Evening star., 1923-07-29
SHOPPING FOR BUCKETS EXCITING
TO JAPANESE SCHOOLBOY VICTIM
To Editor The Star who must notice
how both stocks and stockings arc
being rolled downwards this summer.

To Editor The Star who must notice
how both stocks and stockings are
being rolled downwards this summer.
IN EAREST SIR:-Hon. j. Pier
pont Togo. Japanese fight
pulmotor. approach up to me
last Satdy pm. afternoon
while I was going to a museum. I
think are getting deliciously Janus,
otherwisely why should important
man like Hon. Togo take time to
shed his hat with smiles at the very
sight Of my footsteps?
Yes, he did that and bent reverently
with speech:
"Hashimura Togo. 1t Is mono other!
Handshake me! Are 1t not pretty
estranged. by golly. that I went 4th
this morning expecting to make
somebody rich. and here you are?
Congratulations"
IT take my thanks and throw 1t
back at your highness." are sweet
smiling thought from me. But o
Dear Sir. do not ask me to get rich
any more. On July IL I. spend IS
trying to help Hon. Jazz Willard get
off his own elbows in the Sth round.
After that remain satisfied with my
gentle poverty"
IT too have abandanned punch
fighting game" narrate Hon. Togo.
This Fatomato Numbo, Japanese
whale weight who I was pulmoting.
are SO powerful that he cannot lose
fight. This become monotonous.
Therefore have took up a profession
where I can lose occasionally and
benefat my fellow man"
What are you now, il anything"
ask to know.
II are bucket shopper" expunge
this ]. p. Togo.
ssVIIHAT species Of hardware are
w you saying?" I negotiate.
You have merely to see my Offices"
he develop, land you would know. 1t
are a kozy little denn where a few
friends can meet quietly and get rich
without annoying the police. We
attemp to give finance that sweetish
home touch. No vulgarity. We shunn
such noisy roudy place like Stock
Exchange where persons are always
shouting & tearing paper Yes in
deedly: And this Hon Stock Ex-
change are so jalous of us that they
behave very cat every time we are
mentioned"
"Of what are they jalous?"' l
suppose.
"Of our honesty" amplify Hon
Toyo. Whenever they think of US
they turn green. sometimes blue
While those feerse money-fish Of
Stock Exchange are taking cash from
widows & peppers. never promising
more than $50 prophet on any in
vestmint, what are we doing in pure
home influence of Hon. Bucket? We
are behaving like Hon. Abe Lincoln
and other friends of slavery. With
no thought of ourselves. axept to
lunch occasionally. we shovel money
out of holes and give it to the poor
Sometimes we give them more than
we have got. What could be more
enobled?"
You represent complete purity"
1 yell with love.
.'Indeedly we do" he snail For
we clean up everything we touch"
20 tell me 19 more facts about
yourself" ] holla.
Time are short" he .renig, "and
we have much to tell that Hon
Grand Jury could listen forever How
everly, wish you to tell me something
simply-for we only deal with simple
soles-do you wish to get rich so
quick that you have not time to find
what you got?"
How passionately wish IL"
This from me-
do you wish to be put on to such
a very good thing that you could tell
it to the Marine Corps without fear
of trembling?"
20 take me to where 1t is" I de-
range, and so he did.