United States or South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
This called for rare good judgment not only in the preparation, but in the placing of these ads, and it was in the matter of their preparation the many striking ideas which they should embody that the judgment and assistance of a capable art director of real imagination was most valuable. As has already been said, Mr. Summerfield had had five art directors in almost as many years.
I red-penciled eleven “ads”—jobs in three different dress factories, sewing buttons on shoes.
She did not forget her own difficult struggle in Chicago, but she did not forget either that she had never ceased trying. He never tried. He did not even consult the ads in the papers any more. Finally, a distinct impression escaped from her. "What makes you put so much butter on the steak?" he asked her one evening, standing around in the kitchen. "To make it good, of course," she answered.
When he had spoken to Potter about them he discovered that quite a number of them were what is known to the craft as "dead ads" which meant advertisements upon which payment had ceased and which were carried either for the purpose of filling up the paper or because it was found cheaper to run them than to set type for the space which would be left by their absence.
Columns of "To Let, Furnished or Unfurnished" ads filed, advanced, and retreated before my dizzy eyes. My time after office hours was spent in climbing dim stairways, interviewing unenthusiastic females in kimonos, and peering into ugly bedrooms papered with sprawly and impossible patterns and filled with the odors of dead-and-gone dinners.
"For six months or so. A lot of people withdrew their advertisements; but they were a bit surprised when at the end of that time they came back to me, and I refused to insert their ads. at any price. I consider that you not only did wisely, but right, in employing the Chinamen. Are they going on satisfactorily?"
When next he stopped it was to linger, not in front of an eating establishment, but before a bulletin-board upon which was pasted a page of newspaper "want ads" for "trained" men, in all walks of life. "Trained" men? Hateful word! How often had he encountered it! Ah, here was one advertisement without the "trained"; he devoured it eagerly.
The reporter shrugged his shoulders. "Some wild-goose speculation, I suppose. Smart and gritty if I had her stick I shouldn't be here but she always slips up can't keep all her wires well in hand. Was an advertising agent when I left the East picked up a good many ads, too, and made folks treat her respectfully, when they'd have kicked a man out of doors if he'd come on the same errand."
I wish you would notify the advertising agent not to solicit or renew the ads that I have marked here." He handed the paper with the marked places over to Clark, who took it and looked over the columns with a very serious air. "This will mean a great loss to the NEWS. How long do you think you can keep this sort of thing up?" Clark was astounded at the editor's action and could not understand it.
You see, I have to pick only such “ads” as allow for no previous experience—it is only unskilled workers I am eligible to be among as yet; girls to pack tea and coffee, to work for an envelope company, in tobacco, on sample cards; girls to pack hair nets, learners on fancy feathers, and learners to operate book-sewing machines. The rest of the newspaper told much of trouble in the garment trades.
Word Of The Day