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Show TAKING A CHANCE Most accidents and a majority of the financial setbacks which occurred during 1923 came from taking a chance. Notwithstanding Notwithstand-ing all that has been printed said or done, people continue to assume risks without proper consideration of the odds. We are too inclined in-clined to forget danger until we run into an emergency. We take too many chances at railroad crossings when driving autos; we dart about the steets, ignoring traffic. We are too quick to lend ear to the affable gentleman whose sole stock in trade is a stack of prettily printed stock certificates, bearing a lot of green and red and gold ink, yet worth no more on their face than they would bring as waste paper. Some buy these as carelessly as they run their autos they take chances and a financial accident happens. "Don't take a chance" is good, sound doctrine. Experience is the most costly thing in this country, and also the most bitter thing you can buy. And quite often experience is about all we get out of taking a chance. |