The San Francisco call., 1908-03-18
MANY START ACTIVE
| WORK IN DISTRICTS
Field Unlimited and an Even
Chance Will Be Given
Every Contestant

from the QulNDcI-- OF contestants
| that have already entered themselves
or have been nominated in The Calls
/! $4,000 prize contest, it is evident that
! the competition for the S4,5O0 auto
mobile, as well as for the three 1850
touring cars, will be keener than ever
has obtained in any previous con-
/ test. Persons from all over the ter
ritory are Fastening to enroll them
selves. The indications now are that
every one of the thirty-one subdis-
tricts will have at least one repre-
sentative in the field when the list is
published Monday.
! In all of the city districts even now
earnest young men and women are in
dustriously pledging their friends to
save for them the daily coupons which
will begin to be published Monday
From then on until the end of the con-
| test a coupon good for a single vote
will be published in every issue of The
Call and those who secure the prom
ises of their friends early in the con-
test will have an advantage over those
who start out later in the race
The first thing to be done by any one
who wishes to win an automobile, of
which there are four offered, one of the
81 scholarships or vacation outings, is
to enroll by means of the nomination
blanks that will be published up to
and including Sundays issue.
GET FRIENDS TO AID
| One of these nomination coupons
having been filled out and mailed to
the Contest department of The Call the
next step is to secure the promise of
| all your friends to save their daily cou-
pons. The nomination blanks count 10
votes each, but only one of them will
! be credited to any one contestant
Many already are hard at work in
San Francisco and Alameda county
while the other counties are sparsely
represented, Sufficiently however to
show that no district will be without
some contestant when the voting is in
full swing.
From inquiries by contestants al
ready nominated and those who pro-
pose entering the race for The Calls
$4,000 prize offer 1t is evident that a
slight misconception has arisen over
the division into districts. This plan of
dividing the field into 81 sections was
devised not to hinder the contestants
territory in which contestant is to
work. but narrows down the competi-
/ ton In any particular district.
| Those who are in district A, subdis-
trfct B. for example, have perfect right
| to work in any other district they may
desire. If you have a friend living five
| miles away from your home district
don't wait until some one in that dis
trict has pledged his aid, but do 1t
| yourself.
BEST FIELD NEAR HOME
One thing to be remembered when
| looking afar from your home territory
J is that to work close at home is less
fatiguing and probably will accomplish
greater results than spreading out too
! rapidly over wide field First get all
| your Intimate friends in your home
section pledged to aid and then, when
you have exhausted the home field,
broaden out. You will soon find that
your success in your own district will
broaden your acquaintanceship and
that your friends will be more ready
to exert themselves in your behalf
| While the daily voting coupons will
mount up quite rapidly there is an
other way to add to your score. When
you find friend who does not pay In
advance for his subscription to The
| Call have him contract with
you to take the paper and pay ahead
for as many months as he desires. This
will mount up your totals in the voting
amazingly, and so, 100 or 1000 votes
will be added to your score at clip.
Some of the farseeing among the con-
testants already have sent to The Call
that plan so that by the time the con-
test is fairly started they will have a
goodly total attached to their names.
SUCCESS GROWS RAPIDLY
Small success always brings sue
cess in larger proportions. If your
name heads the list in your district
4 people who never would have heard of
you otherwise will be ready to aid you
In this competition. In fact it might
we'll happen that all your success in
after life could be traced back to this
contest. The scholarship that you win
will be q stepping stone to higher
planes far beyond your present ambi-
tion, while to win one of the automo-
biles will give you prestige not only
among your friends, but among all
those in your district.
If you contemplate entering do so at
once. Below is printed the nomination
blank. The one who nominates the win
ner OF the. $500 automobile will re-
lceive as special prize the $3.50 dia-
mond ring. If you do not care to wait
to ask some one to fill out this blank
for you do it yourself. Then you are
in the race, and all that you need have
lis energy and ambition to win prize.
/ MAIL BLANK TODAY
/ If you do not know in what district
you live send the nomination blank
with your home address written plain
1y and when the list is printed Monday
you will know your district and subdis-
trict number. These districts, II in
San Francisco, 10 in Alameda county
and 10 In the other counties of the
state divide up the territory so that
instead of having to work against
4 every other contestant in the field you
will find only a few at the start with
whom you are directly in competition
but you can work in all districts If you
so desire.
i The division into grand prize dis
tricts makes it possible for a contestant
in any part of the state to win an au-
tomobile All that is necessary is to
stand highest in the grand district. An
other advantage of standing highest in
the grand district is that the contest
ant with the greatest number of votes
will have first choice of scholarships
4 AS these range in value from $1,000 to
$50 it will be seen that high standing
means greater value in the prize you
/
Last of "No Fire Sale''
I If a thoroughly artistic and reliable
piano is wanted and at prices lower
4 than others sell, you will always buy
here If YOUR desire is to benefit by