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Show SMALL INVESTORS ALERT . Swiftly changing events make it impossible for us to take takeyesterday talyesterday e yesterday as a guide to tomoirow tomOlrow tomorrow , and the average small Investor InvestorI investoris invest > r I ' is particularly puzzled . . And thel theie these e are immense numbers of small smallIn smallinvestorsmen am ; , In investors--men investors men investors " estors-men estors men - - - men and women everywhere whose funds are mvested invested mvestedin investedin mvestiin , in stocks of various companies , , and who wonder what tomorrow tomorrowmay tomorrowmay tomorromay may bring brmg . The day has passed when the small investor could forget his hisinvestments hiinvestments nvestments investments . He must now be alert to company management . As Aspointed A g pointed pomted out by Joseph Zook , , president of the newly organized organizedl1 organizedMontgomery organizeMontgomery u Montgomery l\1 l 1 \ ntgomery Ward vVard Stockholders association in Chicago , developments develop- develop developments develoiments - - ments of the past few years "have have " served to teach the small inves- inves investor investor investor - - tor , to his sorrow , that he must take a direct personal interest inthe in inthe ithe , the conduct of concerns to which he entrusts his savings . If he hedoes hedoes hdoes e does not , no one else will W11l " . " The group Mr Ir . Zook heads is an interesting example of how howsmall howsmall hoismall ( V small investors are awakening awakemng to their responsibilities responsIbilibes . Its mem- mem members members menbers . ' - bers have organized to demand "necessary necessary " changes " in the Mont- Mont Montgomery Mongomery { ont- ont ontgomery - " - gomery " Ward "Vard Vard tSrard management and methods . . Stockholders large andsmall and andsmall ansmall small are banding themselves together " ' with . "lth lth " Mr 1\111 1 111 \ ' . Zook , former formertreasurer formetreasurer treasurer 'easurer easurer ' of the company , to bring about constructive changes changescreating changescreating changecreating ic creating efficiency , economy and larger returns to investois investol investors s . . Small investors everywhere now realize they should see to 'It It 1t 'Itthat 1tthat ' i ithat that their funds aie ale are protected as carefully as they safeguard their theirjpbs theirjobs thei ! jpbs jobs . , , farms , , stores or homes . . _ |