The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-07

ain he escaped death by quick think
 quick action. Most of the time ne
 the chasing of lions, but sometimes
 ns chased him, and safety lay oniy
 his ability to run faster than .ne
 n-he remarked, incidentally, that
 en hundred yards start he can out
 any lion.
 Men who enter ne windustries usual
 have to be quick on the trigger.
 netimes. too, safety lies in flight
 (en things do not go the right way. bre quick trigger work probably IS
 nr done today in the radio business
 hn in any other field. It Is attract
 hundreds, even thousands. of quick
 kted, enterprising, ambitious, not to
 daredevil fellows. The very
 lest well known figure to become ioen
 led with radio Is Wall streets most
 ectacular speculator, Jesse l.. Liver bre. formerly dubbed f The Boy
 nnger."
 6o far no huge fortunes are known
 have been made in this newest or
 lusty young industries but quite
 yrber of men have already captured keable fortunes in the making and dis
 buting of radio apparatus. That big,
 ry big. radio fortunes will by and by
 won. can be accepted as certain.
 that there may come times and cir
 instances when it will pay to do nasty
 treating.
 Think of the fortunes already made
 other of our new industries, the nov
 It could be called our next-to-the-
 west big industry. True the income
 returns just published, suggest that hny more millions have been made by
 ess agents, on paper, than have been <nfessed to the tax collector. Jackle Sogan's million dollar contracts are an 4ample. But we do know that not a Nv keen brained men who early entered
 producing field have actually pc me millfonaires, some of then muiti- 
 One brand new industry" has sprung <, in Wall street which already prom es to raise quite crop Of million res. namely, investment trusts or 5fferent varieties. This is what is hap Rning: A wide awake Wall street ln- | zyidual or firm, familiar with the suc-
 ss of similar enterprises abroad, ar 1nees to buy shares of say, a dozen Zfferent railroads, or it may be cleo 3ic light companies, or 1t may be chain ores, or it may be banking shares, anu n these shares are deposited with some 3putabl banking institution and shares I this pot, or pool, offered to the pup ], the buyers to receive dividends in kcordance with the dividends received h the stocks deposited.
 The latest prominent Wall street fig keH to enter this promising field Is arence Dillon, the extreme alert and FoRressive head of Dillon, Read & Co.,, 3ho distribute an enormous volume or svestment securities.
 One fine day aircraft building is go- 2 to make some enterprising revolu- sonary rich. Up to date the losses in his fledgling industry have been all lost as notable as profit. No builder E airships in this country has become millionaire so far as I know but 1t ] inevitable that by and by the making k airships will make millions and mill Ions. It is quite probable that Ford Fill be the first to shine conspicuously b this direction.
 Chain stores are not exactly new, but heir. growth has. been one of the busi- less phenomena of recent years. The success of such store lead fs as Frank W. Woolworth, Sebastian \ Kresge, Samuel S. Childs, J. c. Mo- trory, J. c. Penny and s. H. Kress Is lnown all over the land; but scores of liners are rolling up fortunes from |hain stores in different parts of the |ountry. Indeed, you find highly suc- |essfuii chain store giant in almost ev- Try one of our large cities-such men, |or example, as H. C. Bohas, in Brook En, J. M. Fly (of "Mr. Bowers%s stores) b Memphis, Tenn; D. A: schulte. of he Schulte tobacco stores in New York Ind elsewhere; Louis L. Liggett, of United Drug stores of Boston, New York. etc; Harry L. Jones, of Jones brothers Tea company, of Brooklyn, and Earious cities; Samuel Robinson, of American Stores company, of Philadel- bhia; George Rasmussen, of National fea company, of Chicago; A. F. Good vin, of the Ginter company, of Boston; P. E. Woodward, of the Waldorf Sys- lem, Inc, of Boston; w. T. Grant, of W. T. Grant, New York; John T. Con- bor, of Boston, and B. H. Kroeger, of he Kroeger Grocery and Bakery com bany, of Cincinnati.
 There are other chain store million fires operating on a vast scale, such, as