Opinion ID: 242260
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Representations as to Personal Instruction.

Text: 104 The Commission found that, at times, sales agents made the representation that prospective students would be given personal assistance in completing the course, when, as a fact, no such assistance was provided as a regular part of the course. There is evidence in the record that at least two salesmen made such representation. In one of the circularized letters signed by the petitioner, salesmen are instructed to hold out to women these inducements, 105 'Their present security lies in the continued employment and good health of the breadwinner. If something happens to him, a strike, layoff, injury or death, then security vanishes. 106 'You'll agree that's something for her to think seriously about. Every woman realizes these things and You Can Capitalize heavily on these ever present fears. 107 'Women want to 'express' themselves. They want to do creative, useful work. The Man Who Shows Them 'How' Will Be Welcome and Will Reap a Harvest. They only need someone to show them 'how'. 108 'If, in addition to that he opens up a Weavers Work Shop (one of the three) opportunities open to everyone of my associates he can use the graduates to feather his own nest as employees in a permanent profitable business of his own. 109 'Nothing could be sweeter for You. One hand washes the other in this deal and you get yours coming and going.' (Emphasis added.) 110 And in the questionnaire to be analyzed more fully in the next subdivision, the petitioner speaks of 'assistance' which the salesmen can give to graduates 'in starting their own business'. The petitioner's insistence that such promises were unauthorized is contradicted by these facts. For they show that what the salesmen told the prospective students was, in the spirit, if not to the letter, of what they were encouraged, indeed, coached by him to tell. More, even if they were not fully authorized, the Commission was exercising its preventive powers in ordering him to desist, in view of the fact that they were made by the salesmen within the apparent and real scope of their authority. 33 111