Show ARE YOU ON A SUCKER LIST Post postoffice office inspectors who lecent decently ly raided a get rich quick scheme com banys headquarters in new york report that they found the most comple sucker list on record says the chicago later inter ocean tha names are kept in metal cases covering an entire wall and were estimated to number at least As a part of 0 the outfit there was a machine called an which quickly transferred any of these names to the companas comp anys touch lett the companas comp anys operations were var ous according to the post postoffice office inspectors spec tors they ranged all the waa wa from rom disposing of stock in a machine to supplying the demand for gold mining stock at particularly low rates the individuals on the sucker list had no reason to complain of the uniformity of the propositions they received the inspectors found a lot of gold and silver vre and bricks and tons ot of literature bearing on the various good things which the operators were generously prepared to let the public la in on but the sucker list it goes wit out sang was the most valuable asselt of the concern it if the manager of the concern who is at present in the tombs in default of bail according to 0 o our latest information wants to raise money lie he should certainly be able to do so by the sale of 0 that list beyond doubt it represents a really great amount of 0 discriminating labor and it is equally beyond doubt that there are many promoters of 0 getrich get gel rich quick schemes who would be glad to have it in their business just think of 0 it probably after years year s ol of laborious effort this man has managed to collect and index the names lame s of 0 about people alaa ar re regarded as easy marks there the are all in neat metal cases the elect of 0 the guileless according to the judgment of 0 those who have reason to know their credentials have been exl exi and they have been officially admitted to sucker isucher dom and yet how few of them seated in their homes amid admiring relatives and friends ever imagine what a singular distinction has been confer red on them there are no doubt 1 people on oil that list who are regarded as particularly shrewd as unusually unus ally hardheaded hard headed in the communities la in which they live and they so regard themselves but there is ia a joint in the armor which the compiler of the sucker list has learned from experience and on it they went it would be a valuable contribution to psychological science it if some student would select a hundred or so eo names from that list look up the persons who bore them arid and after careful consideration determine and define exactly what a sucker is almost all of us have a vague idea but here Is a chance to give ive that idea dea precision |