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SIGNS! 



Why Not Heed Them? 



TIIKKKS HuiiK-tliiiit: ilfuientnl down di'op In I'vory one 

 ■ if us Unit Miiikr 118 want tii try thliiBS out for 

 oumrlvrs. 

 For Inataiioo. every time I see a wet palut itliin, I feel an 

 Insane ilesiri- eoinlni; ovi-r me to toueli that palm and sci- 

 If It really li. wet. And BcniTally I do ao— and get a hand 

 fill of paint for my pains: 

 t'liauces are. you do tliu same tbiiipl 

 A bnnilfill of paint Isn't so had. We can wash It off. 

 Unt let's not let our slBU-skeptli'lsm, creep Into our busl- 



llt-HS. 



Some fellows do; as you know. 



I'l'splte our wnrnlne tlicin. ami tliilr fri.nli w:irMliiL' 



them, and thoir (rado papi-rs warnlnt; th<*iit a^aliiHt putting; 

 lip cheap, shoddy hollSfK. they niuHl nrr fur tlii-niH4>l%-rfi If 

 it's really as liail as it's pictured. 



So they put up the houses. 



Ill a vi'ry few years they see for tbcnisclves. 



Such scelnp cohIh thcin money. 



Von can't wash off rt-palr and upkeep expenses, and pro- 

 duction loss, like a handful of paint. 



.Now. we understanil. that j-ou believe In signs — as far as 

 yonr business Is concrned. If we're right we should surely 

 ^'et tofetber. 



Yon know wi' go anywhere for business. Or to talk 



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