thousands of daily and large weekly newspapers in the smaller towns that have a difficult time getting photos of any news significance and in a small town or city one of the local citizens going abroad is always news, especially for papers large enough to have a society section. Could you do this? If you couldn't, male or female, 21 years of age, or 71 years of age, you might as well close this book and go down to the local super-market and apply for a job putting cans on the shelves, because I can think of nothing easier, nothing needing less capital, less training, and even less ability than this. § CASE HISTORY No. 2. On a trip I took into Czechoslavakia several years ago I ran into a young American from Boston who was rapidly getting rich in spite of himself. 1*11 call him David Johnson, which isn't his name but he's still practicing the following system of taking advantage of communism, Czech style, and if this got back to the Prague authorities they might attempt to put a damper on Dave's activities. Dave was spending some time in Vienna, enjoying the opera and devoting a large part of his days to such famous museums as the Kunsthistorisches. Between these activities he was also not adverse to spending an evening in Grinzing at a heuriger drinking the new wine; at least so I suppose from his activities in Prague in the beer halls drinking Pilsen beer. Dave was no long hair. As a change he decided to go up to Prague and made arrangement through one of the tourist agencies. It was a bit complicated because to get into Czechoslavakia you have to buy in advance with dollars, your hotel and restaurant tickets as well as all of your transportation. Through Cedok, the State tourist office, you are then allowed to buy Czech crowns to the amount of twice the amount of dollars you spent on your hotel and restaurants tickets. That is, suppose you make a trip to Prague and intend to stay three days. Your hotel and restaurant tickets, second class, will cost you $50 per day, or a total of $150. You can then go to Cedok and buy $80 worth of crowns (the Czech currency) at the tourist rate. With crowns bought at this rate some of the shopping bargains in Prague are amazing. So Dave signed up for a five day trip to Prague and took off.
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