Evening star., 1923-08-01
SUCCESS is
TOO EASY
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.

Glancing through one of the popu-
lar magazines, ! am impressed by the
fact as apparent in the advertising
columns, that about the easiest thing
in the world to do is to succeed.
One full-page advertisement is
headed From $25 a week to $4,000
a year. A young gentleman whose
photograph is displayed tells us how
he became a high-salaried business
man and did this entirely in his spare
time and without capital or expert
ence. II you will sign on the dotted
line the little coupon down at the
corner Of the page and send 1t TO
Whooffenpiff & Co. Inc. Dept. s36,
somewhere on Broadway. New York.
you will become wealthy by return
mail. just as easy as turning over
your hand Remember that you send
no money. You take no risk what
ever. SO mail the coupon at once
now-today, Step out of the time
clock line. Climb on and up TO big
ger and better things. Mr.. George
w. Raspberry, who smiles out at you
from the page. did it-why not you?
Turning over the leaf, l discover
abundant other opportunities. most of
them described in very hne print
headed with enormous capital letters.
see that ! can become a bookkeeper
or d certified public accountant, that
some of the Peckinpaw Institute
graduates earn over $4,000 a year and
that demand for them greatly exceeds
the supply.
/ am also informed that modern
photography is AN uncrowded field,
huge vacant lot, as it were, and that
nit ~ A.
Kokomo. Ind, where the Transconti-
mental Institute is located, l can find
out all about ii. This institute may
be in small back room over Bar
clay's grocery store, but l get the
impression that IL is housed in a
huge skyscraper that would make the
Woolworth building look like wood
shed
Another advertisement tells me
that If I wili buy some kind of
dingus that is sold in North Brook
field, Mass. for the small sum of so
cents ! can reproduce any living ar
lists voice perfectly and thus enjoy
the daily companionship Of the
worlds greatest singers: also that
can sell these dinguses like hot cakes
for SO apiece and soon be riding
around irr a Rolls Royce.
Another advertisement urges me to
contribute one simoleon to some gem
tleman who modestly confesses that
analyst and psycho-s -synthesis expert
and he will send me his book telling
me how to shuck all my worry, doubt,
anxiety and nervousness.
Other advertisements show me that
Il can soon be able to raise silver
! foxes at enormous profit. recover my
old auto top for myself and save $35.
| become a good renman by sitting at
the feet of the worlds master ink
singer in Kansas City. cure myself
of stammering ard the tobacco habit.
| learn to be an electrician in three
months. make S1Go week and more
as floor surfacing contractor. remove
my own bunions instantly and with
| out pain. learn how to concentrate
| for S1.l5. SO that ] can keep my mind
| on one subject despite Interruptions: !:
master the science of law and receive
| the degree of LII. b, and money back
| II ! don't pass; find out how to unfold
! all my p7ychic power by dropping a
! line to Prof. Specknoodle of Roch-
ester, y. Y: prepare in a few weeks
| time TO become a prominent jour
nalist on one of New Yorks largest
papers by just sending my name and
| address TO Dept. 81 of the great
| School of Journalism of Louisville.
Ky: get s12s5 genuine German
/ Mauser revolver for s6.95. become a
short story writer in a couple of days.
| learn French at home and finally, for
just 10 cents. or one dime. receive
from some lady in Connecticut a
little book that will enable me to
become self-directihg. to control con-
ditions and get what we want from
life" And what could be fairer than
that?