Adventure, August 1917 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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“Six years ago he started in here just as you are doing. “Look at Him Today!” v Now he’s General Manager and makes more in a day than he used to make ina week. I'll tell you how he did it. The first week he was here he began to train for the job ahead by studying in spare time with the International Correspondence Schools. Inside of six months he got his first promotion. But he kept right on with the I. C. S. I tell you a man like that 1s bound to get ahead. Some day he'll be President of the Company. You've got the same chance he had, young man, and if I were you I’d follow his example. Take up some I. C. S. course and do it right away Use your spare time. Study. What you are six years from now is entirely up to you.” — ee Se TEAR OUT HERE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS BOX 2013, SCRANTON, PA. Explain, without obligating me, how I can qualify for the posi- tion, or in the subject, before which I mark X. (JELEOTRIOAL ENGINEER OJ Electric Lighting [)Electric Railways () Electric Wiring CJ Telegraph Engineer LL] Telephone Work CL) MECHANICAL ENGINEER CJ Mechanical Draftsman (_) Machine Shop Practice Gas Engine Operating C] OIVIL ENGINEER (] Surveying and Mapping (_] MINE FOREMAN OR ENGINEER Metallurgist or Prospector STATIONARY ENGINEER CL] Marine Engineer (J ARCHITECT Contractor and Builder Architectural Draftsman Concrete Builder Structural Engineer LL) PLUMBING AND HEATING CL] Sheet Metal Worker Textile Overseer or Supt. CHEMIST Name Present Occupation Street and No. LJ SALESMANSHIP [] ADVERTISING [) Window Trimmer {]Show Card Writer LC) Sign Painter LJ Railroad Trainman LJ ILLUSTRATING L) Cartooning _] BOOKKEEPER (_] Stenographer and Typist L] Cert. Public Accountant _} TRAFFIC MANAGER CL) Railway Accountant {_}] Commercial Law L] GOOD ENGLISH ] Teacher ] Common School Subjects L) Mathematics (] CIVIL SERVICE’ (] Railway Mail Clerk LJ AUTOMOBILE OPERATING C) Auto Repairing JL] Spanish (] Navigation L] German CL) AGRIOULTURE (] French (] Poultry Raising (J Italian City State This is the story of thousands of successful men. They did their work well, and in spare time, with I. C. S. help, trained themselves for advance- ment. That’s the thing for you to do. Whatever your chosen work may be, there is an I. C. S. Course that will prepare you right at home for a better position with bigger pay. More than 100,000 men are getting ready for promotion right now in the I. C. S. way. Let us tell you what we are doing for them and what we can do for you. “The way to find out is easy. Just mark and mail this coupon. It won’t cost you a cent or obligate you in the least, but it may be the first step toward a bigger, happier future. Don’t lose a minute. Mark this coupon and get it into the mail right now. COmicloo CO