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- cess. for the f ee A Simple Method of Mind Training That Any ,. One Can Follow with Results from the First Day By a Man Who Made Formerly No More Than a Decent Living DO not take the credit to myself | at all for attaining what my * friends term a phenomenal suc- It was all so simple that I be- lieve any man can accomplish prac- tically the same thing if he learns the secret. It came about in a rather odd man- ner. I had been worrying along in about the same way as the average man thinking that I was doing my bit amily by providing them with three square meals a day, when an old chum of mine, Frank Powers, ddenly blossomed out with every evidence of great prosperity. Naturally the first thing I did when I noticed it was to congratulate him and ask him what had brought the evident change in his finances. “Bill,” he said, ‘it’s all come so f quickly I can hardly. account for it myself. But the thing that has made such difference in my life lately be- gan with an article I read a short time ago about training the mind. ee cat ab wa =~ = 4 “4% - * . s Pek “Tt compared the average person’s mind to a leaky pail, losing its con- tents as it went along. which if car- ried any distance would arrive at its destination practically empty. “The leak in the pail, the writer demonstrated, was forgetfulness. He showed that when memory fails, expe- David M. Roth When Mr. Roth first determined to exchange his leaky mind for one that would retain anything he want- ed it to, it was because he found his memory to be probably poorer than that of any man he knew. He could not remember a man’s name 20 sec- onds. He forgotso many things that he was convinced he could never suc- ceed until he learned to remember. Today there are over ten thousand people in the United States whom Mr. Roth has met at different times —most of them only once—whom he can instantly name on sight. Mr. Roth can and has hundreds of times at dinners and lectures asked fifty | or sixty men he has never met to 2 Oye tell him their names, businesses and telephone numbers and then after turning his back while they changed seats, has picked each one out by ~ name, told him his telephone num- ber and business connection. rience, the thing we all value most highly, is worthless. He proved to me that a man is only as good as his memory, and whatever progress he accomplishes can be laid directly to his powers of retaining in his mind the right things—the things that are going to be useful to him as he goes along. . ““Well, I was convinced. My mind was a ‘leaky pail.’ I started in at once to make my memory efficient, taking up a memory training course which claimed to improve a man's memory in one evening. What you eall my good fortune to-day I at- tribute solely to my exchanging a ‘leaky pail’ for a mind that retains the things I want to remember.”’ * *£ * * * -# Powers’ story set me _ thinking. What kind.of a memory did I have? It was much the same as that of other people, I supposed. Certainly it never occurred to me that it was possible or even desirable to improve it as I assumed that a good memory was @ sort of natural gift. But I began to observe myself more closely in my daily work. The frequency with which I had to refer to record or business papers.concern- ing things that at some previous time had come under my particular notice amazed me. The men around me who were going about the same work as myself were no different than I in this regard. And this thought gave new significance to the fact that [I had been performing practically the same subordinate duties at exactly the same salary for some three years. The whole thing hit me pretty hard. I realized that probably hun- dreds of sales had been lost because the salesman forgot some selling point that would have closed the order. Many decisions involving thousands of dollars had been made unwisely because the man responsible didn’t remember all the facts bearing on the situation and thus used poor judgment. There are no. greater words in the English language de- scriptive of business inefficiency than the two little words, ‘‘I forgot.”’ I reached a decision. On the rec- ommendation of Powers, I got in touch at once with the Independent Corporation which shortly before had published the David M. Roth Method of Memory ‘Training. And _ then came the surprise of my life. With- in thirty minutes after I had opened the book the secret that I had been in need of all my life was mine. Mr. Roth has boiled down the principles of perfecting the memory so that the method can almost be grasped at a > the method the more accurate and reliable your memory becomes. In- stead of study the whole thing seemed like a fascinating game. The rest of my story is not-an un- usual one among American business men who have realized the value of a reliable trained memory. My in- come today is close to $30,000. It will reach that figure at the begin- ning of our next fiscal year. nd two years ago I scarcely made what I now think of as a decent living. TL. can never be thankful enough that I mended that “leaky pail’’ and dis- covered the enormous possibilities of a really good memory. Send No Money Mr. Roth’s fee for personal instruc- tion to classes limited to fifty mem- bers is $1,000. But in order to secure nation-wide distribution for the Roth Memory Mail Course in a sin- ‘gle season the publishers have put the price at only five dollars, a lower fig- ure than any course of its kind has ever been sold before, and it contains the very same material in permanent form as is given in the _ personal $1,000 course. Don't send any money. Merely mail the coupon or write a letter and the complete course will be sent, all charges prepaid, :at once for free examination. If you are not entirely satisfied send it back any time within five days after you receive it and you will owe nothing. : On the other hand, if you are as pleased as are the thousands. of other men and women who have used the course, send only $5.00 in full pay- ment. You take norisk and you have everything to gain, so mail the ecou- pon now before this remarkable offer is withdrawn. * FREE EXAMINATION COUPON Independent Corporation Publishers of The Independent Weekly. Dept. R-473, 119 West 40th St., New York Please send me the Roth Memory Course of seven lessons. I will either remail the course to you within five days after its receipt or send you $5.00. ore eewmwmerer eee ewer ere eee he glance. And the farther you follow Ady. 3-3-20 Published twice a month by The Ridgway Company at Spring and Macdougal Sts., New York Vol. : hoe Sap. ADVENTURE City. Yearly subscription $3.00 in advance; single copy 20 cents. Entered as second-class S ol. ue Ne <a _ March 3rd, 1920 matter Oct. 1, 1910, at the post-office at New York. N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. ~oeria O. : mame COMME OOS (E@)