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Show A FOOL AND HIS MONEY We hare met Mr. Ponzl before, History remembers him in man) phases ond with any faces. "Hi changes his nanio and he changei his gamo but the lesson he teaches Is 1 always tho same." The middle ages gaped at his abracadabras and alchemic mumeiy. Deluded Franco blew half her cash Into his Mississippi bubble. Drooklvn met him as Mr. Miller and took n nadly recollected courso In Ills five hundied and twenty per cent school, of finance. Ho Is tho l'led l'iper whom credulous credu-lous savings delight lo follow, tho High Priest of false hope at whoso shrine all greedy dollars make sacil-, fipo. Expcilencc has grown hoarso reminding re-minding us that every gct-rlch-quick plan lins proved to bo a got-poor-qulcker ono. Money is not tho master of magic, but tho servant of shrewdness; it Is worth exactly as much as the cau- j tlon with which It Is managed. It has a standard valuo; It Is a union laborer working at a fixed scale, tho prevailing rates of Interest, il can- , not demand more than regular wages wag-es for services rendered without abandoning security. j Projects purporting to guurantee extravagant Incomes to tho general public aie manifestly unbalanced or fraudulent. Whenever a penny can legitimately be Induced to work overtime, ov-ertime, thu soundest and safest intelligence in-telligence or tho country promptly takes it In charge Tho business of banks and capitalists Is to obtain the maximum return for their funds. If expert business passes up a fichemo "thero's a reason." Possibility and probability are dl-' vlded by a wide gap. Thero Is a vast difference between tho blue-print and tho achievement between tho prospectus pros-pectus and th balance sheet. And It Is becauso of tho tendency to con-fuso con-fuso possibility with performance promise with delivery figures with facts, that so many remain In tho losers los-ers class and such a limited number on the" winning sldo. r A successful Investor must have tho openest car ond door in tho community, com-munity, otherwise opportunity ond he soon part company. When he ceases to beliovo in possibility, fortune for-tune drops his acquaintance. Conservatism is seldom a millionaire million-aire but It Is never found In the poorhouse. ( |