Show ONLY bureaucrats NOW BEAT PATH unhappy pey eilf designer De siner ta ma may y conveys C anve rif to ka rat at tras traps J TO DOOR OF THIS MOUSETRAP MAKER by H I 1 PHILLIPS A BETTER MOUSETRAP JIT TOW ARE THINGS as of early LL L september we asked the man who built a better mousetrap this being our regular seasonal inquiry into business conditions 1 I cant quite make out he replied with a glance at the tha paths made to hit his door the paths seeni seem fairly active but the activity could hardly be called path beating at this moment would you say there thera was a slump 1 I might think so but harry truman says no does he think much about mousetraps mouse traps you know washington there are experts in everything available the president has aides who claim to be specialists in mouse habits and mousetrap trends in our economic system there is a federal mousetrap commission at work now has it been here 1 I think so there has been a i group here which acted like a fed eral committee it came up the th paths backward asked chero it 1 was and immediately wanted to t know where there was waa a good gooc place to eat what did it do after eating it showed up every day at 11 and quit at 3 announcing after a week that it had studied my business thoroughly and won would id have an early report with a complete solution to all problems in the mousetrap field ay you 0 u think it will find that y you ou are prospering and that there is no cause for concern we asked 1 I am sure of it said the man who built a better mousetrap the commission left in a very happy mood and announced nothing was worrying me strictly on your own we asked what Is the real situation in the mousetrap industry 1 fam I am optimistic it cant 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 traps last longer I 1 had a fellow come in with some holes and ask that we build a trap around em are you operating in the red at the moment yes but dont let the president hear bear it he would hold I 1 am sabotaging public confidence he may even say I 1 want depression for my own selfish ends so what well I 1 guess I 1 should do some deficit financing and expand after all I 1 dont want federal control of mousetraps mouse traps the man who built a better mousetrap paused a moment and reflected 1 I shall have to style my mousetraps mouse traps he be resumed 1 I must bring out smarter models with startling new innovations streamlining might help and possibly come mechanical devices that will make it possible to bait a trap by pressing a button this will cost a lot of ua money oney but I 1 can borrow it or something have you thought of turning out a trap with fewer holes we asked halt half as many holes mean that people with mice would need twice as many traps crapo trapo tr apo anal abel exclaimed the BM showing us the door 4 1 it I knew it you are one ot of those eco experts direct from the cap ital we sc rammed VANISHING americanisms no I 1 never go away for the summer not with a climate like new york you can have either the meat or the fish course the price la Is about the same I 1 give the kid a quarter allow i ance and he saves 15 cents a out of it forty necklaces bracelets rings and brooches one worth were in the loot taken by the bandits who stuck up the aga khan and the begum this leaves them down to their last five tons of ice after relieving them of their dla dia monds do you suppose the bandits i said now drive carefully as youk you are or e operating with dimmers 11 president truman received 1007 boys at the white house recently i and showed them around he ex fc to them how it feels to grow up and have to live in hots hoaf water i can you remember away tack t when they turned around to look at a daring bathing suit 4 id like to see a return of bloody swea and tears to economics BERNARD BARUCH instead of bunk debt and leers |