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Show CANNY DOCTOR PUMPS FRIEND AND PROFITS San Francisco Physician Lets Patients Pay Him in Bonds Rather Than Cash at Par - . This reads or tastes or looks like the I foam of a press agent's brew. But it isn't. It actually happened although ! It is propaganda. There is a physician and surgeon of ! high professional ' standing in San F.-ancisco who, if he wasn't Irish, would be Scotch. He is that canny. The other day he met a friend of , his, a stock and bond expert. "Doc," as his friends call him, is always looking look-ing for information. He pumps everybody every-body and they like him for it. So the bond man wasn't a bit surprised when "Doc" shot this at him: "How about the next Liberty Loan It it going to get over?" "It sure will," replied the bondman. "It's going to be the last and the ,best of the Liberty Loans." "Advise me to load up?" persisted "Doc." "I Bure do best security In the world year from now it will be worth half again as much as you pay." "Well, I figured it out that way myself," my-self," confessed the physician. "Of course I was going to buy anyway, but I think I'll strain everything a bit and really load up." "Suppose you've got previous Issues?" Is-sues?" asked the bondman. "Sure, and what's more I'm still piling pil-ing those Liberty bonds up. Every time a patient offers them in payment I grab them. They look good to me." "You're a wise guy hang onto them, Doc. I've got a few myself. Gotta date with the wife so long." |