Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — PULLED IN DIFFERENT WAYS [ARTICLE]

PULLED IN DIFFERENT WAYS

Ordinary Man on the Street Some* . what Puzzled by Seeming Business Contradiction*. . “Lite Is full of contradictions.* “For instance, about six months ago a life insurance agent got after me, and hounded me nearly tc death. I told him at the start that I had all the insurance I was able to carry, but hej kept right on trying to perssMe me that I needed more and, finally, in sheer desperation, I consented to, take out another policy. Then the com* pany’s doctor began trying in every way he could think of to make it impossible for me to get the Insurance. He acted as if I was voluntarily trying to beat the company in some way, And when I failed to pass the examination both he and the agent appeared to think I had wronged them by taking up their tjme.” “That 4 nearly as bad as my case. Several months ago representatives of a piano house got after me for the purpose of persuading me to buy a piano on the installment plan. Just to get rid of them I at last agreed to buy. Now they’ve got a corps of men out trying to dig Up proof that I never could or would pay for the’ piano if they were to let me have it. Business is a great thing.”