The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1922-03-27
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UNCLE TED'S
BEDTIME STORIES.
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said Ruth, speaking oof Uncle Ted
who was away on trip.
"Why he's only been gone a week."
spoke up Jack.
well 1t seems long anyway" was
Ruth's reply. II miss his stories and
1t doesn't look like he'd be back for
sometime"
But he promised TO write us a
story If he couldn't get back in time"
said Jack and | wouldn't be surprised
il we would get letter today. Gee!
Look out there. That's special deliv-
cry boy as sure as l live"
Down the steps and out the door
Jack ran and sure enough Il was a
special delivery letter from Uncle
Ted 1t didn't take our two young
friends long to get open and after
they had settled on the rug in front
Of an open fire. Jack began to read.
Dearest Ruth and Jack: l have
tried hard to get back but plans
would not work out right at the last
minute. That accounts for this
lengthy letter, because l promised
your story no matter what happend. !
have had an interesting trip, and
have formed some opinions of my own
ard found out some interesting facts
all of which | want to tell you. The
thing that impresses me most OF all
IS the need for that old fashioned am
bition to work steadily, slowly but
surely. Too man yypeople throughout
the United States are trying to get
rich-quick with all kinds Of schemes
schemes, mark you, not WORK. In
many respects the difference between
our country today and yesterday 10
told in the fable of the Tortoise aud
the Hare. will tell you that fable so
YOU will be better able to understand
what l mean.
What q dull, heavy reature," says
the Hare, Is this Tortise!' And yet,'
seys the Tortoise, I'll run with you
for a wager Done says the Hare,
and then they asked the fox tn be the
Judge. They started together, and the
Tortoise kept jogging on still, till he
came to the end Of the course. the
Hare laid himself down midway and
took a nap, for says he, I can catch
up with the Tortise when I please
But It seems he oversight himself, for
when he awoke, though he scudded
away as fast as possible, the Tortoise
had got to the post before him and
won the wager.
children, the lesson that fable
teaches is THAT slaw and stead twins
the race and so it is with men and
women. The war and the way our
country was handled during the war
period made an unnatural condition.
Too many ypeopel are trying to get
ahead-to gain wealth and east by the
methods Of the Hare. They squirt
ahead for awhile-buy fake oil stocks
instead of buying Things they need
and thereby doing their share in the
cycle Of making business go. What
Is the result? They sit themselves
down to take q nap expecting the fake
schemes to work and while they are
at It the Tortoise, the fellow who is
putting in an honest days work,
steadily and slowly, Stops quietly by
and wins. They awake to find their
stocks and schemes empty frauds.
They have lost everything and have
thereby created another ripple on the
sea OF depression.
81 don't mean by this that all stocks
are frauds - far from it. Theer are
lots Of good stocks that pay their
owners steady incomes at fair rate.
What l am trying 10 impress upon
your minds is there are far more
losses than profits in buying stocks
that some agent offers for sale on the
prospect of getting rich quick If he
really thought someone could get rich
quick on the stocks, he wouldn't sell
them. But the people who buy that
kind of stocks are like the hare =
they are so sure Of winning the race
that they lie down and let the steady
plodders get ahead Of them.
"Since l have been out on this trip.
l have seen many yevidences that the
whole country Is getting back to regu-
lar business. For a number Of years
we had officials at Washington who
encouraged the peopel to think that
the best way to solve all their difficult
problems was to turn business over to
the Government - to let tho Govern
ment furnish tho money and hire the
people to conduct all sorts of bust
ness and to tell the people how they
shonuld or must run their private Of.
fairs. That does not solve problems
II makes them more complicated.
President Harding 10 trying to take
tba banda Of tho government out of