Judge — June 1938 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY By Robert J. Bulkley Jr. EARS ago one of the boy's maga- zines ran a series of articles on how to make money. The suggestions may not have been eminently practical but they sounded good at the time and were certainly a step in the right direction. One of them, I remember, told how to put “John Hundreds” to work for you. “John Hundred” was a pseudonym for a hundred dollars, and the plan was simplicity itself. All you had to do was to buy a nice bond with your “John Hundred” and it would earn as much as three whole dollars a year for you. This is an attractive idea, but so few “John Hundreds” come my way, and if one should, three dollars would look like pretty small pickings. Another article told of a bright young man who got hold of a bucket of bent and rusted nails. The nails’ anteced ents were not clearly described, but it scems that the young man straightened the nails with a hammer, removed the rust with kerosene and sold the nails to a gullible hardware dealer. What with one thing and another, I never got round to testing this plan. But the young man who did is undoubtedly making big money today reorganizing things under 77-B. I believe these articles were a con- structive contribution to American pros- perity, when America had any prosper- ity. I now intend to follow their lead by describing in language so clear that a child can understand it several in- genious plans recently in use. The reader is at liberty to make such altera- tions as may be necessary to fit the plans to his individual taste. Plan A, also known as the "Pin Money Plan" 5c to $5 A New York inventor discovered that a subway turnstile will jam when a penny is dropped in the slot. He dropped in his penny and three nickels on top of it, thus filling the slot. When the cash customers started to come in, the turnstile worked, but their nickels didn't drop down. The inventor ap- pointed himself protector of the turn. stile and took each nickel as the cus- tomers went through. He had thirty. five nickels in his pocket by the time the police arrived. This scheme is simple June, 1958 and requires only a modicum of capital, but it is advisable for the beginner to keep an eye peeled for the cops. Plan B, known as the "Postal Savings Plan" $1,000 to $20,000 J. L. Van Valin, a postman in Nelson, Nebraska, obtained an appointment as special delivery messenger in nearby towns. He then addressed thousands of special delivery letters to friends in these towns, put stamps of commemorative is- sues on them, and delivered the letters himself. The friends gave back the let- ters and Van Valin sold the canceled stamps to philatelists. In 1933-he de- livered 462,277 letters and postcards. The stamps cost him $52,238; he sold them, canceled, for $31,592, and re. ceived $37,134 for delivering them—a total of $68,726. It will be a comfort to those who want to try this scheme to know that the Federal Board of Tax Appeals, in a recent twelve-page deci- sion, held it entirely legal. Plan C, known as the "Economic Royalist Plan" $100,000 and up Oscar Hartzell, who started life as an Towa farm boy, offered to collect and distribute to the rightful heirs the estate of Sir Francis Drake, together with 325 years’ accumulated interest. The estate, he said, was worth $22,000,000,000. Over a course of years he took in an estimated annual haul of $125,000 from some 40,000 “‘rightful heirs."’ The postal authorities caught up with this rising genius in 1933 and he is now in a hos- pital for mental defectives, Frankly, this aspect of the case puzzles me. I have outlined these few tested plans in the hope that they will prove of in. spiration to the reader. If we all start making money in no time at all we can usher in prosperity with eclat. Waiter, bring me a chocolate eclat! “Better Not Go IN Yet—Mkr. GirDLer’s ENJOYING His MORNING PAPER.” comicbooks.com