Photoplay (Sep - Dec 1918)

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Photoplay Magazine — Advertising Section 13 HE'S gone across — YOU "come across"! Adopt a SOLDIER and Supply him with "SMOKES" for the Duration of the WAR! YOU know that our fighting men are begging for tobacco. Tobacco cheers them. They need it. "Send more cigarettes." "We can't get half enough smokes over here." "A cigarette is the first thing a wounded man asks for" — almost every mail brings many thousands of such requests. • Let's "come across." Now that our boys are suffering anddying in the trenches that we may be safe at home, let's keep them steadily supplied with the smokes they crave, need and must have. $1.00 a Month Keeps a Soldier Supphed-Will YOU Be a "BIG BROTHER" or a "BIG SISTER" to a Lonely Fighting Man? Please don't say, "Oh, there's plenty of time, I'll send my contribution later." Dig down for his tobacco cheer now, today ! — all that you honestly feel you can spare. And that can't be half what he really deserves, for his service can't be measured by dollars. Adopt a regiment if you have the means. A War Souvenir For You A feature of this fund is that in each package is enclosed a post card addressed to the donor. If it is possible for the soldier receiving the tobacco to mail you this post card receipt, it will be a war souvenir you'll treasure forever. Every dollar sends four 45c packages of tobacco. Mail the money and coupon right now. '.'OUR BOYS IN FRANCE TOBACCO FUND" 25 West 44th Street, New York City Depository: Irving National Bank, N. Y. "I wish you all possible success in your admirable effort to get our boys in France tobacco." THEODORE ROOSEVELT Endorsed by The Secret a iv of War The Secretary of the Navy The American Red Cross Cardinal Gibbons Lyman Abbott Rabbi Wise Gertrude Atherton Theodore Roosevelt Alton B. Parker and the entire nation "OUR BOYS IN FRANCE TOBACCO FUND" 25 W. 44th Street, New York Gentlemen: I want to do my part to help the American aoldiere who arc righting my battle in France. If tobacco will do it — I'm for tobacco. (Check below how you desire to contribute.) I enclose $1.00. I will adopt a soldier and send you $1.00 a month to supply him with "smokes" for the duration of the war. I send you herewith my contribution towards the purchase of tobacco for American soldiers. This does not obligate me to contribute more. Name Address "Fin as Good a Man as Jim!" "They made him manager today, at a fine increase in salary. He's the fourth man in the office to be promoted since January. And all were picked for the same reason — they had studied in spare time with the International Correspondence Schools and learned to do some one thing better than the rest of us. "I've thought it all out, Grace. I'm as good a man as any one of them. All I need is special training — and I'm going to get it. If the I. C. S. can raise other men's salaries it can raise mine. If it can bring a better home with more comforts to Jim and his family it can do it for us. See this coupon? It means my start toward a better job and I'm going to mail it to Scranton tonight!" Thousands of men now know the joy of happy, prosperous homes because they let the International Correspondence Schools prepare them in spare hours for bigger work and better pay. You will find them in offices, shops, stores, mills, mines, factories, on railroads, in the army and navy — everywhere. Some Facts About the World's Greatest School! The first student was enrolled in the International Correspondence Schools on October 16, 1891. Today the records of the Schools show an enrolment of over two million. This is over six times greater than the total enrolment of Harvard in the 278 years since its organization. It is more than ten times greater than the total enrolment of Yale since its doors swung open in 1701. It is over five times the total enrolment of all colleges, universities, and technical schools in the United States combined. I. C. S. text -books are used In class-room work and for reference purposes by 304 universities, colleges, government schools, institutes of technology and vocational schools, by the U. S. Navy Department in its Shipboard Training Schools and by many of the largest industrial corporations. About 500 students each month report advancement or salary increases as a result of the I. C. S. training. Reports of 1,000 typical students show that at time of enrolment their average monthly wage was $53.80. At the time they most recentlyre ported advancement their average wage was $182. 48 per month, an increase in earningpowerof $128. 58 per month through!. C. S. Training. Reports on. 27,000 typical students show 14.999 now receiving$l,50f>ayear or more; 2,451 receiving $2,500 or more: 413 receiving $5,000 or more; 20 receiving $10,000 or more; and 8 with annual incomes of $25,000 or more. Note the number of I. C. S. Students in your State State Number Alabama 13,920 Alaska 1,560 Arizona 9,440 Arkansas 8,600 California 80,840 Colorado 35,060 Connecticut 34,140 Delaware 4,600 Dist. of Columbia.. 9,280 Florida 9,780 Georgia 9,480 Idaho 10,720 Illinois 296.840 Indiana 55,520 Iowa 40,100 Kansas 36.000 Kentucky 9,780 Louisiana 11.680 Maine .. 22,460 Maryland 21,680 Massachusetts 83,040 Michigan 69,'40 Minnesota 32,480 Mississippi 6.400 Missouri 53,020 State > Montana Nebraska. Nevada New Hampshire... New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming umber 14.700 18,240 4.800 12,760 63.560 6.760 217,040 134,700 6,600 116,200 8,320 15,600 170,720 13.380 8,720 6.760 15.020 39.520 16,420 7,880 21.500 37,160 20.960 42,320 6,0f0 Navy, 15,000 Total, 2,007,080 Why don't you study some one thing and get ready for a real job, at a salary that will give your wife and children the things you would like them to have. You can do it! Pick the position you want in the work you like best and the I. C. S. will prepare you for it right in your own home, in your spare time— you need not lose a day or a dollar from your present occupation. Yes, you can do it! More than two million have done it in the last twenty-seven years. More than 100,000 are doing it right now. Join them without another day's delay. Mark and mail this coupon ! rrNTER^fi0N^TCA0nRRESP0NDENCE SCHOOLS* BOX 6488, SCRANTON. PA. I Explain, without obligating me, how I can qualify for the position, or in the subject, before which 1 mark X. D ELECTRICAL ENGINEER 3 Electric Lighting and llys. I] Electric Wiring I] Telegraph Engineer ^Telephone Work 3 MECHANICAL ENGINEEH U Mechanical draftsman ID Machine Shop l'ractlce IJGas Engine Operating DCIVIL ENGINEER D-Siirrerlng and Mapping JMIKE FOREMAN or ENU'K ZjMetallorgist or Prospector DSTATIOKAUY HUM HI 3 Marine Engineer DShip Draftsman ' ARCHITECT 3 Contractor and Rntlder 3 Architectural Draftsman R Concrete Builder Structural Engineer 3 PLUMBING AMI III VI INS DSheet Metal Worker 3 Textile I >> erseer or Snpt. UOIIEMIST Name. □ SALESMANSHIP □ ADVERTISING □ Window Trimmer □ Show Card Writer □ Sign Painter □ Railroad Trainman □ ILLUSTRATING □ Cartooning □ BOOKKEEPER □ Stenographer and Typist □ Cert. Pub. Accountant □ TRAFFIC MANAGER □ Railway Accountant □ Commercial Law □ GOOD ENGLISH □ Teacher C Common School Sohjeets □ Mathematics □ CIVIL SERVICE □ Railway Mail Clerk □ automoiiile on it him. □ Anto Repairing □ Navigation IDSpanlib □ AGHICUl.TUkF. iQFrench □ Poultry Railing ■□Italian Present OccupationStreet and No City. Canadians may a International COrTeaponuen \nd this coupon to ■e Schools, Montreal, Canada When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.