Judge, 1918-11-23 · page 32 of 32
Judge — November 23, 1918 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising disguised as editorial content**—a common practice in early 20th-century magazines. It presents a testimonial for the "David M. Roth Method of Memory," a mail-order memory-training course. The article claims a man of modest means earned a $30,000 job (substantial income at the time) by studying Roth's memory system one evening. The narrative emphasizes how improved memory directly increases business success and profits. **The satire/critique:** Judge magazine, being satirical, likely intends this as **mockery of get-rich-quick schemes and mail-order courses** that proliferated in that era. The implausibly dramatic rags-to-riches story, the breathless testimonial style, and the heavy advertising component all parody the pseudoscientific self-improvement industry. The coupon at bottom ("FREE EXAMINATION COUPON") is the actual product being sold—typical of period direct-mail marketing. **For modern readers:** This represents early 20th-century consumer skepticism toward dubious self-help products, packaged as satirical editorial.
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How One Evening’s Study Led to a $30,000 Job A Simple Method of Mind Tae that Any One Can Follow with Results from the First Day By a Man Who Made Feeney, No More Togs a Decent + Ging HOPE tt » of Po I¢ at once with the niished the David M. Roth Method of Memory an of the course I found the ki W thirty minutes a the book the secret that I had been in . Roth had boiled 1 the very need of all my life barrier to busine make my mem up improve n the principl ory so that hod be F lance. And id manner. I had w the method the more accurate > way as the r memory becomes. Within an | bit for J that I could easily norize a list of 10 C eee nd call them off nd forward without set me thinkin hat kind of a thur ruck with the ease of it all ve? It was cas h seemed |i worried that the way same kind Mr. Ri requ ut it had with eve mut my memory He mov car an of memory, sk back on anted i to remember na memoran- ‘The rest of my Even then I Ameri i my reminder. of a reliable has not been?—by I previo ¢ vainly groy ual one among who have rea emory. My income will reach that ro Mr ink of as s | have found m; so quickly I can But the thing requested Every experience, every busine I knew tant ¢ and face is § nind, and howed that inste in se value in m I her. Of ex h f had to — rapid strides t can never be k dail refer to records that at some t of us put into the contents would be of ncerning th. me under my “leaky evious time pl he pail, the writ ated, particular notice amazed me. ‘The und n He showed that when memory joing about the same work self were fails, experience, the thing s regard. And this thou David M. Roth fact that I had been we all value m Whea Mr. Roth first , determined ‘to exchange! worthless. He to ne subordinate duties mit eed eto ¢ that a_man ts only ree years vod as his memory I couldn’ well a8 manent f whatever most other on crutches, So ¢ lishers dircetly to b retaining in |b thing to him as he ticle I read w easily you yes t ean acquire that they al Don’t The only va nce was being nt forgetti le thing hit me pretty hard. I about the subject from all angles nly ° I realized that what we les had been lost because the sale: is, if we read a book lling point th. ‘ould have closed the FREE EXAMINATION COUPON. I had heard ty See eee SO Many of our men w remember h, we have not added ad been unable to re at they Many dec housands Diriston of Bastson Education, Dept. 4011, 119 West 40th St, New York mide ihe thas thers of The Ind peneeat (and Harper's Weekly) didn’t remember all the ing on tae Soeed soe tie Rene aes pes experic and thus used poor judgment. I know its receipt or you $5. And so on, in everyt now that there isn’t a day but what the average busi- we do. Our judgment is ness man forgets to do from one toa dozen thingsthat “ome dependent on would haveincreased his profits. ‘There are no greater Address.........c.eseseevesees dour ex- words in the English language descriptive of business rience is only as great inefficiency than the two little words ‘I forgot as our power to remember. I had reached my decision. On the recommenda- Judge 112518 comicbooks.com