A POOLE STORY.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 November 1918, Page 3

A POOLE STORY.

The business instincts of the Ame- i rican are well known, and a good I story in this connection was told by I Mr. C. H. Poole, M.P., during his address at the Wellington Y.M.C.A. on Sunday afternoon upon the war work of the United States. .Some people, I he said, had ventured the opinion that 1 the Americans were a mercenary people, to busy in the pursuit of wealth to be troubled seriously about the war. But, if Americans liked to make money, they were also ready to spend it. Thousands of those forming the United States Army were drawn from the ranks of the business men. Mr. Poole said a story was told that at one of the big camps on the Pacific Slope one of these erstwhile men of comcmrce was doing duty as a sentry. Hearing a noise as if someone was approaching his beat, he prepared to give the usual military challenge, but his "mercenary" spirit got the better of him, and he exclaimed instead, "Halt! Advance and give the discount!"