The Wall Street Journal
Says of
The Human Brain
"A learned German scientist mapped out his life for education, for productive work, and for retirement and leisure at sixty years of age. He came to the United States, accumulated a fortune in medical practice, and on the day he had forecasted in his youth he closed his business, planned to invest his inheritance and his accumulated fortune with a trust company while he resided abroad and traveled, to the end of his days.
A banker friend protested and said: "Why not leave your money with your friends in the banking world? You may get it and sometimes 7% and 8% instead of 4½% and 8½% from the trust company." The scientist replied: "I have had too much to do in my life with the human brain to trust it with my future. Every seven years the cells in any human brain have changed. That is why some men suddenly go wrong in business or family relation or do-some unaccountable, or unexpected thing. I want my money with a soulless corporation where it will be handled upon system, and not according to the vagaries of any human brain."
The doctor is now reasonably safe somewhere in Germany. His banker friend, who was willing to handle his money, has been some time dead; but with the trust company in America the doctor's funds, principal and income, are safe, although the remittances through the German military lines may be somewhat irregular.
Except for the one word soulless, everything in the above is fine!
We commend it to thoughtful men, and invite confidential interviews on the subject.
Virginia Trust Co.
The "Safe Executor,"
1106 East Main Street,
Richmond, Va.  . 