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Show j Faith Lacking j IT OFTEN happens that a man accumulates a little more money than is necessary to meet his current expenses. , Naturally enough he looks around for some place to invest It, hoping to make his surplus earn a little more for the treasury. The wise investor, of course, looks for something safe, regarding safety as more attractive at-tractive than big profits. Much of the world's progress, however, Is based on the chances that some men take with their surplus cash. Many will take a long chance in the hope of reaping a fortune. The mpst of them fail, but occasionally a few of them make good, and when they do their success Is surprising. For the man who gambles in this way we would recommend a little consideration for his own state. Producing mines and oil wells are often the result of the chances taken by men withidle money: AtTTiTsTimnveTiave a number of concerns con-cerns prospecting for oil and the precious minerals. min-erals. Many other states also are In search of this wealth and many are attempting to help finance operations through' the sale of stock. For fhe man who would play safe there perhaps, are more stable offerings. For the man who would take a chance, however, Utah should be given first consideration. The man who refuses to buy stock in a concern operating In his own state and then buys stock in an identical concern In another state is not t firm believer in his state and its people. - In Egypt, 3700 years ago, an unknown sculptor sculp-tor made a small scale model of. a brewery, showing twelve men making beer from barley. Or. Flinders Petrie excavates the model near Cairo. He sends it to the museum of the University Univer-sity of Pennsylvania. In view of the fact that man has been drinking alcoholic beverages for thousands of years, is it any wonder we find it so hard to make prohibition absolute in a few years? Liquor feeds on itself creates a craving,, A-drlnker-aoon-finds-that alcohoMiajbecome i necessity. Thla biological process through thousands thou-sands of years has given the world many Inhabitants Inhabi-tants born a certain number of drinks below normal. To bridge that gap, raise themselves to normal, you see them go to peculiar financial and criminal extremes. Deaths by alcohol in New York City, doctors report, are four-fifths fewer than in the old saloon days. New York police add that arrests for public drunkenness are less than a third as many as In 1913. |