Imperial Valley press., 1922-10-21
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which appear in each issue of the
Press. The other is by securing sub
Iscriptions or renewals.
No votes will be sold. There is alb
Isoluutely no way you can secure votes
except for coupons or subscriptions.
| You are not to spend one cent your
| self. You are to get your friends to
save coupons and to secure subscrip-
tions and renewals. Coupons and
subscriptions will win, and those two
| alone.
If there is anyone who imagines he
or she can enter and carry away big
gift by spending money, he or she is
ladvised now to stay out Unless you
want to compete in the same fair and
square manner in which the Press puts
on this great gift distribution, save
lyour energy for some other plan.
All On Even Terms
| Nothing but straight-out, honest,
fair methods will be tolerated. If you
are in earnest, if you are ready to
lcompete on even terms with everyone
else, and if you want to assure your
Iself of some real money or the big ear
then you want to participate III this
distribution of gifts.
More Votes At Start
In order to absolutely eliminate any
possible chance of anyone buying
his or her way to victory, the Press is
giving more votes at the start than at
the finish. AS the campaign progresses,
the voting power Of both coupon and
subscriptions diminish until finally
they are worth but quarter of their
Ipresent value. The final week is of
the least concern, for the votes then
jcount so little. The first weeks are
the weeks that count, the weeks when
coupons and subscriptions count the
most
1.-The early bird catches the worm"
It is advisable to start early. It pays
Ito be able to make up your mind quick
lily. Votes are greater and easier to
Iget at the start.
Start Early-It Pays
| You can get more coupons and more
subscriptions at the start than you can
when many candidates are out after
Them. At the start the whole field is
lyours. What you get early, you get
leasily. And the early coupons and
subscriptions count up faster--the
votes are bigger. The first weeks are
1.-THE best.
Make up your mind NOW. Enter
INOW. Everybody wins. YOU WIN.
You can't help but win. The more you
lido the more you get, of course. But
Everybody wins something.
The More-The Easier
u The more candidates entered the
leasier it is for you to secure the cal
! or the purse of gold or one of the bis
cash awards How is that, do you ask
1t is like this
If there are only two candidates
Irunning for the office of sheriff OF
Imperial county, the winning candi
date must have over half of all the
votes east in order to win. But if
There are five candidate seeking elec
Ition as sheriff the winning candidate
need only have more votes than any OF
the other four. In other words, vic
tory comes to the winner with far less
votes when five are running than when
1.-TWO are running. Yet the total votes
least i'll each instance NAV be the same
Votes Alone Win
| Remember this, too: The biggest
|prizes, as big as they are, have moth
ing to do with the number of votes re
lquired to win them. Only so many
VNotSo WIZ NC CdSl. IL IudhcS no ul1
ference whether the total vote is 100,
600 or one million. The ears go to the
lreaders in each district with the most
votes. All he or she has to do is to
have more votes than any other candi
date in his or her district.
Because the gift list is so extra.
ordinary, so big, it is probable some
lone will imagine that it will take "an
lawful lot of votes to win. No one
knows how many votes will be re
Iquired. No one can tell With q reas
lonable list of candidates in this elec
ton just a fe wgood subscriptions can
Twin the biggest gift. When this is
lover everyone will be surprised at the
lsmall number of votes required to he
the recipient of gifts. Then those
without courage will say, "Why, if |
had only know how few votes it took
could have done that Then it will
be too late
Profitable-Enjoyable
"Electioneering' in the Press elec.
tion will be most enjoyable as well as
profitable work. And it will PAY
iYOU BIG.
Decide now. Make up your mind to
lenter, Win. Earn real money. Earn
more money in the next few weeks
IMAM you ever earned before in like
tlme. Enter. Get in You cannot lose
Cut out or tear out the nomination
blanks in this issue of the Press. Write
IN your name, your address and, if YOU
nave telephone, your telephone num-
per. Mail or bring your nomination
to the Press office. That is the first
step That starts you off with 5000
lvotes.
Nominations may be made by any.
one FOR anyone. A nomination is a
nomination. You can nominate q
1rlend. But only one nomination
counts for each entry. No one is bar
red Men, women, boys and girls are
all eligible. Make the start. Let's go!
Short and snappy
This campaign will not be long
drawn out affair of several months
duration, 1t extends over a period of
only a few weeks. 1t closes December
~. Think of securing in about nine
lshort weeks gifts that would ordinarily
/ ~ l1p. tle,