The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-07-29
Candidates Urged To Go After
Big Game, But To Get Smaller
Things, Too
2-YEARS SUBSCRIPTION
GOOD FOR $4,000 VOTES
Not Too Late to Enter Contest
and New Hustlers Can Have
Names Published Later


Was your name IN the bunch?
Are you under II and have you
qualified for The Times big Shetland
pony contest with its grand total OF
forty prizes consisting OF ponies, busi-
mes substitute scholarships, bicycles.
watches and box seats for the Broad
way theater for ten consecutive
Weeks?
Have you nominated yourself or
had some one nominate you, or are
you allowing that miserable thief.
proscrastination 10 steal your yalu-
able time?
II you are not entered with our
nominees in one OF the eight districts,
make application at once and get your
start OF 1000 votes.
II you are entered, take of your
coat. II you have one on, roll up your
sleeys, utilize all OF the enthusiasm
and determination that you can find
stored away In your personality and
get and keep tremendously busy.
How To Work.
Get up early in the morning, eat a
good wholesome breakfast, and as
soon as prospective subscribers for
The Times are out and about. you
go after subscriptions and votes.
Tackle any person with "a capacity
to read. and the price, and play your
game as wisely and as vigorously as
you know how Answer every argu.
ment and stick for results.
II your prospect tells you that he
takes The Times, ask him TO renew
and help you with some votes.
After you get your man or your
woman TO subscribe for local con
sumption, suggest that The Times
would be a welcome daily visitor at
the home OF some relative or friend
who has once lived in Detroit or is
interested in Detroit. but is now To-
Gated on some other section OF the
worlds surface
Don't slight any prospect and try
not TO waste any tim con hopeless
timber.
Stay with each fellow as long as
you think he is worth staying with
and then hurry away to a new man
or new woman who is in need OF
the progressive influence and enter
tanning ability of The Detroit Times
Work lealously until noon, don't
eat too fast and don't eat too much
and ash soon as you can dispose OF
the eating nuisance, get back on the
job again with undiminshed ginger
Keep on hustling until dinner time
or supper time, the time for the even
ing meal. and then have good time
relaxing and indulging in a good feed,
but don't eat so much that you will
be .ncapacitated for more activity.
n
You haven't put in a full day.
Think OF the people that you can
see more conveniently in the evening
than during the day, and after you
are through with the third meal and
have rested a little and have picked
your teeth, go out and see II you can
rake In few thousand votes.
Work AS long In the evening as you
think II Is wise to work, and as late
as you think you can work without
robbing others or yourself OF needed
repose or rest, and then hike for
home.
Nothing to do till tomorrow"
Repeat the dose the next day and
the next and the next and the next.
Take a vacation on Sunday.
Anything that 10 worth having Is
worth working fo. IL has been said.
and 1t would probaly not be neces.
sary 10 talk very long or hard to
convince you that one OF those swell
and valuable Shetland pony outfits
is worth having
Go After New Ones.
IL might be easier to get renewals
than new subscriptions but remem-
Der that new subscriptions count
more than renewals.
II Is easier to clip ballot coupons
from The Times than to get out and
hustle for subscriptions. but IL takes
cash subscriptions 10 roll up big
figures in the election returns.
A new subscription for two years.
II chummed with by the cash, is good
for $4,000 votes.
Just let those figures soak In
while.
Think of it-35,O00,
Ii Teddy could have had enough
punches like that he'd been elected
last year
Get as many $4,000 people as you
can and don't take a man for four
months when you could get him for
two years If you would ask him en-
Enthusiastically and persistently enough.
Have You Seen the Sample Pony?
say, have you seen the sample
pony?
One OF the Shetland prize ponies IS
on the job-walking around the
streets from time to time, hauling
around a cart and letting you boys
and girls in the contest know what
he looks like and giving you a pretty
good idea of what the seven other
ponies In the contest look like
Keep your eyes open and your neck
rubbery 80 that you won't miss see.
ing the pony when he happens to be
near you
Perhaps or possibly you saw him
al The Times office when he was on
exhibition today.
Would you like 10 know about the
balance OF The Times herd OF eight
inasmuch as you have heard OF eight,
THAT was an awful pun, wasn't
itD
Well, the other seven are on tho
pony farm and will be In readiness IN
be taken and hitched UP and driven
by hustling and proud boys or girls
or boys and girls--as soon as this
contest Is over and we find out
who's who"
These ponies are all guaranteed 70
US as TO soundness and also guaran-
teed to be under three years Of age.
Not Too Late To Start.
IL Isn't Too late To get into Tho cor-