The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-01

money. All the thrill, the excite
 ment, the sport comes in making
 it," went on the man who had
 made his own fortune. "Any idiot
 can spend money, but, it takes
 brains and skill and finesse to
 money. Spending money is child's
 play, but making money is the
 great game in which you put all
 that is in you against your adver-
 sary, and in which you match your
 wits, your shrewdness, your far
 sightedness, your courage, your
 stamina, against the world.
 "There is nothing of which you can so easily tire as spending money. There is so little we really want. Food, clothes, shelter, a comfortable chair and good bed. After we have got these, we have go tall that money will buy for us. When we have eaten all we want, millions cannot purchase us an appetite for more food. or the diges- ton to assimilate it. We can wear but one suit of clothes at a time, sit in but one chair, sleep in but one bed. And when we have got these our mon- ey is counterfeit so far as getting any more physical comfort is concerned.
 Moreover, it is one of the peculiar ities of human nature that things are desirable to us just in proportion to the difficulty of obtaining them, and the knowledge that we can buy anything we want, keeps us from wanting things.
 "On the other hand, making mon- ey is pastime in which your in-
 terest never lags, not because of
 the money itself, for the dollars
 soon come to be nothing but coun-
 ters in the game, but because busi-
 ness is the great adventure, the great romance, and because success
 In business means achievement
 and proves a man to himself,
 When he has been through the bat
 tie in which he fought up from
 the ranks where he was q poor, little, ragged private, to being
 captain of industry, he can look himself in the face and know that he was no weakling, but man.
 Every man who makes a fortune knows all of this, and he knows that nothing his money buys him gives him the pleasure that his work did; knows that nothing the world offers can. give him the absorbing interest that his busi- ness or profession did in the old days when he was struggling for a start, and when a dollar advance on a bar rel of flour, or new client made his heart sing for joy.
 Our happiest days are those in
 which we are toiling with might
 and main to build foundation un-
 der our castles in Spain, not those
 in which we loll about in the com
 pleted edifice, bored stiff because
 we have nothing to do and nothing
 to strive for. All parents know
 this, and the amazing thing is that,
 knowing this, and loving their chill
 dren as they do, they are bent and
 determined to cheat them out of
 the most interesting and delightful
 experience in life.
 Furthermore, parents know
 that, beyond a modest competence,
 just enough to give them an edu-
 cation and small start in life,
 money is a curse to their children. There is no such safeguard against
 temptation as the lack of the price
 and thin pocketbook is a better
 protection against the wiles of Sa-
 tan than all the Ten Command ments.
 Every rich boy is a shining mark for all the vamps in his community, and if he escapes them it is nothing less than a miracle oR Gadg Usrn--- -:zL