Gunnison Valley News | 1924-01-10 | Page 4 | Harvesting the Widows and Orphans

HARVESTING THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS Harvesting the 1924 crop of widows, orphans and the small wage earner will be a national pastime again of the operator in fraudulent fraud-ulent or questionable investments and the season is expected to open early. Many a humble home in the nation contains a person who has sought to place savings in investments, hoping thereby to insure comfort com-fort and ease in the sunset of life only to awaken to another story of misplaced confidence. ' The press of the country daily reports the news of the crooked operator who garnered millions to his coffers, only to be discovered after having harvested a mounteous 'crop from his victims all too late to repair the loss. Forewarned is to be forearmed. Prospective investors must rely on their banking houses or some responsible investment banker for information, instead of some alluring advertisement or glib talker, talk-er, before loosening their pursestrings. It is the safest and surest way of dodging the smooth-tongued hi-jacker.