By VICTOR FORTUNE

The Story of Workers Who Make Their Work Pay B`g Dividends-How They Do It.

Does your work pay?

and I can see even further progress

Not just day wages, but a good, ahead." round, stiff salary.

If not, why don't you make it pay? You see men about you who earn dollars where you earn dimes, yet they work no harder than you.

AN INCREASE OF 1,000 PER CENT.

How, G. A. Collins made his work pay would read like romance if it were not actual fact, Mr. Collins was a chainman with a Railroad Maintenance of Ways Department at the time of enrolling with the I. C. S. After a few months he was promoted What makes the difference? Luck? to rodman, and then to transitman.

Why don't you make your work count, too?

You can.

Not often. What then? In one word-training. To illustrate: A. M. Fowler, Springfield, Mo., was a journeyman pattern-maker when he faced the proposition that now confronts you.

HOW ONE MAN DID IT.

Not being satisfied, he resigned and went into irrigation work for the government. Now he has an office. of his own as Civil Engineer and, in addition, is Chief Engineer of a large, coal company. He reports: "My earnings have been increased during His first step was to enroll for a this time nearly 1,000 per cent.. I Mechanical Course in the Interna- can recommend your schools to any tional Correspondence Schools, Scran- ambitious and earnest man. The I. C. ton, Pa., an institution whose sole S. is certainly a wonderful institu-. business is to raise the salaries of tion." workers. Mr. Fowler is now General Manager of the Phoenix Foundry and Machine Company, Springfield, Mo., at an increase in salary of about 400 per cent.

In telling how he made his work count, he writes:

1,000 per cent. is a pretty fair return on the small investment re quired for an I. C. S. Course, isn't it?:

Mr. Collins's address is 717 New: York Block, Seattle, Wash.

Here is the name and address of another worker who made his work re.. "I must say that I think the Inter- turn big dividends with the aid of the national Correspondence Schools the I. C. S., Joseph Cain, Searles, Ala. greatest boon existing for the work- When Mr. Cain enrolled for one of ing man. In my own experience, they the I. C. S. Mining Courses he was a have been worth to me, without any Mine Foreman at $90 per month. exaggeration whatever, thousands of now holds the position of Mine Superdollars."

That is how one man did it. Take another case: Russel Cooper, 2340 North Penn Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Cooper was janitor of a church at the time he enrolled for the Electrical Course of the I. C. S. Within two years he became Electrician in charge of the Main Shop of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. He is now Superintendent of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Company. He writes:

"My earnings are now over six times as much as when I enrolled,

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intendent vith the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company, at a salary of $225 a month. Mr. Cain says:

"I know of no other method than the I. C. S. by which a man can advance so quickly and surely."

Advancement quick and sure, right where you are, is the record of I. C. S. men throughout the world. At your present work, without the loss of a minute's time or a dollar's pay, the I. C. S. takes you, trains you, and shows you how to make that work pay, how to advance in it, or how to change to

more congenial occupation. The $100 a week. The I. C. S.

C.. S. can do this because it a great blessing to the wage earner."" age certainly has a staff of 2,700 people and an in- What Mr. Norberg says about the vested capital of $6,000,000 devoted simplicity of his instruction is charto the express purpose of training acteristic of all I. C. S. lessons and you to make your work pay..

When Chas. E. Norberg, 1026 Al-cific Steamship Company, at a salary bany Street, Los Angeles, Cal., got in of $130 per month."

blueprints, and was appointed fore- and addresses with their stories in a

man at an increase of wages."

Note that the I. C. S. taught him not to work harder, but to read blueprints-trained him to make his work pay.

Was Mr. Albright satisfied with this advance? Being a true I. C. S. man-never! Hear the rest of his

letter:

book, which will be sent to you for the asking. The I. C. S. organization is so perfect that it reaches, instructs and trains these men in any State of the Union or in any part of the world.

Here is former street railway worker T. T. Buzzill, care of J. E. Henry & Son, Lincoln, N. H., who writes:

"Resigning this position (foreman), I entered the employ of the "I knew nothing about electricity Kittanning Plate Glass Company, of when I took out my course in the which firm I am now General Super-I. C. S. I now have charge of the telintendent, and my earnings are now ephones and lights for J. E. Henry & nearly 600 per cent. more than when Son, and my salary has been inI enrolled. The I. C. S. instruction increased 100 per cent. I would is so simple and easily understood never have been able to get above the that any man may gain unsĮ eakable pit work in the power-house if it was good through it." not for the instruction received from the I. C. S."

Knowing what he does now, how much persuasion do you think would be necessary to induce Mr. Albright to enroll with the I. C. S., if he had it to do over again?

Another New Englander, Harry E. Green, Waterville, Me., a former transitman, writes:

"I now have an office of my own, and have increased my earnings 200

WHAT WOULD PERSUADE YOU? If you were really awake to your per cent. My course has made me own interests, how much persuasion more valuable to my customers, and do you think ought to be necessary I have been enabled to understand to induce you to write and ask how

the I. C. S. can help you?

But, you say, these men are exceptions. On the contrary, they are cases picked at random out of thousands of successful I. C. S. men. The I. C. S. has gone to the trouble of putting a thousand of their names

learned otherwise. I will gladly cor- just a few of the thousands whom respond with any one desiring to the I. C. S. has helped to place in better himself by taking a Course." the stream of prosperity. They are Henri B. Bixler, Akron, Ohio, a trained to get their share, and are former mill hand in a screen-door getting it.

factory, testifies:

Are you getting yours? If not,

The

"I have advanced to Superintend-why not? It's waiting for you! ent of Construction of the Tri- The I. C. S. points the way, but County Telephone Company, and you must take the initiative. have increased my earnings 250 per cent. All this success I attribute to the I. C. S. I consider this method of instruction the best plan in existence for the young man who has his own way to make in the world."

A SURE AND QUICK WAY. The I. C. S. gives a man who has no regular trade or profession a paying start. Before enrolling with the I. C. S., Harry M. Moxley, 1427 Williams Building, Cleveland, Ohio, was office boy, farmer boy, and painter by turns. He writes:

first step is yours. The expression of willingness must come from you. Are you willing to write to the I. C. S. and ask to be shown how to make your work pay? Or are you content to sit back with small wages and let your companions, who work no harder than you, walk off with all the rewards?

Bear in mind, no man need leave his own State, or town, or work. Right where he is, the I. C. S. is most valuable. It goes to the man, stands by him, works with him and for him, equipping him to secure that due share to which his energy and talents entitle him.

"After I had gone a short way in my Course, the Students' Aid Department secured for me a position with a firm in Cleveland, and from that time I have had steady advancement up to my present position as chemist with the Cleveland Steel Casting Company. During this time I increased my earnings $80 a month. My experience with the Schools proves pay! that the I. C. S. plan is the most

Why labor for little when, with training, you may have much? Indicate on the following coupon the position you prefer. Cut out coupon and mail at once. Do not be a laggard in the race! Make your work

sure and quick way for any ambi- Here is a List of Good Positions tious man to gain advancement and increased earnings."

The Students' Aid Department, which helped Mr. Moxley to obtain a higher position, is organized specifically to assist all I. C. S. men in their efforts to make their work pay. Its connection with the largest employers of trained men in the country has enabled it to place thousands of men in better positions at larger salaries. During 1906 voluntary reports were received from 3,376 I. C. S. men who had been advanced in salary or position-only a fraction of the thousands who were advanced and did not report. What the I. C. S. did for them, it can and will do for you.

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OVERY now and then some sociologist discovers a certain labor Utopia, whose abiding place is in the Middle Western States. The said Utopia is a giant factory where hundreds are employed and where the workers are treated much as members of one big family. Hardly a newspaper or magazine in the whole country but which has at times commented upon the existence of the great Western factory, dwelling at length upon the fellowship that exists among all the

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men and women employed therein. So widely has this Western factory been exploited that the public has possibly reached the conclusion that it is the only model factory in the world. Such is not the case.

As a matter of civic pride, a search has been made of New York, and a mate, if not a superior, to the Western Utopia has been discovered by the World. It is a mammoth piano factory, or, rather, a series of piano factories, operated by one company-Steinway & Sons. The great factories of this famous old piano manu