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"They wrote about it. He will get two hundred and fifty dollars a month."

"Well, that's fine. He wasn't making but a hundred seventy-five at his present one," rejoined the father. "One of my daughters works for the Coca-Cola people in Virginia. She is a stenographer. My other daughter Pearl's husband, who was general manager of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Anniston, got her the job."

Mr. Williams said, "He had a split-up here, but he is now general manager of a Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Birmingham. You see there is only one general Coca-Cola syrup company, but there are any number of Coca-Cola bottling companies. Before my brother-in-law lost out with the Coca-Cola people here I worked as salesman for them for five years. The Coca-Cola company is a mighty fine company to work for. However, coca-colas are not as easy to sell as some people think, because the company sells on a strictly business-like basis, and some of the merchants object to the fifty cents a carton they have to 'put up' on each crate.

"Selling is my line though, and even though I lost out when my brother-in-law did, on account of the politics of the thing, yet one of the men in the organization, who was his political enemy, said that I was one of the best salesmen in the organization. Selling is meeting the public, and that is what I like. It is like baseball. I played professional baseball for eight years before I sold for the Coca-Cola people. I played in several states and was at Anniston for a while. I am temporarily out of a job, but I don't think there is much doubt that I will get back my Coca-Cola selling job soon. There is no life like 'the road'."

He left the room and came back carrying a child. "This is my ten months old daughter," he said. "How do you like her red hair? "

"I will tell you something else, " said Mr. Smith. "When I was a young man I worked side by side with Mr. A. C. Hamilton, 'Tobe,' we

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