The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-05-02
NOTED CHARACTER
PAYS BENNINGTON
A SABBATH VISIT
Motors Over From York State On
First Trip To Vermont
PLANS MONTHS VACATION
Condemns Household Waste
Tells Home Folk How To
Make Money

John B. Corn, an eccentric and wide
Unknown character throughout CEN
trail York state, motored into Ben
nington, Sunday, dined at "Jimm e.
Hughes North street cafe, then de.
toured to James ]. Burns cigar and
tobacco shop, across the way, where
he remained long enough to lay in a
weeks supply of the weed-and, in
cidentally, to spin a yarn or two-be-
fore departing on trip through Yer
mont, which he said he calculated
would extend over four weeks. This
is his first visit, he said, to the Maple
Sugar state.
II may be necessary to introduce
Mr.. Corn to The Banner readers
Well, he halls from Blue Hole, N. Y,
where one of the bloodiest Indian
battles Of colonial times was fought,
and where he twice refused an ap-
| pointment to be postmaster, AL
though a bachelor, he is not a woman
hater and declares that he's ready to
hookup whenever the right damsel
hoves in sight He's medium sized.
CT pronounced dark complex on.
| iolly-a much-trayeled man past the
meridian of life, though still vigorous
both in body and mind; and he poses
ses an ample fortune, which he is
said to have accumulated without
much effort in one Of the most unique
business adventures imaginable. That
I,. ,,,, 10 ri
during the past 80 odd years, into
every nook of the great Mohawk Val
ley and even way up to the north
crnmost limits Of the Empire state.
| Having brilliant natural talents, these
| journeys. thrustiug him into personal
contact with people Of all ages and in
every latitude OF life, have made of
John a literal peripatetic philosopher,
Socrates himself would enjoy an hour
with him. AS to his commercial
traffic, let John tell about that him
self. In a raey chat with Mr.. Burns,
John said:
II sometimes believe the American
people have no sense. If they knew
more. my bank account would not be
what it is. More than that--if the
American people had only the small
est grasp of the domestic economies,
| should very likely now be doing a
janitor's job for the manufacturing
firm by which was originally EN-
! ployed'
MIR. Burns was being interested and
interrupted to inquire.
Honest John, were you really at
onn time janitor?'
a was" returned John, "but as
was about to say when you broke in.
/ It's nonsense to believe the day of
opportunity is past. Men without
Jobs walk the streets and literally
stumble all over lucrative employ,
ment, only they can't see it. Listen,
man. do you know what a little
vizualizing did for me? 1t lifted me
out of the ianitor's class, made me
rich and independent as the birds
tha; fy.
Fortune came to me in this way.
/ One morning-many years ago-tWo
members of the firm that employed
me we're arguing over an advertising
campaign. 1t was clean ng UP time
and | was in the Office. One OF the
bosses had an almost religious falth
| in the power of printers ink and to
emphasize a point, he said, Every
| kind of advertising is profitable why
there isn't fam ly in the land that
cant make use OF it, to that famlly's
ADVANTAGE. There's no home but has
some useless article-may be it's only
an ancient stove. discarded chair
any old description OF household fur-
Initure or utensil-something whlch
has served its usefulness in that house
Iho'd. but Of which some other family
in the town may be in sore need II
they would advertise this useless
stuff-some people would call 1t Junk
the man or woman who did need It
would know how and where to llnd
it. But instead of pursuing that busl-
ness-like method in disposing OF their
surplus possessions they wait until
some guy inaugurates cleanup day,
when they consign the whole smear
to the flames It's sheer, almost
criminal. waste, because the bonfire
deprives one family of little addi-
tional cap tal and some other family
of the use of the thing that's given to
the blaze
'oThat talk was tip enough for me, y
John proceeded "The following
week quit that janitor's job and
have since been cheating the bonlires
by going from place to place, buying
useless stuff from one family and
selling it at good profit to another
family that can make good use OF IT,
Yes, there's fine money in the propo-
sition, and the thing will continue as
long as the people are content to let
the middle-man--mys for instance
make the profit, instead of they
themselves pocketing the reward.
'Isn't it strange that the average
man or woman doesn't want to learn?
People see the merchants in town in
creas ng their incomes through the
advertising route, yet the silly folk 90
right along in their cd rut, apparent
ly ignorant of the fact that few lin
err ads in newspaper would do the
same for themselves. The man who