Among the many Companies which send men into Foreign Service, probably none offers as interesting an opportunity as the Standard Oil Company of New York. This Company, which has distributing agencies throughout Asia, takes on each year from eight to ten college men whom it sends to the Far East to handle distribution work.

After a period of training in New York men are sent to foreign depots for a brief period--such cities as Manila, Hong Kong, or Tokio, and are then sent out to the end of a railroad or steamboat line, there to serve as the local representative of the Standard system.

Certain aspects of their contract with their men are very interesting. Men must be American citizens, twenty-one years of age or over, and unmarried. It is understood that the first term is for three years, during which time a man does not marry and goes to such parts of the Orient as may be determined by the Company. At the end of three years he has an extended furlough, is permitted to visit the United States, and in many cases men on such furloughs cease to be bachelors.

After a period of years it is frequently possible for a man to rise to a high position in the Company's Far East or- ganization; large salaries are not at all the exception and the Company has a retirement plan as well. When a man goes with the Standard, however, he separates himself from Continental United States. The Company has no plan for men to return to the American branch of the organization. It expects its men in foreign service to remain in the Far East indefinitely. To men of a more or less adventurous spirit who are interested in the possibilities of a large organization which promises good rewards in a distant field, this Company is distinctly deserving of careful investigation