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Show TOjFOOLERj f - Here's one about how depressions get started. ri A man started a hotdog stand. He decided he: give the public a little more than they were used,; adding an inch to the length of his frankfurters ,? comparable addition to the length of his roles. P, serve a hotdog to a customer unless it was perfectly Co.' 1 1 Word of the bargain he offered spread and his btt,'.; T( prospered. I He built additions to his stand which had staiJ M one room. He placed an attractive sign in front ol j place He advertised the extra something his hottW' Juni in the newspapers and on the air As the volume f. bGfr business grew, he was able to add a serving of deli-1 Stat potato chips to each hotdog order. -, 26 t He was overwhelmed with business. He became Am. perous. He sent his son to college to study busing' H ministration with the instruction to bring back the l! wa: business methods so that the hotdog stand could h,!' ac" even more profitable. ' Nor Eventually the son graduated. He returned to s j hotdog stand to give his father the word. "Father," he said, "the experts at school tehV Tl there's going to be a depression and that now's the'.) W'U to retrench and get ready for it. Now's the time to,1 f against the day when the money won't be coming fast." "How do you mean?" asked the man. A The boy suggested that a real saving could be- if the free serving of potato chips were dropped for) (J, hotdog order. Again a saving could be effected' ij) " man sold standard size hotdogs and rolls like everyoc;:1 bail The man took his son's suggestions. Business d in s a matter of fact fall off some and at the son's further:' uta1 gest.ions the man cut down his overhead by dispensing T1 the sign in front of his shop and canceling his new: and radio advertising. ' i on j Business continued to drop and the man boa:!:::' on J the additions which he had made to the stand duri::- J years of prosperity. "j jj Finally he was down to the one room with wh:::! land had started and business was terrible. j sess The depression, just as the experts had predict rect( come- j cnor |