Argosy All-Story Weekly, January 13, 1923 — page 117: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

By ERIC HOWARD MOS JUDSON, president and general manager of Judson & Co., was worried. Another firm, the Gen- eral Supply Company, had had the nerve, the audacity, the blankety blank foolhardi- ness, to attempt to compete with the one and enly Amos Judsen! Amos was worried, but he was still Amos, which is another’ way of saying that he was still fighting. The monopoly he had built up was the product of a long and victorious conflict; now that his monopoly was threat- ened, he meant to renew the battle. He was worried enly about the choice of weapons. “See here, Chisholm,” he said to his figurehead of a manager, who was also a suave yesser and a skillful passer of the buck, “‘ I think I’ve got it! Listen! We’ve been resting on our laurels for the past few years, secure in our knowledge that Judson Superfine soap was absolutely the best preduct that could be made and sold at ten cents a cake. We've been alone in the field, the only makers ef good seap whose business was of such volume that we could sell a quality product at a low price. The last people in the world I thought we had to fear—not that I fear ‘em!—was the General Supply. Good Lord, what de they know about good soap? Why don’t they stick to their kitchens and laundries? Why do they suddenly jump into the fine soap trade? Why, I ask you?” “Why, sir?” echoed Chisholm in his best echoing tone. He knew that Amos frequently used rhetorical questions, and he suspected that this was one of them. It was. | “Why?” repeated old Judson, running a nervous hand through his gray hair. “Why? Because, by accident or design, they’ve stumbled onto a soap-making pro- cess that equals ours! Because they’ve the — money to advertise it in a speetacular way! They’ve got something, right enough, and I’d like to knew what it is! I used a bar of their Violette this morning, and for the first time in my life I knew that somebody else could make as good a soap as Judson’s Superfine. We've got to find out hew they do it!” 579 COPMIE OOO <S5 Paya yal oid ols al Palyiita) yy Aye ‘he ie he Se Ws ey, SA t Pe dab Be ‘es " wi wyA VA MAN le ‘ f AY PO iid Pa ESE il) edd Aly rete ug PNM SEN SAWP A OL ANN, TTT Soe PATNA att : ares} iy. ®Aiiar