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# Analysis This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or political cartoon content**. It's a full-page ad for the American Efficiency Foundation promoting "Purinton Efficiency"—a self-help/business improvement system created by Edward Earle Purinton. The ad uses motivational copy ("YOU CAN!") and testimonials from prominent figures (judges, business leaders, educators) to tout Purinton's three Master Counsel Volumes and personal efficiency test chart. The narrative describes an unnamed man ("Mr. W.") who analyzed himself, improved his work output by 300%, and achieved success. This reflects early 20th-century American enthusiasm for **scientific management and self-improvement systems**—a period when efficiency gurus marketed promise-filled programs to ambitious businessmen. The tone is earnest promotional material rather than satirical commentary.

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YOU CAN! You can do tt—right is might You can win your hardest fight Through Purinton Efficiency HAT this world-famous authority has done for others he can do for y You can speedily increase your income. You can do more and better work and save time and effort. You can promote your health and leadership and create new opportunities for yourself. You can develop your man and will power and live at your best. Take Mr. W, for example, who sought Mr. Purinton’s counsel. He has increased by about 500 per cent his daily output of work, his optimism and will power, his health and finances. How did he de First, he analyzed himself. For the first time he knew what he wanted to do, what he wanted to be, what he wanted to have in life. Then he went boldly at the attainment of his ambi- tion. He studied his possibilities—physical, mental and spiritual. He learned that his ambitions lay within reach of his natural gifts. Finding that he was out of gear in certain ways—he set out to repair his faulty machinery. He made the most of his job. He learned to save two hours a day. He talked with men higher up. He studied and tried every conceivable way of im- proving his work. He was always planning his line of advance. Every opening higher up found him prepared to fill it ably. He changed his living habits and increased his daily output of energy about 200 per cent. He stopped being a pessimist and grumbler and be- came a most cheerful man. Having grown friendly- minded, he attracted a host of new friends. He pros- pered. He advanced. He became a leader. He de- veloped courage. Mr. W was not an exceptional man by any means. He was just average to begin with. He was making $15 a week. Today he is probably without a rival in his chosen field—and his name is known throughout the business world. You can do the same. Great Leaders Point the Way The National Efficiency Movement, as at present established, inaugurated by Edward Earle Purinton and his associates, and ten National leaders of Efficiency: Frank A. Vanderlip, of the National City Bank of New York; Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the United States Steel Corporation; John Wanamaker, Merchant and Former Postmaster General; F. C. Hendershott, Founder of the National Association of Corporation Schools; John Purroy Mitchel, Former Mayor of New York City; Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University; Louis D. Brandeis, Justice of the United States Supreme Court; William R. Willcox, Ex-president of the Efficiency Soci Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, Former Director of Physical Education in the New York Public Schools. Mr. Purinton has been counselor and mentor for men and women in every walk of life—bankers, business and professional men, educators, manufacturers and heads of large corporations, the man inthe shop and the office. All have something to learn from this great inspirational counselor. More than 2,000 schools and colleges also use his writings as text books. The Purinton secrets of how you can achieve are all told in the three Master Counsel Volumes, EFFICIENT LIVING, TRIUMPH OF THE MAN WHO ACTS and PERSONAL EFFICIENCY IN BUSINESS. Then, with the wonderful PURINTON PERSONAL EFFICIENCY TEST CHART, used by thousands successfully, by which you can speedily analyze your- self and rate your efficiency in actual percentages, to- gether with the valuable privilege of CORRESPOND- ENCE CONSULTATION on your chief personal problems, you have the keys that will open the door of a new world of wealth, health and happiness. Send No Money This introductory offer we now make you of $5.00 is because of our full appreciation of present day money conditions. The three PURINTON MASTER COUNSEL VOLUMES, COPYRIGHTED TEST CHART and CONSULTATION SERVICE are worth many times the price of $5.00. We want to be of real service to you. Fill out and mail this coupon, or write American Efficiency Foundation Canadian Pacific Building 342 MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK CITY American Efficiency Foundation Canadian Pacific Building 342 Madison Ave., New York City You may send me the three Purinton Master Counsel Volumes, Personal Test Chart and Consultation agreement at your risk. I agree to remit $5.00 or remail to you in five days. Name. AppREss,...... UL retg-at comicbooks.com N ous ¢ sten