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ARGOSY-ALLSTORY—ADVERTISING SECTION . How “Modest Jim” the $50 Prize By WILLIAM LAWRENCE Author of “The Awakening” sé ES—I remember why they call the Big Boss ‘Modest Jim,’” said the Old Timer. “It started way back twenty years ago. “IT was in my third apprentice year when Jim Hadley came to work here—a quiet, bashful boy. His father had died and he was forced to leave grammar school and go to work. “He was never among the groups of boys dodg- ing the boss or watching the clock nor mixed up in anything that wasn’t strictly business. And he never fooled away his time with the bunch after hours, so we left him pretty much to himself. We called him ‘Modest Jim.’ “One day Old Man Adams, who owned this out- fit in those days, came out into the shop and tacked up a sign over the foreman’s desk. “It seemed that the Old Man and his designer had run into a stone wall or what was Greek to most of us kids those days, and was offering a prize of fifty dollars to anyone who solved the problem. He must have been up against it or he never would have asked our -Eunch for help. “About two weeks later, after the rest of us had forgotten all about it, the Old Man rushed out to Jim and fairly pushed five crisp ten dollar bills into his hand. He had solved the problem. “When the foreman asked him how he did it, he replied, ‘Oh, it wasn’t anything great. Only a fresh brain on a stale subject.’ That’s all he ever said about it. But do you know what that boy had been doing? He’d been studying with the International Correspondence Schools in his spare time. No wonder he got ahead! “And he went right up, and up and up, until today he is the Big Boss. And the rest of us are just about where we started. He’s still ‘Modest Jim,’ but he’s earning five times as much as I am. “Take my advice, lad, and follow along in Jim’s footsteps. Don’t wait until it’s too late to get the special training that is so essential to success.” Employers everywhere are looking for men like “Modest Jim’—men who want to get ahead—who are willing to devote a part of their spare time to training for advancement. How much longer are you going to wait before taking the step that is bound tc bring you a better job and more money? Isn’t it better to make vour start now than to wait a year or five years and then wish you had?P It certainly is! No matter where you live, the I, C. S. will come to you. No matter what your handicaps or how small your means, we have a plan to meet your circumstances. No matter how limited your previous education, the simply-written, wonderfully-illus- trated I. C. S. lessons make it easy to learn. No matter what career you may choose, some one of the 300 I. C. S. courses will surely suit your needs. This is all we ask: Without cost, without obli- gating yourself in any way, put it up to us to prove how we can help you. Just mark and mail this coupon. =—— — — — — — TEAR OUT HERE — — — — — — INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS Box 2186-C, Scranton, Penna. Without cost or obligation, please tell me how I can qualify for the position or in the subject before which I have marked an X: BUSINESS TRAINING DEPARTMENT Business Management LJ) Salesmanship Industrial Management OAdvertising () Personnel Organization Better Letters (3 Traffic Management Foreign Trade C)Business Law {JStenography and Typing OBanking and Banking Law (J Business Ienglish CL] Accountancy (including C.P.A.) OU) Civil Service L) Nicholson Cost Accounting CJRailway Mail Clerk LJ Bookkeeping LJCommon School Subjects L)Private Secretary CL) High School Subjects CJBusiness Spanish [DD French CJillustrating CZ) Cartooning TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT OELlectrical Engineering 0 Architect Blectric Lighting {)Blue Print Reading Mechanical Engineer Contractor and Builder ()Mechanical Draftsman Architectural Draftsman L]Machine Shop Practice CJ Concrete Builder (J Railroad Positions (J) Structural Incnginoer []Gas Engine Operating ()Plumbing and Heating Civil Engineer OoChemistry OJ Pharmacy Surveying and Mapping Metallurgy LJ Mining Steam Engineering C)Radio C] Airplane Engines CJ Automobile Work LJ Navigation Agriculture and Poultry Mathematics Street 1-10-23 QC UP ALON Gs aaa ce Tohaeav et aaa awa pwe DeSoa ee yee evan Wess ca See eee ee Persons residing in Canada should send this conpon to the Interna- tional Correspondence Schools Canadian, Limited, Montreal, Canada, in answering this advertisement it is desirable that you mention thie magazine. com COmicloooks