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electros are to be used in rotation they should
be numbered and printed instructions for the
foreman should accompany them.
Plagiarism is rampant. They recognize
Americans as the best advertisers in the world
and not being familiar with English appro
priate and use our illustrations irrespective of
the fact that they may have absolutely no bear
ing on what they are advocating.
Typical of this purloining I recall a well
known picture from an American cereal ad
vertisement showing two men seated in a din
ing car, eating breakfast food. Outside snow
is all over the ground and trees; “Smoke
El Toro Cigar” is the announcement beneath
the sketch and in no place does a cigar ap
pear or is any reference made to one. Who
ever selected this picture did not even have the
good judgment to modify the same to the ex
tent of cutting out the snow storm, in a land
where snow is unknown or eliminating the
raised spoons piled high with the cereal and
held in the hands of the travelers.
The full page advertisements of Pillsbury’s