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- Confidence. Is Some- thing Everybody Must Have Before It Has Any Real Effect Upon Conditions in Business. It’s Like Gambling, Thinks One Partner, and He Has No. Very Strong Partiality for Speculation. By Montague Glass. “J SEE where a banker gives out an interview to a Newspaper and says the confidence of the country is getting bigger, Mawruss,” Abe Potash remarked the other morning. “That's bad,” Morris Perlmut- ter observed. “What do you mean — bad?” Abe demanded. “Well, if there's one thing that this coun- try has got 125 per cent. of per person, Abe, it’s confidence,” es Morris Perlmut- “Everybody believes in the papers. ter said. everything he reads THE EVENING WORLD'S Ba. LW GHAPTER XXVIII—TO SHA AGAIN. HE children and the Pirate had epread their maps of the world before them and each bad a Goren suggestions as to where next to wander. “Bee,” eald Jamie, “here 's where @he Far East world and the North ‘West world come together. Asia and North America almost bunk heads ‘way up there near the Arctic circle, q ‘Wouldn't it be great fun to oross that Hy Uttle strip of water—what's It called? —Bering Strait, and find ourselves in America." “Now that's @ place worth going to," approved the Pirate, “Alaska! There's gold there a-plenty for all of ws and more to spare. Muhe ready the ship, the spades and the treasure Ghests. We'll dig for gold and come home richer than kings.’ Golly, that would be great!"* oried Jemie, and Alice agreed. "We could almost walk ecross from Je an to Siberia and from thero to »¢ Whoa,"’ Alice said laughing, “The —- { VL ALLLLAL ALLL LLL LE DOD ULES LLL LI AUALILUDLLELLIDUI LE LEME LAMA LALA CAL AAA LAL whole lot sooner deal who has cold feet when “Any oue who hires a cashier don’t figure at all.” “The Postmaster General alu't — Furthermore, he thinks himself, his wife, his business and his country couldn’t be improved upon, and also, Abe, he don’t stop there neither. He has confidence in the good intentions of thieves ind robbers to such an extent that he sends his lady bookkeeper round to the bank to bring back the weekly payroll to his factory with nothing to protect her except her hatpin and the city police. And of the two, Abe, I got a whole lot more confideice in the hat- “But the whole trouble with the country has been, Mawruss, that the nerchants didn't have enough confi- future to stock up with Abe said, “and the uences has been that business a standstill."* ‘Sometimes a standstill ts a whole lot better than a slip-back,’? Morris hich there is a time to nee and a time to have and I would a whole lot conse has been at cold feet, sooner deal with a merchant who has STIL OT KIDDIE KLUB LL ALLELE LILLE Aleutian Istands make « half circle of stepping stunes across Bering Hoa.” “Walk or aail, It makes no differ ence to me,” said the Pirate In high Spirits, “although | admit ['m more favorable to sulling But so long as we go, I'm content. [ Itch to be off." “Patience, Pirnte,"* said Al'ce. “Patience? thundered the reugh fellow. ‘No ptrate worth tne name was ever patient, I'm for starting to-day, this minute, in falr wid or foul."* “I'm with you, Captain,’* Jamie told him, “but what about the brown South Sea Island boy and girl?" “We can't take ‘em,’ the Pirate decided. ‘They're such nice litle swabs we can’t let ‘em freese." *Right-o,"” Jamie agreed. We'll leave them here, I Ben's parents will keep them until their father's ship hauls up alongside Japan. It won't be long," the Pirate felt sure. Tt was arranged, I Ben was glad of the company of the strange South Sea. 8, Islande and Alice and Jamie sald “goodt to the little frie who hed come with them far away on time to have cold feet, and I would a to have confidence, than yice versa.” confidence in the cashler’s honesty, y'understand, may come out all right, but as against first class A number one references and a bond furnished by a high grade surety company, confidence In a_eashlor CONFIDENCE AND COLD FEET id bee is a time to have confidence and a by mailing money with a merchant he should ought flowers.” because he’s got e insulted exactly cold feet when he should ought to have Abe."* “The trouble with you, Mawruss, is that you lost your nerve when prices broke last year,’ Abe said. ‘What « business man needs nowadays 1s courage, Mawruss, and courage is the quality of being able to belleve that everything {s going to be all right.’” CONFIDENCE 0, K. IF BACKED BY A SURETY COMPANY. “Even if wo've got a hunch that it ain't,” Morris added, “Say! If everybody felt the way you do, Mawruss, nobody would check @ trunk, mail a letter, deposit money in a bank, hire a cashier or even cross @ busy street,’ Abo: sald. “Sure I know,’ Morris said, “but there ts confidence and confidence, Abe. Tho feller who drives an auto- mobile forty miles an hour through a city street has confidence that every- thing 4s going to be all right, and the r who crosses the city street in front of the forty mile an hour auto- mobile has also got confidence that erything 18 going to be all right, y'understand, But what the automo- bile driver In that case needs Is not confidence, but a year tn Jail, Abe, and what the feller he hits should confidence than vico versa, CR their journey around the wortd. “Run up the main shecta, we sot sa on the turm of the tide,” an- nounced the Pirate skipper, glancing at his watch Alice and Jamie said @ hasty good- by to | Sep and disappeared aboard the good ship Makebelieve, bound for further adventure. “Trim the shoet orted the Cap- tain. "There's a heavy blow and a choppy sea ahead." Jamie saw the distant sky heavy with thick, dark clouds shadowing the water beneath, and millions of white- caps on the crests of the waves told that they had @ dangerous aight ahead of them, There were prom- isos of an exciting watch from the bow of a tossing ship and of wave- washed decks Perhaps Jamie him- self would be washed overboard, He trembled at the thought Make fast the rigging and cles the ports; it's on us,"’ cried the Pt- rate, as the ship pitched and rolled, rose and sank on the mountains of water Jamie and Alice held thetr breath, Chapter XXIX—Aftor the Storm: when people show thefr lack of confidence in him “I've confidence tn my doctor, for instance, and what does that mean? Why, simply I bet him a th sand dollars against an automobile cortege with “This here confidence ts a kind of epidemic like the flu. Some years everybody has it and other years nobody catches it, and Inst year there was very few cases of confidence anywhere,” “If a new epidemic of confidence starts up in this country, y'understand, the banks has got to get It first and give it to their enstomers,” in a registered insured letter.” ought to have instead of confidence ts acctdent insurance and plenty of it. “Furthermore, Abe, any one who hires @ cashier because he's got con- fidence in the cashier's honesty, y'understand, may come out all right, but as against ten years first cluss A number one references and a bond furnished by a high grade surety com- pany, confidence in a cashier don’t figure at all.'’ “Then I suppose that every timo you maf! a letter or check trunk, Mauwruss, you consider it already a miracle that It gets to the place you send it?’ Abe suggested. BETTING WITH YOUR DOCTOR. “In such cases, Abe, I am banking on experience, not confidence,’ Mor- ris eald. “And even at that, Abe, the Postmaster General ain't insulted ex- actly when people show their lack of confidence {n him by mailing money in & registered insured letter. Also, Abe, I wouldn't hesitate to say to Mr. Chauncey M. Depew or whoever the President of the New York Central Rajiroad ts: ‘I lke you and you've got an honest face and everything, but just the same I'm going to tnsure this trunk before I check It, because once in a while, Mr. Depew, you man- | KIDDIE NTRIBUTIONS age to get a trunk lost in the shuffie, especially during the first week in September, when travel ts heaviest.’ "' Aes T suppose your idea of what meant when he said that the country was getting more conf- dence, Mawruss, wae that the busi- ness people of the United States was arting to fo ahead on the principle of #0 mechulla, so mechulla, or the bank other words, Mawruss, they are be ginning to gamble again," Abe sald “Say! Yor that matter what Is confides if it ain't gambling?” Morris asked, “which I've got conf dence in my doctor, for instance, and what does that moan, Abe? Why, ’ I bet him a thousand dollars age an automobile cortege with flowers that when he aaye I've got an Infected gall duck and backs up his judgmont with an operation, y'under- he's right and I am wrong 1 think {t's a stamach ache ent regular luncheons every t Wasserbauer's."’ n your {dea is that we are betting a couple of thousand dollars when we sell two thousand dollars’ worth of goods to a concern that's rted Al, ain't It? Abe sald. PRICE CUT DAMAGES CAR $1,600. “Well, if we are, we are anyhow betting on a sure thing, Abe,” Morris said, “but what this danker means is that we should have oonfidence enough to extend our gambling oper- ations, Abe, and make bets with them concerns which we have been off’ of now for pretty near two years al- ready, the stakes being that they wouldn't bust up on us before they pay for the goods." “Maybo that’s what the banker meant and maybe it ein’t."" Abe de- clared, ‘‘but my idea ts that he wasn't talking about confidences tn selling but about confidence In buying, and now that rock bottom prices has been reached, a customer wouldn't have to gamble with his money no more that overnight, y’understand, the market value of what he's bought ts going to be reduced 60 per cent. “Take automobiles, for Instance, and there was a time there tn 1920-21 when the owner of a $4,000 car oould ALLA OL ALLEL LL TBTTUL UOMO USUAL ALD HOA LLULLLL LLL LUAU LAL MELLEL ER SATURDAY SPEC Coprright, 1881, (Hew Yerk Bvouing World) by Prem Publishing 0». WESLEY BARRY’S was o little boy it was his work to keep the kindling box filled. One Saturiay be had ®& Gate with the vest of the regular kids to go explor- ing tm @ new conve that they bad dis~ covered. He missed them because he had to fl the chip basket before he left. The longer be thought about the fan thet he bad missed the mad- Ger he got, until he decited that he would «nd it al) by runcing away from bome. R owes fine-—for 4 while He stopped ef « cosy farm house, where @ Kind lady gave bim hie dinner, He trudged on, whistling a merry tune, tramping to its swing—on through Pleasant Selds and damp, woodsy Pinces, He begwed bis supper, and {t wae great—unti) the night came on and it began to get dark and darker. He tried to keep up his cournge by whistling louder, but the ovises of the cracking leaves and twigne under his feet sounded ke the rending asunder of worlds to him Then the hoot owl began his evening col What he sald sounded to the runaway Ike “Hoof tt, hoof it!"’—and that boy did. He started on a marathon for home and made it in two hours. He Peeped in at the living room window HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB. CUT OUT THIS COUPON Beginning with ok out —and there was his mother, rocking the cat in her lap, as tranquilly as if he was with the rest of the ohildren upstairs in bed. His father waa read- ing the evening paper and smoking hin peace pipe. It was tough not to be even missed. He slipped tnto tho kitchen and looked into the oven—Hanah had not left anything for him to eat—the pantry door was locked tight He slipped quictly out into the shed and brogght in an armful of wood—4t seomed so good to be home again that he touched each stick lov- ingly as be put it into the box Then he washed up at the kitohen sink—and sneaked sheepishly tnto the living room, ‘Neither his mother gor hia father seemed to notice hie en- trance—he eat down on a chalr and squirmed and twisted until he oould stand the suspense no longer—then he remarked in an offhand manner “Well mother, { see that you still have the same old cat''—— It was just the same then—when the great men of to-day were little boye—as It is now. Shucks, there ts nothing to It—if you run away you got to come back. Wea wann't lucky Ike the Wells boy—when he begwed for his supper —they showed him the wood pile first. P. 8 J ain’ any easter to chop wood away from home than it ts to chop It at home—Get met—Wea. How te Play the Woodland Wonder Game HXIB game may be played by two, three or four players, using buttons ss counters. Preros « toothpick or match stick through with a pin eo that one end 1s longer than the other, the the hands of « clock Stick the pin tn the oentre of the dia! and start play Ing. Now, who will be Billy Brighteyes. the hero gray squirrel? Who will be Bobbity Bobtail, the rabbit? Who Tip Tall, the fox, and who Pollykin? You can elther decide this Dog your selves or spin to determine Bpin the toothpick and walt for to stop. The long end will point the name of the character which spinner will es for that game and ter In the corner over the picture that ot Now spin to move. The players are no longer trout with watching the namea but only the numbers dial. Bach ern arate wor A ie marked by # long rests, Bobt a amooth binck rents, Billy marked by 6 of dasha triangular rents, .Tip Tall Fox's te a dotted line with aquara, blank re Tho circles acattored over the hoard are also reste and should be sounted a8 mich in Alan, bo care to rend and ° circles. “THE PELLER WHO OROSSES THE CITY STREET IN FRONT OF THE FORTY-MILE-AN-HOUR AUTOMOBILE HA6 ALSO GOT CONFIDENCE THAT EVERYTHING /8 GOING TO BE ALL RIGHT.” rive it ea carefully as @ baby oar- riage and never go anywheres near a mail truck, and yet overnight, y'un- derstand, he could run. into @ price reduction from the home office in De- trolt and right away his duplex con- vertible sedan would be damaged $1,500 “It was also the same way with a feller what bought @ suit of elothes. He might never have even took it out of the box it came from the store in, Mawruss, and yet the price of cloth ing would have gone down no quick since he bought }t, y'understand, that for all {t would stay worth what ho paid for it, y‘understand, be might Juat as well make up his mind right at the start to spill a quart of kreplooh soup over the front of the AL FE AL 4 D> h Tt two players come together on a circle saying OUT the last one to acrive ts out of the game. HOME IN: HeMmLockK~ Arrows show the way to move, The first player to return home (the * from which he etarted) wins thal weaie Move 1, 9, 8, of 4, rests according @ the number om the dial whee the NUE URE _. SN se rue.FOx match stick stops spinning. If the stick potnts to a line, spin again. If the stick points to « line three times in succession the player loves the play and must walt for his turn to come around again. If.you come to a circle suying Skip one spin or #k!p two spine you must ‘wall fow the others to play once ov AULD CONDUCTED BY ELEANOR SCHORER coat and ait down heavily in a doubie Portion of stuffed tomato."” QUARANTINE AGAINST CONF! DENCE LIKE FLU. “At the same time, Abe,’ Morris sald, ‘what's to prevent the buyer : the country saying to the seller: ‘Y« set confidence first and then I'll i: it." Because this here confidence Ix kind of epidemic, Nke the flu. Som years everybody has it and othe years nobody catches It, and last year there was very few cases of confidence anywhere.” “Bure, I know," Abe agreed, “int: this here confidence is not at all like the flu tn one respect, Mawruss. Your can give it even tf you ain't got It All you need ts nerve." “But it also requires nerve to get confidence, Abe,” Morris — said. “Which If we would have confider in the Surprise Store, Bridgetown, Pa., and a few shaky concerns hb that, and would ship them a Tew thousand dollars goods on the chant that we might see our money agaline yunderstand, why, then, the first tiil&: you know, Sam Feder of the Kos. > / clusko Bank would report to the Loa} and Discount Committee that you and me had « bad cage of confidence an: that if the Kosciusko Bank didn’t quarantine us {t would catch It to So, therefore, Abe, if a new epidemic of confidence starts up in this coun try, y'understand, the banks has. «>t to get it first and give {t to thetr ci tomers."’ “Then in that case, Mawruss, con fidence is going to be awful slow in getting started,” Abe said, “becaus when even all the business men :f the country has got confidence, aft! lots of {t, understand me, the banks koopa themselves pretty generally im-.. mune—ao to speak.” “And I don't blame them neither o Morris declai “because if a ban had confidence everybody nobod would have confidence in a bank io, therefore, Abe,"* Morris « cluded, “if the epidemic of contiden wets started with the banks, y"t * stand, it would be just as well if th first few cases was comp!icat 1 with a couple of bad attacks of cold tert (Copyright, 1922, by the Bell Syndicate, Ine) VOTED, SDEN-oF “Teal YF twice (as designated) before you pixy again * When the player ts at the last req... he must spin the correct number (})_ to get heme. ' If the éntire game ts pasted on card board {t will last much longer, besides