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     ´3XElicit\ is not a thing that a EXsinessman seeNs,µ he saiG  ´,t can onl\ 
cause me trouble.  And there’s a stigma.  If a man’s got all that money, people 
thinN he haG to Go it in some Za\ that is XnGerhanGeG  ,·m not sa\ing there 
isn’t a lot of stealing, but if you create economic development, you create wealth 
without stealing.”
     “I was trying to demonstrate a basic thought, that we should turn the lights 
off when we’re not using them, which people scarcely do anymore.  Money is 
mainl\ representeG toGa\ E\ Zriting GoZn figXres  -Xst Zrite a checN or taNe 
oXt \oXr %anN $mericarG or sign a pXrchase orGer or maNe a Gecision to spenG 
seYeral millions of Gollars in fifteen minXtes  :e Gon·t reall\ reali]e Zhat 
money is, how much labor went into the creation of that particular money and 
how much of our resources went into it.”
     ´, Zas holGing a meeting Zith aEoXt si[t\ e[ecXtiYes on the eleYenth Áoor of 
the Amerco Towers.  I had loaned someone a thousand dollars a year or two ear-
lier anG he paiG EacN this thoXsanG Gollars in Eills he·G saYeG Xp  ,t consisteG of 
four one-hundred-dollar bills and other smaller denominations.”
     6hoen tolG his e[ecXtiYes, ´, NnoZ that man\ of Xs in this room haYe throZn 
away a goodly amount of money already this morning.  And I’m included in that 
group.”  Then he invited them to help him throw away money.
     “Not a one would.  You could see how they wouldn’t.  It was in a sense insulting. 
)inall\ a secretar\, Zho haG gone to ZorN for Xs a short time Eefore, tooN a hanG-
ful of hundred-dollar bills and threw them over the balcony.  I threw the rest.”
     ´,t ÁoateG GoZn on the street EXt it ÁoateG oXt, Zhich , GiGn·t e[pect it to Go  
,t Zas a calm Ga\  7he last , saZ Zas a Eill that ÁoateG clear across the street 
anG onto one of the Eenches Zhere a laG\ Zas sitting anG it ÁoateG right into 
her lap.”
     ´, Gon·t thinN it changeG an\EoG\·s attitXGe  :e all tenG to EehaYe in Za\s 
that our environment tends to lead us to behave.  Being in my early teens when 
the crash and the depression came in twenty-nine, I still go around turning off 
the lights.”
Arizona Republic / January 23, 1972 by James E. Cook
The following text is excerpted from a later article 
which describes the events of June 1970 in more detail:
Arizona Republic / June 3, 1970

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