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ADVERTISING SECTION. From$25 a Week to $3,000 a Year in 300 Hours The Story of Two Office Men Who Needed Better Salaries Two fellow-employes, one a bookeeper, the other a stenographer, decided that $25 a week was not in keeping with the high costs of liv- ing. With such a salary there was little pros- pect of giving their wives and kiddies any pleasures outside of the movies, street car rides and summer outings in the parks. They both decided that an income of at least $3,000 a year was necessary and was not too much to ask for their services—if they could GET IT. There was the rub. Each of them had a dif- ferent idea as to how he was going to “put it over.’’ On this one point they were at wide disagreement. Each was so convinced that his way was right,a wager was entered into between them as to who would be first to land a job at $3,000 a year or better. Mr. Bookkeeper’s plan was to put up a bold front. to ‘bluff’ his way into an important job —he was going to get there on his “nerve.” He “positively knew” men who were less cap- able than he, and they got into good jobs, he claimed, by pure nerve backed up by a little luck. He was going to watch the want ads’”’ and apply for every attractive position so long as he thought there was the slightest chance of landing one ofthem. Hescanned the news- papers day after day. After some several hundred attempts, and aided by the. fact that the war had made men scarce, he finally se- cured a position at $2,400 a year; but was fired and kicked out for incompetency after a week’s trial. He had actually put in an average of two hours a day over a period ofa year and a half, reading the ‘help wanted'’ columns of the daily papers, writing letters of application, telephoning, scheming, dreaming and hoping. in not one ease in tweuty did he even get an interview. All his efforts were for NOTHING; nothing but another twenty-five dollar salary- We finished exactly where he started after wasting a good part of a year and a half hunt- ing jobs he was unqualified to fill Now, Mr. Stenographer had a different scheme—one that was practical and thorough- ly tested. It worked out even better than he had planned, He ‘‘putit over’’ in a big way in exactly 300 hours—spare time, too. They were “‘thrift hours,” he said, which can be saved out of the time men ordinarily waste in any 60 days of the year. Mr. Stenographer, too, went over the “help wanted” columns of the newspapers. He was attracted by the large number of really big positions open to competent men. He noted particularly the unusual salaries—any num- ber of them at $2,500 to $6,000 a year offered to Expert Accountants, Auditors, Oost Ac- countants, Comptroliers, Senior and Junior Accountants. “Why this big demand for trained Account- ants?”? he asked himself. That night he read a book, “‘The Awaken- ing of Business”? by Mr. Edward N. Hurley. When Mr. Hurley wrote this book, he was Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He claims that not one in ten American busi- ness men keep accurate accounting systems. They don’t know their costs. They are losing money when they think they. are making a profit. -He said in effect that American busi- hess men have got to WAKE UP if they are going to be factors in the competition for world trade. And American business IS waking up. In answering this advertisement it ts desirable that you mention this COMED OOKSEGOM That is one reason why Expert Account- ants are in such great and growing demand, Mr. Stenographer at once pictured that bigger income for himself as a trained. Accountant. That nigkt, in another section of the evening paper, he read an advertisement of an institu- tion offering to train ambitious men in the principles of Higher Accountancy under the direction of a Certified Public Accountant: as- sisted by a big staff of accounting and busi- ness experts. That institution was the LaSalle Extension University—the largest institution of the kind in the world, whose graduates are in demand in _every organization where effi- cient, well trained men are needed. Before Mr. Stenographer went to bed that night, he dropped into the mails an inquiry to the University asking for full particulars re- garding their home study course and service in Higher Accountancy. The very next day he heard a big employer say: “The most efficient and most rapidly promoted men in our whole organiza- tion are LaSalle trained.”’ Within 300 hours of only spare time effort given to LaSalle training from the time he read the advertisement, he had made of him- self an Expert Accountant with an income a little better than $3,000 a year. He had in- creased his salary $1800, and had accom- plished in 300. hours what his bookkeepiuy friend failed to do in a year and a half, LaSalle trained men can be found in the Administrative and Executive Departments of practically every large business firm, corporation and railroad in America. Large and quick salary advances come so regularly to LaSalle men that there simply is no doubt about the profits to be made from this training. A LaSalle member writes of 600 per cent increase, one reports 400 per cent, another tells of 288 per cent. Another writes that he has become an official of his company and still another has had four “‘raises” and is eligible to a quarterly bonus. These and thousands of other instances of. promotion won through this spare time training under LaSalle experts show how any man can literally push himself ahead in business. LaSalle training is the shortest cut to an Executive Accountancy position ever made available to ambitious business employes. To those who have had no bookkeeping ex- perience, it provides thoro instruction in Ele- mentary Accounting principles. It enables intelligent men and women to prepare them- selves from the ground up for important gen- eral accounting positions, including Auditing, Cost Accounting, coaching for Certified Public Accountant’s examination, Federal Income Tax work, etc. Call, write ortelephone forcatalog and liter- ature completely describing the La Salle eourse and service in Higher Accountancy and the opportunities in a profession that today offers a field as rich, if not richer, than law, medicine, engineering, or any of the higher professions. Find out what 300 hours of LaSalle training can do for YOU. Address, Dept.432HA LaSALLE EXTENSION UNIVERSITY, Chicago, Il.