Show ONLY BUREAUCRATS NOW BEAT PATH Unhappy Designer May Ma Convert Traps Trap rr I TO DOOR OF THIS MOUSETRAP MAKER I a Bv H U. U I I. I PHILLIPS A BETTER MOUSETRAP HoW ARE AnE THINGS as of early September we asked the theman themen I Iman man men who built a better mousetrap this being our regular seasonal Inquiry In In In- into business conditions I cant can't quite make out he be re replied reo re- plied with a glance at the paths made to hi his door The paths Ie seem em fairly active but the activity could hardly be called caned path path beating beating at et this moment Would you say lay there was a slump I 1 might think so 10 but Harry TrUman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man says saYI no about Does he think much mousetraps You know Washington There are experts In everything available The President has aides aldel who claim to be specialists In mouse habits and mousetrap trends In our economic eco ceo system There Is a federal mousetrap commission at work worn now now Has it been here berd berdI I think so 0 There has bas been a group here bere which acted like a federal federal federal fed fed- eral committee It came up the paths backward asked where It was and immediately wanted to know where there was a good place to eat eat i e What did It do after arter ea eat In log Ing It II showed up tip ever every day at 11 and and quit at 3 announcing after a week that It t had studied my business thoroughly and would have an earl early report with witha a complete solution to all lems In the mousetrap field You think It will find that you ore are prospering and that there Is no cause for concern we asked I am sure of It said theman theman the theman man who built a better mouse mouse- trap The commission left leU ina In Ina a very happy mood and announced announced announced an an- nothing was worrying me Strictly on your own we asked what Is the real situation In the mousetrap Industry I am It cant can't be that the country has caught all the mice Hence the drop in demand for traps must be due to something else People may be making old Id traps last longer I had a fellow come In with some holes and ask that we build a trap around em Are you operating in the red at atthe atthe atthe the moment Yes but dont don't let the President hear It He would hold I am sabotaging sabotaging sab sab- public confidence He may even say I want depression for far my myown myown myown own selfish ends So what I Well I guess I should do some Bome financing deficit and expand After all I dont don't want federal control of mousetraps The man who built a better mousetrap paused a moment and reflected I OIl shall have to style my mousetraps ha he resumed I must bring out smarter models with startling new innovations Streamlining might help and possibly some mechanic Vices Icu that will make K It pore d to bait a trap by bT a bu ton Ion This will cost Coal costa I lot money but I can If d borrow u w It something oe It Have Hav you thought of turnip a trap with fewer holes holew asked halt half til as 1 holes boles mean that people with 1 would need twice Ahal as many tr 1 exclaimed the NW BM nM showing us UI the th door 11 knew It You are one of rhea J teJ experts direct from th the t ti rt f A ital Scram r We scrammed crammed Se VANISHING AMERICANISMS AMERICANISM No I never go away for the m nap mer Not with a climate ilk Ne' Ne York S e e eYou I You can have either the meat or the fish course the course the price U It about the same I e eI I give the kid a quarter allow ance and ante and he saves eaves 15 cents centi a i we M e v vout out of it S e e Forty necklaces bracelets bracelet rings and brooches one wort worn were In the loot 1001 token takes by the bandits who stuck up lip th the Aga Ara Khan and the Regina Begun leaves them down to their last hit i five tons tone of ice S e e After relieving them of their dJa silo dl monds do you suppose the banha said IBId Now drive carefully si sa j 7 jare yur are operating with dimmers S e President Truman received t I boys bOYI at the House recen and showed them around He u a e planned to them how it feels feell to to grow up and have to live in hoi ho howater water hOI S e e Can you remember remember Away Away back when they turned around to look tp It Ita t ta a daring bathing suit C e eId t Id like to see a return of blood sweat and tears to economics 1 BERNARD BARUCH t Instead of bunk debt and leen I |