The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1922-02-19
FINANCE
AND
|RUSINESS|
BY b. C. FORBES.

You can run across millionaires in
the most unexpected places. The
other day. was on a train in the
South which was passing through
what looked like q very scraggy Sec
ton. when a friend very familiar
with conditions in that territory re-
marked. do you see that house
through there? The man who owns
II Is worth between three and four
million dollars. He made 1t, too,
right in this State. He bought enor.
nous tracts OF virgin timber lands
at rs cents TO $3.50 an acre. As YOU
know, lumber prices rose enormous
ly during the war. and he cashed
In very big. After the money began
to pour in. he went into other en-
terprises. but all In this neighbor-
hood"
This same friend, a native of the
South, told me how he had been left
1.70o acres of land and how he be-
came land poor" until 1t was taken
hold Of by an enterprising young
graduate of an agricultural univer-
sity who. instead Of growing cotton
or tobacco, discovered that he could
raise vegetables and fruits which be-
came ready for the market between
the end Of the Florida products sea
son and the beginning OF the prod
ucts grown in Jersey and other
States In the neighborhood Of New
York. AS the market was always
bare when his fruits and vegetables
reached the metropolis, he obtained
extraordinary profitable prices. The
young scientific farmer conceived
and developed various ways Of max
ing money. For example, he turned
one patch which had been struck by
lightning, and consequently would
not produce anything into a pond,
and has made some $500 q year
profit from goldfish.
The whole venture has turned out
most profitably both for the young
farmer and my Southern friend.
Sunday Is still observed rs Sun
day. not as a day Of boisterous
pleasure-seeking. in some parts Of
the country. spent last weekend
in North Carolina at a very large
hotel. Both inside and outside the
place a Sabbath yuietness reigned.
At the nearby golf clubhouse every
weekday there had been scores. not
to say hundreds. OF colored boys
and youths Clamoring to act as
caddies. This Sunday morning not
one was within sight. I was told
that a State law forbids the
employment OF caddies on Sunday
and certainly every golfer at this
place had to do his own caddying.
In the evening there were no
movies. Nor did notice any card
play. And, OF course, there was
no dancing. 1t was veritably "a
day OF rest"
And, confess. rather liked it.
At this same place met a ma
tionally-known financier. I noticed
that he was not indulging in physt'
cal recreation. Later / discovered
that the state Of his health would
not permit him to do so.
81 am very glad to see you here"
he remarked to me during the eve.
ming. IF you are wise. you will
avoid killing yourself by too con-
slant application to work. I al.
WAYS was most robust: I enjoyed
my work; and I went at II all the
time full tilt. didn't feel the
strain at the time. Then. sudden
", I caved In. Now. ] can't even
risk playing a game of golf. I
overworked my machinery. The
strain was too great. But I didn't
stop to think Of this until I was
rounded up with a Jolt. A man is a
fool who becomes 30 engrossed in
his business that he never takes
times TO relax. There's nothing in
Il, in the end. have reason TO
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