Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-28 | Page 4 | An Ignoble Pursuit

AN N IGNOBLE PURSUIT NOW that more light has been shed on the tangled affairs of Ivar Kreuger it is be beginning beginning beginning be- be ginning to be a little easier to understand why the rich match king killed himself Indeed the suicide seems to be the one action in the whole tangled chain that looks logical All the res rest is bizarre disordered reasonless Why should one of the worlds world's richest and powerful men forge foige millions of dollars' dollars worth of Italian government securities Why should he get things into such a that police investigation is looked for in such wide wide- separated ly-separated places as New York Berlin Paris Amsterdam j and Geneva Is there perhaps something about the pursuit of great wealth and great commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial power that betrays a man and compels him to delude himself when the going gets difficult Climbing to the top in the world of finance Is Js no job for the To reach the position that Kreuger r reached one must have havea a boundless confidence In ones one's self coupled with a readiness to reach out for whatever It is that one happens to want without worryIng worrying worrying worry worry- ing too greatly over the ethical niceties Do that long enough and eventually you reach the point at which your own will and your own desires are your only law Then if bad luck comes the stage is all set for a arash crash rash like that of The determined pursuit of money beyond the point at which one has enough to buy the freedom and leisure which money can provide is an ignoble game A debacle like that of Kreuger's is a sample of its final sig sig- sig- sig