The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-12-10
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Yes. I have been In the mail order
game for n long time. SO long that l
rate TO admit how many years Ola
Father Time has taken away from
me.
The years have been busy ones.
ave been In the HARNESS. since way
back In the early sos" when
started as errand boy for a little con
cern that sold merchandise over the
counter and occasionally shipped a
package to some irregular customer
who lived out OF town.
I have found Il profitable. My wages
finally we're transformed into a sal
airy, and the salary was increased
gradually at first. and then with In
creases md additions from percent
ages of profit from the business un'
til,-well ! have never had any com
plant to make.
The man who can make good In the
mail order game practically can name
his own salary.
Who pays the salary? Why. you
do, OF course.
Probably ninety out OF every n
hundred readers OF this newspaper
have sent money to a big mail order
house after reading one OF my bright
and optimistic catalogue descriptions
or after receiving one OF my carefully
written form letters beginning with
"Dear Friend"
Dear Friend-of course you have
been a dear friend. You have paid
my salary without n whimper, you
have built up for various biz concerns
which have become wealthy through
your orders containing CASH magni'
fcent buildings. You have bought
automobiles, bonds, stock, real estate
elegant hcmos. trips all over the
world. oceans OF champagne. and
everything else that the most exact
ing person could mention.
You have done all this BY sending
your orders with the money! TO the
big mail order houses.
know this, and you will believe
that | do know II after you have reac
what ! am writlng-my Confessions
OF a Mail Order Man"
My work has covered the whole
United States. For many years
have written catalogue descriptions
handled the making OF the not'always
honest illustrations, as you know to
your cost and chagrln: written attrac'
lively worded letters urging you 70
send your orders with tho CASH
gone into the market TO buy merchan
disc with your. money, which you
kindly sent In advance, and, In fact
have gone through The entire mill
from Office boy 10 general executive
and have n modest block OF stock
upon which you are paying me divt
dends right now. and which You vii
continue to make very profitable foi
me for the rest OF my life, unless yot
wake up and quit sending orders
with the CASH to the mail orde'
concern which issued the stock
No, q won't stop sending you
money TO the big mail order houses
for several years TO come. Some o
YOU will stop. when YOU begin to real
ize how you are opposing your owl
local prosperity and interfering will
your own prospects. but enough o
you will keep on sending your none!
to the big cities, so that will neve
know the difference.
Rcsides this. II I see that YOU d.
begin TO realize Just what you are do
ing against your own town and you
own friends and associates In busI
ness. and II think the country 4
waking up to n realization OF the ut
ter foollshness OF cutting your owl
throats by patronizlng out.of.town con
Germs. then I shall sell my stock
can get a big premium for II. Their
IL enough Of II TO insure me from eve
being troubled about money affair
again. You have seen to that, SO II
the classic words OF the modern Aris
totle. II should worry"
In an attempt 10 analyze my owl
reasons for writing these 'confes
sions" and exposing the whole
mail order game. and showing hoy
foolish II Is for the people In the small
towns to continue to stultlfy thei
own prosperity by sending their casl
away. am puzzled. Frankly an
openly I must admit that I cannot an
swer this question ever to myself.
have no kick coming. havy
been well treated. have boen vel
paid. | am prosperous.
Perhaps after all these years
have discovered q conscience.