The New York herald., 1921-09-18
HELP WANTED-MALE.
statesmen.
SAYS ERNEST WHITING,

The Business Builders ad OF to-day
Is still talking about those 40 executive
positions at salaries from $500 to
$4,000 year. have always believed
that ''the proof of the pudding Is In the
eating" and inasmuch as Gordon Spark
was the young man signing their ad.
went over TO the Knickeroocker Build
Ing to meet Spark.
He IS one OF the men promoted from
the ranks to an executive position with
The Business Builders. Spark Is % years
OF age. He Is as fine a physical speci-
men OF manhood you would want to
look at. There's keenness and earnest
ness about Spark that suggests action
every minute OF the day.
He was born In Northampton. England,
and came TO Canada In 1910. His parents
were very well-to-do and Gordon was
given good education. In Canada he
took course In Agriculture. Then he
came to the States. His first job was
Side Y. NJ. c. A. Then. using his agri-
cultural knowledge, he became a tree doc
tor. He doctored trees from Tennessee
to New York City He then became
for two years. he graduated to driver
OF racing cars. He worked dirt
tracks and hung up some records good
TO look at.
Then he tackled a chicken farm. Any
man who can make go OF running a
chicken farm Is the kind Of a fellow 1
like to meet. When the war broke out
Spark was assigned to q Job to which
he was best fitted. testing aeroplane mo-
tors. He started In as one Of many
testers and when the big fight finished
he was foreman of the testing plant
that had made the greatest record in
such work. It's some little job to thor
oughly test $50 aeroplane motors in one
month: Spark did It. Then he went
selling piston rings and from that hoped
into the milk business, and in less than
year tripled the business of the con-
cern. His partner in this enterprise,
however. failed to make good his prom
ises, and that meant quit for Spark.
He came to The Business Builders on
December 2. 1920. He gave the Job all
he had and as salesman averaged from
$05 to $T5 week. and In just 90 days
he was promoted to an Assistant Sales
Manager. and Gordon Spark has made
good. He thinks SO much of The Busi-
ness Builders that he has brought ten Of
his friends into the organization and
one OF them has already been promoted
to District Sales Manager for one of
the concerns being financed by The Busi-
ness Builders.
asked Spark what was the biggest
thing The Business Builders had done
Tor him, and he very promptly said:
They have made me satisfied with my
Job. They have stopped rolling stone.
and have further stimulated an ambi-
tion that was always mighty keen.'
Straightway asked needless ques-
tion. do you really like your job?"
And Gordon's answer was this: II al
ways liked racing. and this Job is race
every minute Of the day. It's a race for
prize that means my future and am
giving the job everything I've got because
! believe In my work. / love the en-
vironment and every promise that has
been made to me has been fulfilled. I
can so step farther. / have seen a
lot of promises made and they have all
been kept. not only feel know am
working in an atmosphere that has
brought out, and is going to bring out
the very best there Is in me-"
Well. that's some more pretty strong
talk, but It's the kind of thing q man
meets when he goes to The Business
Builders to interview any one from the
Statesmen to the General Sales Manager.
Men with an ambition and with a
VIII to Work can certainly find them
selves on the 18th Floor in the Knicker-
booker Building.
Jimmy Elliott's Business Builders are
without a doubt setting a pace in New
York City that has brought about a re-
vival Of business through confidence In
the ability OF men to achieve when they
will and where they are.
ERNEST WHITING.