ABSTRACT
The stage properties that go with a bully change as the people grow older. When one thinks of a bully, one usually sees a picture at once in one’s mind. It is a big boy lording it over a little one, or getting him down and sitting on him. Everybody recognizes what is going on immediately, pitches in nobly and beautifully, and licks the big boy. The trouble with the bully in business has been that he is not so simple and so easy to recognize. Modern business is done over a wide area, with thousands of persons looking on, and for a long time and with thousands of people coming back. Being bigger may be more showy than being right, and it may down the Little Boy, but the Little Boy wins the crowd. The great shops tried other ways of letting people know. They tried handbills, a huge helpless patter of them over all the city.
