Show STOCK ST CI MARKET NONSENSE Thousands of ordinary human beings beings beings be- be bec ings who have been bitten by the tho Wall Street g rich quick bug during during dur dur- ing the recent period of specula tive live fever foyer will sympathize with Hl H. H t I l I I. I Phillips the popular author I who gi c an account of his stock stock- market market experiences in the tho March American Magazine I If j f Im human and gullible writes Mr Phillips I like to believe there is a Santa Claus Glaus Stories of quick riches made mado in Wall Vall Street by outsiders outsiders outsiders out out- siders fascinate me Until very recently I yearned earned to get a thousand thousand thousand and shares of some stock that would leap points and not keep me waiting All my neighbors have done It 11 if if they're not boasting I know an en office boy who insists ho he mado made madea a killing kUling In airplane stocks and a bootblack who has confided to mo me that he was lucky In coppers Both still have hav frayed cuffs and heels but they talk prosperously It was my boast for years ears that thac I would never fall for the lure of the stock market I r regarded it as out-and-out out gambling with emphasis emphasis emphasis em em- on the out But at last I weakened I played the stock market entirely entirely entirely en en- by ear I have been the answer answer answer an an- to the tipsters tipster's prayer The Tho only consolation I have left is the thought that there must be fifty million others like me But Im I'm through Ive I've gone back to working for a living Im I'm trot not saying saing there thero isn't money to be made in the stock market markot theres there's a lot of or It there mine So Mr Phillips has resumed his relations with the savings banks National banks he admits arent aren't very exciting institutions the the atmosphere isn't dazzling ann and there thera is no bold or animated conversation going around There are no bedtime bedtime bed bed- time timo stories fairy tales or prophecies prophet ies In the banks banke and a mans man's little hundred dollars wont won't turn into a thousand in six weeks But Dut neither will It shrink to 67 cents overnight A little bit of something is better than Ulan lots of nothing at all |