights and odors, into a ballet that
should be the first real ballet that
ever had been written. There were
more, but these will serve for
sample.
Ii wasn't all talking and smoking
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perception Of what poetry Of the
lmagist school was getting at to see
the possibilities, and there was a
breath-quickening quality for her
in this proposal to dignity by sheer
poetic art the common, sordid vul-
garities of the 10-cent amusement
park. And she was made a sharer
in the conception Of it! He was
telling her about it before it was
done. If condolences like that were
to be part Of their married life,
they would compensate for-well,
for some of the rest.
She frightened visibly at that, and
he reached out for her hand. If he
hadn't gone straight on talking
she'd have told him then.
But what he went on to say was
that he had never visited park Of
this sort himself. 1t was Ernestine
who had told him about it. She was,
It appeared, devotee, and he looked
forward with open eagerness to his
initiation at her hands.
Dorothy's hand went lifeless in his
at that moment. But he didn't notice
it, and remained unaware even
when, moment or two later, she
drew it away.
Ernestine, he was saying, was the
absolutely ideal companion for an
experience of this sort-pretty, vul-
gar, free in her ways.
with a person like you, of
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s"NO" Dorothy SAID, ITS all settled To-morrows
the day"

course" he added, meaning appar-
emily a compliment, "I'd get moth
ing"
Ernestine and her man were late.
But the respite proved unavailing
for her purpose. Six was the hour
when they were to meet, but the poet
began looking for the other pair the
moment they were through the turn
stile. He hurried Dorothy over to
the casino, got corner table for
four, and seat for himself at the
rail, whence he could direct q
searching gaze upon the flowing
crowd, and began at once making
eager, but illusory. discoveries of
Ernestine in various parts of it.
With an AT last" Fenton sprang
from his seat and began making vio-
lent gestures of invitation.
She heard him say in a sort of
CONSERVATION, on haven't come
alone, after all?" and Ernestine's,
"Well, l should say not. We've
been having one swell time.
Where. Oh, here he is.
Ooh hoo" Dorothy looked up.
Ernestine had got as far as say
ing, "Mr. Shelling" (she hadn't even
intelligence enough to get peoples
names straight), "let me make you
acquainted with Miss"- when
she stopped short, and said: "Why
why. you know each other.
Dorothy, stunned, unable to make
sure TOR second or two whether
this was all a part of that fantastic
reverie OF hers, or whether in actual
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nestine observed. How did you
ever happen to know him."
Dorothy said in a daze that they
came from the same town.
"Well, he is one regular guy"
Ernestine averred, wherever he
comes from. And" she added, de-
ferrlng operations with her lamb S
wool to add seriousness to her as
sertion, "crazy about me. Isn't it
funny the way those things hap
pen? / thought he was a lemon at
first, and he does use fierce words. "
She giggled. "But they ell spell
love when he's talking to me-"
"How-how long" Dorothy man.
aged to ask, "have you known him ?"
"Only since day before yester-
day." said Ernestine. Hes only
been around the plant three or four
days"
"The plant" echoed Dorothy.
Sure" said Ernestine, in the
manner of one enlightening a sur
prising piece of ignorance. Bank
head (he's our manager, you know
reads this story of his in some maya.
zine and telegraphs him for the
rights on it, and he comes right up.
He's going back home in a day or
two to finish up this years work, he
says, and then he's coming back here
to stay. Going to be one of our
regular authors. He's going to do
serial for me, ne says. Doped it
out this afternoon while we were
riding around on the Jackrabbit. l
think he's great! He knows how to
treat girl like q gentleman ought
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asked forlornly. "If I'm going te
at all l may as we'll begin"
"But why at all? You're not
Dorothy, you can't possibly be ir
love with him."
NO." Dorothy admitted, II DOM
suppose am"
"Oh, it's wicked" cried Enid
ooh, Dorothy dearest, don't do il
tomorrow. Take time to think
Even if you're right to do it, it won't
do any harm to wait a little. III
write him note or see him myself
III think of something to tell him.
"There's no need Of doing that
said Dorothy. "He doesn't know it
himself-that I'm going to marry
him tomorrow, I mean"
II bet he thinks he does," said
Enid, "if he's only given you till
then. He's made some sort Of ulti-
matum. Dorothyl Did he
say he'd Kill himself again IT you
didn't marry him tomorrow? Be-
cause he won't. He didn't the last
time, you remember"
"It isn't like that at ALL" Doro-
thy insisted, with as much dignity
as, in her tear-blurred state, she
could command, "He's never even
said anything aoout tomorrow. He
wants me to marry him and I've de-
cided to. And if I'm going to, why,
the sooner the better, that's all. And
to-morrow's the soonest that's pos
sible. I'm going out to Riverview
with him at s, and III tell him then
some time before the evenings
over"
"I'm glad I didn't go out with
Bob" said Enid solemnly. "Some-
thing must have told me. I'm not
going to let you do it, Dorothy. I'm
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fact Herbert Sheldon, once Of Ger
tropolis-once her Herbert, but now
strangely metamorphosed figure in
a light-colored homespun suit and
straw hat-stood before her.
She managed finally to gasp out
his name with some sort Of intona-
ton Of welcome.
AS for Herbert himself, he stood
thers as dumb-as rooted to the
spot-as incapable Of volitional mo-
ton as an oak tree.
Ernestine came rather glibly to
the rescue. "Well, it's small
world, after all, isn't it," she said.
Then, with really compelling grip
on Dorothy's arm, she added: "I'm
all blown to pieces. Come on in
and let's get fixed up for dinner.
The men can order"
Dorothy went, blindly, but glad of
the five minutes respite Ernestiae's
naneuver afforded. She felt it
would be impossible to sit down
across the table from Herbert and
behave in q sane and responsible
manner until she had somehow made
up her mind to the fact that it was
really he, and that he was really
there.
She wasn't capable of asking ex-
plantations from Ernestine, but this,
as it happened, proved unnecessary.
"That was certainly funny" Err
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and eating sausages, either. Some
times Anne danced while Marcel
followed" her at the piano; son. =
times Fenton Royce read poem
sometimes Wallace Bird, under the
Irresistible inspiration of the mo-
ment, did something on the wall in
chalk, and you felt that you had been
present at the birth of an immortal
child.
A ND when they'd all gone but
IN Bob, who had stuck it out
somehow, in order to help
clear up afterward, and you slumped
a little, and in your heart of hearts
felt glad that it was a whole week
until next Sunday, there was moth
ing that bucked you up, put your
mlsglvlngs to flight, reestablishad
your faith in Art and it's ministers,
like a whole-souled exposition from
Bob of all his sentiments toward
your departed guests.
After you had thoroughly demol-
ished Bob, after you had demon
strated that, in the light of his
poetry, it didn't matter whether
Fenton Royce was "a sickly little
swlne' or not (probably some ex-
uberant young Philistine called
young Keats that once), you felt
your faith washed clean again.
Wen, then, you will understand,
think, why Enid had trouble look
ing Dorothy in the eye when she
alleged as reason why Dorothy
should not marry Fenton Royce that
he was an unspeakable little beast.
She flushed a little, turned away
to the window and said: "Wel, l
don't care, marrying's different"
And then. "Why should you marry
him? Tell me that"
mat easy, sald dorothy. BE
cause he needs me. He says he
does, anyway, and l guess it's So
somebody like me, anyhow"
ITO inspire him, SUPPOSE Enid
put in satirically. considering
that his poetrys all about garages
and garbage cans, and things like
the smell of Madison Street movie
house on a wet day, | think that's
pretty thin
He never said he wanted me to
inspire him. Dorothy retorted.
. He's perfectly honest about that.
He says there's no such thing as q
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going to save you from it some
way"
"Well, you're welcome to try"
said Dorothy with a wobegone
smile. "Only you'll have to be quick
about it. Pm to meet him at the
drug store at s, and I can't go like
this. Only, why do l need saving?"
"You know why as we'll as do"
Enid said defiantly. "That's why
you've been crying about it. It's
because he's perfectly unspeak-
able little beast. He isn't fit to
walk on the same side of the street
with you, really, let alone marry
you"
MERE was nothing new about
calling Fenton Royce an un-
speakable little beast. It was
exactly what Bob had been saying
for the last six months, despite the
fact that Enid had tried every
known method during that time to
bring him to a more enlightened
state Of mind.
She had patiently explained to
Bob, at great length, exactly where
IN his standards of judgment were
wrong. She had cajoled him; she
had quarreled with him furiouslv.
telling him that if he couldn't under
stand her friends better than that
he had better go and find others
including a new fiancee, that would
suit him better; all without avail
In fact, Bob's persistence in his
benighted and thoroughly Victorian
way of looking at things had been
the chief drawback for both girls
in an otherwise delightfully."- stimu-
lating winter. At least they thought
so.
My own idea Is that they were
mistaken, and that, in his own un-
conscious way, Bob helped them out
enormously. Just fer an illustra-
ton, take one of tt Sunday
breakfasts-an II tuition which
had early attained an enormous and
almost embarrassing popularity.
The genesis OF 1t was a Franklin
stove which the girls had found in
their conscientious search of second
hand shops for their studio furni-
ture.
There was no formally set table.
There were sausages; a big pot of
coffee stood steaming in a satisfac-
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I~NlD worked on for another
IL quarter Of an hour before il
crept over her that there was
something just bit unnatural about
the stiffness which came from across
the hall. She opened the studio
door to the discovery that Doro
thy's door was shut.
What are you doing In there?'
Enid wanted to know
Dressing" came Dorothy's voice
in answer.
Enid asked If she might come in
"Oh, yes" said Dorothy resigned
ly. "You may as we'll"
Coming in instantly upon this du-
bious invitation, Enid found Doro-
thy half undressed on the bed and
thoroughly waterlogged with tears
"a phenomenon which she sur
veyed at first with blank incredulity.
Dorothy" she cried. Dorothy
---what in the world"--
"Oh, it's all right" Dorothy man
aged between sobs. "I'll tell you in
a minute" And she put her head
down in Ends lap and went on
crying for just about that length
Of time. Then she sat up, dried her
eyes and got herself together.
II am going to marry Fenton
Royce tomorrow" she said.
"To-morrow!" Enid echoed, hor-
ror struck. Fo- it was the imme-
diacy Of the thing that turned her
cold and sick. If Dorothy had said
next year some time" it wouldn't
nave seemed SO dreadful.
why not tomorrow" Dorothy
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(Continaed on merit po9e)
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to. None Of this 'girlie' stuff. Tb.t
makes me sick. Doesn't it you?"
Serious, though minute and quita
superfuous, improvements in Erns,
tines appearance intervened her.
But at last, during the intense st,,dv
OF the outline Of an upper lip, Ernes.
tine asked very casually, indeed. !,
real question.
"Say, how we'll do you know him ~
"Not-not very we'll, guess >
Dorothy admitted.
"Oh, it's all right" said Ernexs
tine. tolerantly. Only, from II.
funny way you looked at each otb.,
for a minute, I didn't know"