Show American Sucker a Unique Fish Which Carries Own Bait Greed and Dishonesty Although more than differ differ- different ent varieties of fish already have been catalogued and new types constantly con can are being brought to light there is only one species which carries car ries its own bait This unique fish is II commonly known as the sucker and the bait Isa isa is isa a mixture of at greed and dishonesty ty says a writer in the Chicago Dally News Thousands of these thee fish are hooked every yeas year by con men who although al al- although though using a variety of lines toss out the same ame old hook which has caught the over-greedy over suckers for generations The fishermen themselves themselves them them- selves have a very low code of morals but they live up to it and donot do donot donot not class themselves with crooks or thieves We Just work the suckers one remarked And if the fish wasn't perfectly willing to grab erab off some other suckers sucker's kale he be wouldn't take the hook Farmers bite I should say not he replied in answer to a query asto asto as asto to where the best fishing grounds were Country folk work hard for their money and want to investigate before they lay layout out a dollar doUar The big cities are filled with fish that have the bait in plain sight and allone allone all all' allone one needs to land them is a goodline good goodline line and a fairly strong hook What chance would a guy have to take a roll of silk cut it up into dress lengths and then go to some little country town and try to 0 o sell these dress goods as material which had been smuggled through the cus toms The dear old lady would go to the phone hone and give three long rings and a short one and the entire town would know that a smuggler smuggler smug smug- gler was sitting In her kitchen and the town marshal would be on the scene cene before you could say laY Jack Robinson with your mouth open When the silk was taken down downto downto to the general store and found to have been grown In the Carolinas Carolina s the fisherman would be called on to change his line and hook for a heavy sledge hammer and be sentenced to make canary bird tombstones out of big granite rocks I can take those same silks into New York Chicago or almost any other big bie town put on some ome oily soiled overalls an ana an a blue flannel shirt and hand out a line about having bay hav tog ing just come off oft an ocean steamship steam ship and succeeded in smuggling goods good through the customs and I 1 will hook from 10 to 20 fist fish in k a couple of hours Con men who Invent new tackle look in scorn com on those who persist in employing lines and hooks which have been used for generations ItIs It Itis Itis is almost unbelievable that a man who had made a success of a legitimate leg legi business to the extent of a anest nest neat egg of to would lay his entire savings on the line in some game which has received so 0 much publicity in the press that the average reader should recognize line and hook at once |