Judge — March 20, 1920 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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Drawn by Canseur Surru “Revence is Swer Ir Joxan Coup Have Frrreo Ue tar Wuare as a U-Boat The Thirty-Thousand-Dollar Man What Will Happen to Mim? By MarkeV. O'News HIS country is facing a crisis. [| mean a new one. [| don’t think it is generally known as yet. The information came to my attention casual way. I stumbled across it in a very in a magazine about two weeks ago. The crisis is this: the business tide is going to recede. 1 am not at liberty to say anything further at this time. Just when it will recede and how far, are facts that are being withheld from the general public for the present. The idea of this is to avert a panic. ‘The way | found it out was by reading an advertise- It was just a simple, full-page announcement. city of high-grade execu- capable of earning fifty here were, it said, plenty of cheap men at twenty-five and thirty thousand. But the really good men were becoming scarce. Bankers and merchants were muttering to one another about it. and getting worried. Some private conversations had been overheard, in which heads of large corporations told one another how hard it was to. get fifty-thousand- dollar men. Oneof them said that he needed several—five or six, at least—in his busi- right away. But he could not imagine where he was going to get them. The advertisement went on to explain this state of affairs. It seems that the average man will not spe- ize enough. He is con- ment. It spoke first of the great s tives. I mean by that, me thousand and up per y ness, ch Drawn by Lax Camm tent to scrape along on twenty Judge Oxt—What are yc or thirty thousand a year, Rooster—My wife just OQ putting up with privation, when he should be earning twice as much. It is these shiftless fellows who are going to be hardest hit by the receding of the business tide. In a way, it will be their own fault. They have Leen warned, because I have seen several of “these announcements since that first one. It is hard to understand how these thirty thousand dollar men can be so obtuse. All they need do is send for a booklet. It will tell them exactly how to prevent the receding tide from taking them with it. But they persist in blundering ahead with their measly litde alaries, and they are going to be in trouble, just as sure as shooting. There is no doubt about this business tide receding. ‘Things cannot continue as they are. It would te un- heard of. The business tide will positively recede, as advertised. When it does, where will the average man find himself? Whcre will you, reader, find yourself? Fortunately, | have worked out a plan that will take care of the situation that confronting us. Some evening after dinner sit down with a paper and pencil. It does not make any par- ticular difference what eve- ning you choose, except that I would not have you put it off too long on account of this uncertainty about the tide. Ask yourself the following question: Am I getting ahead in oo business? Am I standing ched « sull?) Am I going backward? comicbooks.com SS) cae 8, eR eee