Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30


on golden wings and the weather now
was the kind of weather to make a
poet sing. lover love and Scotch
business man subscribe largely to com
panies formed for the purpose of man.
ufactlIring diamonds out of coal-tar Or
such a morning, felt Mr.. Carmody, any
body ought to be willing to put up any
sum for anything.
Nature continued to smile for about
another three and quarter minutes
and then, as far as Mr.. Carmody was
concerned, the sun went out. With a
genial heartineSs that gashed him like
knife, the plutocratic Mr.. Molloy de-
clined to invest even a portion of his
millions in a new golf course, cinema
de luxe to be established in Rudge High
Street or any of the four other schemes
his host presented to his notice.
mo, sir" said Mr.. Molloy. I'm
mighty sorry 1 can't meet you in any
way, but the fact is I'm all fixed up in
OIL OILS my dish. 1 began in oil and
I'll end in oil. wouldn't be happy out
side of OIL"
"Oh?" said Mr.. Carmody, regarding
this human sardine with as little open
hostility and dislike as he could man
age on the spur of the moment.
Yes, sir" proceeded Mr.. Molloy, still
in lyrical vein, Il put my first thousand
J i
into oil. Oils been a good friend to me.
There's money in OIL
There is money" urged Mr.. Carmody,
"in cinema in Rudge High Street
/ Not the money there is in OIL"
|, You are a stranger here" went on
Mr.. Carmody patiently, so you have. no
doubt. got a mistaken idea of the po-
| tentialities of Rudge. Ridge, you must
remember, is a center. Small though
it is, never forget that it lies just off
the main road in the heart of pros
/ porous county. Worcester is only miles
away: Birmingham only 10. People
would come in their motors :"
I'm not stopping them" said Mr.
,Molloy generously. "All I'm saying is
| that my money stays in little old oil"
"Or take golf" said Mr.. Carmody,
side stepping and attacking from an
other angle. 1.-THE only good golf course
in Worcestershire at present is at
! Stourbridge. Worcestershire needs more
golf courses. You know how popular golf
is nowadays"
Not so popular as oil. OIL" said Mr..
Molloy with the air of one making an
epigram, lis OIL
Mr.. Carmody stopped himself just in
time from saying what he thought of
OIL To relieve his feeling he ground his
heel into the soft gravel OF the path
and had but one regret, that Mr.. Mol
Toys most sensitive toe was not under
it. Half-turning in the process of max
ing this bitter gesture, he perceived
that Providence, since the days OF JOB
always curious to know just how much
a good man can bear, had sent Ronald
Overbury Fish to add to his troubles.
Young Mr.. Fish was sauntering up be-
hind his customary IL inches Of Gig
arctic holder his pink face wearing that
expression of goodnatured superiority
that ever since their first meeting had
afflicted Mr.. Carmody sorely.
From the list of Mr.: Carmody's trou-
bles, recently tabulated, Ronnie Fish
was inadvertently omitted. Although to
Lady Julia Fish. his mother. this young
gentleman. no doubt, was all the world,
Lester Carmody had found him nothing
but pain in the neck. Apart from the
hideous expense Of entertaining man
who took twice of nearly everything and
helped himself unblushingly to more
port, he chafed beneath his guests
patronizing manner. He objected to be-
ing treated as a junior-and, what was
more, as a half-witted junior-by SOL
emn young men with pink faces.
Whats the argument?" asked Ronnie
Fish. anchoring self and cigarette
holder at Mr.. Carmody's side.
Mr., Molloy smiled genially.
mo argument, brother" he replied,
with that bluff heartiness that Lester
Carmody had come to dislike so much.
IT was merely telling our good friend
and host here that the best investment
under the broad, blue canopy Is oil"
Quite right" said Ronnie Fish. Hes
perfectly correct. my dear Carmodv."
"our good host was trying to inter-
est me in golf courses"
Don't touch EN-" said Mr.. Fish.
"I won't" said Mr. Molloy. Give
me oil. OILS oil. First it was. first in
peace, first in the hearts of its coun-
trymen. that's what oil is. The uni
versal fuel of the future
Absolutely" said Ronnie Fish.
what did Gladstone say in 'S8? You
can fuel some of the people all the
time. and you can fuel all the people
some of the time, but you can't fuel all
the people all of the time. He was
forgetting about oil. Probably he
meant coal"
"Coal?" Mr.. Molloy laughed satiri-
cally. You could see he despiSed the
stuff. Don't talk to me about coal"
This was another disappointment for
Mr. Carmody Cinemas de luxe and
golf courses having failed, coal was
Just what he had been intending to
talk about. He suspected its presence
beneath the turf of the park, and
would have been glad to verify his
suspicious with the aid of someone
else's capital.
you listen to this bird. Carmody,"
said Mr.. Fish, patting his host on the
back. Hes talking sense. Oils the
stuff. Dig some of the savings out OF
the old sock, my dear .Carmody, and
wade in. You'll never regret it."
And, having delivered himself of this
advice with a fatherly kindness that
sent his hosts temperature up several
degrees, Ronrie Fish strolled on.
CTo Be Continued.)