Popularity Campaign

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1008, 26 June 1930, Page 9

Popularity Campaign

Opportunity for New Contestants to Enter SEE BIG PRIZE DISPLAY IN QUEEN S ARCADE AND ACT

Where will you be on August 3, the i day after The Sun's Popularity Cant ! paign is over? Will you be the proi.pl , owner of The Sun’s model villa? Will j vou be riding in the Buick, Marquette, | Pontiac or Chevrolet car, and will you j he receiving the congratulations of j your friends, or will your name be ; among the runners-up? Your position ou August 2 rests entirely with | yourself. So contestant has any particular ad- s vantage over another. All started ! with 5,000 votes and a receipt book. The advantage is in the individual only. The successful man sees an opportunity, seizes upon it and moves upward another rung on the ladder of success. It never occurs to him that he may fail. He only sees the oppormuity, he visions what he can do —and he does it. The unsuccessful man sees the same opportunity, but lie is fearful that he is not equal to the task. He is like a timid bather putting in one foot and then drawing it swiftly back again—and while he hesitates some bold swimmer grabs the opportunity and is off. Nearly everyone can look back—and not so far back either —and say “If I had taken that chance I would be much better off how.” Dozens of people will be doing just that after the termination of The Sun's great Popularity Campaign. They will be gazing with envy on the winners and thinking sadly of the particular prize they would have been delighted to secure. To excuse themselves to their own consciences they ■will dwell on the “extra advantages,” •‘inside information,” “pull,” etc., they would like to imagine the other fellows had. What they should do is to fix with determination in their mind a vision of the prize they wish to win. Reflect on the determination and Work. Don’t be one of the regretters. A PLAIN TALK For some time past we have been giving you a daily lecture in psychology—the psychology of taking advantage of opportunity. The above discourse has set out these facts clearly, and still there are some who do not realise the opportunity that is knocking at the doors of newspaper readers in Auckland. In the list of contestants there are many who have only turned In a few subscriptions and still many more who have turned in nothing but the coupons which they clipped from the paper. Bear in mind that with the present competition, one may not win by coupons alone. We are cutting the list to actual workers, and many of the contestants who have not turned in any subscriptions will be omitted from the list on Saturday. If you desire to continue in the list you must turn in some subscriptions. Even if only three months, and your name will be retained. Contestants who have not turned in at least a three months’ subscription prior to thia time will be dropped from the next published count. Contestants whose names have been dropped will be reinstated, however, provided they turn in subscription money at a later date. From now on only such contestants will be included as actually show a desire to win. BONUS OPPORTUNITY The great bonus opportunity which is in effect at the present time allows 400,U00 extra votes for each total of -CIO in subscription money. Thus right now the opportunity presents itself for a new contestant to enter the race today. Get six of his friends to subscribe to The Sun and right there he would have over half a million votes. Simple, isn't it? Then continue on and every time he touches a total of £lO in subscription money up until July 5 he will get another 400,000 votes. This is. the greatest special bonus ofTer of the balance ot the campaign. Contestants who have been resting on their laurels should

bear in mind that the prizes are not yet won and will not be won until August 2. Remember the fable of tho hare and the tortoise. The hare will run fast for a little time, but the tortoise by continuous plodding wins the race. PRIZE DISPLAY The big display of over £6,000 In prizes offei'ed by The Sun which is being held in the Queen’s Arcade is attracting great crowds. Contestants and their friends are cordially invited to see the display, find the prize they actually v an! to win and then go right in and get the votes to win it.

OUT TO WIN

“You bet I’m going to win one of the prizes and I have a lot of friends who are helping me to do it. Everyone I talk to is interested in The Sun. It is the people’s newspaper and the array of prizes offered is worth anyone’s effort to win one of them.” This is what Mr. W. de Verne said to a campaign representative the other day. Mr. de Vei-ne says that wherever lie goes his friends are glad to take The Sun and he is constantly making new friends and gathering the votes for the prize he wants.

STOP! DO YOU SUBSCRIBE TO THE SUN

“In every car that passes my corner I see a prospective subscriber to The Sun. Any one of the prize motorcars would just suit me.” This is what Ben Rutledge, the genial officer who is competing in The Sun’s competition, said the other day. Traffic Officer Rutledge is having a (ot of pleasure out of the competition. Officer Rutledge is a very popular member of the traffic squad and his “six foot three” frame towers well above the traffic and pedestrians. Everybody likes bim and he is getting a lot of votes.