himself as a gentleman who is "delighted-to-be-at-yourservice-sir." Before the gas
companies learned that their scowling meter-men were accumulating liabilities never
to be cleared away, the polite salesmen of oil burners came along and did a land office
business.
During the depression, I spent several months in the anthracite coal
region of Pennsylvania, studying conditions which all but destroyed the coal industry.
Among several very significant discoveries, was the fact that greed on the part of
operators and their employees was the chief cause of the loss of business for the
operators, and loss of jobs for the miners.
Through the pressure of a group of overzealous labor leaders, representing the
employees, and the greed for profits on the part of the operators, the anthracite
business suddenly dwindled. The coal operators and their employees drove sharp
bargains with one another, adding the cost of the "bargaining" to the price of the coal,
until, finally, they discovered they had BUILT UP A WONDERFUL BUSINESS FOR THE
MANUFACTURERS OF OIL BURNING OUTFITS AND THE PRODUCERS OF CRUDE
OIL.
"The wages of sin is death!" Many have read this in the Bible, but few have
discovered its meaning. Now, and for several years, the entire world has been listening
BY FORCE, to a sermon which might well be called "WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH,
THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP."