Show V V VI Q c 0 V I TIPS I IV 0 V By JOHN BLAKE Not long agO a man with whom I have a very casual acquaintance dropped into the seat next to tomine mine on the train and began to talk about oil wens wells I have just turned up up a great chance he said r have found a company that has struck oil within the last few days and kept It quiet Their is way down now but pretty s on It will wUl be worth three thres or four times more than par I thought Id I'd tell you ou about It ft V Why me I Inquired Ven we ve have mutual friends and I know they'd like to have you let In on It Are your mutual friends fn any of the V stock They win will Im I'm sure Are Arff you taking any of it Oh yes alt I can afford Do you know that this company has struck oil 7 AbsolutelY Then why Is it It willing to sell the stock for a V song when by hanging on to it the men in the company corn com pany co could ld make fortunes 7 Well they need outside capital to develop the properties So they are just selling enough stock to ret get it I V That Thatis is the sort of a conversation that people hear every day from kindly gentlemen to let them In on a good thing and make them rich The man who knew all about this oil well and the company that owned it didn't take any of the stock apparently for tor he went a bankruPtcy court the other day And OUr mutual friends must have known him so well that they were afraid of him as I was V It It may be taken for tor granted that a man who has got an absolutely sure tip based on inside tion that a stock is going will up keep it to h him m- m self until he has made some out money noney of It It wouldn't be human nature not to But the world Is fun fun- of who men do not like to work and who vho therefore are glad to help others get et rich In a hurrY for a commission Talking is easier than sitting at a desk keeping books or swinging a hammer or a pickax And always there are z-e z enough people whose greed can be appealed to to give them victims There Is something about the the prospect prospect of an unearned fortune that gives gives' every imagination a lIttle fillip when It is talked of But to Hie sane man who has had to work for tor his money it goes no further than that He thinks over all the circumstances and decides that money that was worth working for is not worth risking on wildcat schemes And even If ft one man In a million does happen to make a cleanup In some of ard stock he doesn't worry He Is sure that he probably would have licked some other unheard unheard-of stock and have lost his savings on It ft So he keeps put of a market which he knows nothing whatever And he n never yer regrets his decision to keep out either CoPyright 1925 by the Bell Syndicate Inc |