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Show Quick and easy Editor shares secrets of getting rich ingenious little items, when wrapped around a beer can, make it look like a soft drink can. "Right now the demand for beer wraps is tremendous. Ask us about our distributorship program," says the advertisement. Of course, don't forget the switchblade switch-blade comb, or the "California Earthquake Ear-thquake in a Can," or the "Rattlesnake I suspect I'll be a millionaire within six months. There was a time in my life when I didn't think that was possible, but a magazine loaned to me recently by a local entrepreneur who has been successful in a number of businesses and who is sitll in his 30s, I think, has shown me how to make big bucks in short time. The magazine is just full of great ideas. I'll tell you about some of them, and soon, maybe Iron County can be the wealthiest county in the country. First there are the sales. Now, I have watched salesmen for sometime now, and I have decided there is really nothing to it. I could sell. And this magazine offers some great items to begin with. First there is the automatic needle threader. The ad in the magazine promises: "Make huge profits showing this ingenious invention that threads all size needles instantly. Just drop needle into funnel, .press button, and PRESTO! It's threaded." And there are the beer wraps. These quickly selling any one of these items. Then there are the ever-popular X-ray X-ray glasses. And along with them are the strip tease pens, the X-rated matches and the fully illustrated encyclopedia en-cyclopedia of sex. I'm afraid I would probably be a bit shy to sell many of these items. (Maybe I could work out of town.) Or, better yet, to assuage my conscience, con-science, I could sell Bibles. "Serve and profit in your spare time," says the ad in the magazine. But there are other ways to make a million bucks. I needn't be a salesman. If I want more of a challenge, I can become a solar consultant. I suppose I know as much about sunshine as the next guy. "No experience or inventory necessary." I could stat tomorrow. Wait, there's more. I could soon have an executive career, and earn a college degree at home, in my spare time. To think I wasted six years in college for two degrees and I'm still not an executive. , But now, all I have to do is clip out the ; By Bruce Lee coupon ana sena ii in ana I will soon be on my way to riches. Or maybe I'll be a doctor a doctor of psychology or metaphysics at that, through the mail. I can get a free booklet in the mail that tells me how to join and where to send my money. All I have to do is send in a letter. Wait! I've save the best for last. This one is touted as the "fastest, easiest $100,000 you'll (I'll) ever make in your (my) life . . . without a penny of investment, without leaving your (my) home, within 90 days, 'working' about one hour a day." . Listen: ' "There are all kinds of ways to make money. Good golly Molly if anyone knows that, I do! For the past 20 years I've concentrated on finding, investigating, creating and specifically singling out only the finest legal and ethical methods for carving out a mass of wealth in a hurry. But believe me, in all those years never have I experienced ex-perienced anything ; remotely as exciting-as this one!" ' Sounds great, doesn't it? The ad doesn't say how to make the money. It only says to send $10, and I will get a report telling me how. I'm going to to do. I'm going to be rich any day now. I can hardly wait. Eggs" (I think I used to make those with a cheap envelope, a button and an elastic.) One can even sell bras. The ad promises huge profits. Or there are the tear gas revolvers and the aloe vera juice. I'm sure I could be a millionaire very |