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ADVENTURE How “Modest Jim” the $50 Prize By WILLIAM LAWRENCE Author of “The Awakening” “6 ES—I remember why they call the Big Boss ‘Modest Jim,” said the Old Timer. “It started way back twenty years ago. “I was in my third apprentice year when Jim Hadley came to work here—a quiet, bashful boy. His father had died and he was forced to leave grammar school and go to work. “He was never among the groups of boys dodg- ing the boss or watching the clock nor mixed up in anything that wasn’t strictly business. And he mever fooled away his time with the bunch after hours, so we left him pretty much to himself. We called him ‘Modest Jim.’ “One day Old Man Adams, who owned this out- fit in those days, came out into the shop and tacked up a sign over the foreman’s desk. “It seemed that the Old Man and his designer had run into a stone wall or what was Greek to most of us kids those days, and was offering a prize of fifty dollars to anyone who solved the problem. He must have been up against it or he never would have asked our bunch for help. “About two weeks later, after the rest of us had forgotten all about it, the Old Man rushed osut to Jim and fairly pushed five crisp teri dollar bills into his hand. He had solved the problem. “When the foreman asked him how he did it, he replied, ‘Oh, it wasn’t anything great. Only a fresh brain on a stale subject.’ That’s all he ever said about it. But do you know what that boy had been doing? He’d been studying with the International Correspondence Schools in his spare time. No wonder he got ahead! “And he went right up, and up and up, until today he is the Big Boss. And the rest of us are just about where we started. He’s still ‘Modest Jim,’ but he’s earning five times as much as I am. “Take my advice, lad, and follow along in Jim’s footsteps. Don’t wait until it’s too late to get the special training that is so essential to success.” Employers everywhere are looking for men like “Modest Jim’—men who want to get ahead—who are willing to devote a part of their spare time to training for advancement. How much longer are you going to wait before taking the step that is bound to bring you a better job and more money? Isn’t it better to make wait a year or five years and then wish you had? It certainly is! your start now than to No matter where you live, the I. C. S. will come to you. No matter what your handicaps or how small your means, we have a plan to meet your circumstances. No matter how limited your previous education, the simply-written, wonderfully -illus- trated I. C. S. lessons make it easy to learn. No matter what career you may choose, some one of the 300 I. C. S. courses will surely suit your needs. This is all we ask: Without cost, without obli- gating yourself in any way, put it up to us to prove how we can help you. coupon. Just mark and mail this an ee ee ae Ge TEAR OUT HERE cms co oe we we oe INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS BOX 2026-C SCRANTON, PA. Without cost or obligation please explain how I can qualify for the position, or in the subject before which I have marked an BB ‘in the list below: 0 ELECTRICAL ENGINEER LJ Electric Lighting & Railways Electric Wiring Telegraph Engineer C) Telephone Work MECHANICAL ENGINEER Mechanical Draftsman Machine Shop Practice Toolmaker Gas Engine Operating OJ) CIVIL ENGINEER Surveying and Mapping MINE FOREMAN or ENG’R STATIONARY ENGINEER Marine Engineer ARCHITECT Contractor and Builder (J Architectural Draftsman () Concrete Builder [1] Structural Engineer LL) PLUMBING & HEATING Sheet Metal Worker SALESMANSHIP ADVERTISING Show Card & Sign Ptg. Railroad Positions ILLUSTRATING Cartooning Private Secretary Business Correspondent [LJ BOOKKEEPER Li Stenographer & Typist Lj Certified Public Accountant (10 TRAFFIC MANAGER L) Railway Accountant (J Commercial Law OJ GOOD ENGLISH (1 Common School Subjects CL) CIVIL SERVICE { Railway Mail Clerk CL] AUTOMOBILES (J Mathematics UJ Navigation : BUSINESS MANAGEM’T Textile Overseer or Supt. AGRICULTURE QO) CHEMIST Poultry Raising ( Spanish (CJ Pharmacy O BANKING CJ Teacher Name noinevinia s eeusieeeess OOF FTESEE NS 503000090080 300000000000 200 cnc veces cecess voces meneenaeeereeseeeenvens 7 1-21 Street and No 2 OPERFSHOSG 68988550 59390088O00008000F88SEE88 SOSOSOTP SSasehosevereaveneeeses ¢seeanee 2006300} CILY.....cecercecsnseneeves secccececess OBL... ccccscecscsenceesres soreeateN OccuUPAtlON....rccrccoreers Pesvevosee seeneseoes @esene o20000 9B BOOP FOGGHN OE HHNODDVOOHHOHONE ORG OCO OS RENIeCOR SL ET EHD? F! 200d Kindly mention Adventure in writing to advertisers or visiting your dealer, COmiclooks.cO