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Show WHAT CAN MONEY BUY? If any young man has a notion that money is not a very important factor in the life that we are living down . here, just as soon as he starts out on his own and dad stops furnishing the cash, the grocer and the butcher will suddenly wake him up and change his viewpoint The only man who claims to despise money is he one who has too much or too little. It is said a million or more times every day that some of the best things in life money cannot buy and, of course, in this we are all agreed. " M.oney can buy a wedding ring and induce a woman to change her name, but it cannot buy her love and devotion. devo-tion. Money can buy a location and a stock of merchandise, merchan-dise, but it cannot buy good-will. Money can buy brick, mortar and mahogany ; money can buy a palatial house, but it cannot buy a home-Money home-Money can "buy the right to send a boy to Yale or Harvard, but it cannot buy brains for him- Money can buy acquaintances who will attend your social functions, but it cannot buy friends who will stand by us when the dark days come. -.' Money can hire high-priced clerks, but all the money . . in the world cannot buy a real salesman unless nature took over the job in a 75 per cent way to start with. Money can buy pipes for blowing soap bubbles and also reputations, but the combined wealth of Rockefeller and Ford cannot buy character. Money is now, always has been,' and always will be as essential to our life on this planet as is the air we breathe, and yet when you think it over, when it comes to many of the finest and best things in life, money has to back away and admit that it is powerless to help-Toy help-Toy World. |