Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02
Mixing Business Win Recreation Ubsets

y EAH, I'm back caddying again, and
~ it was Old Man Probst and the
mess he and got in that sent me
back here packing sticks for rheu-
matte old fossils at buck a round
when two months ago I was the best pickle
packer in the Probst Pickle Works.
You see as pickle packer I wasn't supposed
20 be interested in any bits Of firm business
except pay day. We pickle packers didn't even
break into the conpany'S routine business or
the newspapers until one of us fell into tub
of brine and passed to the happy pickle hunt
ing ground. But my work bench was right
smack up against Old Man ProbSt's private
office and the old gent had been an auctioneer
before he had to get into the pickle business
to save the boy who had taken over the factory
in lieu of a bad gambling debt. You know,
One of those rubber checks that sometimes
bounce right back at you and so I had
ftng-side seat to most Of the firms executive
sessions.
One morning heard q lot OF talk coming
from the Office.
THAT darn old pickle-faced Swartz and his
gang Of cut-throats are taking all our Coney
Island business away from US" he yellS bang
eng his hst down on the table and Earring
haste bottle of into the lap of ProbSt jr, who
W his only listener. He had to stay and listen
10 the boss rave. The other six members OF
The board of governors had departed when the
old gents double chin began to get red and
bounce up and down as the result of the CUR
Cling going on under it.
THE boy laughed. don't know, but inn
agine he was laughing at his father calling
Swartz pickle-faced- Probst, ST., himself has
p face as sour as barrel of vinegar. It was
that sour that all he had to do was look at
bushel of cucumbers and they'd do squads right
and Jump into the bottle all picked, packed
and ready for the trade.
If we don't do something soon, we might as
olor of1af fIna old
why not sell out to Swartz?" the boy asked,
speaking out of turn and getting batch Of
papers containing the profit and loss state
ment for the last six months slammed in his
face.
well. that's even better than losing all
we've got" he added as he gathered up the
profit and loss.
"An we've gotI An we've got! What in
the world have we got7 Just a lot of homeless
sucunbers we're paying men to put in barrels
and then can't sell. Boy we're just about gone
Il we can't stop this fellow Swartz some way"
why not do away with him?" calmly sug-
kested the boy.
Old Man Probst sat down.
SNow on top of everything else, you would
b6ke up murder, suppose" weekly said Probst.
o..
mo, don't mean murder. I mean get him
6ut Of the business by some hook or crook"
well, how you going to do that?" he yelled,
rs he picked up q niblick which was sticking
bad sitting In the corner OF his office.
The argument was getting hot and all over
ehe factory. You could hear him yell all over
ehe place and was getting so interested listen
ing to the argument that got to dovetaiing
The warts ON the pickles together, and any one
knows that's an wrong. You are supposed to
BET them In, wart against wart, leaving plenty
of open spaces which, filled with weak So
Sutton OF vinegar and water cuts down the
humber of pickles needed to fill a barrel about
20 per cent
got so interested in the Office argument
That I slipped two pickles too close together
again.
Pete. the quiet little pickle packer at my
side, noticed it.
Better watch your work." he said.
. cav, golf makes em goofy,' I yelled, sort
Nf losing my temper.
Now, that wasn't much of remark. Moth
ing very unusual. I had been caddying. every
Sunday afternoon, and knew my golfers but
young Probst heard the remark.
That's the answer. There is the way outI"
be sried
whats the answer? Where is the way out?"
why, gon," answered the boy.
rsow what in tarnation has golf got to do
with the pickle business, much less that old
Douzzard Swartz7 Why, he doesn't even play
It,"
That's just it. He doesn't play it." said
The boy
IAN right All right, give me an earfuI
pf the great secret, win ya?" walled Probst, ST.,
unable to fathom what 1t was all about.
well, Swartx doesn't play golf. Now get
him interested in golf and he'll 60 crazy about
q a. every dub does. While he's busy worrying
about his hooks and slices, you can clip out
hnd grab on his pickle contracts"