There is a deep debt that you and I both owe to many very earnest scholars, men and women who had achieved too much fame to want to sign cigarette and liquor advertising who permitted me to study their hand­writing, prepare analyses, and then severely criticize them. They did us both a favor. They helped me on how to be a handwriting expert and as graphology in your hand becomes a tool to make your own life brighter they helped you.

Truly big people are always ready to help. It is the stuffed shirt who does not know and is scared to death that someone will find that he does not. is the only one who scoffs. Really big minds say, “If you have some­thing let us see it. If you are working to achieve something worth while, let us help you.”

This does not mean that all of the people who helped were graduates of colleges. Some of them were and had forgotten it. Some had learned in the vast school of life how little they knew.

Even “bad” people, assured of anonymity frequently helped. I shall never forget one scoundrel who, when he learned what I was attempting to do asked me to take his handwriting, and tell him the truth. He sat thru it quietly, and then spent the rest of the night telling me what had hap­pened to him in his life, the little points I had missed, and where I was right.