Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1926, Page 12

MEN AND MONEY By M. S. Rukeyser (Covyricht. 1926.) sult of the the views ntes and more A vocation for le, NIt mos. a striking vari- producaol out- ple of tae neralded in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1926. | ticipation of a cotton crop of record- |characterize it as a getrich-quick | prospects—poor as they are—than as breaking size means that the activi ties of the boll weevil and the hopper have been placed under control. Hopper and Weevil Prevalent. the Southern plant- “have we any right to ipate that this bumper crop means that the activities of the boll weevil and the hopper have been placed under control. The boll weevil |and the hopper—nnd especially the weevil—are more prevalent now than ever before in the history of thes However, for the past two s we have had ex:remely d {sons, which are entirely responsible for the two big crops. The activities )f the weevil are Lmited in a dry. 10t season. He does some damage even then, but he is much more active and his dam- 1ge much greater in wet seasons, and, if we should have a wet season next vear, we would not produce, on the same acreage we have planted this vear, over 10 to 12 million bales of cotton. Our opinion is that the weev.l is as serious a menace today as he ever was, provided the seasons are favorable to his operation. The hopper is rather new as an insect s|pest in the cotton world, and, while we experimented with airplane poison- ing this year, we are not prepared S| to say that this pest is here to stay. We cannot as definitely state that the hopper damage will continue as we can that the boll weevil damage will.” THE BUSINFSS OF GETTING | AHEAD. a- | “investments.” scheme. And yet, if a get-rich-quick enter- Rrise were what its name seems to im- ply, the appellation would really be one of extravagant praise rather than adverse criticism, For, despite the preachments to the contrary on the part of the f cially chaste, the or- dinary mortal still nourishes a hope of making a lucky strike, which will sud. denly transform him into a man of great wealth. But experience has shown that so-called get-rich-quick op portunities might be more appropri- ately described as lose-your-principal Frequently the investor with a high- | ly developed acquisitive instinct re- marks, “I wish my banker would tell me what he buys himself, instead of what he thinks is good for me.” If the banker in his own investments cometimes arts from the sta v, he does so conscious knowing full well that he is assuming larger than ordinary risks. Invest. ment infallibility, especially as one s from the obviously high-grade s, does not exist, and financiers nside of a proposition oc- casionally misjudge its prospects and opportunities. Like to Make Killing. Sometimes the amateur buver of stocks,of mere prospects intrusts his to the experiments of other: g that his chances of succ are no better than one in a hundred. | Swept by the gambler's impulses, he prefers the unlikelihood of making a “killing” to the certainty of 5 pe; cent. An individual of such t might better vent his a buyer of carefully engraved certifi cates reflecting nothing but blue skyv and the hot air of unscrupulous pro- moters. Men otherwise Intelligent, who in ther financial relations become in- toxicated with thie hopes of excessive gain, frequently place their funds con- sciously in unpromising and far- fetched speculations. They will buy almost anything that a plausble pro- motor presents, because they are acting on the theory that the law of av- erages is certain eventually to bring them something good and that the one success will more than pay for the thousand failures. Silly reason- ing! In order to be sure the law of averages would eventually lead one to financial paradise it might be neces- sary to live 10,000 years. Moreover, the average worth of valueless se- curities, however widely diversified, is zern. Get-rich-quick propositions are al- ways, seemingly, on the bargain coun- ter. Those promoting them perpetually send stock salesinen into the cities and Into the countryside. Common sense would indicate even to the In- expert buyer that those with a prop- osition that assured quick riches would not need to employ security peddlers JEWISH oo PEOPLE'S SERVICES Friday, 8 P.M. Beautifal Muslc—Inspiring Service to unload stocks by high-pressure methods on an unwary public. The essential objection to so-called SAVINGS DEPOSITS GROW. BALTIMORE, November 4 (Spe- get-rich-qu.ck securities is that the| cial)—The 14 mutual savings banks promises of the vender are not ful- filled. T e Michigan State College, founded 1857, 1s the oldest agricultural col- lege in the country. A éorrection! I In yesterday’s Star we | inadvertently advertised | A.P.W. | Bathroom Tissue | 49c Per Roll Carton of 4 Rolls, $1.49 The Correct Price for a Carton of 4 Rolls is $1.80 We are very sorry of Baltimore have total deposits of $156,255,880. This s more than $5.- 423,000 in excess of the total a year 280. Open at 8:30 AM. Every Business Day The Possibly Better —ways of serving you are what we con- stantly aim for, o insistent are we that *Columbia” service represent one hun- dred per cent efficiency—to you. 1To save your nume, for instance, Re- ceiving and Paying Tellers' duties are performed at the same windows. 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