Evening star., 1932-05-08
A ND right there she summarizes

AND right there she summarizes
"A exactly the secret of all fortunes,
little or big. There is no fortune IN
America that was not made that way,
that was not made by some persons
smart enough TO realize that when the
tide is out, and only when the tide is
out, can you Lick up treasure on the
beach.
The tide of national prosperity will
come back, as it always has come back,
and it will find the Browns and the
Smiths in debt anxious and burdened.
unprepared to take advantage OF better
days.
But it will find the Whites established
in the big house in st. Paul street, that
same house perhaps paying Tor lIseH'
month after month.
Unfortunately, it usually takes an
emergency. like a war or fire or an
earthquake, to develop this spirit in
men and women. Very few have the
imagination to see that we are always
living amid wars, fires and earthquakes.
Every time a laboring man loses his
job, one family experiences an earth
quake, and the death of the father OF
young children always means that the
desolation of the four horsemen them
selves has entered one womens heart.
Martha White happens to be the ex-
ceptional woman; the woman who sees
the true values of life without dra-
matte event to help h-r find them. Ten
years from now she and her husband
will be rich; they must be rich, although
whether through a restaurant, or chick
ems, or a school, or the manufacture of
bungalow aprons, or the sale of prop
erty, no one can see now.
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WHAT she does see is a big brick
w house on big corner lot in big
city. where railroads and factories and
business buildings are bound to close in,
where hundred activities are bound to
prosper and where she can establish
herself for little more than rent
You may meet her some day, travel
ing with her daughter. playing bridge
with her husband on some ocean liner,
and If she gets reminiscent and conf
Dental, you will hear the familiar story.
When we bought that st. Paul street
place Lewis and really hadn't any
thing in the world. We looked the
neighborhood over and thought-and
hoped-we were acting wisely, but 1t
meant venturing ALL and more than we
were sure of. 1t was the bad year of
1881. Banks were failing, rich people
were poor. there we're farm problems
and unemployment problems, and it
took courage to buy anything! But at
the same time. prices we're low, and
groceries and meats we're low, and we
told each other that every rich man in
the world had gotten rich because he
believed in his country and knew
enough of her resources to know that
their full value must come back"
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Nov Is the time. Tomorrow It may
be too late. Tomorrow it may be
too late to find the bargain that means
your fortune, your success. There are
gold mines and pearl oysters right in
your town. Somebody is going to profit
by them, in the rising tide of the next
few years.
My grandfather could have bought
the choicest properties in San Francisco
for a barrel of potatoes apiece, only 80
years ago. But he was one of the men
who believed a railway never could
cross the Rockies, and that nobody
would use 1t If ever 1t did After our
earthquake and fire towards sold their
San Francisco homes for next to
nothing; nobody was ever going to live
again IN a town that had earthquakes.
Some OF the men who bought those
homes have sold them since at 1000
per cent profit, by the way.
This history will repeat itself with
the men and women who don't believe
IN America now. Other men and
women, poor today, will be rich In 1910.
tCopyright, 1922