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THE CHỈNA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY' \6," ́1957.

THE ART OF MAKING MONEY

'It's as easy today

as it ever was

SAYS THE MAN WHO SUDDENLY

-FOUND HE WAS A MILLIONAIRE

MOR the greater part of 10 years 50-year-old Bill Harries from Abertridwr, in For

But at what precise point in his career he became one he has not the slightest iden.

. 23,

Neither has his wife Anne. Nor their sons, Fred, who is 26, and Stanley, aged And as for five-year-old Jayne---well she has never heard of millionaires anyway. For years, of course, Bill Harries knew that he was rich. Very much richer than most inen. For early in life he discovered that he had the way to fortune.

But it was not until he went to see a lawyer about the problem of death'dulles that he realsed how rich he had grown.

The lawyer looked at the figures Harries told out about the Regentone radio unct TV business he had built up.

And he told him it would be darned hard to convince the Inland Revenue that he was not worth "at least a million."

In his radio factory on the Southend Road

I talked to Bill Harries about the art of money-

making.

ds be diseoarizing about the chances of young men setting out on their own as he did

30 years ago?

Not at all. It is as easy to build up A business today by ever it was," he says. "And that in spite of high taxation."

TAX WAS LOWER

When he first started, income tax was mady 4s. in the £. Today all the various taxes # firm must pay absorb £550 of every £1,000 it

earns.

clays was

"But making prots in those much more difficult than it has been in recent years," Harries explains.

His work-

He is a plains, homely man. room is modestly furnished. Just a smallish

table and a few upright chairs.

ornate

None of the deep mimchairs and Breplaces you so ofen seo in big tycooneries,

No. #4

IN A SERIES

ABOUT MEN

WHO HAVE

PRACTICAL

ADVICE TO

OFFER ON THE

WAY TO SUCCESS

by ALEXANDER

THOMSONG

Evening Standard Cry Editor

Simple Things and simple puth is raster und often rules ure what B Harrica likes best:

· Find out what the public want or think they want-and give it to them

"Then pay your โปร่งไม promptly It keeps you from pushing ahead far too soon. Mare new Arms fail because of tha thun for any other reason."

Harries began thinking of what the public want at the ago of 20,

With £500 put up by his parents hie opersed

credit dimper's shop at Southend.

He paid all his bills once a month 3rd 09:101* when possible.

"Prompt paying wits you respect in business more quickly than anything.

"And, besides, you soon find you can do your own buying on better terms which can help a lot," he says,

Broadly speaking there are three ways of getting to the top In business.

1-Starting up on your own, and pushing ahead by giving up everything else, This is the "self-sacrificing" method, 2.-Gelling outside backing for pour own ideas. This way the

quicker,

3.-Fighting your way to the top in an estabished business. This way you may cam big pioney with less risk. But fire become millionaires by work- ing for others,

With so many new ideas for Industry

lo fasten on to, they are as big as ever," he says.

So he gives these final words of advice to those eager to get to the top:

"If you are starting up on your own, don't rush things too fast.

Bill Hurries never doubted B content to let your profes what his way should be. It was. bid un your business, and you the tough way for him where will be better off in the long everything went into the busl- run: ness he was trying to create. "If your aim is to become one

of the bosses in someone else WAGES RATIONED Concern nevir fight shy of

responsibility.

"But whatever line you take "In my first 18 months as a remember that it is easier to credit draper," ise recalis, Tuake money by honest thinking paid myself 10s. a week." Yet than by trying to be too clever his first balance sheet showed proit of £1,600.

+

BILL HARRIES

Don't push ahead too far.

too soon.

Mr Judd collects

the big

BUT SOME OF THEM

T 25 Charles Street,

AM

house of the Cecils-there is an air of bustle. In a dozen zealous little offices the United Nations Associa- tion is getting ready for ita Annual general meeting which opens at Bournemouth on July 5.

names

MIGHT

by--

DOUGLAS

CLARK

BE

SURPRISED

ago Britain temporarily lost ta

SUL"

And what lag UNA been up to more recently? It has been peddling a broadsheet which dwells horrifically on the possible genetic sequel to H-bomb test and urges the Government suspend them.

to

What does all this do to Mr Judd's claim that he stands out- huc party pollties? It casts the

gravest doubts upon it.

First there is Mr Harold Maembon True, the role And in the centre of this plays in UNA is a humble one; brisk activity sils a remarkable he is merely a vice-president of man: the association's Director- its Broniley branch. But Sir Winston Churchill is the Asso- General, Mr Charles Judd.

First What makes Mr Judd remark national vice-presidents include

ciation's

Patron,

The ublic: It not Ds though his name was always on the lips of seven Dominim High Commis the public. Hardly anybody has stoners, Lord Salisbury and the ever heard of him. Ife is not

of Canterbury. Archbishop

And look at the three honorary ich spectacular; not

He lives modestly near Sution, in Surrey, presidents. They are Earl Attlee, His salary from UNA is a mere Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, and

£1,250 a year.

Sir Anthony Eden. One Social- ist, one Liberal, one Tory.

The impression which Judd and his arsociation mean But there is one thing that to convey is obvious. Ask Mr entities Mr Charles Judd to be Judd and he will vigorously called A highly exceptional underline it: "I have no party fellow. It is the success with views. I take no part in polities Nations Association have pushed which he and hla United at ali."

How do the faels square with their pretentious prospectus en Me Judd's claim Let

examine them. The fact that How has that conte aboul? Mr Judd's wife is a former Let us take a closer look at the Socialist candidate is her own United Nations Association,

Closer look

the British public.

Its full-time paid staff is smult -29

head- at the Mayfair

affair.

Propaganda

---

Mr

LIS

t

in your dealings with others quarters, another ten scattered But this at least may appear in regional offices. Its budget is elguineant thut longside Harries hus a word too, for modest

100. He was living al home with men and wemen-already his parents,

Its estimated UNA's propaganda_displayed at So he was able to the way to success.

on income in the current year is 25 Charles Strent lately Wes use nearly all his profits in grow-

£29,700, and every реплу is pamphlet put out by an extreme from private sources. Leit-wing organisation called the ing bigger.

"Don't be afraid to delegate chiefly subscriptions from its Union of Democratie Control, detailed responsibility. You C0 get along much more quickly if 60,000 members (varying from your mind is free to concentrate £1 to 3s, a year), an annual on the main chance."

appeal and sundry donations.

His methods paid off. After a few years he sold out for £8,000, because he decided there were blager chances in radio,

He followed the same polley there, and two years ago wold out a half-share in his radio and TV business.

As he looks down from his pinnacle of wealth, what does Harries dink of the chances of today?

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

YOU GOING

TO TEACH ME

YOUR MASICT

THE GIRL'S

WE'LL TRY

GONEL

TUB--

--TELLTUBI HE'LL--{

MURFER US-- FOR LOSING HER!

derived

Next, Sucz

On October 31 last year the executive committee of UNA came out with a public declara- tion. Its purport; the Anglo-

It is a wonderful thing, at the An innocuous little body, then, age of 50 to be able to say that you may think. But is the United you would follow the same paths Nations Associallon such a French Intervention in Egypt all over again,

small-time affair?

was unjustlanble and wicked. his Consider

the

distinguished Subsequently the association names which have been induced returned to the charge--at con- to lend their publio support to siderallon length-in iis quarter- it; and weigh up the prestigo y journal. Sunple quotation; which they have added to the "What shall it proft a country |propaganda_churned out by Mr If it gain the whole world' and

Charles Judd.

lose its own soul? Two months

2111 Harries, with unassuming air, says just that, NEXT SATURDAY:

Two men on the way up London Express Sérvice,

TUB.-THE GIGI'S GONE); THE BIG GUY CLOUTED. US--WE COULDN'T-

HELP IT--

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

FORGET IT, BOYS, WHO CARES? MANDRAKE'

ONE OF US NOW,

(There's More than Magic in

CADBURY'S

It is Perfection

Does Sir Anthony Eden realise what bitter attacks have been directed at him by this body of cent? which he is an honorary presi-

He cannot

possibly realise it.

Is Sir Winston aware of the way his immense prestige has been used? Of course not.

A lead

It Sir Winston and Sir An- thony-and their distinguished party colleagues who appear in UNA's List of Officers were now to take the very proper step of resigning their association with UNA, it would give a load to thousands who subscribe

its funds.

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It would make It plain beyond any doubt that their cash is helping to sustain a propaganda body which is hostile to the Tory party and to the best in- terests of Britain.

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