International Correspondence Schools: Going Up? or Down?

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On the Uproad-and Still Climbing Going up? Harry Gutman, President, Gutman Die Making Corpora- tion, Chicago, Ill. Draftsman, inventor, executive. sian immigrant reaches top of ladder at twenty-five years of age. Wlbur C. Elford, Elmira, N. Y. Stricken at 19 with infantile paralysis, ambitious youth becomes expert book- keeper and secures responsible position with Eclipse Ma- chine Company, Inc. Rus- AGE SO $6000 Wm. E. Hallett, Albion, Mich. Itinerant solicitor be- comes gas-engine expert and high executive with Hayes Wheel Corporation. William F. Albright, Canton, Ohio. Water boy becomes chief electrical engineer, United Alloy Steel Corporation. Unable to get his Herman Foster, Bantam, Conn. message across, former preacher accepts job at small pay in furnace room of Bantam Ball Bearing Manufacturing Company's plant. and becomes expert metallurgical chemist. or down ? AGE 40 $4500 James C. Davie, Budd Wheel Corporation, Philadelphia, Ра. I.C.S. student becomes assistant traffic manager at the age of 17. Earnings greatly increased. Enrolls for I.C.S. Chemistry Course J. F. James, Chattanooga, Tenn. Shipping clerk earning $1.50 a day becomes president and general manager, Mascot Štove Manufacturing Company at $25,000 a year. AGE 30 $ 3000 J. Maxwell Carrere, Neww York, N. Y. Successful adver- tising student becomes advertising manager, Charles A. Schieren Company. C. J. Musselman, Gary, Ind. Unskilled laborer becomes. assistant night superintendent, Indiana Steel Company, at $4,000 a.year. Farm laborer be- Carroll E. Miller, St. Johnsbury, Vt comes successful draftsman. Now with E. & T. Fairbanks & Company, St Johnsbury. W. J. Lilly, Tacoma, Wash. Engineering Department, Todd Dry Dock and Construction Corporation. Inventor Lilly Hoist Controller. Left school at age of 13. Richard C. Cox, Boston, Mass. Railway worker becomes millionaire real-estate broker. AGE 40 $1500 AGE 30 $1400 AGE 20 $1000. AGE 50 $900 PLEASE MARK ONE SUBJECT ONLY 39GL-2073 What Position Do You Want? International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa. Please explain, without further obligation on my part, how I can qualify for a larger salary in the position, trade, or profession, or gain a knowledge of the subject, before which I have marked X BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Private Secretary Bookkeeper Stenographer and Typist Higher Accounting Certified Pub. Accountant Railway Accountant Commercial Law Good English Foreign Trade Bank Accounting Banking Banking Law Business Correspondent TRAFFIC MANAGER SALESMANSHIP ADVERTISING MAN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER Electric Wiring Electric Lighting Electric Car Running Telegraph Engineer Telephone Work MECHANICAL ENGINEER Mechanical Draftsman Machine Designer Machine Shop Practice Boilermaker or Designer Toolmaker Foundry Work Blacksmith Sheet-Metal Worker AUTOMOBILES STEAM ENGINEER Steam-Electric Engineer Marine Engineer Refrigeration Engineer Gas Engine Operator CIVIL ENGINEER Surveying and Mapping R. R. Constructing Bridge Engineer Structural Draftsman Structural Engineer Municipal Engineer Locomotive Running Air Brake Trainmen and Carmen Roundhouse Foreman ARCHITECT ArchitecturalDraftsman Contractor and Builder Building Foreman Concrete Builder PLUMBER & STEAM FITTER Heating and Ventilation Foreman Plumber CHEMIST NAVIGATION Window Trimmer Show-Card Writer Outdoor Sign Painter CIVIL SERVICE Railway Mail Clerk Mail Carrier CARTOONIST ILLUSTRATOR Designer Common School Subjects High School Subjects Teacher TEXTILE OVERS'R OR SUPT. Cotton Manufacturing Woolen Manufacturing Pharmacy MINE FOREMAN OR ENG. Coal Mining Metal Mining Assayer Lumber Dealer. AGRICULTURE Fruit Growing Live Stock and Dairying Poultry Farming SHIP DRAFTING French Italian Spanish Name Age. State. Employed By- City- Occupation. USE THIS CARD BEFORE YOU LOSE IT.

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Going Up?–Or Down? den to him, On the first page of this folder your future is charted for you, based on the actual average earnings of trained and untrained men. Which way will you go? You'll either go up through training to a position that means good money and more comforts as the years go by, or you'll go down-through lack of training-into the ranks of the poorly paid. It rests entirely with you which way you go. You can make or break your own future. And now is the time to decide. Not next year, next month, but now. You can go up if you want to. You can get the training that will command a trained man's salary. The International Correspondence Schools have helped hundreds of thou- sands of men to qualify for advance- CHEER UP ment. Let them show you how you Remember this: can prepare, in your own home, for When Abraham Lincoln was a young man he ran for the Legislature in Illinois, and was badly swamped. the position you want in the work He next entered business, failed, and spent seven- like best. teen years of his life paying up the debts of a worth- less partner. No matter where you live, nor He was in love with a beautiful young woman to whom he became engaged-then she died. how little spare time you have, nor how limited your education, nor Later he married a woman who was a constant bur- how small your means, you can get through the I.C.S. the knowledge Entering politics again, he ran for Congress again necessary to success. The I.C.S. will come to you and train you and was badly defeated. wherever you are for mastery of your chosen trade or profession. He then tried to get an appointment to the U. S. Land Office, but failed. You will not be required to leave home, you need not lose an hour He became a candidate for the U, S. Senate, and from your work, you will not have to get ready" for school, nor was badly defeated. In 1856 he became a candidate for the Vice-Presi- compete in a classroom with those that got a better start. Can you dency and was again defeated. ask more? In 1858 he was defeated by Douglas. When you think of a series of setbacks like this, At least find out what the I.C.S. can do for you by marking and mail đoesn't it make you feel kind of small to become dis- couraged, just because you think you are having a ing the attached card. It will be the first step upward. Don't stay down hard time in life? when you can so easily learn the way to the top. Choose your future from the list, Then Get the Card Into the Mail TODAY Correspondence Schools go-8 "What Other Men Have Accomplished Through 1.C.S. Help, I Can!” Scranton, Pa. 254