The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-06-01
Big Subscription Drive
Is Just Getting Started
Several Nominations Received; Many Expect
ed To Start Work at Once; More Room
,'... For Live Workers.


The mammoth subscription
campaign announced in last
weeks issue of THE INDIE
PENDENT in which more than
100000 in prizes are to be
awarded the energetic men and
women OF this section is just
getting under way. More than,
a score of the most popular.
and energetic men and women
of this entire section have been
nominated to win the valuable
prizes. but as yet. hardly any
of the candidates have actual
" started on their months
work of securing votes.
II is impossible to tell at this
time just how many of the ones
above will make the race as SOME
nominations have been sent in by
friends of the candidates who do not
known whether they will make the
race or not. but it is an assured fact
that enough will comepcte To make
this one of the most interesting cam
paigns ever before staged in this
section of the state.
Plenty of Time Left to Enter.
As the campaign is in reality just
starting. and as the time spent SO far
can be classed as the preliminary
stage. there is still plenty of time for
one to enter the drive and win any
of the prizes. As yet. but very
few subscriptions have been taken
and one can enter right now and be
leading the entire list of candidates
during the first week. From the list
of nominations above it will be noticed
that many of the very best cOmmuni-
ties of the trade territory through
which THE INDEPENDENT cir
culates is rs yet unrepreSentcd. so
if YOU wish beautiful Studebakcr
Six touring car all for yourself. turn
to the full page announcement on an
other page of this issue and clip the
nomination coupon receipt books and
full supplies will be sent you immedi-
atcly. Don't wait for someone else
TO send your name. do it yourself. and
then you will be sure to get started
before anyone has a chance to OBJ
tain lead over you.
When it is taken into considcra-
ton how many valuable prizes are
offered. and the ease in which sub
scriptiOns to THE INDEPENDENT
can be sold, it is hard to understand
why anyone with pep and ambition
fails to enter. If there were Il chance
to lose. even your time. then it would
be different proposition. but where
everyone is rewarded for the time and
labor spent, then there is no reason
why anyone should hesitate about
entering. AS announced in the open
ing each active candidate who re-
ports us many as five subscriptions
weekly and who fails to win prize
will be presented with check for
2J36 of the total amount of sub
scriptions he or she collects. This
removes the last vestige of chance
from the campaign as the commissions
,alone would pay anyone well, if they
but used their spare time in boosting
this popular paper.
Different From Other Campaigns
There has been a tendency on the
part of some to compare this man.
moth drive with some of the other
so-called subscription campaigns in
augurated through this section, but
anyone who takes the trouble to in
vestigate the rules governing this
drive will Immediately nosice the
vast difference between this cam
paign and those which have been
staged in this section previously.
In the first place the votes in the
beginning of this drive count as many
times as many votes as will be al
lcycd at the finish. thus assuring