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ADVENTURE | I ————<—<—— —- “You’ve Gone Way Past Me, Jim” ping in to congratulate me on my promotion. But with Wright it was different. ‘When I had to give up school to go to work I camé to the plant seeking any kind of a job—I was justa zoute fellow without much thought about responsibilities. They put me on the payroll and turned me over to Wright, an assistant foreman then as now. He took a kindly interest in me from the first. ‘Do well the job that’s given you, lad,’ he said, ‘and in time you’ll win out.’ “Well, I did my best at my routine work, but I soon realized that if ever I was going to get ahead I must not only do my work well, but prepare for something better. SoI wrote to Scranton and found I could get exactly the course I needed to learn our business. I took it up and began studying an hour or two each evening. “Today good old Wright came to my office. All day the boys had been drop- | “Why, in just.a little while my work took on a whole new meaning Wright began giving me the most par- ticular jobs—and asking my advice. And there came, also, an increasein pay. Next thing I knewI was made assistant foreman of a new department. I kept right on studying because I could see results and each day I was applying what I learned. Then there was a change and I was promoted to foreman—at good money, too. “And now the first big goal is reached—I am super- intendent, with an income that means independence, comforts and enjoyments at home—all those things that make life worth living. f “Wright is still at the same job, an example of the tragedy of lack oftraining. What a truth he spoke when he said today, ‘You’ve gone ’way past me, Jim—and you deserve to.’ Heads win-—every time!’’ Yes, it’s simply a question of training. Your hands can’t earn the money you need, but your head can if you'll give it a chance. The International Correspondence Schools have helped more than two million men and women to win promotion, to earn more money, to know the joy of get- ting ahead in business and in life. Isn’tit about time to find out what they can doforyou? You, too, can have the position you wantin the work of your choice, with an income that will make possible money in the bank, a home of your own, the comforts and luxuries you would like to provide your family. No matter what your age, your occupation, your education, or your means—you can doit! All we ask is the chance to prove it—without obliga- tion on your part or a penny of cost. That’s fair, isn’t it? Then mark and mail this coupon. [ =— oe see eee eee TEAR OUT HERE jet see oe Se INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS BOX 2045.B SCRANTON, PA. Explain, without obligating me, how I can qualify for the posi- tion, or in the subject, before which I mark X. ELEOTRIOAL ENGINEER (_] SALESMANSHIP Electric Lighting and Railways J} ADVERTISING Electric Wiring (] Window Trimmer Telegraph Engineer C Show Card and Sign Ptg, Telephone Work “ 3 Mechanical Draftsman CJILLUSTRATING Machine Shop Practice L) Cartooning Toolmaker BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Gas Engine Operating Private Secretary OIVIh ENGINEER Business Correspondent Surveying and Mapping BOOKKEEPER MINE FOREMAN OR ENGINEER Stenographer and Typist STATIONARY ENGINEER Cert. Public Accountant Marine Engineer TRAFFIC MANAGER Ship Draftsman Railway Accountant ARCHITECT Commercial Law GOOD ENGLISH Contractor and Builder Common School Subjects Architectural Draftsman Céncrete Builder CIVIL SERVICE Structural Engineer Railway Mail Clerk PLUMBING AND HEATING AUTOMOBILES Sheet Metal Worker Mathematics Textile Overseer or Supt. Navigation Spanish CHEMIST AGRICULTURE Teacher Poultry Raising Banking LJ Pharmacy Name Present Business Se Occupation ______-____Address—W——~——_5 Street | and No. Canadians mqy send this coupon to the International ™ pai Correspondence Schools Canadian, Ltd., Montreal, Canada Published twice a month by The Ridgway Company at Spring and Macdougal Sts., New York City. Yearly subscription $4.00 in advance; single copy 25 cents, - Entered as second-class matter Oct. 1, 1910, at the post-office at New York, N. Y,, under the act of March 3, 1879. ' (C@) ADVENTURE March 3d, 1921 > Se-yem, . - 4 SS a