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the amount charged goes to the writer; the rest is the Bureau’s compensation.

There are now more than 200 writing specialists on the staff—specialists in
science, architecture, finance, engineering, merchandising, and several other
fields. About 1,200 calls for help on speeches, books, articles, and reports
come through the Bureau in a year.

As people don’t like to admit they employ specialists to do their writing for
them, there is little chance of “word of mouth” advertising. Consequently, the
Bureau has been advertised almost every week from the start through a one-
inch advertisement in the New York newspapers.

A bureau of this sort could be organized by any alert young business man or
woman with an idea of the needs in his particular community. People active
in trade associations, professional clubs, social clubs, women’s clubs, literary
clubs, scientific organizations—all need the help of a trained writer in the
preparation of manuscripts for publication or the preparation of speeches. The
backbone of an organization, such as this, is a good staff of associates who
are experts in their particular fields. There are any number of able writers
who would welcome the chance to make a few extra dollars in their spare
time.

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EARS ago, Robert E. Hughes, a teacher in a high school in one of Chicago’s
suburbs, started taking pictures with a little, inexpensive Brownie. As time
went on he became more and more interested in his hobby and invested in a
better camera. During his long summer vacations, he carried his camera with
him. One day after he had developed some pictures taken around a boys’
camp, he showed them to the camp director. As a result, he got orders for 200
pictures. From that time on, he paid for his vacations with the sale of
snapshots. Summer hotels, camps, railroads, tourist agencies, inns, dude
ranches, clubs, all offered a market. He made the pictures sell themselves. He
figured—and rightly—that if he asked if pictures were wanted, the response