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= ADVENTURE r The Letter That Saved Bob Johnson’s Job —and paved the way for a better one! OB answered the summons to the Chief's office with just a little fear and trembling, for.a lot of men were being dropped—a lot more were having their pay reduced. - But as Bob came in, his employer did a surprising thing. He got up quickly from his desk and grasped Bob warmly by the hand. ~“T have just received a letter from the International Correspondence Schools telling me -that ‘Robert Johnson of your office has enrolled for a course of home study and has received a mark of 94 for his first lesson.’ _“T want to congratulate you, young man, on your industry and good judgment. I am glad to see that you are training yourself not only for your present job but for the job ahead. “We're cutting the pay-roll. Until I re- ceived this letter, I had you in mind as one of the men to be dropped. But not now. Keep on studying—keep your eyes open—and pretty soon there’l! be a still better job for you around here. We're always looking for trained men.” ON’T you let the I. C. S. help you, too? Won't you trade a few hours of your spare time for a good job, a good salary and the comforts that go with it? It takes but a moment to mark the career of your choice, sign your name, clip out and mail the coupon printed on the right.. Yet that simple act has started more than two million men and women toward success, ' In city, town and country all over the world, men are living contented lives in happy, prosperous homes—because they clipped this coupon, _ In every line of business and industry; in shops, stores, offices, factories, in mines and on railroads, men are holding important positions and receiving splendid salaries—because they clipped this coupon. Clerks have become sales, advertising and busi- ness managers; mechanics have become foremen, superintendents and engineers; carpenters have ADVENTURE May 10th, 1922°> Ss , a become architects and contractors; men and boys have risen from nothing to places of responsibility —because they clipped this coupon. You have seen it in almost every magazine you have looked at for years. And while you have been passing it by more than ten thousand men and women each month have been making it the first stepping stone to real success in life, Will you still turn away from Opportunity? Can you still go on, putting in your days at the same grind, getting the same pay envelope with the same insufficient sum, when such a little thing can be the means of changing your whole life? : You can have the position you want in the work you like best, a salary that will give you and your family the home, the comforts, the little luxuries you would like them to have. 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Yearly subscription $6.00 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 G om Volume 34 (aye Number 4 ibooks.com