The Argosy, October 1906 — page 207: what you’re looking at

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+ O you want a larger salary ? _ ¥ou reply, “.Of course, would a hun- What a foolish question!” s, but do you really : 2s re € you just sage > Fale rae Ra Bg gry man eat? want more, Or ae if they really wanted it? — — <-- aS © Aré you ware ifiem? 702s 2 Ww. ‘Scott was, for at 26 years of age he was earning exactly $9 per week. One lay came the realization of how foolish it was for an able-bodied man to be grinding away at that price. Then he wanted a: and to get it, enrolled with the ational | Correspondence Schools for ‘the Electrical Course. - para ‘ave him money-earning knowl- al most _ immediately he obtained é a position as” an electrician’s helper. He a “ From | that time I was steadily ad- i eaded: until, three “years ago, I established Be business for myself. ‘My present. earn- > se amps are abo it $4,000 a year. I attribute my “success oS the International —Corre- a spondence Schools.” = Mr. Scott’s address: is 56 Boylston Street, aes = - ae the time i cliiter rolled fee the I. C. S. til ~ signing Course, he was a pattern “weaver, ¢ wing about $9.00 a week. This “¥ 5 ie anawering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention THE ARGOSY. : Mills, Maynard, Mass., Building, 7 Water Street, : “The fact that I could advance through THE ARGOSY—ADVERTISING SECTION, rere MEN WHO WANTED MORE— AND GOT IT. BY VICTOR FORTUNE. _ The story of workers who grew tired of grinding away at nine “ail ten dollars a week and wanted | more, and with the help of the International Correspondence Schools were SSE > enabled to earn that number of dollars a day. “IT am now a designer in the employ of the American Woolen Company, Assabet and have increased my earnings to nearly three times what In my opinion the I. C. S. method is the best in the world for any young man who is trying to get ahead.” they were. Mr. Drechsler’s address is Box 851, Maynard, Mass. | MONEY-EARNING POWER Of course it is just as foolish to expect more without earning it, as it is to be satis- fied with little when one may get much. And that is the value of the I. Courses: they impart money-earning power —and with that backing no man need draw a lean pay envelcpe. Read what another Massachusetts man has to say, Edward T. Luce, Winthrop Boston, Mass.: the I. C. S. was brought to my attention when I was employed as a machine hand at $1.25 a day, and seeing a life of servi- tude ahead of me, I enrolled with the Schools.”’ Now, if anyone had told Mr. Luce, when he was getting the munificent salary of $7.50 per week, what would be the re- sult of his enrolment, he would scarcely have believed it. That in a few months he would become a draftsman at 100 per cent. increase; that he would be employed by the United States Geological mee at <= —=>* > CSF Gomichoo! @ <S) (EO) 119 tha! hey