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ADVENTURES IN

IN BUSINESS. AND STOCK EXCHANGE

Why Lottery Tickets Sell

Almost everybody wants, money, But not everybody wants to make it. It is surprising how many people are not willing to give value for money. They dream work for it.

That is why sweepstake and lot- tery tickets sell ke hot cakes. The casinos and the bookies dó a loaring trade,

And many a dreamer goes to the Stock Exchange for a contract note and doesn' wake until the bottom has fallen out of the market.

I always wanted to make money, writes Sydney Moseley in the "Sun- day Chronicle." But only because the things I wanted more an money are unattainable without it. Yet my tastes are simple-the sunshine and the sea and freedom of body and spirit.

As a buy I did not consider. the the ethics of gambling at all. What impressed me was that my bro- thers did not seem to get anything approaching value for money.

un the contrary, their gambling was a constant course of anxiety to them. There seemed to be a heartache in every thrill. They al- ways looked as though they ex- pected the worst and their expecta- won was seldum disappoldtea.

If they nad wagered no more than they could afford they might nave got more fun out of gambling. But then that is not gambling at

At different times I have made all, as I discovered later on in u and lost large sums of money-different field of enterprise. small fortunes" in the ordinary sense of the word.

I have been a very big operator on the stock markets. I do not be and I do not play cards, but if people said of me that I have been 4 great "gambler" I should not quarrel with their description.

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Ad Yet the founnation of my fortune has been hard work.

I have written more than a score books and many millions of words for the Press. I earned my living with my per and something more than I spent. That unspent margin alone enabled me to ad- venture in business and the Stock Exchange.

NO STRANGER TO POVERTY There were more and perhap better reasons for me to. Vant money than for most

people. Poverty was no stranger to me in my childhood.

My mother was left a widow in very straitened circumstances when I was a little boy. Even at the age of 12 my heart was filled with the resolve to help her.

But although my devoted mother died long before I had made Eny fortune at all, that resolve streng- thened my purpose all through life.

After I had tasted both success and fallure I began to understand that there is adventure and even romance in moneymaking.

I learned the thrill of a big gam- ble. I knew the keen zest of back- ing my own opinion against the World. I loved the battle for its own sake.

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At the time I simply observed and, wondering, I went to my moż ther and said: "My brothers are foolish to bet like they do. I shall never bet at all."

I never have. But I have won and lost many fortunes ca the !Stock Exchange. I have gambled to the last limit of my resources In several business ventures. And

I have often won or lost. in an hour more than any of my brothers did in a lifetime.

At the time I received the first tip chat lured me into these ad- ventures Anance.

I knew nothing about

I had heard of Consola and scarcely realised that there were other stocks and shares, to be dealt in.

My savings, such as they were, went into the Post Office Savings Bank. At last, by sheer thrift. I had an imposing credit balance. 1 had passed the first milestone on the road to wealth. I had secured the first hundred pounds.

FIRST "TIP" A WINNER When, therefore, I had this £100 in the bank, a small footing in journalism, an inquiring mind, and a natural inclination to try any thing once. I got my first tip.

A relative of mine, co-director. in a big industrial concern, sug- rested that I should put a 1ew pounds in a new and small con- cern in which he was interested.

"The shares are a bit below par. my boy," said he, “but I fancy they'll recover when the figures for this year's earnings come out. In fact, I think there's a small profit

The first step is the hardest. to be made." Most men, starting from a finan-2 cial zero, have a tougher struggle to put the first hundred pounds in the bank than afterwards to in- crease it to a thousand.

This is the story of my own ad- ventures in reaching The first £100,000." I doubt whether it will have any sequel, for I have no wish to be a millionaire. Perhaps I am one of the few men who know when they have enough.

“SUNK" IN A WELL OF OIL

I knew what below par" meant. But I didn't know mach else about, stocks and shares. I had no idea how one bought them.

On the other and, I knew my relative was a sound business man and if he thought there was, a profit to be made that was good enough for me.

"Thanks," said I. "I'd like to put a few pounds into this business a you suggest, but how do I go about It?"

"How much do you want to in- vest?" he said.

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It was a lucky "tip" that started me on the perilous paths of fin-" That frightened me, but, trying ancial adventure and an unlucky to be casual, I said: "Oh, I don't one that tipped me and my small know; say a hundred!" capital into a bottomless well of "No; we'll say twenty-Ave," he qu-where the capital is still sunk. retorted. "You can leave it to me. Financial "tips" have this in I'll buy the shares for you, and it common with racing, ones: they they should go wrong I shall cer- are almost as likely to be wrong tainly come on you for the dif as they are to be right and the ference.” ones you don't take are usually the ones which come off. If you never take any of them you will probably

■ave money.

But perhaps there is such a thing as beginner's luck-what might be

Within the month my relative sent me a cheque for £3 14n. 4d. His letter said that he had taken a "small profit and that that was my share after paying expenses.

No cheque I had ever received

called "the devil's own luck," for gave me such satisfaction.

he probably uses it to bait the trap.

"Can you beat that?" I asked. myself delightedly. "Bere are mi- It was one little stroke of luck tons of poor, stupid, unimagina-" which turned me, who had pro- tive people stewing and sweating mised never to back a horse or to play cards for money, into a big ger gambler than my brothers, who did both with unprofitable per sistency.

scrape a living when there's money to be picked up like this!" I wished I Had been allowed to invest the full hundred. Then I should have made. £14 176. 40,1 My three brothers were all keen very likely, I thought, my relative punters and sometimes lost the had invested a thousand pounds. rent money on Epsom "certainties." Or more than that. What escaped the Turf was fre- quently lost at cards.

Why, If a man had had some They knew all about horses and capital and a little pluck, there they lost. They knew all about was a fortune to be made. I be- cards-faro, banker. Bragg, pon-

gan to bulld magnificent dream toon, and other strangely-named castles. It was every exciting. games and still they lost They That first “tip”--that first “win- ner, st it may be so termed-ex-

died poor men.

of it, but they won't

ercised a tremendous psychological effect upon me. I had been bent on saving money; now I began to think almost entirely of making it.

I had played my first big hand in the game of high finance before I had ever dealt with a broker to my own name and long, before I knew that "contango" was a fe- verish dance exclusively perform- ed to the city's orchestra.

THE ART OF SAVING

Not long after, my paper crashed. It ceased publication and ceased too, for the time being. my Stock Exchange ambitions.

I' sank my savings in a small agency venture, "Sank" is the right word.

My savings had gone West." so I went East an became, in my twenty-second year. a full-blown" editor in Cairo.

There, in my trunk, I kept "a black bag and, whenever I had a pound to spare. I dropped it into this bag. Never once, until I fin- ally left Egypt, did I ever go to that bag to take anything out.

I don't belleve any man ever bé- On the other hand, I doubt whe- came very rich simply by saving.

ther any great fortune was ever made by anybody who has never learned to save.

And the whole secret of saving is to put what you can afford away and then-resolutely-forget it.

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