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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 97, 30 March 1916, Page 2

w IN THE MP 3 SPEGJALI7IEB- - CROCKETT AND JONES. PHITWELL. FORTFORM, WARE-WELL. BECTW£. WAUKWELL. TRANSIT. FOR MEN'S GOODS. FOR MAIDS' AND CHILDREN'S BOOTS AND SHOES. SOUTHALL'S CELEBB 4TED PUMP S AND SLIPPERS. NOTE.—A few special lines to clear at SALE PRICES. HANNAH'S ■fea '" V "' '"', W®m : >X:*. \ T one of his recent lectures, on advertising, civen at Liverpool. England, Thomas Russell, of London, emphasised strongly the value of newspaper advertising. "The time." he said, "was ripe for a great extension of advertising, and newspaper advertising must always be the mainstay of publicity." He illustrated the fact that scientific advertising did riot add to the cost of goods hut secured a material reduction of_ price. Indeed, the more an article was advertised the cheaper it became, and the more self-interest compelled the manufacturer to keep up the quality. Certain articles of great value to the publiccould never have been manufactured at all had it not be n that advertising ensured a sale large enough to warrant the putting down o! the elaborate and very costlv plants. Advertising was the cheapest method yet devised by the wit of man for the sale of honest goods. The great commercial discovery of the age was that it did not pay to advertise unless the goods advertised were honest goods, while nothing which was not true was good enough to put into an advertisement. The "Commercial Review" points out that—- " Undoubtedly the first and most potent advertising force of the present day is the newspaper. Here is a field so vast and so complex that it needs the most careful study of every varying condition to accurately estimate its possibilities, and a whole army of specialists and all branch «s of service bar? come i' 'i being.

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