even from that

point of view They do not represent any

economy any benefit of organization any cre-

ation of new value They represent merely the

cheating of legitimate investors

That we hve permitted the Get Rich Quick

Wallingfords to thrive as they have in Ameri-

ca is a reproach to our laws our courts and so-

cial morals The Spanish Main of our high

finance Ineeds to be swept clean of the free-

booter

LIFE

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour

—Young

Life s a short summer—man is but a flower

—Dr Johnson

By turns we catch the fatal breath and die

—Pope

The cradle and the tomb alas how nigh t

—Prior

To be is better far than not to be —Sewell

Though all man s life may seem a tradegy

—Spencer

But light cares speak when mighty griefs

are dumb —Daniel

The bottom is but shallow whence they come

Sir Walter Raleigh

Thy fate is the common fate of all —Long

fellow Unmingled joys here no man befall —South-

well Nature to each allots his proper sphere —

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care —

Congreve Custom does not reason overrule —Roches-

ter And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool —Arm

strong

Churchill Live well how long or short permit to heav-

en —Milton

They who forgive most shall be most forgiv-

en —Bailey

Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its

face —French

Vile intercourse where virture has no place

Somerville

Then keep each passion down however dear

—Thompson Thou pendulum betwix a smile and tear —

Byron Her sensual snares let faithless Pleasures

lay —Smollett

With craft and skill to ruin and betray —

Massinger We masters grow of all that we despise —

Cowley Oh then renounce that impious self esteem

—Beattie Riches have wings and grandeur is a dream

—Cowper Think not ambition wise because tis brave

The paths of glory lead but to the grave —

Gray What is ambition Tis a glorious cheat

—Willis Only destructive to the brave and great —

Addison What s all the gaudy glitter of a crown —

Dryden The way to bliss lies not on a bed of down

—F Quarles

How long we live not years bub actions tell

—Watkins That man lives twice who lives the first life

well —Herrick

Make tKen while you may your God your

friend —Wm Mason

Whom Christians worship yet not cor

hend —Hill

The trust that s given guard and to

be just —Dana

For life we how we may yet die