Show lie he of 0 mr ing c impossibilities As A told by himself to glen rice rile copyright ION 11 by john E hunt during the last two years I 1 have made several successful transactions rans actions along lines where I 1 previously have erred to day I 1 believe that where one gets to growing the lower one bap hap pens to be when one started the higher one will get when one ends when I 1 m as a boy I 1 m went ent into a country store to buy some goose quill toothpicks for a christmas present to show you the kind of buyer I 1 was at that time I 1 paid ten cents tor for a pad pact age of a dozen bought some other things and had three cents left lock logic ing the showcase over to see w what hat I 1 should do with the three cents I 1 saw a broken bundle and took three more goose quill toothpicks at a cent apiece I 1 had bad heard my father say be he liked that kind of a toothpick and I 1 was out tor for toothpicks let me tell aou ou about the kind of a man the storekeeper was he t buy the way I 1 did he ile knew how to buy to make money he kept the things that the people wanted he ile thought ahead of the people and thought straight he knew bow how to buy and to sell for more than he paid much of my time was devoted to studying things that t this his mr store keeper nver thought of and my ray mind evolved such original but impossible plans that I 1 earned tor for myself the reputation of being up in the clouds recently a general manager introduced me to one of the directors of his company compa nyc he eald said he had been trying for several years to pull down to earth one of the legs of this danl man in reviewing the last quarter of a century I 1 am pleased to see that soon after making a mistake I 1 recognized the mistake and by the time my friends began to criticize me I 1 had made some headway in planning a preventive of a repetition sometimes I 1 had little victories about the time I 1 got the toothpicks I 1 went into a hardware store to get a large pocket knife pointing to the knife I 1 wanted the old merchant put his hand in the showcase lifted the knife a few inches from the box told me it was 1 25 and put the knife down without showing it to me 1 I told him that that was vms the knife I 1 wanted and I 1 counted out the moneal I 1 enjoyed his surprise over my ability to buy that priced knife one morning before starting to help ook w ok o k out our road tax I 1 made a boy bay hh brag to my father that I 1 wold use a hoe or nothing about fl fi fell minutes later you might have buen me climbing over the back fence to trade ro hoe for a shovel the bosa boss had me in about ten sec see ends that I 1 needed a shovel since then I 1 have seen many smart and strong men momentarily foolish enough to unnecessarily say what they would or wouldn t do to their final reg regret ret to day I 1 like to buy goods as a con sumer let me have a roll of bills every day with which to roam through the stores without any obligations to complicate the spending wit of it and I 1 would make some decidedly good se sections not so very long ago the selections would have been about 20 per cent as good when about ten years old I 1 got to fooling with a big man around a force pump that had a hose base attached to it my boy friends and I 1 thought it great tun fun to wet the big fellow but soon the battle turned and we found our selves soaked and when my father found me I 1 wasn gasn t complimented over the outcome since then I 1 have tried to keep out of kinds hinds of tun fun which would surely enable the other fellow to have the fun at my expense and laugh last A recent experience taught me this lesson with great enthusiasm I 1 sub bitted plans in copy to a man who has spent more than a half million dollars a year tor for several bears ears in advertising he ife made all kinda kinds of critical remarks about the idea but put by careful maneuvering I 1 got the thing in type improved somewhat by my determination to make it go and resubmitted it with very little revision he accepted it the other man Is not always able to see your now idea the way YOU see it by pre presenta selita tion in its first stage |