want to hire you.”
 So I said, “Young fellow, I want to tell you something. You can’t hire me.”
 “Haven’t we enough money?” asked he.
 “No,” I said, “You haven't enough money.”
 “We want you with us,” said he, “We want you as one of our partners. How does that strike you?”
 “Well,” I said, “I am the president of an aircraft company now, and I am satisfied with that.”
 He said, “You are only capitalized for a million dollars, aren’t you?”
 “Yes,” I said, “A million dollars.”
 “Hah,” he said, “That is only a bite of cheese. We intend to organize a hundred million dollar company and we will give you thirty percent of it, and we’ll keep seventy percent.”
 So you see, he had it all cut and dried. They wanted me to do the practical work and hold thirty percent of the stock, while they would do nothing and hold seventy percent of the stock.
 Then I said to him, “If you want some stock in our concern, we'll let you buy some.”
 He said, “I’ll tell you what I’ll do. Your stock is worth ten dollars a share and your company is capitalized at a million dollars. I’ll buy seven hundred thousand dollars worth of the stock right now.”
 I said, “That’s your old game of seventy percent for you and thirty percent for me, isn’t it?”
 “Well,” he said, “That’s the only way we do business.”
 I said, “I don’t want to do business with you.”
 He said, “Think it over; you know we can raise that million dollar company to a hundred million dollars and the people will fall for a big company quicker than for a small one and just think what thirty percent will mean for you.”
 So, I walked out of his office saying, “I have thought it over. I don’t want it.”
 Those big financiers made me a lot of such propositions while I was building up the aircraft industry. One fellow came out to Milwaukee and said. “The biggest financiers in this country have given me a contract to sign you to.” I looked over the contract and said, “You haven’t mentioned anything about how much salary, expense money or stock I am to get.”
 “No,” he said, “They left that blank for you to put in your own figures.”
 I told him, “Go back and tell them that Lawson has no figures for swindling finan­ciers.”
 He waited around there for two or three days, coaxing, begging, and with tears in his eyes saying, “They told me to sign up Lawson or not come back.”
 “Well,” I said, “don’t go back, and you will be nearer to heaven than you ever were before.”
 Financiers want the men they can buy, not the men they can’t buy. So they find the men of talent throughout the United States and buy and use them to skin the American people. Yes, use the best talent in America to