Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 6, 1923 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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7a " ARGOSY-ALLSTORY—ADVERTISING SECTION. The only man who saitid talk to the Superintendent OR several years, he was just like a score of other men in the plant—a good, honest, fairly capable worker, but only that. There was nothing distinctive about him or his ability ——nothing to make him stand out from the crowd—no reason, as a matter of fact, why he should ever receive a raise in salary. ‘Then one fortunate day he decided that the reason he wasn’t getting anywhere was because he lacked special training. He searched around a bit—asked a great many questions—and then enrolled for a home-study course with the International Correspondence Schools. “Soon. after I began studying,’ he wrote to us the other day, “we had a change in man- agement at our plant. The new superintendent said that only men who had really studied their work were in line for positions as foremen. a | certainly was glad then that I had decided to study in my spare time. I. C. §. course, I was the only man in the organization who could talk to the super- intendent in his own language. As a result, I was promoted over men who had been here from ten to twenty years. My salary has been increased 90% in the last ten months.” SHAT’S a true story of what just one I. C. §S, student has done. There are thousands of others. Every mail brings letters from men and For, thanks to my | women telling of promotions and increases in salary due directly to spare-time study. What are you doing with the hours after supper? Can you afford to Jet them slip by unimproved when you can easily make them mean so much? One hour a day, spent with the I. C. S. in the quiet of your own home, will prepare you for suc- cess in the work you like best. Yes, it will! Put it up to us to prove it. Mail this coupon to-day. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPOND ENCE SCHOOLS Box 2212-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 COURSES (Business Management [jSalesmanship Li Industrial Management [| Advertising [| Personnel Organization L) Better Letters [Traffic Management _ (Show Card Lettering LJ Business Law (J) Stenography (JBanking and Banking Lew Ci Busine CJCivil Service — L) Railway Mail Clerk LiCommon School Subjects Private Secretary OOHigh School Subjects Spanish [] French Onlustrating £ Cartooning TECHNICAL AND INDUSTRIAL COURSES (Electrical Engineering [] Architect L] Electric Lighting [iBlue Print Reading (J Mechanical Engineer {_) Contractor and at trea Lj] Mechanical Draftsman Cj Architectural | {] Machine Shop Practice i - [) Railroad Positions [LlGas Engine Operating — CL] Civil Engineer CL] Surveying and Mapping Cost Accounting Hcost Accoun (including C.P.A.) Bookkeeping Grenier oO Pharmacy [) Automobile Work {.] Airplane Engines Metallurgy {_] Navigation (J Steam Engineering (j Agriculture and Poultry CiRadio CF Mathematics DSI PEIE UT Hie cavov cc ictvdcvesvescccccecceccccees coves aeedoudglccaupucteaelevecscsresdi -soUUGerabeea Street 8.3-23 Address PPPTTTTIEEL ILL AAA aed tree ee eereere MUNA 2257 sss ivucvivsenctesecvecerecesdvacuuawereoupense PStRUO:.. vcqocuccabetstapeeerinadocs set eareaneees Occupation. ...........csccceesecceesesecee-sersussroaessussesmenies #8 seseres See Persons residing in Canada should send th to <i Interna- tional Correspondence Schools Canadian, In answering this advertisement it ig desirable that you mention this. magazine. (E©@)