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Show THIS PETTY PACE Depleted Dollar Reserve pj- Brown Lee Tjl" A FELLOW WE KNOW is afflicted af-flicted with an unsound economy. econo-my. His dollar reserves are depleted. de-pleted. He has a little silver, but he can't talk with the gold bloc, the boys who deal in wrinkled etchings of G. Washington. His business associates have been carrying him. They can't let him . fold, because he's helping keep his wishy-washy neighbors from the clutches of gangsters who menace the town's business. The butcher down the street loaned him a fin, although the fellow told the meat vendor he would use it to buy sausage from a brother-in-law up the street. He discriminated against his benefactor's frankfurters. frank-furters. Once he owned real estate and livad as the landed gentry. Now his tenants have pre-empted most of their plots, selling him vegetables vege-tables cheaper of course and letting let-ting him provide police protection. He tinkers around with a business, busi-ness, making trial balloons, but devising nothing somebody else can't manufacture better. All he asks is that his friends forego the better products of his competitors to buy his and ease his present pinch. He's a good fellow, a distant cousin of his creditors, and a handy man in a scrap. The roughnecks thumb their noses and trespass mightily on his domain, but they blanch upon thoughts of striking him. He must be kept in business. His creditors called a meeting. They slapped his back and said, "Chin up!" They promised to buy his balloons, aware that theirs were better and filled with hotter air. They wanted to polish his silver and devalue his currency. He gently slapped the hands fingering his limp pocketbook, but finally gave in. |