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VOLUME
XXIII
The BUSINESS
C. P. Zaner,
E. W. Bloser,
WAR
EDUCATOR
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War means
1917
From
demand,
schools,
SEER OR SLACKER?
Conscription is bound to make inroads into the army of office workers.
These places must be filled by younger but no less willing hands even
though they must necessarily be less
experienced as well as less skilled.
Young people of ambition will
therefore do well to pluckily tackle a
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LEARNING TO WRITE
that
mand
rationality
for written
of
early
this
debe
language must
questioned and disproved or we must
conform our penmanship pedagogy
and practice
to
it.
or abandon the
lit-
Writing in
Omaha
helps
the
least.
Perception through seeing and feeling should constitute the first impulses and practice in teaching writing.
The eye which enables the mind to
perceive is able also to direct the
hand, and should be thus employed
to do that which is abnormal for the
mind and muscle to do alone.
Conscious eye training and semiconscious muscle training is the process that will best serve language,
health, and habits the first two years
in school.
Of course writing must be large
enough to reduce eye strain, nerve
tension, and muscular contraction to
the minimum by employing the large
rather than the small motor machinery.
The second
sit
efficiently,
stead
fourth }-ear problems.
The third stage comes in the fifth
and sixth years and represent the
technical period of learning to write.
Public Schools,
rection.
To
minimum
of thought
mum
characteristic
hand,
are
the
ends to
be sought.
Life is getting to be so comple.x and
intense that conservation of effort demands that the right thing be taught
at the
right time.
size of this
business' EDUCATOR
THE
take
a
part in the penmanship
in
institution
of
that
wellknown
work
which he instructs. Large lists of subscriptions were received from this
school during the past year, and
quite a number of Certificates were
won this year by the students.
prominent
stressed.
To
^
The technic of form and of movement should be taught and empha-
J.
Louisville. Ky., Enos. Spencer, President, this year celebrates its Twentyr)ur congratulaAnniversary.
fifth
tions are hereby extended for the service performed and the work achieved, and our best wishes for a prosperous future.
The above specimei is reproduced from the closing paragraph of one of 150 three page letters sent to business men by pupils in the
This specimen is full of efficiency and individuality the two things Mr. J A, Savage,
grades of the public schools of Omaha.
Accompanying each letter was a mimeographed sheet of questions as follows
Supervisor oi Writ ng, believes in and promotes.
mmar
is
good, rapid, business writing in applying for a position, or in being promoted to a better position?
it
important that boys and girls learn to make figures well with the pen?
make it worth the time and effort necessary to acquire
it?
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Make
Business Handwriting
MILTON
is easily
written, easily read
ROSS
H.
L. D. S. University, Salt
Lake
City,
sure your
Penmanship
and
Utah
sightly.
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PLAIN BUSINESS PENMANSHIP
Are you interested in business penmanship? Do you know the value of
Do you
a good hand in writing?
know that there are no "born" penmen? Do you know that you can't
Do you
get something for nothing?
know that skill in penmanship comes
from intelligent practice and not
from a great amount of writing or
Do you know
aimless scribbling?
that there are more Ford automobiles
your penmanship.
Movement
than typewriters?
We
Materials
Use paper with a hard smooth surwith lines ruled not more than
Any black or
one-half inch apart.
dark blue writing fluid that flows
freely is good. The penholder should
be of cork or wood and about fs of
an inch in diameter at the lower end
and not less than five inches in
length. Use a pen that makes a firm
clean cut line that is not too fine.
The Zanerian Business Pen is a good
standard. Satisfactory results are not
obtained from practicing with a founGet the correct
tain or stub pen.
blotter habit.
A blotter should be
used as a hand rest to cover the edges of the paper, but should be used
to blot only on the last line of the
page.
in
doing
little
Position of the
little finger,
little
finger
stationary.
Better
results
are
ob-
and
Desk
muscles
ly.
The
Position at the
little
face,
use
at the
proper angle.
our knees,
we
can't
good walking.
better
than
training.
If
soldier
boy walks
we because of better
we had walked on our
all our lives it would be difficult to get up on our feet, but the
effort would be worth while.
knees
if your position is corand you are using Arm Moveonly, the muscles that do the
propelling are above the elbow, the
forearm being a pivot. If the correct
position is maintained an easy move-
In writing,
rect
ment
ment
We
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EXERCISE
No.
practice line No. 1 make a dot on each side of the page and with dry pen swing back and forth from one
dot to the other. There should be no wrist action. Use the elbow as the hinge. After the action becomes reguDo not try for
lar dip the pen and make about 10 strokes each way at the rate of about 80 strokes to the minute.
speed on any part of Exercise No. 1. See that the hand and arm rests are correct. Make lines No. 2, 3, and 4
with the same easy swing used on line No. 1. Lift the arm and move it to the right after finishing each group.
Each group should be made not more than one space high but long enough so that the three reach across the
To
little
space between.
you can make the lines without letting the pen skip. Both nibs of the pen should touch the
Do not
paper.
If you hold the pen point on one side it is only a bad habit because your pen holder is round.
destroy any of your practice pages. File them. This is important.
See
how
light
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EXERCISE
No. 2
should be two spaces high. Try it first with a dry pen. .\s the arm moves in and out it nears the
right hand side of the sleeve on the up stroke and comes toward the left hand side of the sleeve on the down
Study illustration No. 5 very carefully. About 150 down strokes a minute will be rapid enough at the
stroke.
beginning. No thumb joint action. The slant will be right if your paper and arm are in the correct position and
you make all the down strokes toward the middle of your body. The down stroke must not be any heavier than
There should not be the least tightening of the thumb and fingers on the pen holder when making
the up stroke.
the down strokes. The holder can be held firmly enough without the least gripping, or tension, of the muscles of
If you are making 250 or 30O down strokes to a line (about 100 to a group) without any puddles of ink
the hand.
or muddy spots, you very likely have correct pen pressure.
Line No.
2 and 3, double the fist and roll the arm round and round in the sleeve until it
Now dip the pen. Have you learned to dip the pen properly? Count ten for each oval. Your
were made to use, but in this exercise just use them to hold the pen. Get all the movement by rolling the
arm round and round on the muscle of the forearm. Learn to make reverse ovals as easily as you make them
direct.
We call them direct when the down strike is on the left hand side. Strive for light, clean-cut lines. The
Do not
lower left hand side of the oval should not be any heavier or darker than the upper right hand side.
practice any compact ovals. Your mistakes in form and movement are not apparent when you do.
moves
easily.
fingers
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EXERCISE
No. 3
Line No.
make
oval and
Line No. 2 is made by joining four ovals without a pen lifting, four groups to the line. Each time you lift the
move the arm to the right. Be sure the sixteen just fill the line nicely with a uniform spacing. The practice
paper should be about 8I/2 inches wide. Always leave a margin at the left.
Line No. 3 is to be a little less than one space high. Note the combination on the last two groups.
For line No. 4 count 1 -2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2, 1-2-3-4-5-6-T-8, 1-2, etc. Make two ovals and two capital O's before
moving the arm to the right. Go directly from one to the other without swinging the pen around in the air
awhile before you put it to the paper. "Three strikes are out." It is only the strokes that are made on the paper
that arc legible.
r,et rid of all the Hat sides and corners.
Are you practicing to improve or are you just writing?
pen,
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EXERCISE
Line No.
1.
Make
No. 4
then the smaller one on the inside. Start the capital C down and finish
That makes a clean looking line.
while you make four capitals.
Then move the arm to the right and
first
Lift the
up.
Line No.
repeat.
pen has a varnish on it which should ]>e removed with that nice clean pen wiper. Dip the pen so that
covered with ink. Remove it rather slowly from the well and just the right amount of ink will adhere.
Dropping the pen on the bottom of the well may injure the point. The little fuzz that sometimes gets fastened on
the point of even a good pen can be removed by touching it to the cork of your ink bottle.
A small metal-tip pen holder can not be held firmly enough without gripping. Throw it awaj'. If it is a small
gold and pearl holder given to you by some dear one, frame it. Don't use it.
When the hand is held in the correct position for writing it is so nearly like the position the hands would be
in if it were hanging loosely at the side, that there is no cramping or tiring, even though a great amount of writthe eyelet
ing
is
is
done.
Learn
to visualize.
Your success
in
dififer-
to get
the
arm
rest
until
it
your eyes closer than nine inches from your writing, better see an optician.
SI'^^imH
Tom
Sawyier
f
This exceptional set
letters
is
by
Sawyier. Colu mbu s. Ohio, and
n the Zaner an Co Uege Vfhere he
Blackboard Ha ndvvriting.
ta ught
H is
le of the most ac cur te writer
on the
board we have ever kn ow ti. .He has few
T om
m ade
if
any equals.
,M^<3Bu^n^d^^/iu^i/h-
People
of
Plate XIX.
The sharp angle
A.
Indirect oval
to the left
is
Freedom
in Writing.
retraced nine times, and on the tenth and eleventh counts the letter is made.
Start on the base line, but not from a dead start, swfing and
Join
and
letter.
The upstroke
horizontal.
fz^
Plate XX. All of the words given in this plate are for practice on the upper loops, and the e, c, o and a.
After twenty lines of each word have been completed, make a collection of loop words by taking parts of these
words, viz., low, lack, etc. Next take two words, black locket, black filler, etc. This will break monotony, cause
you
to think,
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Plate XXI. In the six lines of this plate keep the part of the p above the line as high as the t and d. Omit
letters from these words after twenty lines have been completed, making short words for practice, viz., pint, art,
quit, etc.
This is a good way to get results for night assignments.
Plate XXII. This plate is a little more difficult than the preceding, and it
twenty lines of each word, write two words, using one from this plate and one
of the course; viz., j-oung quadruped, black vest, etc.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
evolution
PENMANSHIP EDITION
THE LIBERAL
On the same basis that the movement of the earth about the sun was
a long time unnoticed and unknown,
the
so
larger
movements
of
forces
its
society
of
and
long overlooked and but partially understood, but in the main they are as
eternal as the so-called heavenly bodies in their laws and movements.
The
origin
of
requiring
species,
The
liberal
in
religion,
in
right in principle.
In penmanship this
anything
else.
For
is
as true as in
tlie
essentials
movement promotion
is
running
in
wheel of progress.
one
man's
until
it
food
is
another
is
man's
poison,"
is
PARTIAL CONTENTS
is
Mental
Meanderings, Carl C.
Marshall. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Preparation, J. F.
Sherwood. International Business College, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Civil Service
Lights
Side
.Arthur
H.
S.,
on
Bookkeeping,
G. Skeeles. Peabody
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Commercial Law,
son,
J.
H. Robin-
Edinburg, Pa.
Methods
of
Teaching Bookkeep-
Commercial
Training,
Charles
of Business .Administration.
Louisville, Ky., Outline in English, for Boys High School.
are
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
Author
Accountant,
Teacher of Accountancy. Mr.
Public
and
Ben-
makes
is
to
such
assistance.
The Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World recently began a campaign of instruction in cost finding for business men
generally, at the same time pointing
out the dangers of continuing business without knowing costs.
The
"Fundamentals
entitled
of
Cost
System for Manufacturers."
Sureh- there is a great awakening on
this subject at present and it looks
as though the time is near when all
of us will have to adopt ways and
means of learning our true costs or
face the danger of being pushed out
of business by the competition of
those who take the pains of finding
theirs.
from Mr. T.
Pa.,
ville.
who
C.
has
been
connected
Commercial department
Pottsville High School for
with the
the
years.
This
indicates
that
of
14
Mr.
We
cial
Dedication
kind and revered friend and
PROF.
THOMAS
Department.
MENTAL
MEANDERINGS
CARL
KNOWLES
C.
In appreciation of his loyalty and services to our Alma Mater and in recognition of the permanent place he has
won
esteem
our
in
lesson
Fourth"
Mr. C.
Mills.
EMPHASIS
Fort Dodge, la., May 19, 1917.
dear Mr. Zaner:
Allow me to say a few words in reference to the criticism in the May B. E.
signed W. E. B., whcih, no doubt, was
W. E. Benscoter.
I fully believe that the use of blackface
letters are very essential to drive home
many of the facts that are stated in vour
Mv
If
your editorials
editorials.
excellent
were read by the better educated class,
would not be so necessary.
it probably
But
it
is
many more
Returning some hours later flying heavily with the big fish in her
talons, she was set upon by a gang
of boys who, by shouting and throw-'
ing sticks and stones, so flustered the
poor bird, that she dropped her fish
in the midst of them, and they speedfast.
ily
made
off
with
black-face
quent use
of
surely they
know more
than
Mr.
now
in
it.
the years!
But,
Zaner,
is
my
the
that your
is
commercial paper
Excuse me for em-
opinion
best
circulation.
phasizing.
Yours
sincerely,
C. N.
HARER.
my
brother, you
will never quite know what the steadfast courage of that old eagle meant
until you yourself play her part, see
the fruits of your toil go to others,
and start back late in the afternoon
of your
life
to get
Overheard
in the
your third
fish.
observed the
with the
and the red
"you can take it
"Boys,"
Smoker
fat
blue
magazine
the
"Old
structors.
ial
the
entitled
the
in
Class.
In
remember
ers,
respectfully
The Senior
some
Block, Chicago
afifection
qualities as a
for
MARSHALL
and
I take
read by
C.
516 Reaper
teacher,
COSTS
nett
To our
Commercial Education
of
Chamber
Philadelphia
The
Commerce Journal recently contained
than
occupying more
article
an
three pages, entitled "The Vital Importance of Knowing Costs," by R.
J. Bennett, the well known Certified
tem
done
having
traveler
tie
stuff
^
sell
dwenty tollar gold pieces for
nineteen tollars apiece
not to me,
anyvays."
"Of course not," put in the long
chinned New York jewelry salesman.
"Any old time you find the public
falling for gold twenties, at nineteen
apiece! They wouldn't buy 'em from
Diogenes
man was
"Right you
dame
who
wanted to raise
money to put herself through college, so, what does she do but get a
friend to stake her with a hundred
dollars, then she went to a bank and
little
money
put the
new
style
or so the
first
day."
fish?"
a faint
odor
asked the
satiricallj'.
got
the conversation.
"That's
all mighty clever stuff, boys, and intrestin', too, but going back to the
first proposition, of \wy friend here
from Louisville, don't any of you
walk off with the notion that personality don't count in business, or you'll
be due for a bump. It certainly does
count, and when you get to be as old
as I am you'll know it. I don't mean
mere appearance, mind you, stylish
dress and all that.
I mean the good
inner heart of a man that shows
through on the outside the look in
a fellow's eyes that makes you know
you can trust him. And the trick of
it is that you can't get that look unless you are entitled to it; but once
you have it, you can sell anything to
anybody, because they'll believe what
we
say.
like
people
what makes
we can
trust?
That's
friends,
friends that
Just then the
it's
make
business."
whistle sounded for
I turned in at
Oliver that night I was still
thinking of the philosophy of the
man from Texas.
the
Will Hosteller
Passes On
fresh
that I
to lay
have a
on the
me
flowers
grave of
Bend
to
recalls
South
to
few humble
allusion
The
my
long-time friend.
Will Hostetler.
Many of you knew
him, and those of you who did, knew
a leal man. It was barely two months
ago tliat I spent a delightful weekend in his lovelj' farm home just out-
had been
ill
trouble did
to be
not know or
proved
was
into
to
the
School.
try,
up
built
combined,
he
department from small
it
was one of the
best commercial school
personality
lovable
this
beginnings,
and
finest
until
my
whether certain
or parsnips, and
accordingly, or
pig weed or dog
in a
Highbrow Garden
who had
people
whose
off
lu.xurious
of
course,
certain
persons
pictures had appeared in the
people
people
among
salsify
should be nurtured
they were
funnel to be dug up
were
were
plants
whether
transpired
It
An Hour
like.
friend.
into
you
f^Jf^uJ//t^i^^e/iua/ipr'
asked.
thrift}'
idealists
enough
know
to
that
the
Jewish
belong
could
to
their
union.
The
Our
ing
Soldiers
in
carrying our
fine
up-stand-
American boys
khaki
who
are
than five dollars, which the Governwill hold for him till he is mustered out. allowing him interest at the
rate of four percent on all sums thus
Not many of the enlisted
reserved.
men know that they can thus use
Tell
Uncle Sam as their banker.
them. There will be hard times when
The ten liillions of
this war is over.
dollars we are now spending lavishly
ment
,^^^gi^/ted^(^(j^iuia^
COMMERCIAL
EDUCATION
CHARLES
F.
RITTENHOUSE,
in
of
tion.
doing
work
it
most
comis
re-
of study.
In
view of the importance attached to the
subject it is essential
for teacher and stu-
mer from
monotonous routine
more earnestly to impress our force
and personality upon our pupils in
old
and
strive
serve
Vocational.
3.
Educational or informational.
3.
Disciplinary.
As
In fact, in
any
cal;
ment.
manufacturing, commission,
etc.;
of the
organization
of great value.
ness
is
in
for
its
to
the
and practice?
Bookkeeping may be said
tion
C. P. A.
Bookkeeping
Commercial Course
The Purpose
mercial undertaking.
Finally, the teacher who overlooks
the disciplinary value of the course,
misses an unusual opportunity to do
a noble work in the formation of
character and correct business habits,
thus making one's influence lasting
and
beneficial.
As we add
come
all
the
in
business
we
be-
moral courage
in
developing
It being our privilege to again contribute a series of articles to this department of the Business Educator
during the coming year, it will be our
purpose
terial
to
for
the
of the teacher
ciples upon which
bookkeeping
is
fundamental printhe
practice
of
We
many
esty,
of
all
who
"Business Educator."
^
Methods
of Teaching
D.
Dean
WALTER MORTON,
of Scbool of
.^^^fi4/neU/<^e/iU^i^
Bookkeeping
A. M., C. P. A.
Commerce, University
of
men.
subject which we proposed last
year, for the curriculum of a commer-
One
Perhaps the
would apply
made above
even more aptly to the methods of
teaching bookkeeping in the ordinary
business college, and forthwith the
writer, who began his commercial
teaching in a business college in the
criticism
city of Philadelphia,
and
tions
to
As
many
diflferent
dates.
The
class
easier.
weakened.
Add
time spent in
auditing and checking mistakes made
time spent
less
in books, as well as
by the student. Too frequently the
student had to w-rite up page after
page of his bookkeeping anew because of the number of errors made
while attempting to "strike out for
The
himself" without instruction.
strain, considerable less
"group plan," as
it
might be
called,
was
of commercial
subjects very largely business college graduates in the start.
^^hen there came a demand for
commercial education in the high
schools, principals of high schools
found, to their chagrin, in their
search for properly equipped teachers to present such subjects, that it
was almost impossible to find college
graduates, few normal school graduates and probably as few high school
The pioneer commercial
graduates.
teachers in the high school, therefore,
graduates,
college
business
were
many
of
make
and more
his
work more
effective
efficient.
commercial teachers.
Perhaps in justice to the pioneer
commercial teachers it might be said
that many of them, like those who
instructed the writer himself, knew
no better methods than those that
were used in the early business colleges. Much credit is due to the founders of these early business colleges
for the heroic efforts they made to
bring to the attention of the people
everyw-here, the real value of instrucThe
tion in commercial subjects.
writer has the pleasant memory of
"Uncle"
late
the
having talked with
Robert Spencer, one of the early pioneers in commercial education, regarding the handicaps under which
Fhe business college teachers of fifty
cannot think
years ago labored.
of these men without bowing in reverence and gratitude, but commercial
We
education
far
jects in
its
curriculum.
Commercial
may
^^^^uJ/n^d^^/iu:a^^
spect the teaching of a high
school
We
at
Ijest, in
Method
of
introduction
to
book-
keeping.
We
distinguished
distinction
when giving
The student
od.
is
shown
the ledger
is
introduction
to
the
subject.
whom
currency.
When he arrives he pays
fifty cents for having his trunk transferred to his boarding house, paying
this in currency out of his purse or
He
wallet.
arranges with
his
$ 5.00
.50
of entry.
cash.
Let us assume, for instance, that a young man comes to
business college, we will say, leaving
home with a check for $100. He has
He pays
in his wallet $10 in cash.
$5.00 for car fare from his home to
the town, where the business college
is located.
This car fare he pays in
with
Cash on Hand
Bank
Cash
100.00
10.00
5.00
13.00
2.50
$35.00
$110
we draw
may
be done
in the
This
following manner:
$13.00 2.50
Equals $85.00
It
now
is
Cur.
100.00
landlady
draws
his
Carfare
Trunk
Board
trans
Tuition
Books
5.00
5.00
.50
.50
5.00
12.00
2.50
Bank
5.00
12.00
2.50
f^iJ^ud//ieM^^^fi^iU!(i^^
Introduction to special column book
from the cash book.
In the little illustration used above
possible, likewise, to introduce
it is
the student, at the very outset, to the
use of the" special columns to segreThis, to
gate and analyze expenses.
the writer, seems to be a very important distinction for the student to
get from the very start. All the accounting in the world would be useless unless capable of analysis, and
the analysis must be intelligent, in
order that business policies may be
planned by a study of account analyThe introduction of columns may
sis.
be made as follows: On the left hand
side a column for the total amount
received, and a special column for the
amount which he placed in the bank.
On the right-hand side a column
should be set up for the total amounts
for
keeping a record of cash transactions,
and that no longer would we journalize cash, but enter all cash transactions in the cash book. The students
starting in September didn't receive
the latter instruction until some time
in February, in the ordinary course of
there
that
this
text-book.
progress
through
Needless to say, the writer brought
the wrath of the representative
down
working,
and
weakly
explained
in
talking with the writer, after the complaint was not sustained, that the rea-
Knowing
the
principles.
The
w-riter
that
who knew
weeks.
The
penses occur
business.
charged up at one time, by the purchase of a dollar's worth, or five dollars' w-orth of car tickets.
Stationery
in small amounts, together with office
supplies, may be charged to petty
cash account, w-hen, for instance, one
wants to buy a small bottle of ink, or
a box of carbon paper, etc.
Instead
of entering up these small purchases,
and giving vouchers for them, the
petty cash account is charged with,
say $25.00 as a permanent petty cash
fund. All such incidental expenses as
as
Introducing the student to the purchase book. Perhaps it is wise to introduce the student to the purchase
book after he has become acquainted
with the cash book.
He should be
told that for the sake of accounting
analysis today, it is necessary to keep
a separate record of all purchases, the
parties from whom they were purchased, the price at the time of purchase, so that the price at any future
time may be compared with the price
at any former time.
Likewise, it is
necessary to keep a record of the
source of all purchases, so that the
purchasing agent of a concern, or the
business executive, may have a record
of the possible sources of supply of
all material.
It is also possible to
impress upon the student of bookkeeping at the very outset the necessity for careful buying.
Much money
is
sell,
but
it
Purchasing
in
modern
^^J^u4/n^ii4/<^i^iu^i^
Purchase book transaction material.
The
illustration used in
might
be continued.
mig-ht be asked to list,
firms
tlie
cash book
student
The
let
us say, the
number
whom
Iniy
them,
amount
month,
price.
nish
and
the
approximate
the
in
the
purchase book.
The student should devise his own
fo:ms. The student should devise his
own purchase book. This is a method
of instruction that should be more
generally used.
Forms should be
drawn by the student, so that he may
learn what each column is to be used
for. and may put his own headings
In fact,
at the top of the columns.
he is thus taught the rudiments of
systematizing from the very start.
\Vhencver the forms are furnished the
student in blank books, which have
lieen printed, even though it may
save time at the start, in the opinion
of the writer, a very necessary ele-
ment
in
bookkeeping instruction
is
"debit merchandise
when purchased, and credit the person from whom the merchandise was
bought." In other words "credit persons when we get into their debt" is
the rule that should be taught in connection with purchase book transacizing,
namely
to
tions.
names and
by showing that the large department stores never fail to get the
of the purchaser, and to record
it on the sales slip.
The writer has
observed sales clerks in many large
department stores, and never yet has
he seen one who has failed to ask
him for his name when he was making a purchase, and also to record his
name on the sales slip, even though
he paj'S cash for his purchase. These
dent,
name
slips,
names
rule.
.\s
now
may
be a sufficient reserve, or
margin, in case a forced sales should
occur and market price be larger than
purchase price. Attention should be
called to the fact that the merchant
are efficient, does not
need to place the sign "closed on account of taking inventory" over his
doors, on any business day of the
year.
His inventory is perpetual and
may be checked at any time by an
estimated physical count.
Perhaps
the teacher, likewise, should call at-
whose methods
much money
should at
this fact.
this
more
sales figures.
should
there
us."
introduce
The teacher
a
sufficient
The next
Perpetual inventory.
na-
development
keeping instructions
is
in
the purchase
bought
transportation.
Introducing the journal. The student having learned the use of the
cash book, purchase book and sales
book, and inventory, may now well
It
take up the journal and its uses.
should be pointed out that the journal
is used for recording opening entries,
and entries that cannot be recorded in
(Notes receivother special books.
able and notes payable book may be
introduced, previous to this point, or
later, in the judgment of the teacher,
and in accordance with the character
of the transactions which the student
reports as having been given him by
the merchants whom he has inter-
3.
3.
^
4.
we
get out
6.
may be
already learned,
now journalize
the cash book,
Dhill
every transaction in
the purchase book
and in the sales book. The student
these six rules
whether
asked
may be
cover every transaction he can think
account.
of
an
kind
for
every
of.
in
Here
gations are shown by notes.
the teacher should illustrate by using
a blank note, teaching the student
who the parties to a note are, the
maker and the payee, etc. Careful
distinction should be made, and considerable drill should be given the
student, so that he may be able to
distinguish between the parties to a
The various kinds of notes
note.
might be explained in detail a judg-
ment
single
The
able.
of their debt.
5.
They
these notes at some bank.
should be placed on cardboard, and
hung in the room so that a student,
when in doubt at any time, might
read the conditions printed on any
It might l)e well also,
kind of note.
in connection with the cash transactions, to show bank checks of various
banks, and probably a postal and express money order also. The teacher
can get money and express orders for
small sums and use such orders for
The way in
illustrative purposes.
of
time
.^^^fiJ/^i^U^^/iu^i^
own
For
for that month.
instance, with the 12 months of the
columns,
year, there would be 12
column heading
headed
1,
2,
3,
i,
5,
G,
T,
8,
9,
Other
special books.
Sometimes
it
number.
The voucher
record.
In connection
with every
should be a
cording the
gether with
paid.
indicating
the
date
when
the
suited to this system, especially government, state and municipal accounting systems, which are usually
run on the voucher method.
Washington Business Gollege, Washington, D. C, 1321 G. Street Northis the new commercial school
venture in the Capitol. The proprieThe
tors are Poteet & Whitmore.
latter is a very skillful penman and
will give to the pupils the highest
efficiency in handwriting instruction.
Doubtless the increased demand for
west,
office
workers
more than
in
Washington
justify the
opening of
will
this
^^i^^ud/n^sd^^fi^iu^i/i^
Planning a Civil
Service Course
J. F.
Formerly
Wanted
Department of Commerce,
Washington. D. C.
in the
Stenographers, Typewriters,
Uncle Sam.
Clerks, Etc.
On
ny,
vice
Co
mm
s s
Washington, D. C,
n,
subject.
is-
bulletin:
2.
3.
Stenography.
Penmanship.
Report Writing.
4.
Arithmetic.
numbers
5.
Spelling.
li.
Typewriting;
u e d
the
1.
following
ers,
both
of
men
and
40'0
of
the
United States.
Field
Service
Washington.
principal
cities of the
Examinations for the
(positions outside of
D. C.,) are held fre-
quently.
The
from $900
ment
now
BE JUSTIFIED."
cials
Rough
from
from
Plain
Copy.
7.
Time consumed on the typewriting subjects will also be rated.
If
combined
"UNCLE SAM."
The
salary is
higher than most business firms are
willing to pay beginners, and the opportunity for advancement is good.
Government stenographers and typewriters work seven hours a day and
are given a :iO day vacation with full
pay each year. In case of sickness, 30
days additional leave may be granted
with pay.
Considering these facts,
the appointments should prove unusualy attractive to both young men
of
and women.
The Washin.gton Star recently
made the statement that 10,000 appointments would be made in the near
future.
It
come to my attention
young fnen who a few
has
recently that
have
Commission
if
We
Copying
Copying
Draft;
it
has
of this
and
men
July
15.
It is
my
ies of articles for the Business Educator, and I shall do all I can to aid in
coaching young people for civil ser-
vice positions.
shall
take pleasure
answering any question that readers of this magazine may desire to ask
in
regarding
ments.
The
original name.
to
believe that the private commerschool and the commercial departments of high schools should attempt to supply this demand for stenographers, typewriters, and clerks.
cial
its
has
charge
penmanship
best
wishes
comtnercial and
departments, is putting
of
the
26
ARTHUR
^^J^u^i/n^J^^f/iua/^
SKEELES
G.
8.
Compare
the
Isles
9.
English
France.
Explain
PART
some one
\'II
Notes
"When
man
what he owes
us,
was
"It is best to do
so," I replied, "for if
you don't, you may
discount the note at
bank, or otherwise dispose of it, and
perhaps forget or neglect to credit the
right party for the money received."
"It is the discount that bothers us,"
replied Mr. Merchant.
"One of our
customers,
the
Jonesville
Grocery
Company, offered us on account a
note for $3.5, which had been turned
over to them by one of their customers. The note was signed by a man
named Winkler.
didn't know him,
of course, but we did know the Jones-
We
Why
11.
(a)
of the natural
disadvantages of Germanj-.
(b)
have the Germans over-
How
come
(a)
12.
The
15.
16.
20. 1917.
Ceylon.
18.
accompanying
examination
second semester in com-
my
and
subject,
(a)
19.
to
the
United
(b)
African commerce?
the resources of the
MARSHALL MEANDERINGS
Draw
On
locate
it
map
of
St.
X'ermont.
Albans, St.
Johnsbury.
Bellows
Falls,
Montpelier.
Newport,
Winooski River. \'ernon Dam,
Fifteen Miles Falls, Somer-
Dam. Rutland,
2.
is
important.
which
X'er-
mont
(b) Tell
3.
What
is
the
"Mountain
its
Line,"
disadvantages?
Vermont
5.
6.
What
4.
ing, Brazilian
coffee.
T.
June, 1917
rubber or Brazilian
How may
20.
set
in the
V. COBLEIGH,
Director of Commercial Department,
High School.
(c)
ag-
and commercially.
Respectfully,
(a)
(h)
14.
IRVING
1.
riculturally,
illustra-
13.
Gentlemen:
covered
Be spe-
one
least
17.
the handicaps?
in at
tion.
the
Mention some
other day."
10.
cific
Sellers.
merce.
able."
the note.
else,
the
of
Engcom-
the influence of
coal mines on her
land's
Students and Teachers are invited to write to Mr. Skeeles regarding the questii
discussed in this series, or any other bookkeeping topics.
agriculture of
with
that
raised
The
ones
thirds
amount
may
help
know.
Business University, La
now has charge of the
Crosse, Wis.,
Chile.
new
ville,
position.
We
in his
t^
^^^r^u<i/n^4^^^^/iu^i^
Columbus, Ohio,
Dear Mr. Zaner:
Some time ago I had some correspondence with you in regard to outlines in Commercial English Work.
am enclosing an outline of our
I
work and trust that you may be able
to use
it,
Commer-
am
I
cial English Teachers.
ially interested in the outside
especreading
this
to
you
Very
truly }'ours,
I.
Head
of
R.
STOUT,
Commercial Dept.
English
Practical English
(pp.
Outside Reading.
week
Elements
It shall
emphasize
General.
of Efficiency; IV.
be the aim of this course to
F.nglish at work rather
culture.
To that
end, each lesson shall, as far as possible, stress those situations that are
real, personal, and vital in the life of
pupils who expect to become men in-
than
F.nglish
for
Throughout
the
course,
emphasis
Two
Lewis and
Hosic
Biography
Andy Wells
Adams,
Young
ary Biograph}'.
Butterworth, H.
College.
Outside Reading.
Two
ments; punctuation.
English Four
Do Business By Letter
Cody.
How To
Cattle
of
Lin-
Ranch
to
Drake,
S.
Edison.
Morgan,
Jas.
in
Authors,
Time.
and
By Geo.
Boyhood
coln.
Rii^s,
English Three
the
Doubleday, Russell
Brothers,
Cattle Kings.
Plieninger, G.
How To
GROUP ONE
Current Events.
Outside Reading.
which
Hosic
9-1373.
COMMERCIAL ENGLISH
of
One
Lewis and
27
Our
tr.
Upton.
-Theodore Roosevelt, the
Citizen.
Roth,
of
Livingstone,
P.
A,-
J.
Statesmen
David
Richard
Through
Stanley's
Journey
Dark Continent,
the
tr,
by Geo. P. Upton.
Smiles, Samuel
Industrial Biography.
I.
S.
S.
icans.
GROUP TWO
Choosing a Vocation
Bailey,
L.
H.
ment.
Beveridge, A.
I.
in
S.
in
^^J^ud/n^U^^^/iu^i^
Hubberton, John
Hall.
How
and
Poor
R. How
S.
Keep
to
B oys ChancPosition
Get
to
It.
Hancock, H. I.
Haskins, C. VV.
and Accountancy.
Fighting a Fire.
Hill. Chas. T.
Hill. G. B.
Young Farmer.
in
J.
S.
Life.
Olin, C.
Occupations
Frank
Marsland,
J.
(civil).
in
W.
Man Do?
S.
Can
Young
C. Complete
cessful Electrician.
Stevens,
What
Service
S.
T.
Shall
for
Through
D.Working
One's
Way
College.
Factors of Success
Adams, W. H. D.
Success.
Allen, James
The Secret
of
Mastery of Destiny.
Success of Defeat.
Bennett, Anrold Mental Efficiency.
Dicksee, L. R. and Plain, H. E. OfBabcock, M. D.
C
Raised.
Fowler, N. C. Practical
Salesman-
H. Efficient Life.
H. Mind and Work.
Wm.
Gettin
on
Who
Sell
(latest ed.).
'Theo.
The
Life.
Increasing
Scott, W. D.
ficiency in Business.
Roosevelt,
in
the
Things
Strenuous
Human
Ef-
Stockwell, H. G.
Essential Elements
of Business Character.
Strong, Josiah
Times and Young
Men.
The interchange
S.
tions.
S.
J.
Hillis,
Art.
Hilty,
N.
D. Right
Living as a Fine
Happiness, Essays on
The Meaning of Life.
Jenks,
W. Life Questions of High
School Boys.
Jones,
M. Letters of Labor and
Carl
J.
Love.
Jordan, D. S.^Nation's Need of Men.
Marden, O. S. Success.
Messer, C. J.
Mr. Responsibility,
Partner.
Riis, J. H.
Making of An American.
Life on High
Sangster, Margaret
Business Career
Public Relations.
Stevenson, R. L. Kidnapped.
Stevenson, R. L. Treasure Island.
Wganer, Chas. One Life's Threshhold.
Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur.
Wallace, Henry Uncle Henry's Letters to the Farm Boy.
Warner, Chas. Being a Boy.
Washin.gton, B, T. Up from Slavery.
Whipple, E. P. Recollections of Eminent Men.
Wiuship, A. E. The Shop.
D. Swiss Family Robinson.
Wyss,
Youge. G. Book of Golden Deeds.
Levels.
in Its
J.
GROUP FOUR
Miss
ship.
Jordan,
Mathews,
World.
Shaw, Albert
GROUP THREE
Gulick, L.
Gulick, L.
S.
and Yendes, L. A.
Do?
S.
S.
S.
Civil
Manual.
Stoddard,
Jr.
Moody, W. K. Men
FIXING STANDARDS
Success.
.\rt of
S.
.J.
J.
D.,
J.
in
E. How to Become a
O'Reily,
Patrolman.
O'Reilly,
E. How to Become
Fireman.
Phin. John How to Become a Good
Mechanic.
Plympton, G. W. How to Become an
Engineer
Reeves, L L. Manual for Aspirants
the U.
Army.
for a Commission
Reid, Whitelaw and others Careers
Journalism.
H.
J
Knovvlson, T. S.
Lorimer, G. H.
made Merchant
of
tuition
among
assistance rendered to
through the employment
departments of the affiliated instituthe
schools,
graduates
tions, reports sent out at frequent intervals with reference to school conditions,
co-operative advertising and
purchasing
of
supplies
these
are
some
Governors.
J.
F.
FISH, Chairman,
Publicitv Committee.
COMMERCIAL LAW
H.
J.
CONTRACTS
A
writing;
to
in writing,
but yet
id
all
business
is
transacted
may
delay.
Fortunately the subject is not difficult, and any attentive student may
easily grasp the governing principles.
The four essentials of a contract
are: competent parties, agreement or
assent, consideration, and legal subject matter.
The parties to a contract are those
who make
fected by
As
to
it
its
and those
terms.
<;ompetent
ROBINSON
Edinburg, Pa.
duced
who
parties,
are afall
f^^^uJ//t^J^^^/iua/h^
per-
sons aside from a few well defined exceptions may make contracts. These
exceptions the laws makes to shield
the persons themselves from their
own acts or to protect them government. In most cases it is the former
reason. Certain classes are forbidden
to make contracts because the law
does not believe them to know what
is for their own best interests.
By
natural disabilities
we
some
The minds of
their acts.
totally destroyed, while others
deranged only to certain things and
are perfectly sane on other subjects.
It is held that a lunatic may contract on the latter as if he were entirely sane.
It is also admitted that
if an insane person has lucil intervals,
he
to
may
are
are
contracts
upon him
Achild's
first
liirthday
is
the
first
day of
his
day.
must
It
is
good advice
tractual relations with infants or lunatics, for if the contract proves valuable to him he may retain it, and if
on the other hand it proves erroneous
to
infant cannot make contracts that will lie binding on him, yet there are certain conHe may make
tracts he may make.
binding contracts for necessaries, aiid
upon will
agrees
he
which
the price
be upheld unless it be exorbant. Neshelclothing,
food,
cessaries include
in
ter and instruction, and must be
life,
in
station
his
conformitv with
hence what would be necessaries for
one person might be luxuries for another. Under the common law during
the life of the husband the legal existence was merged in that of her
That was upon the prinhusband.
ciple that they were one. All personal
property she may have had at the
time of her marriage became his and
as he took away her means of paying
anti nuptual debts, he assumed the
She could
liability for their payment.
make no contracts while living with
him or
liind
her husband, that would
her, except when she did so as his
He was entitled to her earnagent.
ings, but if he did not supply her with
the necessities of life and she were
not at fault she could purchase them
and he would be bound, it being implied that she had authority to act as
his agent.
There is perhaps nothing in the
common law
^^^^u^^t^^^/uof^
may
retain
perty.
parts,
the
first
step in
making
Acceptance.
ofifer
and
is
contract,
When
No
set
form of acceptance
is
re-
quired.
eration.
Consideration is of two
classes, sufficient and insufficient. Sufficient or valuable consideration may
be benefit to the promiser, loss or inconvenience to the promisee or mutual promises.
Insufficient consideration may be gratutious, impossible,
moral, executed and illegal.
\ contract for which there is no
consideration is gratutious and cannot
l)e enforced, as there is no benefit to
the promiser and no loss or benefit to
the promisor.
promise
self
do something that by
Moral consideration
is
is
physi-
will
not of
not
it-
be a
ever
fill
are, as we shall see, exceptions to this rule, and as they are far
less numerous than the excuses falling
within the rule, it will be simple to
obstructing
The fraud
an agreement may be
perpetrated first by one of the parties
upon the other or second by one or
both parties upon a third party.
in
government
nal law.
head of
of
is
the
en-
College
Y.
Schenectady, N.
J. V. Bowen, of the
charge
of the
has
School,
Y., Business
John
High School.
W.
North Dakota.
to
There
duty to compel
A moral obligation to
or to do a legal act is,
it
its
pay money
however, a good consideration if followed by an e.xpress promise to do
so.
If
the consideration has already
been rendered voluntarily and not at
of University Place,
teaching commercial branches
at Giltner, Xelx, in the Hi.gh School.
F. C. Brofee, of Trenton, N. J., is
connected with the Huntsinger Business School at Hartford, Conn., where
he will teach advanced accounting
is
and law.
Norman
Columbia University.
Ethel M. Burns, of Brown's Business
College, Terre Haute, Ind.. is now a
teacher of commercial branches in
Link's Business College, Boise, Idaho.
Company,
The work
time.
penman.
of "The Proof,"
published by Duff's College, Pittsburgh, issued in June, is one of the
most timely pieces of advertising received during the spring and early
summer. It is printed in blue and red,
w^ith such stirring headings as: "Your
Country Calls You,'" "Join the Cleri-
cal
Leona McLean,
Neb.,
New York
Citj',
is
Army,"
etc.
Announcegraphed-by-the-Students
ment and Outline of Course of Study
order that patrons may know what
is taught and to aid them in electing
and
It is illustrated
their course.
done neatly and skillfully.
The Taylor School, of Philadelphia,
was presented with an elegant, large
silk flag made by one of its pupils.
Miss Florence Willimann, whom the
Philadelphia Press named the "Betsy
in
Cedar
Falls.
%^^ud/ned^^f/iua/fr^
Pearl M. Winkler, during the past
teacher in the Ontonagon,
a
Mich., High School, will hold a similar position in the Manistee, Mich.,
Hi,5h School next year.
3'ear
New
Rock-
is
to
3'ear.
A new
to
be
teacher
in
the
Wood
School,
coming"
have
charge
Department
of
of the
the
Shorthand
Draughon
Business
cal
College.
Tenn., next year.
PractiNashville,
of that city.
W.
now
High School.
Mmnie
C.
Manual
Pittsburg,
Boone,
la..
Kans.,
is
to
teach
in the
year.
Thenice
year.
Jennie
Skinner, of Springport,
teach shorthand in YankD., College, next year.
L.
will
Ind.,
ton, S.
W. Cooper, of Maryville, Mo., formerly owner of the Maryville Business College, will have charge of the
commercial work of the Garbutt
A.
Business College,
next year.
Calgary,
Alberta,
High School.
is
to
connected
C.
with
New York
School,
City.
W.
engaged
Y.,
The Omaha High School of Commerce, Omaha, Neb., will have three
new commercial teachers during the
coming year:
R.
McLean and
Vera
Fleck,
H. O. Dickey, Ernest
G. L. Waterbury.
Lincoln,
Neb., is
teaching in
summer Schools of
Dcs Moines, la.
D. E. Whaley, of Port Chester, N. Y.,
has been engaged to teach commercial branches in the Packard Commercial School, New York City, next
of
the
year.
Esther
Farlow,
of
Port
Townsend,
of
in
Keokuk,
Lamb's
111.
autoearly
history of this country and of the nation to Civil War times
on the wall
to the left of the entrance to the Children's Room of the Boston Public
Library, will fascinate anyone interested in autographs who has the fortune to see them.
Where are there
other collections of autographs open
to persons interested in seeing the
hand-writing of famous people? W.
E. Benscoter,
ton.
cards.
Jennie M. Anderson is to teach bookkeeping and penmanship in the Beloit. Wis., Higli School, next year.
Lucile Brubaker, of Athens, O., has
accepted a position as commercial
teacher at Oak Harbor. Ohio, next
Commercial Department
year.
win
Hi'-;h
Mr.
Okla..
W.
has
Grinnell,
been
County Treasurer
of
Bartlesville,
appointed
Deputy
there.
year.
111.,
Township
High
M. Coulter. President.
printed, attractively
well written.
It is
splendidly
and
illustrated,
in
Nor-
School.
J.
of
continue
expects
to
spiration
among
to
BUSINESS EDUCATOR
use
as
THE
an
in-
his students.
f^^f^uUniei^^f/iu^a^
W. Knight, of Newbury,
is a new teacher in the Hesser
Business College, Manchester, N, H,
Harry C. Goggins, of Lincoln, Nebr.,
has been chosen to head the commerDorothy
Mass..
cial
School
coming
year.
Iowa State
Falls,
has
office
of the Girls' \"o-
training department
cational High School, Minneapolis.
Otto
W. Hackman,
of
Columbus.
Neb., will teach this year in the Lincoln. Neb.. High School.
College, Troy. N.
Y., will
penmanship
teacher.
stenography and
the Oregon
Corvallis.
office
.\gricultural
training in
College
has
l)een
at
Auburn, N-
engaged
St.
as
Joseph, Mo.,
teacher of
coming
year.
la., has
accepted a position in the North
Bend. Ore.. High School, as commerMiss Bradley held a
cial teacher:
in
Mrs. M. T. Moore, of
B. F.
teach
Ga.
McAdams,
of Harlan, la.,
commercial
Aaker
branches
College at
in
is
to
the
Grand
Business
Forks, N, D.
Florence H. Maloney, of Springfield.
Mass.. has been elected teacher of
commercial branches in the Billerica,
Mass.. High School, next year.
L. E. Gifford, of Des Moines, la., will
have charge of the accounting work
of the Y. M. C. A. division in connection with the cantonment there.
Ina Akins, last year commercial
teacher in Tonopah. Nev., has accepted a position as private secretary
to B.shop Brent, of the Philippines.
C. W. Woodward, of Brown's Business College, Danville, 111., has accepted an apponitment to a similar
position in the Port Huron Business
University. Port Huron, Mich.
Mrs. Z. D. Wheat, of Bowling Green,
Kv.. has been elected to a position as
commercial teacher in the Savannah,
Ga.. High School.
DuVal J. Torpeney, of Addison,
Mich., has accepted a position as commercial teacher in the Detroit Technical Institute, Y. M. C. A., Detroit,
Mich.
cial
at
ark. N.'j.
Y.,
is
Y'ork.
The Lansing, Mich., Business University, has a new teacher in Miss Hanigan, of Pasadena, Calif.
inter-
work at Lake.
Chautauqua, N. Y^, consisted of _a
course offered to commercial organization secretaries in what was called
The American City Bureau Summer
School.
It was attended by school
superintendents, commercial teachers,
esting
feature
of
the
^
AND
'WISE
OTHERWISE'
Stories from Recent Real Life
T. CRAGIN
Holyoke, Mass,
By CHARLES
defines "wise"
knowledge-learned-enlightened: but the definition does not quite
till the bill to me, for
have seen some exI
tremely learned peo-
dictionary
ig
mere
book
knowlhave seen
people who were pos-
edge.
of the
in
Come and
"Hey, young feller!
have a drink with us, you and your
mate!" said a villainous looking man,
the leader of a gang of tough looking
ruffians who were stracrgling up from
the river dock of lower St. Paul, headed in the direction of a dingy, doggery with the familiar word, "SALOON" in dirty white letters over its
black entrance.
little
craft
knew how
when the
f^^r3^Uii/n^M/^t/fua^h^
cavalry,
On
"Ancient Kingdom."
The war
Jim
young
They
iator.
33
Life Partnership
In
growing
fortune
to
family.
lars
but
dol-
this
^^^^u4/ned^^i(/iua^^
The
was
It
lirought
from
was
ially in
Minnesota.
It
was found
that
net
work
the Hudson Bay Company of the CanDonald Smith was even more
adas.
of the iron type than our Jim of Minnesota, and the two got hold of an-
banker
in
Great
the
Northern,
which
Rube
in
Lamb
The Northern
interested in that great line of railroad, and soon he and his friends were
controlling its policy so that the two
there
came
into
\\'all
Street,
New
of
"J. P.
He handed
Jim, of
the W'est. appealed to the arrogant
chief of the Eastern speculators. They
were birds of a feather though widely
The man
different in their methods.
from the West laid out his plans and
said, "I want to control the great
Middle West and get an outlet to
Chicago. To do it, I must buy the
8000 miles of track of the great 'QThat was the name they
System'."
Battle of Giants
be cut
oflf
mercy
and when the smoke of batcleared away, it was found that the
Northern Pacific was in the control of
the man I'm telling you about, and
there remained till his death a couple
assaults,
tle
of years ago,
I don't suppose Jim of the Northwest was a perfect man. Jesus Christ
ever
is the only perfect man that I
heard of, and they crucified Him. you
know. A man of such commanding
force and driving power as our Jim
possessed, is sure to make some enemies, and Jim certainly had one battle
royal with the great railroad genius,
Edward H. Harriman. But he was
He
loved by the common people.
owed a great deal of his fine character, which would not allow him to
take advantage of a poor man or to
make a trade with anybody that didn't
leave the other party satisfied, to a
school master. Schoolmasters are. in
fact,
not the worst people in the
world, even if you young people think
so sometimes when they are driving
you a little hard in the happiest days
those you are
you will ever know
spending now at school. This school
teacher was a Quaker and he ran a
little
Academy
Jim spent
used to wear
and they sit
never say a
make
never
Quaker up
come and
to
liiT
*^J^ud/ned^^i^uai^h^
me though
who once
came under
tion.
if I
But, as in the
in this brief
Jerome
modern
For though Canada born.
story of James
Hill, one of the greatest of
sketch, the
Americans.
life
Hill was all American, without a hyphen, president of the Great Northern and in full control at the time of
his death of nearly 20,000 miles of
Over this great network of
railroad.
steel lying like giant spiderweb over
save
Russia
than
all
the nations of
heaven.
It isn't a faultless country,
not by a long shot.
We have got
enough and to spare, but it is
the best country there is, and a man
faults
who
fit
to
isn't
live
willing
in
it
to
and
die
Ije
for
it
isn't
protected by
the folds of
And James
brief
west.
Does
the
life
of
this
man,
"Jim
Then followed
for
two days
lively
We
the
Za
ident;
Ky., Business
University Summer School for Commercial Teachers announced its work
by means of an attractively covered
and illustrated catalog, printed in
black and green and gold. Half-tone
illustrations and specimens of peniTianship adorn its pages.
The Business Men's Efficiency College is the name of the new school
recently organized in Kansas City,
Missouri.
Its aim is to emphasize
Office Methods and Devices, and the
use of the various machinery used in
Billing,
Adding,
etc.
of Business
PubJones.
by the author at 224 Main
Brockton, Mass. Paper cover.
lished
St.,
premium.
Columbus,
O.,
^
Show Card Writing
Xow
are
also used
WATER
penman and engross-
practical
flat
er's
w-riter
must
color
when
his
jvork
le
3,
4,
my gray
Ho
atter.
the
Where
daily
le
by the
It
pupil.
_qui(
Especially
6.
5j
3.
The greatest puzzle to me and the
critical grade is the fifth,
ranging a special course for th
These points predominate
1.
thoroughly drill them in movem
ing at relaxation speed and
one passes on until qualified. 2. I shall
have them master the elements and prin-
most
ciples
and
their application
sentences.
to letters.
3.
Believe me.
New
How
ment.
impossible.
sign
phasized on
to
and more and more we must have individual instruction and individual advance
mix
vorrying
1.
The pla
special lesson
pupil learns t
sons.
2.
Form a
pupils.
These must be thoroughly drilled in the fundamentals, before
entering the regular course of the class.
Putting them in with our regular pupils
is
discouraging to them and unsatisfactory.
Our population is rapidly changing
and
the
that ha
4.
to
1917.
31,
First, we will
^^'riting, as that
Of course
May
Ind.,
Mr. Zaner:
have been studying the work very
losely this year and have gained many
aluable points and settled some points
)ear
manner.
know how
Lafayette,
Color. Black
to start with.
are
and
good color
will be a
Springfield, Mass.
Room
of
tle
W. STRICKLAND
H.
M^^u4/ne4^^i^iuvi/i^
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terested
spelling,
D. B.
JONES,
R. 3*
Paducah, Ky.
5.
is
This
rangement.
More anon
ticles
for the
J.
H.
BACHTENKIRCHER,
Supervisor of Writing.
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who, himself, was one time a fi le engrosser and is still a fine penman and a still finer man.
ing,
S.
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Being temperate and a lover of
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in
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sixty years of age.
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W. Bloser
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IN
VERMONT
in Vermont's comeffective Sept. 1, 1917
mercial
Miss
S.
signs to
Junction, Vt.
Miss Daisie R. Kenyon, who has been clerk
in school superintendent's office at St. Johnsbury, will take up the work at Bethel.
At Burlington we contemplate the policy of
making our commercial teaching a training
The vacancy caused by Miss Woodcourse.
ruff's resignation will be filled by two young
ladies who will teach half-time and attend the
Thus
University of Vermont the other half.
at the end of four years, by attending summer school, they will have a college degree
Eventuplus a valuable teaching experience.
ally it is hoped to enlarge the amount of pupil
teaching under high grade supervision.
Respectfully,
IRVING
V.
COBLEIGH,
Burlington, Vt.
No
better,
cleaner,
brainier
little
booklet of an indirect advertising nature comes to our desk (and there are
thousands not so good) as No. 1,
Vol. 1, Practical Text Book Magazine,
Cleveland. Ohio, May, 1917. Price. 10
cents.
It is small, compact, individualistic, artistic, high grade. Dickens,
Nye and Riley, Bolton Hall, and
others are quoted and commented
By
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upon most entertainingly. Wise business stories and incidents are tersely
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VOLUME
XXIII
The BUSINESS
EDUCATOR
P.
C.
E.
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LIFE ESSENTIALS
.War
upon us with
effects are
their
living.
achievement
and success, of happiness and optimism are few and need to be perceived
order
in
of
that
may
they
be
wealth
abundance.
of
efficiency
both
are
is
the
the basis
basis of
fort.
conserving of food
to
of
effort
means
fuel,
which
is vital
For economy
all.
pends
upon
skillful
therefore, to
production.
We
need,
NEW YORK
NUMBER
1917
CITY
II
proving a
is
disturbing
ele-
enough
To meet
mercial.
in
both
women
farms and
Young
in the industries.
ladies will
of
conditions.
Office workers
were never in so
much demand and at as high wages.
Therefore commercial schools and
courses have an allurement never before known to many.
The Business Educator is impressed
with the opportunities before those
engaged in giving and getting a commercial education, and sincerely wishes all worthy institutions and individuals prosperity and progress.
^
A-RAILING
The end of August saw us going to
Salt Lake and return via Pennsylvania, C. M. & St. P. Ry., U. P., D. &
R. G., and Mo. Pacific.
fields of oats and wheat
through Illinois and Iowa revealed
abundance in those most vital fuel
The golden
foods, and the stately corn, just passing the "roasting ear" stage, meant
wealth and health for producer and
consumer.
Let us hope that Hoover will see
to it that the pork hog may transmute
the corn into human energy without
the manipulations of the speculator
For the crimes committed the
bog.
past year by American onion, potato
and grain speculators were as heinous as were those by German militarism against noncombatants.
We
to
work
Institute
in
the
of
city
Salt
pointment of Arthur J. Becker, formerly of Chattanooga, Tenn., as supervisor of writing. This will add to
the efficiency in that department,
Mr. Becker
is
as
an able, well-rounded
man,
D.
L.
S.
Business University,
High School,
me
initiated
the
into
further plunder.
The
is
second
many
to
no other
Kearney,
where Stryker
rights writing.
The day
ride
Wyoming was
plains
merged
vivid green
everywhere,
green
brown.
when
usually it is
-\nd then as darkness gently drew
earth's slumber robe across the landscape, the transition from wonderland
to
dreamland was as
real.
restful as
it
was
lars.
It
plain,
particu-
mountain
and
its
The
trip by day from Grand Junc(where that grand judge of handand humanity resides and
serves. Master [meaning degree rather than tender age] Fred M. Bacon)
to Pueblo (where Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Clark, of the American Business College, have won enduring success) is
one continuous panorama of scenic
beauty and grandeur. In crossing the
tion
writing
The
first
of
relaxation
"touristing"
eastern Kansas and across
Missouri, midst scenes of agricultural
plenty and prosperity.
in
quiet
through
GRADING
would seem
that
at all
Pacific,
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arm
when writing when no one is watching or when writing copies for engraving, or employs some one who
the fingers in conjuction with the
can do better.
Likewise, position is rated zero if
it is not
good physically. It would
seem
us
to
that
the
pupil
who
sat
though
it
cient.
Extreme
ing
to
movement
Those
is
vexing to read.
who would
evolve
Scales
Jesse
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MILTON
H.
L. D. S. University, Salt
Your success
Make
ROSS
Lake
City,
sure your
Penmanship
is easily
written, easily read
and
Utah
sightly.
writing depends entirely upon the movement you are using, and the movement deOf course, control is absolutely necessary. I have seen a man with an unusual
that could not get home to save his life.
(Utah went "Bone Dry" last August.)
After getting the freedom of movement, (Arm Movement), which is sure to come if you have followed instructions in the September number of the B. E., you can get control in a much shorter time if you make it a
point to have an arrangement of some kind on every page you practice. Every line should be filled before going
to the next.
Make so many letters or exercises to each line. Show a marked improvement on each copy practiced
before taking up another.
Getting a good hand writing is like getting a good wife, (I speak from experience). You need to come early,
sit close, and stay late.
Still a little each day is better than
spasmodic enthusiasm at irregular intervals.
The
amount of writing is not nearly as important as the intelligent concentration of effort while practicing. Keep inin ]nisiness
amount
of
movement
in his legs
terested.
EXERCISE
No.
1,
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EXERCISE
No. 6
very important, more so than any other one exercise in business writing.
Note carefully the straight
down stroke to the line, the curved up stroke, and the sharp open point. This combination of strokes is found in
nineteen of the twenty-six small letters.
This
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No.
Line No. 1. Count one for each down stroke starting with an oval shape aljout one-fourth of a space high at
the rate of aljout one hundred seventy-five down strokes per ininute, then without slowing or lifting the pen,
change to the straight down stroke with the sharp point on the line. Count 1-3-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-20
1-3-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-30, then lift the pen and move the arm to the right before starting a new group.
The up stroke
brings the pen to the right, therefore every time you make an up stroke the little finger should slide to the right.
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No. 8
is
a review.
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No. 9
the same down stroke as is used in the u, the loop being caused by making more
curve to the upper part of the up stroke. Study the finish of the w. It is made by giving the pen the least turn
makes
just enough retrace to get the w to combine nicely with the letter that follows.
stroke.
This
before the ofif
In writing the word note that every down stroke comes to the line. Put them close together, but do not crowd
them. The space between the words should be wider than the snace between the letter, and the space between the
letters should be wider than the space between the parts of the letters.
The small
e is
made with
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EXERCISE
No. 10
Take one part at a time. Constant repetition is an essential. Consider all repeated letters and words
ment drills. Does your little finger stick to the paper, or does it "lide easily to the right
as
move-
."
SPENCER CHAMBERS
C.
13
People
By
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of
Freedom
in Writing.
Plate XXIII. A. The loop opens the exercise followed by eight retraced ovals around it, and the horizontal
is then made followed by the compound curve falling below the line.
Count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
In the L exercise count twelve, five for the little top oval, two for the compound stroke and loop, and five
for the closing horizontal oval.
B.
Get a good image in 3'our "mind's eye" of the Q and L. Then work until you are satisfied that you have
uval
made
a marked improvement.
This exercise will be useless unless it is practiced properly.
C.
close the exercise, but the pen comes to a dead stop. Start down as
continue up with a compound curve retracing five times. Count 1, 2,
coming
oming nown
and gomg
going up.
down anu
Plate
XXIV. Thi
make
plate
is
it
Draw
a line
from
tlu'
The
if
you intended
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4,
.5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
1.
The count
is
made
beginning of the lines and the close of the stem and see
^^ T'^y
a review.
Make
as
many combinations
as
C^j
'T
plate eighteen.
Plate XXV. The alphabet should not be practiced in its entirety until you have gone over ever}- exercise
covering each letter. When the first alphabet has been made, criticise it closely by placing an X above the five
poorest letters, and work on them until they are up to the rest in quality, make another alphabet, repeating the
process until you have lifted yourself out of the mediocre class.
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Plate XXVI. Optional letters, which may be used in the practice on the previous plate if so desired.
letters are neither freakish or antiquated, but have the approval of many penmen in class A.
Plate
XXVII.
until these
.\fter
practicing on
F.
S.
Robinson,
Penman. Walnut
Hills
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PENMANSHIP EDITION
Our Policy: Better Writing Through
Improved Teaching and Methods.
Form with Freedom from the Start.
ihe
one piccecing
in the third
it,
The
grade.
of these co-ordinated
such that a large numljcr of
the most progressive superintendents,
plans
success
is
supervisors,
them, and
ing
their
maximum
and
teachers
emploj'
in
PARTIAL CONTENTS
forts.
Where
writing
instruction
is
not
graded according to tlu natural variations from grade to grade, e.xtra time
and efTort are necessary to secure re-
well illustrated
It is
liy
the p'an of
of the
bending process.
Mental
Meanderings, Carl C.
Marshall, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
J.
on
Lights
Side
.\rthur
H.
S.,
Commercial Law,
son,
Bookkeeping,
G. Skeeles. Peabody
Pittsburgh, Pa.
J.
H. Robin-
Edinburg, Pa.
Commerce
sity of
Commercial
Training,
Charles
Two
Timely
Letters
from
Cleveland.
Notes.
News
comprise the foundation and the superstructure. The one supports and
they
20 because they are openminded and know that they have the most yet
at
F.
proves
to learn.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
prosperity enjoyed.
Answers agree that there is a
large demand for office help in
general, a demand which has been
CANADIAN COMMERCIAL
EDUCATION
a summary
ceived.
of
the
answers
boys below draft age, and particularly the young women: and total
attendance should equal or exceed
pre-war attendance in this country.
re-
Sincerely yours,
ofif
practically
that there was a great
in business the first
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM
urgin.g
are
physically unfit, to train to do the
large amount of office work which
must be done by reason of so
many leaving that work for military service.
In considering the above points
bear in mind the fact called to
our attention in several of the answers that Canada has furnished
for military service a much larger
proportion of her population than
this country is thus far proposing
to
furnish.
The
efifect
in
this
America
We
country.
You are the commercial educational
leaders of this country, and if there
ever was a time in our history when
you should really lead that time is
now. It is the patriotic duty of the
American people to see to it that
twice as many boys and girls attend
commercial and industrial schools this
year as before. I consider it the patriotic duty of a million young women
to
of
this
be
when hundreds
our young men
commercial
life?
Much
business
in
(Inc.)
S.
Candian Province.
The American people are not yet
and commercial
w-hich has been
brought
situation
about as a result of the war. The first
result of a war declaration always is a
alive to the industrial
During
psychological depression.
1914 within two months after the war
was declared I gave a Chautauqua
address in a Canadian city. The people were depressed and showed little
interest in the Chautauqua. This summer I gave this same address in a
town near this other one, and of the
95 Chautauqua towns which
employment.
The American
people as a whole do not realize the
effect that this is going to have upon
the commercial conditions of this
situation
gested,
attendance
way
The war
from
tion.
is
large;
the salaries are
large: these two points offer you
strong appeals for your advertis-
commercial
more prominent
other
try for
out
town was
felt in
addressed this
have
training.
life
this
It
triotic or financial
appeal
in
it.
It
is
young women
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uous drilling
MEANDERINGS
A
grammar, and so on
the whole course a maxipractice and a minimum of
than
rather
filing methletter
writing,
mum
Wage
is in
spends
earns, he
is
business
at
he
all
not doinga
profit,
service, or he
his upkeep.
may
earner
is
something
earned,
so
there
will
be
salary earners.
It
takes
more brains
Some Recent
Tendencies
of
theory.
Earning a Business
wage-earner is a person who
man
to
business
etc.,
C.
516 Reaper Block, Chicago
after
business penmanship;
in
working knowledge of
ods,
through
MARSHALL
CARL
it
does
bit this
summer and
find a few tendencies worth noting.
First, the war is making the demand
excellence of their work to get business rather than upon the work of
paid solicitors. Also, there is less expensive advertising, flashy catalogues,
etc.
Not so long ago the billboards
in Chicago were covered with business school advertisements. You will
hardly see one now.
find also that many teachers of
I
bookkeeping are abandoning the "ac-
and
the
returning to
time-tested
"journel method."
But there seems
to be an increase, rather than a falling
ofif in the insistence upon good business practice even in the earlier part
of the course. The argument for this
is that the first idea in bookkeeping is
to formulate the debits and credits,
and that
this
is
accomplished
in
its
Some
Compensation
not
all
debits.
To begin with, we have the fine reaction of military training and discipline upon our grown boys.
Too
many thousands of these have been
spoiled and pampered by indulgent
parents, have grown up without respect for authority of any sort, and
are flabby Ijoth in mind and body, and
are often vicious and nearly criminal.
you would have
If
this
unpleasant
some evening
you
at
least
one-half pound
sharp lesson in personal and household economy, and the lesson will
come cheap at the sacrifice of some of
their selfish extravagance and porkchop comfort.
learniuH
econ-
in
will out-
Perhaps
istrative specialists.
learn how to use these men
of peace.
But
gains
we
shall
in
time
the
loyalty.
yet, but
to get
it
our
European
of our
colors,
will
casualty
battlefield,
slain heroes
lists
from the
and see the biers
draped with the
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COMMERCIAL
EDUCATION
CHARLES
F.
RITTENHOUSE,
C. P. A.
the
five
ii
e r
of
commercial
teachers,
t)
men
^^
the
parts of
'a^fi
r^^^
^^L
BBkyjHB
all
country.
commercial teachers, which the College has conducted for the past four
years, and through the Extension
Courses for teachers given on Saturday mornings and late afternoons.
My own
ers
of
bookkeeping as
to their own
their concep-
technical qualifications,
tion of the importance of commercial
education, and their standards of at-
tainment
in class
work.
It
to me that I would perhaps be unable to serve the readers
of the Business Educator during the
next few months more effectively
than by discussing certain of the
problems,
mainly in
methods of
teaching, which it would seem are
rather
general
among commercial
teachers, and to follow this with certain observations of my own bearing
upon the present status of commercial education.
If I am able to make
a few constructive suggestions for
strengthening our work, all the better; but at any rate, a frank discussion of certain problems which confront the commercial teacher should
bear fruit in that it should lead to
profitable reflection and personal investigation.
seems
In this discussion
tion of
assuming
or of imposing
my own
ideas or theo-
vails
and
in various parts of
in different schools.
the country
Needless to
of the ques-
draw out
and
enthusiasm?
competition and
we
Should
rivalry
in
stifle
school
in
busi-
ness?
the
backward ones
will deny that the arguments apply with equal force to any other subyet we never think of teaching
shorthand, or arithmetic, or law, or a
language, or a science by allowing individual effort to assert itself and
adopting individual instead of class
instruction.
one
ject,
were immediately
set
at
work upon
tion
is
points
in
19
Successful
1.
results
in
teaching
teacher
should
largely
supply
the
we may
call
is
the person-
When
that
of
4.
When full play is given to individual initiative, or lack of it, on the
part of the pupil, the tendency of the
bright pupil is to forge ahead and to
ontstrip the majority of the class,
while the dull pupil in turn drops
farther behind and does less and less
work, because he receives none of the
stimulation which comes from daily
being urged to accomplish the task
definitely
assigned.
The backward
pupil particularly needs the help and
inspiration of the teacher; the bright
one gets along without it.
5.
pupil,
if
left
to
himself, will
so,
we
are also
the
class.
l^est
Many
Among
part
of the teacher.
these
be mentioned the preparation of
financial statements, closing the ledger, the special books of account,
banking practice, books with special
may
columns, etc.
No matter how conscientious a teacher may be, it would
be impossible to find time to discuss
these topics with individual pupils as
fully as they deserve to be.
If the
pupils are working at different places,
any attempt at class instruction would
interest comparatively few of the i-iupils.
Some have passed beyond that
point and hence feel that they need
Considering
make
all
the
elements that
it
would
work
know
at
beginning of
amount
ground
of
Under
pupil
method an occasional
may ask to do more work, and
this
add
to the
pupil.
knowledge and
skill of
the
Even in private schools where pupils are admitted at all times of the
year, it is possible to group the pupils
into divisions or classes, each division
being brought together at regular periods for class instruction, and explanation,
and for the assignment of
work.
Paper Read Before Commercial Conference, Montpelier, Vt., March 16, 1917,
by S. MARGERIE WOODRUFF, Montpelier, Vt.
The marking
of examination papers
very important part of the
It is also one of
the hardest things she has to do.
Usually she has no standards to go
by, but marks her papers in a haphazard way. She really guesses at a
mark. "This paper I think is worth
80%, this paper 75%," etc., and seldom, if ever, could get the same result
by going over the paper a second or
a third time.
It seems strange that
teachers are seldom trained in the
matter of marking papers.
Every
paper should be marked on the same
basis as every other paper; there
should be no guessing about it.
forms
work
of a teacher.
So
is
York State
worked out
you
The
rating
schedule
shall
give
to
For example:
If
Elementary Bookkeeping
(a)
Five credits should be deducted for each of the following:
1.
Failure generally to indicate the
original entry books and pages in the
proper places in the ledger.
2.
Failure generally to make complete explanations of transactions in
the
journal
and
.'i
for
the
(2
cash
book.)
(b)
Four credits should be deducted for omitting the entry for a transaction unless the entry required is a
compound entry in which case .5
credits should be deducted.
(c)
Three credits should be deducted for each of the following:
1.
Failure generaly to indicate in
the proper places in the books of
original entry the pages in the ledger
to which the items are posted.
2.
Error in the method of closing
any account required to be closed or
in closing the cashbook.
'\.
Error in addition or subtraction
other than in obtaining the amount to
be used in an original entry, which is
provided for in the following section.
(d)
Two credits should be deducted for each of the following:
1.
Error in the amount of a deliit
or credit in an original entry.
2.
Error in determining the account to be debited or the amount to
be credited in an original entry for a
transaction (maximum charge 5 credits in entry for a single transaction.
3.
Reserving the accounts debiticl
and credited in an original entr_\
names of accounts being correctly
given.
4.
or
in
the
more books
^^^^u4i>t^d4^^/uaj^h^
Methods
D.
Dean
of Teaching
WALTER MORTON,
of School of
Commerce, University
acacdis-
and
system
books.
The teacher should stop to
explain thoroughly the purposes and
the methods of classification. Perhaps
the teacher can best do this by giving
the student a number of accounts and
then classifying them to illustrate the
system.
For instance, the following
accounts might be stated as being the
accounts used in the business:
Accounts payable
Accounts receivable
Advertising
Bills payable
Bills receivable
Cash
Petty cash
Bank balance
Discount on purchases
Discount on sales
Freight and cartage inward
Freight and cartage outward
General office expenses
will
Insurance
Interest on bills payable
Inventory, raw materials
Inventory, goods in process
Inventory, manufactured goods
Miscellaneous factory expenses
Miscellaneous selling expenses
Oflice salaries
Officers' salaries
and expenses
Plant building
chases
Salesmen's
of
Assets
Current:
Cash
Petty Cash
Bank Balance
Bills Receivable
Accounts Receivable
Inventory, Raw Materials
Inventory, Goods in Process
Inventory, Manufactured Goods
Fixed:
Plant Buildings
Plant, Machinery and
Intangible:
Equipment
Good-Will
Liabilities
Current:
Payable
Accounts Payable
Bills
Capital
Capital:
Capital Stock
Losses
Operating Expenditures:
Manufacturing:
Raw Materials Purchases
(Less Returns and Allowances)
Freight and Cartage Inward
Purchasing Department Expenses
Miscellaneous Factory Expenses
Selling:
Capital Stock
Good
Bookkeeping
A. M., C. P. A.
salaries
Salesmen's expenses,
etc.
Advertising
Freight and Cartage Outward
Sales Agents' Commissions
Salesmen's Salaries
Salesmen's Expenses
Miscellaneous Selling Expenses
Administrative:
Office Salaries
Officers' Salaries
and Expenses
Gain
Operating:
Goods
Discount on Purchases
classification
it
Decimal
classification.
same
classification as 1111.
first
its classification
1 in
number
indicates that
fixed asset; the
third 1 indicates that it is one of the
it
is
permanent or
Discount on Sales
Interest on Bills Payable
the above
if
Financial:
With
later period.
Insurance
General Office E.xpenses
Sales of Manufactured
is
22
raw material
would be possible to
have 100 sub-accounts under each account and each designated by a whole
classification
it
indicating subAnaccount.
the first
other system of classification might
1 for all assets, 2 for
figure
the
use
liabilities, 3 for proprietor's acall
expenses, 5 for
operation
for
4
counts.
Perhaps the
expenses, etc.
sales
obtain copies
well
to
do
w^ould
teacher
of the Interstate Commerce Commisand
Accounts
of
Classification
sion's
also copies of the various state Public
CommisUtility
Public
Service and
sion Classifications. It is hardly possible that any business is so complicated as to have occaion to use all the
divisions
of
system of
SUGAR
123
acct...l231
inven1238
acct.1233
invent'y
Granulated sugar
Powdered sugar invent'y acct..l234
led-
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is some system in the opening of the
ledger and in the location of accounts.
The teacher should emphasize the fact
that the classification of accounts just
described does not mix real and nominal accounts, but keeps each in a separate section, so that when the closing
entries are
all
made,
all
counts will
open accounts will occur
the book where
part of
are always
method
accounts,
open.
in the front
real accounts
Under
the
old
real
The
of original entry to the ledger.
teacher should call attention to the
diflference between an original entry
book and the summary book called
The original entry book
the ledger.
is any book from which entries are
posted to the ledger. It might be well
to point out to the pupil that the
ledger is not admissable as court evidence, but the original records from
which the postings have been made
the ledger must be produced as
The mechanics of
court evidence.
posting should be explained. Perhaps
would be best to start with the
it
journal, and to point out that in actual
practice the bookkeeper does not
post the entries as they actually occur
on his journal, first the debit, then
credit, then debit, then credit, then
debit, then credit, but that he usually
starts in by posting all the debits, so
that he mechanically forms the habit,
for the time being, of posting everything to the lefthand side of the ledger account. It might be well to explain that posting is simply the mechanical process by which all of the
entries which affect the various ledger
accounts are transferred from the
l)Ooks of original entry in which they
occur, to the ledger account set up for
them. All the debits occurring in the
books of original entry and affecting,
let us say, the account notes receivable, being posted to the debit side of
that account, and all the accounts in
the books of original entry which are
credits to the notes receivable account, are transferred from the books
of original entry in which the records
occur, to the credit side of the notes
receivable account, so that if the business executive or bookkeeper wishes
to know just how the notes receivable
account has been affected during the
period, he needs but to go to his
ledger to add the debits and the
credits, and to strike a balance between the two, which will indicate
the exact status of the account at the
time the information is asked for.
After all debits have been posted, then
the student should begin posting the
credits, so that he habitually will get
into the habit of posting all credit
entries in the liooks of original entry,
to
to
the
credit
of
corresponding
ac-
debits
by the teacher in explaining the reason for the change in the regular
posting rules for the cash book. The
writer has found few bookkeeping
teachers in the high schools who were
able to explain to him, or to their
classes, why the posting rule was
changed in the case of the cash book.
It should be pointed out that the cash
book itself is nothing more nor less
than a ledger account with cash, but
that it is a detailed ledger account
with cash, rather than an account
showing totals of cash received and
cash paid out, or a so-called controlIt should be pointed
ling account.
out that in every instance, when there
has been an entry on the debit side of
the cash book, the real debit of the
transaction, if the transaction were
journalized was cash, which had been
received, and that the real credit in
the transaction was the account for
which the cash had been received.
Therefore, in posting the cash book,
the real debit is the total amount of
cash received, which is posted to the
debit of the cash account in the genAll of the accounts on
eral ledger.
the debit side of the cash book, as
they are recorded, are therefore the
credits to offset this total amount of
cash received. The reverse is true of
the credit side. The total amount of
cash paid out is posted to the credit
of the cash account in the general
Each of the accounts for
ledger.
which cash has been paid out is debited, if we were to properly journalize
the transactions. The above reasons,
therefore, explain the rule for posting
the cash book, which is to post all of
the accounts shown on the debit side
of the cash book, to the credit side of
and
all
Taking the
trial
balance.
^
One method
of taking the trial balance is, then, to list the total debits
and credits of each open account as
appears on the ^ledger. If the postings from the books of original entry
have been accurately made, according
to the rules of double-entry bookkeeping, which provide that for every
debit there should be a corresponding
and equal credit, then the totals of the
two sides of the trial balance arithmetically should equal. Perhaps it 'S
well to draw attention to the fact,
that when all transactions used to be
journalized and entered in the journal,
that it was the custom of bookkeepers
to total each journal page, and carry
forward the totals to the next page,
so that when the period for posting
had arrived, the totals of the trial
balance should equal the total of both
debit and credit columns in the jourNo longer, however, with the
nal.
use of separate books is it possible to
The
use this method of checking.
better method, however, and the more
trial
balpractical one ,in taking the
ance is to take a trial balance of ballistances. This method calls for the
ing the balance of each ledger acIf
count on the side of the excess.
the balance is on the debit side of the
account the amount of the balance is
listed under the account title in the
If
debit column in the trial balance.
the balance is on the credit side of
the account, the amount of the excess
is listed under the title of the account
in the credit column in the trial balance. The total of the balances, both
debit and credit, should equal. If they
do, the presumption is that the posting has been mechanically correct.
Perhaps attention should be called to
the fact that there is a chance for an
error of principle. A Ijookkeeper may
debit the wrong account, or credit the
wrong account or accounts, but this
error would not show up in the trial
it
all
if it
methods
^^J^u^/n^d^i^/iu^if/i^
is
divisiljle
sible
by nine, then
single
that a
it
is
transposition
poshas
been made.
A careful and rapid
check may discover such a transposition.
If this method shows that no
single transposition has occurred it
may
by eleven, which
will indicate
whether
way
gested.
trial
balance.
We
suppose that the accounts are being kept by a bookkeeper of some experience, whose day
ends at six o'clock. It is now 5:30,
The bookkeeper has just
let us say.
thirty minutes in which to close up
He
before
his day ends.
his work
He
finds himself in a predicament.
he
trial
balance;
in
his
has a difference
needs to get away on time, for he has
for
friend
with
lady
a
an engagement
the theater, has bought his seat and
engaged his tickets, and needs to go
home to shave and change his clothes
tration.
much
to his
In order that
work out as
planned, it is necessary that the teacher assume totals for each side of the
trial balance, which are capable of bethat of his lady friend.
the illustration may
entries.
use
given an opportunity at
is
this point to show that the summary,
or "re-cap" of all of the entries in
the original entry books in total,
should be carried to the journal as
closing entries. This, likewise, is the
logical time to explain what a controlling account is. The teacher can well
illustrate the controlling account by
the accounts receivable and accounts
payable, the general cash account, or
checked and proved by extensions or
detail entries made in other books.
It is well to impress upon the student
that the purpose of a controlling account is stated in its name. The figures in such an account control the
detail entries made in other books.
The cash book account might be used
The total cash
as an explanation.
received, and the total cash paid out,
are posted in the general ledger to
the debit and credit of the cash account.
The details making up these
totals are to be found in the separate
entries in the cash book. There may
be twenty, thirty, forty or fifty entries controlled by the one total in
The bank
the general cash account.
balance, as shown by the balance in
the bank book, cash in the drawer,
and petty cash account, make up the
teacher
account
The
^^J^ud//i^^^i^iu:a/f7^
in
by step.
abundant
on trading
to administration, charging
administration expenses and closing
the net gain into appropriation account, charging appropriation account
tory
Acct.
(This
is the procedure
when
there
is
and crediting reserves, partners' accounts, etc., as called for in the above
a be-
graph.
The student should not be
permitted to proceed from one step
in the closing to the other, until he
has thoroughly understood the previous step. Too much time cannot be
spent in drill on closing entries.
ginning inventory.)
Dr. Inventory at end
of the period.
leaves
the
This
closing
inventory
as
the
balance in the inv e n t ory account.
Dr.
the
in
Sal es
Acct.
for
Cost
of
Sa les.
(Balance
of
purchase acct.)
bal-
Purchase Acct.
(This should close
out Purchase Account.)
Cr.
Miss Nelle V.
years
)r.
Sales
Acct.
for
gain.
Cr.
Trading Acct.
Trading
)r.
Acct.
expenses.
trading
for
all
Cr.
counts.)
Dr.
iministration
listration
for
all
expenses.
Administration
Accts.
(This will close all these
Cr.
accts.)
Cr.
Appropriation
serves,
etc.
Ir.
will
later
bilities
in
appear
the
as
lia-
balance
sheet.)
T.
Dr. Appropriatii
set
amounts
J.
Scranton.
for
Partner's
Dr
Pa.,
is
now head
Commercial Department
College, Newark, K.
Dr. Drawing
balance.
Acct.
for
net
'.
vestment Acct.
of the
of
the
Drake
J.
d^ .^^^ud/ne^^e/iu^i/^
Planning a Civil
Service Course
J. F.
SHERWOOD, C.
Ft.
Formetly
Ju5t
Sei'vice
Wayne,
P. A., B. A.,
Ind.
Department of Commerce,
Washington, D. C.
in the
now
the
Commission
countants.
On
July
2,
an announcement was
made of an open competitive
examination
Accountants to fill
approximately 200 vacancies in the Finance
for
s ion,
Ordnance
of
the
salaries ranging
from $1200 to $1700 a year for grade
one and from $1800 to $2700 a year
for grade two.
The appointees will
Department
War Department
at
Those
in
sitions
vice to
stitute
sional
of
auditors
to supervise the
supervise
cantonment
construction
for the National Guard.
The divisional auditors have employed great
numbers of accountants, and assistants to aid in the detail work.
I mention these facts to bring before the readers of this magazine,
many of whom are accountants or
teachers of accountancy throughout
the country, who I am sure will be interested, to know of the great demand
There is no
for expert accountants.
doubt but what accountants, who are
qualified, can render a valuable service
to our Government in -the present
emergency by entering these examinations and accepting appointments
in the different
departments
at
Wash-
the
in
make some
sacrifice
in
this
trying
will Create a
Big
for Accountants
number
of
of
Collectors,
In-
spectors and Agents, and a large number of appointments were made to fill
vacancies in the International Revenue Service of the Treasury Department. The principal duties of these
appointees were the verification by
actual inspection and examination of
records of financial statements by individuals and corporations as required
by the Federal Income Tax Law.
During the last year the United
States Civil Service Commission also
held an examination to secure a large
number of eligibles to fill vacancies as
they occurred in a position known as
"Examiner of Accounts" in the Division of Valuation and in the Division
of Carrier's Accounts of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
tions
$3000 a year.
Ohio State
Civil Service
Examinations
for Auditors
more populous
standing.
The applicant's
success in securing an attractive appointment will be due to his ability
to pass an open competitive examination prepared with the idea of finding
the best trained and best qualified
man for each vacancy to be filled.
religious
Isaac
Street,
by the
1917-1919:
"Manual of Spanish
Commercial Correspondence," by G.
for
R.
MacDonald
(price
$1.50);
"Prin-
Wheatcroft
(85c)
"Commentary on
Shorthand," by John W.
Taylor ($1.25); "Paper, Its History,
Sources and Manufacture," by H. A.
Maddox (85c) "Linen from the Raw
Material to the Finished Product,"
by Alfred S. Moore (85c); "Silk, Its
Production and Manufacture," by
Luther Hooper (85c).
Pitman's
ARTHUR
G.
SKEELES
Students and Teachers are invited to write to Mr. Skeeles regarding the questions
discussed in this series, or any other booklteeping topics.
PART
\'I1I
when
didn't
closing
the
the year.
closed
books for
"We didn't
anything for
the wear and tear of
the office furniture,
the horses and wagons, and other proallow
anything ofT?"
"The property may Ije just as good
for our purposes this year as it was
last," replied Mr. Merchant, "but it
won't be many years before we will
have to renlace some of it; and it
seems to me that we ought to take
out something from the profits of this
year and set it aside in a fund to replace these things, when it is necessary. If a thing costs a thousand dollars, and lasts ten years, then we will
have to make a hundred dollars a year
just to cover the loss on that one
thing."
"Mr. Merchant is right," I said,
"In order
you should alto be on
for the
year
each
sum
low a certain
depreciation of any property on hand.
on
handled
be
may
This depreciation
to
the safe side,
me.
A typewriter, on the
in such cases.
other hand, will usually be worn out
the reserve for deyears;
so
in a few
preciation should be larger. Account-
^^J^u^n^d^i^t/iu^i^
same
amount, which
is
credited to
the
is
bookkeeping
"First, a
is
done
in this
way:
RESERVE ACCOUNT
sum
is
is
decided
Then
Account.
Reserve
money
is
COUNT
invested,
when
FUND
the
AC-
also,
for the
Reserve Account."
S. Sanford, who has been the Seccertary and Superintendent of^ the
W.
111.
^
ANNOUNCEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Los Angeles Polytechnic High School
Los Angeles, Cal.
To
English
We
Modern Language
Cooking
Journalism
History of Music
Chemistry
life
Cashiers, Assistants to Certified Pulilic Accountants, Salesmen and Saleswomen, Stenographers, Typists. Stenotypists, Private Secretaries, Adver-
Floor Managers,
mercial Teachers, Commercial
Men,
tising
trators,
Window
ComIllus-
Dressers.
This department offers splendid opportunities for those who want to get
There is
a good general education.
no tuition charge. For further infor-
mation
concerning
this
department
apply to
F.
WEBER,
C.
Head
of
Department.
must complete
of
work twice
English
a week,
twice
week during
their
stay in school.
Of the sixteen units, ten are required, and six may be selected as
shown below.
Required
English, 2 years.
Arithmetic, 1 year.
Penmanship, 1 year.
Physiography or Physiology, 1 year.
Commercial Geography, Yi year.
year.
and
and
2 years.
(We recommend
that
two
Mechanical Drawing
Art
Botany
Geometry
Physics
NOTE We
will not attempt to deof the work of this departspace of this cir-
J4 year.
Advanced Penmanship
Advanced Arithmetic
.Accounting
mention,
briefly,
some
Separate
classes
are
provided
in
Commercial
law, arithmetic,
ship, salesmanship,
trating, advertising,
penman-
commercial
window
Work
illus-
display,
Window
Display
Commercial Illustrating
Advanced Commercial Law
promotion.
to
The health and personality of the employee and his attitude toward his employer and the
customer.
Efficient service for both
store and customer are constantly
merchandising.
of subjects.
sively used.
engaged
in
Advertising
year's work in the fundamental
principles of publicity and advertising
as applied to newspaper, magazine,
booklet, circular, circular letter, posThe
ter and billboard advertising.
making of lay-out copy for the prin-
One
putting through advertising campaigns, the writing of ads for newspapers being some of the practical
work done by the class.
Commercial Illustration
This work is planned to cover one
year of double period daily recitation,
it takes up illustration in the form of
pen and ink drawings, half tones,
down-town
Store
There is no limit upon the earning power of the salesman. No matter how fine the stock or convenient
the building, the success of the business is always in the hands of the
Business men are looksalespeople.
ing for the person who can make
sales.
They are quick to appreciate
selling ability and to reward it with
ing.
Demonstration sales
kept in mind.
and store apprenticeship are exten-
Salesmanship
Card Writing
offers greater or
even as great opportunities for young
men and women as the work of sell-
Commerce
Advertising
Salesmanship
No einployment
Clerical
in the limited
ter,
of these be
taken.)
"Window Display
Sewing
all
plan-
leaving school.
Harmony
in
units
English History
Algebra
ment
is
Shop Work
scribe
European History
of the
Card Writing
Sight Singing-
of your
27
f^^^UiU'/i^^i^e/iu^a^?^
firms.
Commercial Law
In addition to the study of commercial law, which is usually found
in business schools and departments,
we offer one-half year of advanced
commercial law. In this special attention is paid to the California law
bearing upon all real estate contracts,
personal property contracts, insurance
contracts,
etc.
most common
by the student
Over twenty
of
the
Accounting
One year
regular
the
course. This
in
accounting, foIlowin.g
two-year
work
bookkeeping
consists of a care-
KNOX
Work
in
jects,
period.
is your duty
today to get on your
fighting harness as you never did before and fight for the commercial life
of this country.
way
means
writing of
Stenotypy
shorthand notes on a machine espeCT
constructed for that purpose,
ially
known as a Stenotype. This method
of taking notes has won remarkable
recognition in the past two or three
years.
All teachers and operators
must pass examinations and satisfy
the home office at Indianapolis that
they are competent before- they can
accept positions.
the
However,
course.
for those who
shorter time.
of
must complete
made
in a
Commercial Geography
We
tunity
At the end of the war France, Belgium and Russia will want tens of
thousands of American mechanics and
business
men
help
rebuild their
countries. They have lost millions of
men.
Remember that we ma}' also
lose tens of thousands of men before
this war is over.
Where are we to
get the trained men to take their
place.
From the standpoint of world
salesmanship leadership the United
States has a great opportunity. What
this country needs right now is educational statesmanship, and you are
in a position to furnish it.
Individually,
tionally there
to
J.
S.
KNOX.
formation.
as
Commerce Club,
follows:
Ad and
Association,
Accountancy
F.
College,
Fort
W'ayne, Indiana, reports opening with
the largest attendance in the history
of that institution.
Business
dynamo
energy and
work
department
in this
taught by specialists
men and
women of broad training and experience.
Commercial
School
at
Pittsfield,
&
Stratton's
Business College,
N. H., is this year a
of the faculty of the Middle-
Manchester,
member
High School.
The Johnstown, Pa., High School has
two new teachers in the commercial
boro, Mass.,
department
this
Thompson,
of
year.
Miss
Pittsburgh,
Myrtle
and
Pa.,
High School
in the
Dorothy
at
is teaching
Augusta, Me.
W.
Knight, of Newbury,
Mass., is a new teacher in the Hesser
Business College, Manchester, N. H.
J.
national
gree.
All of the
Mr.
Eagles.
is
&
is
Salesmanship
ate
ation.
Gresham, formerly of the Metropolitan Business College, Chicago, Illinois, is now manager of Brown's
Business College, Danville, Illinois, of
which institution Mr. H. E. Read is
proprietor.
S. I.
In General
^^J^u4i/ied^f^iu^i/^
does
at
is
of
many
Dayton, Ohio.
Mary
Harry
of
in
the
M. M. Flemming,
is
to teach
of
Cincinnati,
commercial branches
O.,
this
year
in
elected
J.
is
Helen
Business
Brown's
now
in
f^^^ud^ted^Q^/iU^i^
COMMERCIAL LAW
H.
J.
ROBINSON
Edinburg, Pa.
b.
law
in that
in
was
this,
ciples
to
lifetime
of
the
dura-
in
vassal,
and
ernment
every
the
of
man
right
the
United
States.
So
eminent domain
in
the
government.
when
vassal
the
of
the
latter
died
whom
they
could
not
be
enforced,
vassal, or sub-tenant,
estate free from these
enjoyed the
obnoxious burdens. This caused, in
1390, the passage of the statute of
Quia Emptores which recognized the
right of the vassal to alien his estate,
but enacted that the sub-tenant should
hold the estate of the lord in the same
manner as the principal tenant had
done, and become liable for the performance of the feudal duties.
As
civilization
advanced
in
England
An
estate
An
est
man and
heirs.
The word
corporations.
Certain inseparable incidents are
anne-xed to estates in fee simple,
namely, the power of alienation by
the owner, the right of descent to his
Dower, courheirs upon his death.
tesy and liability for the debts of the
owner before and after his death.
An estate may be so situated that
no person is seized of it in fee for a
time, in which case the fee is said to
The law, however,
be in abeyance.
does not permit estates to be in abeyof necessity. .\s
cases
in
except
ance
a general rule all persons are capable
estates, the forfreehold
holding
of
mer disability arising from alienage
mined
ever
and estates
a
his
An
tail.
estate
one
As
tate.
common
solete),
last
mentioned
could
not
be
d^ .^J^uJ/neU^^/iu^iJ^
created at common law as a fee could
not be limited upon a fee.
Estates not of inheritance are either
conventional or legal.
Convention life estates are created
by act of the
terms or by
limiting any
life.
An
estate of the
may
last
marry.
Legal
for her
life
if
The
2.
Legal marriage.
Actual seisin of wife.
o.
1.
in
the
life-
ists as
It
husband's death.
terminates at her death at which time
will
amount
is
Dower
sale,
4.
Death of
Courtesy
is
(7)
Jointure
By
(1)
by release by
etc.,
if
allowed
by
jointure.
estate settled
upon a husband and wife for their
joint lives and inuring to the benefit
of the wife after the death of her husband. She must consent distinctly to
receive it in lieu of dower, and it must
be settled before marriage and must
be absolute, and not to a trustee. To
bar dower it must be wholly of land.
It must be an estate of freehold, and
must vest in the wife immediately
upon the death of her husband. If
made after marriage she has an election to accept the jointure or to reThis esject it and take her dower.
tate is very rare in the United States.
is
(No.
joint
to follow)
wife.
when issue is
when wife dies.
initiate
consummate
barred
foreclosure
statute.
born,
is
WOODRUFF
(Continued from page 20)
5.
Error
in
from a ledger
credits).
6.
Error
required either in a
entry book.
Failure to use any special column in books of original entry as required by the question paper, or the
use of any special column other than
those required. (Maximum charge 12
credits in each book of original enIf they use a column not called
try.)
for deduct 3 credits; take ofif 3 credits
for incorrect arrangement of columns.
1.
Incorrectly
summarizing and
2.
closing of the columnar cashbook. (If
partly right, give some credit.)
Failure to carry controlling ac3.
counts in the ledger when the system
required in the examination makes
them necessary.
Two credits should be deduct(c)
ed for each of the following:
Error in making closing entry
(1)
the sales
in the columnar journal,
book or the purchase book.
3.
Placing an amount in the wrong
column
in a
nal entry,
5
(maximum
credits.)
(d)
From 1 to 10 credits should
be deducted for each of the following:
1.
Lack
2.
Any
of neatness.
error not specified above.
Trading and profit and loss statements and balance sheets should be
rated as follows:
3.
Error in calculation (maximum
deduction one-half of the number of
credits assigned to that question.)
One-third of the number of
(b)
credits assigned to a question should
be deducted for failure to show at
least two sections in a trading and
profit and loss statement, namely, a
trading section and a profit and loss
'
section.
neatness.
3.
In rating commercial papers, no
credit should be allowed for a form
incorrect in any essential part; that
not show correctly all
if
it does
is,
the parties concerned or if it is so
worded on its face as to make it
invalid.
Three
(a)
credits
for
incorrect
for
incorrect
time.
Two
(b)
credits
amount.
One
1.
2.
Amount
(c)
incorrectly
given
in
figures.
(d)
From
to
credits
for
any
4.
Answers to questions on business and office practice must be complete in accordance with acceptable
methods if full credit is to lie allowed.
Shorthand
In shorthand the transcripts must
agree word for word "with the original
dictation.
]f the dictator accidentally
deviates from the copy such deviation
will be allowed if a statement of the
deviation is submitted with the papers.
It is suggested that two persons be
assigned to the shorthand examination, one as dictator and the other as
timekeeper.
The timekeeper should
indicate to the dictator by a light tap
of the pencil, or some similar sign,
the end of each half-minute period.
This will enable the dictator to give
his undivided attention to the reading
of the examination copy.
The dictator should read distinctly
but naturally, so that the pupils may
be aljle to follow the subject matter
readily.
The
not
privileged
to
give information about capitalization,
punctuation or paragraphing of the
dictator
is
examination copy.
He may use his
about spelling names of
persons and places and stating whether numbers are expressed in words or
judgment
figures.
1.
general
deduction
for
typewriting
Omitted word.
2.
Added word.
may
sition
lie
deducted
etc.)
Substituted word.
Transposition of words.
Use of longhand in notes except for proper names and figures.
Erasure of longhand in notes
6.
an<l replacement by shorthand.
(li)
One-half credit should be deducted for each of the following:
1.
Error in capitalization.
:3.
Error in punctuation.
Erfor in paragraphing.
Incorrect division of words at
4.
the end of a line.
.j.
Repeated word.
(Maximum
Mis-spelled word.
:;.
4.
5.
:!.
li.
word
re-
hyphen when
re-
abljreviation
of
Omission
T.
of
quired.
Unauthorized
8.
words.
Plural for singular or vice versa,
1).
From
The
should be
deducted for lack of neatness or for
any error not specified above.
in
shorthand
follows:
to 5 credits
II
Make deduction
The
states east of the Mississippi.
palette of the Frost King is rather
dull on the great plains, or among the
highlands of the far west. Nothing in
(a)
accordance
with
the
for errors
schedule
in
given
above.
(b)
by
tiiO;
mark
MARSHALL
(Continued from page IS)
When
the Green
Turns
to
us.
At
Gold
least,
England, or
in
to
of
live
New
Nature's color scheme is more intensely lovely than the first breaking
out of these red and gold banners of
Even in late sumthe early autumn.
mer, the ruby flame of the sumacs begins to flare from the roadside copses,
and these are closely followed by the
no less brilliant draperies of the \"irginia creeper, which enrobe the gray
does the
trunks of the elms.
It alcreeper thus prefer the elm?
most never chooses an oak, a poplar
oak,
scarlet
for
the
beech.
As
or a
does not need the creeper, for it
it
own.
robing
all
its
richer
even
has an
It stops short of too much gaudiness,
however, and usually sports but a
single flaming bough, which it wears
like a scarf across its mantle of deepest green.
These, along with the yellow shields
of the wild grape, comprise the first
autumnal chromatic
of
the
notes
scale
a sort of tuning up for the main
It takes one or two
performance.
sharp frosts to start the full symphony. Not until the chestnuts break
out their banners of old gold, and the
more varied glory of the maples appears, can the pageant be considered
The main parts, of course,
fairly on.
are sustained by the flaming sugar
maples.
The color scale of these
Why
me
when grandmother
and
the
be
31
^^^^UiiZ/i^l^^ifi^^ua/fr
word
test
should be rated as
On
color, not of the leaves.
warm days, belated butterflies float
here and there, and the blue bird, the
cardinal and the tanager still linger,
red-headed woodthe
flashy
also
pecker yet floats in its wave-like flight
from one old tree to another. The
autumn flowers, golden rod, coneflowers, and other compositae make
every wood trail a path of gold, while
the weedy fenlands are brightened by
sky-blue gentians or the briljiant
spikes of the cardinal flower.
WHAT
would you
discussed in
tl e
like
to
see
B usiness Edu-
cator and
WHO
discuss
would you
like
to
see
it?
tumn
WHY
\OURSELF
article for
and
submit
our approval?
it
an
32
f^^'^fa/im^t^^/iu^i/^
Mo.
Musselman, of Camden, Ind.,
become this year head of the
L.
J.
has
ship
III.
partment of the
a
new commercial teacher in one of the
High Schools at Columbus Ohio, this
year.
is
ary Institution,
Xew Hampton
Xew Hampton,
as shorthand teacher
Holyoke, Mass,, High School.
chell, of I.ynn,
The
added
High School
Y.,
faculty:
Velie.
Miss Ray-
W.
\'a.
Lemmon,
Russell C.
new
is
teacher
of Lincoln, Neb..
of
commercial
Allen,
Mo., is
leaching in the commercial department of the Boone, la., High School
of
Chillicothe,
this year.
is
of
High School
Mrs. Kuy-
May
Miss
now
is
in the
Warren,
Jehial
teaching
New York
I.
High School.
Helen Casldn,
of
in
Alma
G. Neil,
einployed in
Mary M.
the
new commer-
now
is
Waverly,
in
High School.
City.
is
of Litchfield. Mich.,
in Schuylkill SemPa.
year
C.
is
teaching
of Plattsburg, N. Y.,
the Park Ridge, N. J.,
Long
the
now
Grove,
la., is
High
School
at
la.
is
new
W. Williams, formerly of Holyoke, Mass., will teach in the Georgetown, Del., High School, this term.
College.
Johnsbury Academy,
St.
St.
is
Xew
Johns-
bury, Vt., will have Miss Azuba Stackpole, of Portsmouth, N. H., .on its
commercial teaching staff this year.
Louise
Seeley, of
Housatonic.
teaching in the High School
at East Stroudsburg, Pa.
Mass.,
G.
is
work
of Lewiston. Me.,
have charge of the commercial
in
the
Ridlonville.
Me.,
Margaret Murphy
Me.,
High
of East Providence,
High School.
Clara K. Bushman Sidney, O., has accepted a position this year as a teacher
iTi
elected
Mary M.
this
year
High School.
&
Hannah Protzman,
qity.
of Bellevue, Ohio,
Edwin
L'tica
in the place of
this term.
is
to be
Taun-
Harold
Ethel
will
J.
J.
Danvers,
A.
J.
High School.
High School.
Mass.,
Simon B. Riker,
School, has a
in
Fox-
J.
coiTimercial department.
the
in
the
employed
Abbie C. Watson,
new
Edward M. Bolfe
of
Wood,
Bessie R.
field,
inary, at Reading,
is
new teacher
is
commercial department
croft, Maine, Academy.'
is
the
Mass.,
port,
N. H.
in
Amesbury, Mass.
at
E.
a
Mass.
High School
Liter-
The
High School.
Bridgeport,
Caffrey,
of
J.
Conn., is a new commercial teacher in
Norton,
High
School,
Norton
the
Mass.
Mrs. Antionette Mackie, of Oshkosh,
Wis., will teach shorthand this year
in the Lansing Business University,
Lansing, Mich.
Theodora Schmirler,
of Wisconsin,
coming year
High School.
is
in
of the University
to teach during the
the
Champaign,
111.,
Xew
Pa.,
is
this
in
the
Phoenix, Ariz.
f^J^u4//i^^^4/!eua/f/-
"WISE AND
OTHERWISE"
Stories from Recent Real Life
By CHARLES
CRAGIN
T.
Holyoke. Mass.
PART
Two
corpses lay
white on a table in
stark
stiff,
and
an undertaking
room
the
in
city
of
Montana. They
were what was left of
Butte,
come
this
am going
In the Beginning
tliink
who
dollars of
the safe of his own private
very bright thing to do.
The safe had been opened one night
by three efficient "petermen." These
petermen divided the bonds with
Jimmy Irving's detectives, who knew
all about the robbery.
them
commuter.
the
common
He
got an education
schools,
and
went
in
to
in
office.
go down hill.
He soon spent the $10,000, for he
had formed expensive habits, and was
a constant visitor to gambling houses.
to
chief
of
Game
The
"The
Lady
They were
Old
Street."
of
Threadneedle
beautifully dress-
his
est
knew
that the
Bank
England was
methods, and the
of
is
on Easy
is
Street.
The plan of this enterprising Yankee from the City of Churches was to
rob the Bank of England by means of
forged bills of exchange. But first it
was necessary for one of them to open
an account with the Bank of England,
and that is not an easy thing to do;
for
one must be introduced and
vouched for by some well known depositor of high character who already
has an account there. The first thing
to do was to find such a man, and
mind you, Austin was a perfect
stranger in London.
Austin stood in front of the bank
and watched the depositors come out.
Now, the English depositor generally
carried his bank book in the upper
coat pocket with the name and address plainly seen upon it, and the
young man soon had a fine collection
of names of business houses who had
accounts with the Bank of England,
and he followed several of these depositors to their place of business, and
finally determined to secure an introduction through White & Sons, the
most fashionable tailors in London. It
was a big, wealthy firm, and for generations it had kept an account with
the great bank. One day Austin in a
coach, with the coachmen in
splendid livery, drove up to White &
Sons, entered the tailor's shop, smoking a dollar cigar, and with his broad
western hat pulled down over his
brows, ordered a dozen suits of the
most expensive clothes. He was an
fine
but
genuine.
Besides
the
He
White
more
clothes."
Selected a lot more
expensive patterns and drove off. A
week later he called to try on the
clothes and announced that he was
going to Ireland for a few days to
visit a well known English Lord, and
would send a trunk for the clothes
When
the day
came
for
him
d^
for clothing with a 500
note, displaying at the
pound bank
same time a
bulky roll. He had his trunk put on
the cab and started to go out of the
door, but stopped, turned to the proprietor and said, "Oh, by the way,
Mr. White, I have more money loose
in my pockets than I wish to carry
to Ireland.
I
think I will leave it
with you." and he pulled out a big
of
roll
bills.
"How much
is
it
sir?"
sums
to
of
tradesmen,
money.
drawing large
He became
ac-
had
in
their
system
satisfied
him that
but
came back
to
London
in
Before going to
about six months.
South America he had drawn out
of his money, but the first thing
he did on coming back was to slap
about seventy thousand dollars into
Most of it was in bank
the bank.
drafts, from different parts of Europe,
Russia largely, to make the bank
think they had correspondents in the
leading centers of Europe. He wanted the entire confidence of the bank
before he began his big operations, and
to get it he did the nerviest thing I
ever heard of.
He wanted to get a
bill of exchange direct from the great
Rothschild, of Paris, to himself, personally, that would indicate that he
knew Rothschild and had his confidence. Warren left London for Paris
and a queer thing happened between
Calais and Paris. They say the devil
helps his own, and it certainly looked
most
it
the
track
in this case.
killed
fertile brain.
.^^S^iO/ned^^/iiai^
another stock.
repeated this
At
He apologized profusely for the railroad accident and said he would have
own physician attend Warren and
asked how he could serve him. Warren replied that he was too badly
shaken up to complete the business
for which he had come to Paris, and
he would ask the Baron to instruct
his cashier to aid in returning the
his
large
sum
of
money
he had brought
months,
six
thousand pound
bill
was
in condition to do
with the big men of the
England. Thus far he had
Bedealt only with the assistants.
fore he could carry out his wholesale
plan of robbery, it was necessary for
the head m.an of the bank to have
personal acquaintance with him and
have confidence in him. So, one day
he went to Paris and put up at the
business
Bank
of
F'aris.
sent the
money
to
London
it
to the
to
buy
He
performance
for
counted
at the
were wanted.
Ready
to
Strike
now
Up to this
a successful speculator.
time F. A. \\'arren was the only one
of the gang known personally at the
His
brother.
Bank of England.
George, and MacDonald, the forger,
were unknown to anybody in London.
So Warren sent for Wade to use as a
Warren explained
catspaw.
to
the
manager
tate
as
perfectly
as
my
friend.
Bill
He had a
house of London, where he did his work. Warren
went to the Bank of England and
sent in his card to the manager and
presented his Rothschild bill of exchange for 6,000 pounds and got into
familiar talk with the manager.
a
During this conversation, Warren
Dennis, any handwriting.
fine
room
in a private
t^
Warren disappeared
after spend-
other
They talked freely about a
future life in New York where they
would own city residences and counThe next
try places up the Hudson.
time the four met was not in New
York or Up the Hudson, but within
the grim walls of Newgate Prison, but
they had a good run for their money
before they got there, "for the best
laid plans of mice and men gang aft
aglee."
It might look suspicious for
W'arren not to go near the bank any
more.
Besides, it was necessary to
draw out the money deposited to
Warren's credit and turn this cash
ing
a
three.
gay
evening
with
the
United
States
Government
Bonds. Remember, the gang had before depositing the genuine bills, had
MacDonald make beautiful forged
copies of them with the place left
blank for the date to be filled in when
they wanted to use it, and of course,
the amount line was left blank, for
into
f^J^u4/n^M/^^^(/ua^^^
the skilled pen of the artist in for.gery
to fill in whatever sum was required.
look at the plan for a moment
To
and see what it is. Just this:
forge a great number of these si.x
Now
success.
Now
single
bill
of
ex-
by
Wade who
did
all
as
it
his
was
the depositing of
lieen
tors
in
in
perfect facsimile of
(Concluded
ne.xt
rgularly.
month)
^^J^u^n^d^^i&u^i^^
H.
Springfield, Mass.
Room
"Brush Marks"
made
lie
in Oil
and Water
work may
expense.
I
have
one of my own get
up that "has it" some
ways on the boughten
small
^^^Bfe,
i^B^^K^^
J^^^^^Hb^
ones,
right
|HiM|^^^H|
as
for
H ^^^^^Kk
and
l^^'^^^^^Hfl
standing
is
just
is
my work
adjustable
height
to
as
posi-
^^L^^BHf
well
as
^^^^
tion,
^M^^^^F
sitting
as desk or inclined on
the lap.
The
art material
designs
easels to
and
houses have
practical
on.
all
work
many
substantial
you
in
ing.
Rum m
Kentucky. Businessi
in
the Bowling Green
Ashley; k. U Laird. B oston J. L. Harmon, F. S.
and his father. W. C.
Louis M aster Carl Brou
They are a group of high grade per men.
the
From
Instructor s
School
left
tr
right:
W.
Lihman
St.
S.
^
The Art
f^^f^ud^t^ii^^f/iu^i^
of
ENGROSSING
p.
W. COSTELLO
Scranton, Pa.
the accoma piece of
At
engrossing
featuring
color,
in
the
Stars
be
upon
to
turn
out
in
It
was therefore deemed
country.
appropriate by my client that the flag
itself be made the central and most
conspicuous part of the design. If the
general lay out of a piece of vv^ork be
inappropriate, it matters not how
skillfully the work may be executed,
the result in all probability will be far
from satisfactory to a discerning customer.
Mmt-fkii-uurflnij-
of crimson
f
>
^Jiomoi;
'lo-'ot'l;
Juucjf.h--
of
'
^^^^^^^^^F'^^^^^^'^SCl
'1
i^sWs
kind.
STANFORD
UNIVERSITY
^^TgfjjM
students
in
the
Zaner
of
Piatt
R.
Spenc
which are
t^
38
^^J^ud/u^i^i^(/iu^i/^
^
NATIONAL COMMERCIAL
TEACHERS' FERERATION
Office of the Secretary
Kenosha, Wis
Sept.
1917
Editor B. E.:
This is to assure you that the machinery of the Federation is working
beautifully to the end that we may
have, under the new organization, the
most profitable Convention ever held.
Under the Constitution the executive
committee, consisting of President
Owen, Ex-President Slinker and the
two members elected from the departments, is responsible for the program,
D. \V. \V.
teachers, who are good penmen, fail to get results because they
lack firmness in discipline, drill and
Your teachers who are
application.
poor penmen, get better results in
spite of their own poor handwriting,
because they are better disciplinarians, and because they are eternally
vigilant and exact from the pupils
If those
the best they can deliver.
who are good writers will study methods of teaching and be more vigilant,
and if those who write poorly will
improve their execution, both will secure improved results.
it has
been hard at work on it
some time.
The President appointed Mr. H. A.
Hagar, of the Gregg Publishing Co.,
and Mr. Guy M. Pelton, of the Public
and
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supervisors of writing
Topeka.
Halvor Stuvetro, who has been attending the Zanerian College during
for
We
teaching penmanship and commercial subjects in the Central Business College, Shawnee. Okla.
Mr. F. J. Duify, last year in the Zanerian. is now supervising writing in
Duluth, Minn., to which position Mr.
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in the year, but who was '"called to
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now
of the late W. H.
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freedom
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No one who is skillful in this art needs to be without profitable employment. It is therefore not
You need this style if you intend to do pen work or if you
necessary to speak further of its merits and value.
wish to be a teacher of penmanship.
The best ink you can use is Zanerian India diluted with about five parts water and about one-fourth part of
gum arable to one part of ink. Too much gum will prevent the ink from flowing freely and too much ink will
make it too black and uninviting. Japan or good fluid will do for practice but not for actual work.
Use an oblique holder with the pen point elevated above the center. The publishers of the B. E. will be glad
A Zanerian Fine Writer pen
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should be used on large work, while a 30:i Gillott's should be used for writing below an eighth of an inch. Avoid
It pays to use the best.
a soft, coated or cheap paper.
The forms given in this course are used 1iy the leading engrossers in the country. Because of the shaded
down strokes the forms must be made with a slow hand and forearm movement. They cannot be made with a free
movement like business writing. The hand should rest on the side more than in free light-line writing. The pen
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Even then he should use them for fine work.
a master.
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It takes patience and intelligent effort to win.
Practice without study is waste of effort and material.
Your success depends upon how well you master each one.
important.
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given
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The
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don't be afraid of work. See how nice you can get the
time,
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one
thing
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You will need to retouch some places where you fail to make it correct the first time. The turns should be
studied carefully. Get them equally rounding, and' graceful. Raise the pen on turns at the liase line. Use a rather
quick motion on the turns. You should use one-half inch ruled paper, getting your work as large as the copy. If
you can make the forms large you can soon learn to make them smaller. Working on large exercises will enable
you to grasp the forms and develop strength and boldness.
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processes.
measure
the
handwriting
when
essential
was
the
a scale
qualities
needed,
to
of
educators
Value
What?
to
sition,
in-
much
in
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enough in the light of language.
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the letter.
in
reader.
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ment
in rating writing.
In order that
movement may
manner
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as form of writing.
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we refer to legibility and sightliness
rather than to style or accuracy. And
by "manner" we mean ease of execution, or movement.
The use of the
therefore
arm promotes
ease and grace; whereas the use of the fingers tends toward
labored irregularity.
Teacher.
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by consider-
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without some concrete exhibit of
standards, one teacher will grade
much higher than another. These
Scales and Standards show in form
and tell in words the fundamentals of
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Speed, and thus establish a basis for
comparison
and
judgment,
w'hich,
while it does not insure absolute accuracy, does make it possible and
probable to strike the nail more fairly
and squarely than by hit-and-miss
guessing.
Teachers who study the
Scales cannot but be better qualified
to
criticise
and grade
it
such examination.
Student.
Pupils
in
the Seventh
and Eighth Grades and High School
should compare their handwriting
with that on the Scale and estimate
its grade.
This will require comparison, examination of details, form an-
Students
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trained
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Form and
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Scale One exhibits writing done in
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Size is illusquality of line shown.
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well
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of
The purpose
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shown
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and reading
qualities.
and
methods neutral-
qualities,
illustrate
specimens
to
stjdes, and tendencies or faults; but
to do so would but question the intelligence of the observer to see or the
Scales to reveal the merits which an
examination of them cannot but dis-
close.
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has been introduced in many new schools this fall.
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HANDWRITING
AND SEASON
SEED, SOIL,
ut origin and germination of seed, of fertility and suitaof soil, and of climate and
bility
season, as concerns sowing", cultivating, and harvesting grains, cannot
Subject matwell be overestimated.
The Importance
ture.
The Alphabet
is
human
and
nature and need are the climate and
season for the sowing, cultivating, and
harvesting
and
luminating,
is
soil,
The
handwfiting.
simile
and the
soil
suggestive and
will
aid
in
il-
making
The Form
therefore have
an historical background of service
of the widest usage and most efficient
the
germinating,
propagating,
devel-
Letter
in
life.
Forms should be
flexible
and
mushroomed iiroduct.
The Basis of Production for these
Letter Forms should be the manner
in which they are executed by the
best writers in the various vocations
in which writing is extensively em-
What
Soil
mind and
,M^^udined^(a^/iu^i^
receives the imijresthe soil the seed, ideas are
Motor
sent
Impulses are
from the brain
informing
it
of
some
the
messages
to the muscle,
activity or act
desires performed.
It is the outcarrying or efferent impulse, stimuit
acts.
))y
The in-carrying
and motion.
Climate are in the
vegetable world. Time and Condition
are in the evolution of handwriting.
Climate and season are as important
as seed and soil in the growing and
Timeliness in
gardening of crops.
training to write is as vita! as Form
effort,
For
Muscle is then
skillful employments.
growing and nerve power co-ordinating.
Both need exercise throu.gh
work or
a,ges
properly
comes
into
the
experience
this
age.
are
more
apt to
be vigorous rather than skillful periods, when strength rather than suppleness will be the goal, and when
endurance rather than delicacy of acIt can be protion will be the ideal.
moted during the Junior High period
when expert instruction is provided to
stimulate rivalry and emulation, and
when motives such as credits or remunerative employment are offered
.\nd
as- inducements for excellence.
should be so ordered in every
it
Junior High period to complete the
work begun in the Grammar period.
The Grammar period, however, is the
time most fruitful, particularly from
the Fourth to the Sixth grades, for
the highest percentage of improvement, and it is in these years that
pupils should be provided with the
most skillful and painstaking instruction, and from twentj' to thirtj- minutes daily for practice.
Concluding and condensing, let us
repeat, that if the Letter Ideals arc
in accordance with well-tried experience; the Mind and Muscle quickened
intelli.gent
and
intensive
throu,gh
practice; and the Timeliness of the
when
the
periods
instruction suited to
acquisition is interesting and
skill
fruitful,
expect
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Business Handwriting
MILTON
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ROSS
H.
L. D. S. University, Salt
Lake
City,
a live, interest-
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EXERCISE No. 11
Line 1. Make six strokes back and forth, then without lifting the pen join with the points and turns. See that
your down strokes come straight to the line. If you make only three groups to the line put more i's or u's in
each group. Do not make the points farther apart than is shown in the copy. The space between the parts of the
letters depends on the slant of the up strokes.
Note how each u is made to stand out alone in the second and
fourth group. The side of the hand must not touch the paper.
with a little hook on top. Try to make the down stroke straight. This
Line 2. The small c is almost like an
is difficult because of the curve on top and the curve in the line.
Line 3. Alternating with these two exercises will help you to get the down stroke of the c correct.
Line 4. Write the word "income" at least five times to the line and at the rate of fifteen or twenty times to
i
the minute.
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No. 12
If you are in a business college or a business olfice it is very important that you learn to make plain, small
figures so that you can keep your ledger and other bookkeeping books neat and accurate.
Figures made properly
can easily be made at the rate of 100 per minute. Do all the practice in groups with the figures in columns. See
that the to- of each figure is directly under the top of the figure above.
This will keep the columns straight.
Make two lines for each space on the paper, one on the line and one between. This will keep you from making
them too large. Practice the groups as they are shown in the copy onb' double the length of the columns. Keep
the hand and arm in the proper position and you will not need to pay any attention to the movement used in
making figures it will come naturally.
The following suggestions will help you in the study of the forms; The one is made short and straight with
touch light enough to keep from spreading the nibs of the pen. The naught starts with a curved down stroke
and finishes with a curved up stroke. In making the two, three, seven and eight place the pen a little heavily on
the paper to ^et the start. The two is made with one curve and one straight stroke, any more than this is superfluous. The straight stroke is not quite parallel with the 1 ne on the -^aper.
The reason for this is apparent if your
paper is ruled. The three is two curves joined making a little loop in the middle, which becomes a "blind" loop
when made small but never a sharp open point. Three straight strokes make a good four. Study the arrangement
of the strokes.
The top of the five should join always. Start the six down and finish it down, and it will always
look like a six even though the form may be poor. Two straight strokes make a good seven and in rapid writing
it is well to cut the corner a little.
The corner on the four may be made a little rounding. A double curve down
and one curve up makes a good eight. The nine is an unfinished small letter g. Remember to group the figures
a
when
practicing.
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1.
Start the capital A with a down stroke and finish it with a down stroke.
Finish each group with a
The dotted lines show the course of the pen point while not touching the paper. Move the arm to the
right after each group.
I,ine 2.
Kote that the last part of the a makes an i. The initial up stroke is not necessary except to combine
with other letters. Join them on top without making a hook like top of a small c.
Lines 3 and 4. In the word practice make all the down strokes come to the base line on the same slant. The
last part of a letter
The final letter r is made like an unfinished n and
js the same size and shape as the first part.
is quite common.
Line
small a.
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EXERCISE
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No. 14
part of the line is nut new to you. Try them one-half space high.
Count for the down
the pen until you finish each group. In the last two groups count for 20 to 30 strokes and
do not slow up when you change to the turns on the line.
Line 2. The small t should never be more than one-half space high and is open about half way up. When
they are made tall it is difficult to keep from looping them. Do not lift the pen at the top.
Line 3. Plenty of time with none to spare. Note the spacing between the words.
Line
strokes.
1.
Do
The
not
first
lift
EXERCISE
No.
15
you have learned to make a good small a and t this exercise will be easy. The d is an a with a stem on the
The stem should be made short enough so that the retrace can be made easily. Note that one d on the
second line is made with a loop. This is all right for the final d, but if you loop all the d's you will have trouble
with the t unless you are a skillful penman. Make the loop of the g not more than one-half space below the line.
This is very important, as the short loops do not interfere with the writing on the next line. The up stroke of the
loop crosses the down stroke on the line. The final g may be made like a figure nine.
If
top.
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No. 16
Line 1. The down stroke of the s is a double curve with more of the right curve than the left. The slight
curve makes the point on top. There is no need of a pen lifting in making an a. The long connecting stroke
should be kept on the line. This makes an excellent movement exercise.
left
Line
8.
The
first
and
last
strokes of the
are like an
it
i.
will not be
The
on your page are the fault of the pen, or they are your fault. If they are due to a
poor or worn out pen throw it away. If your pen is new it does not necessarily follow that it is a good pen.
Sometimes the new points are bad. A good pen held properly will make a clean-cut line if the touch is light and
even. A tightening of the thumb and fingers on the holder when making down strokes makes heavy lines and
soon spoils the pen point. Dropping a pen on the floor does not have a tendency to improve it, and trying to
"doctor" a pen is utter waste of time.
lines
To much stress can not be laid upon the importance of good plain figures.
a figure is made poorly or
illegibly it is nearly always due to too much rather than too little movement.
Figures should be painfully plain.
Any effort to make ornate business figures is always out of place. In writing, if one letter or word is not plain
the context helps to decipher the meaning. This, of course, it not true with figures.
When
The small
People
By
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SPENCER CHAMBERS
XXVIII.
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and substitute on the second line.
x\!l business forms should be memorized.
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Plate XXXI. Try to make the same arrangement as given in this promissory note.
Should you substitute
names, use only fictitious names. Notice closely the combinations used in the signatures, and they will recall to
your mind some of the early letter exercises given in this course of lessons. Practice the three signatures before
takinR- up the note in its entirety.
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HANDWRITING, PEDAGOGY
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Elsewhere in these columns will be
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the first of a series the Editor will
contribute upon topics pertaining to
the Pedagogy and Practice of hand-
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PARTIAL CONTENTS
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The
safe,
sane, efficient
way
is
to
drill.
Mental
Meanderings, Carl C.
Marshall, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Civil Service
Preparation, J. F.
Sherwood, International Business College, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
Commercial Law,
K. Renshaw, for many years
with Heald's Business College, Los
Angeles, is now teaching accountancy
Mr.
J.
and penmanship
pert, all
reports
new
position.
in-
his
son,
J.
H. Robin-
Edinburg, Pa.
Methods
of
Teaching Bookkeep-
Commercial
Training,
Charles
Federation Announcements.
News
Notes.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
THE TRANSITION
These are momentous days!
Ideals
born.
without
Man
profits.
conformed or quelled.
War quickens and deadens it is the
fruits of ambition and ego plus, involving all mankind, and mojt of animal kind.
But from the conflict there will
come concord or another dark age
We cannot
of suspicion and excess.
Thinking
is
that
fore
many
giving
fully appreciated.
From
bondage
the
it
It is
to
wliicb
vve
down, we
lielieve
there
Commercial
Private
partments
School department, and Public Commercial School department each of
which is subdivided into various
round taljle divisions such as book-
About one-half
to
."35%
it
will
serve
fold function
eration, the
to
illustrate
the
three
tables.
some
or
schools
conventions,
in
announceprobably
will
trade organs.
We
The President
Training for foreign service is discussed in Bulletin :iT, 1917, just issued
by the Bureau of Education of the
This
Department of the Interior.
bulletin gives an account of the recent conference on this suliject, which
was held in the city of Washington,
on invitation of the Commissioner of
Education in co-operation with theDirector General of the Pan American Union, the Director of the Consular Service, the Chief of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
and the Organizing Secretary of the
Conference, Dr, Glen Levin Swiggett. Assistant Secretary General of
,
Scientific
Congress. The bulletin prints in full
the addresses of the Director of the
the
of the National
Under the new organization the Federation is composed of two main de-
all
into
are
ing to put
of
Puldic Commercial
sumably
tries.
It
in
is
that
to the proposition
consuls should be trained busi-
ness
men
Another objection
is
that the
Government
will
18
f^^^Uii/zt^M^ia^i/jfU^i^h^
MENTAL
MEANDERINGS
CARL
MARSHALL
C.
516 Reaper Block, Chicago
A
A
la
lot of
Carte
vs.
people
an a
the
with
Why
la
money
French,
ics,
etc.,
gone over to
European plan,
The Rise
Table d'hote
in
away
of
It
Woman
lows; "Providence has beautifully ordained that woman, who is the mere
Irving,
mental.
mainly
the
All
why
idea
bachelor, was
senti-
embodied
in
this
beautiful
that
social
with
We
and dependents."
Some
Surprises
self a
as
unheard
of.
Even when
of a
woman
was
selling
goods
acting as an
.\
been a nine days' wonder.
few of them taught school, but these
In
at.
sneered
or
pittied,
were usually
short, in those funny old days, there
was very little for any nice girl to
do Init sit around, in sweet receptivity
or
.have
and
editors,
employ women
as private
Furthermore, the war is
secretaries.
taking millions of young men from
our industries, whose places will be
business
likely,
something
the
women
of that dainty
will
lose
and shrink-
good .\meri-
of
come
we
ers.
Was that precinct along the
Lake 'Shore Drive, or down in the
elegant purlieus of Hj'de Park, or
and
drafted.
I have been in Milwaukee this week
and went to a picture show where
applause.
most numerous.
;
So I have to give it up that these
adopted Americans are at least as
good patriots, as my crowd, and apparently
ing, but
lietter.
It is a little
the
into
cider, and,
was
It
November,
in
too,
fey's
"McGufReaders" that we
used
to
read
through
year
was
this:
it!)
SKEELES
(Continued from page 23)
should not be surprised to learn
several
publishers
of
texts
on
am
.\nd
be
will
IfilS.
The
are come.
saddest of the year.
1-Ieaped
in
the
sear.
hollows of the
grove.
it
somebody's funeral.
Of course, November was meant,
but I never could see and can't yet,
why good
old
November
shotild
come
such a knocking.
True, the trees were naked, but
that only helped us to see how graceful and shapely they were.
Then it
also helped us to see the squirrels
in for
better,
time to
The winds
RITTENHOUSE,
C. P. A.
J.
er
of
commercial work
in
the
Mc-
Will Young, of
now
lege,
2.
.\s
quiesced
many
by
in
teachers,
when
that
humiliat-
In one of the
F.
November
Not So Bad
CHARLES
barn,
that
there
pumpkins
COMMERCIAL
EDUCATION
every
the
rolled
19
is
original
entry,
it
is
unnecessary to carry
a cash account in the
This
general ledger.
entirely unsound in
and gives
practice
is
both
student
teacher
and
unnecessary
The cash
trouble.
book is no more a substitute for the
cash account than the Purchases journal is a substitute for the Purchases
account, or the Sales journal, for the
Sales account.
The general ledger should contain
with
accounts
and with
assets,
all
liabilities,
is
all
book which
a procedure which makes it impossible for the student to carry out the
principle,
a procedure which makes
it necessary for him to go to the cash
cash balance before he
his
for
booU
can get a trial balance.
Furthermore,
it
tion.
nal;
involved.
Thus
when
posting,
all
clearly
understood.
^MJ^u^n^U^^^/iu^i/^
Aside from the fact that the cash
necessary in order to com-
to this
accuiiiit is
phasize
ply with sound accounting and pedagogical principles, the account has a
distinct practical value. The monthl}'
postings to the account of total receipts and payments results in the
account giving valuahle statistical
data presented in graphic form.
knowledge
Business Practice:
Most of the elementary bookkeeping sets supply valuable training m
the study and use of business papers
and discounts.
The student during
the first year of his course thus becomes familiar with the form, word3.
instructor,
follow
would be released
in
later
sets
for
Banking:
(a)
An
ing.
It is
the
serious
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
3.
Endorsement:
Name and
(b)
(c)
The
(d)
Ijanks
Practical
Work
H. Kniftin.
$.5.00.
.\
cashed
(c)
3.
bert R. Barrett. C. P.
B.
Kirkbride and
.V.
J.
(b)
.\1-
Sterrett.
(c)
company.
Funds and Their Uses, By Dr.
4.
F.
(d)
Who
loses
in
case of a
"raised"
check? a
forged
check?
In filling out the
check No. 713. you
stub
of
made an
Are
checks
drawn
witli
What
dated check'
Will a bank cash such a check? Will
a bank cash a check which bears no
date?
.).
National bank
Trust company
Savings bank
in
(a)
(b)
(c)
to
1.
State the features which characterize the following types of banking institutions:
town.
(a)
What
ness
$4.00.
E.
left
recommend
and
Signature:
(a)
recent work.
it,
By W.
of a Bank,
well read on
proached by
of
two
where
illustrate the
forms;
common
is
try.
associa-
Private bank
Federal reserve bank
Farm loan bank.
(a)
such
type
Cooperative bank
Building and loan
tion
is
post
(d)
().
ten
II.
What
What
10.
11.
Will a
a check
voucher check?
is
bank "overdraft?"
bank make partial payment of
a
is
Is
12.
check
dated
Sunday
on
valid?
What
is
the
or bankruptcy
check?
of
IS.
efifect of
the
the death
of a
drawer
means
By
of
visits
to
business
course highly
artificial; billing is
done
actual practice either on the typewriter or bi!lin,g machine, not in longhand; a duplicate and often a triplicate copy of all bills is usually prepared instead of the single copy usually prepared in class work. The bill
in
greatly
(c)
work required to be
The modern draft and
Money:
would seem that
It
in
its
Bookkeeping
ARTHUR
having
in
imitation
the
bank account
handles
writing
should be carefully supervised
in
bills
and
merchandise
of
dealt
would
It
in.
seem that
is
(f)
Now
in
comemphasized
mercial correspondence
is
is
Lading:
triplicate
is
exces-
on
"effi-
deavor.
That is, an
attempt, at once sensible
be
man
best
and earnest,
will
to
fit
the
to the job he is
made
suited
for,
and
How
we commercial
are
teachers
We
coin.
Merchandise Cards:
(e)
emphasis
present
sufficiently-
sive
work done
G. SKEELES
Peabody High School, Pittsburgh, Pa.
bills
'Efficiency"
in Teaching
tice sets
them
uses will
Imitation
learned,
with the more important
legal principles which govern the circulation of this form of commercial
paper pointed out. Notes should require only a limited amount of cleri-
its
its
lie
(g)
usual
form should be studied by the pupil
and
infer-
repeated.
ior
Billing:
(b)
M^r^uJ/n^^^/iu^ii^
not
rules of Journalizing
the
special
try to teach
asked to folmake-believe
everything
that
He does
business.
all bookkeepers in the average busithings
that
ness do, and a lot of other
no bookkeeper in the world ever had
to do.
In one short period in school
he will make a Journal entry, indorse
a note, figure the discount, and make
out a report of his work for the
teacher. The next day he will calculate
bill,
make
is
^r
goods
make
received,
a
"But
write
That
is
more
first place,
in
work
Planning a
In the
J. F.
all
Formerly
Wayne,
are
that
preI
the stul) of the check book.
varies widely in this
feel sure it varies widely from the
practice our students are taught to
follow.
sume custom
What
would
like
to
have would
for
set
Commercial Law.
The
rules
of
We
We
government
fact
iencing
stenographers
being
held
every
Tuesday
in
all
the
principal cities of the
United States.
The
now
so
Government service or
later entered private business
well trained and fitted for success.
have
far as possible.
thing at a
Once a day he will figure bills; once
checks.
Did you
write
a week he will
ever see a business man make the
servation
text-
attended
rapidly in the
Ind.
Department of Commerce,
Washington, D. C.
in the
in
have lieeii employed by the Government and who have at the same time
Civil
Service Course
is
like -busi-
his
and
check,
keeper
t::^i^^uJ//te^^d^f/iua/i7^
difficulty
is experconsiderable
in securing
ugh
eligible
eno
men
for stenographic
positions, with a salary of $1200 per year.
Perhaps the government is not paying any more or as much as can be
young man or
appointment
an
Government
States
time, even
though
it
at
is
the
the
United
all
make some
sacrifice
at
the
young
sacrifice as
first
who
Commercial Schools
ing
in
present
der
at less salary
than can be made in private employment, lie or she will be doing his or
her bit to aid Uncle Sam to win the
war.
I have repeatedly said that we
must
Spelling,
Young People
five
problems
in
sheet.
In transferring your solutions
to the examination sheet, be very
careful not to omit any figures that
are necessary to make your solution
clear.
its
to soil or in any way spoil your examination sheet for you will not be
furnished with another.
Know you
are right before going ahead.
This
will avoid any changes or erasures in
your work. Should you make an error,
part
it
is
out
to
fraction in
the
to its lowest
23
^^^^uJ//ieU/^fi^iu^i^^
TRIAL EXAMINATION IN ARITHMETIC
Directions: Do not merely indicate the process; give in full all the figures used
prol)lem.
Indicate the answer to each problem by writing "Answer" or "Ans." after
systematically. Keep your paper clean and make the figures carefully.
1.
Add crosswise and lengthwise and prove.
738.-;.^70
241829
831087420
li843Hl
7385643
3266900941
54801533
39898
78247709
-1387463
39172468
53110368
'id 8 7
9857431
800718107
487(l:i89
02110'872
26668073
:!2o9ll877
7904221
5800999
94417009
S09:5:ai
4556480COO
9528004412
8543
290096
21.)4490
8907743
3138009
in
it.
Divide 38.3696 by .149 and to the quotient add the result of 78.528, divided by .S. (Solve decimally.)
for the Civil Service Commission for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, was
During that year 50,000 persons were examined. If 34 per cent of this number failed to pass, and
per cent of those who passed were appointed, what was the average cost to the Government of each
3.
3.
The appropriation
$98,340.
17^
appointment?
4.
bonds.
An owner
The
latter
of
6% bonds
sells
them
at the
market quotation
of 118, and
What
Make an itemized statement of the following account as it should appear taken from the books of
5.
Reed; make a proper heading, close the account and bring down the proper balance:
Dec. 1. 1904, Case owed Reed $567.85 on account; Dec. 3, Reed sold Case 11,670 cedar posts at $7 per C;
Dec. 8, Reed sold for Case 56,200 ft. lumber at $21 per M., charging 1% commission; Dec. 12, Case sold for
Reed 60O bunches shingles (250 in each) at $3.50 per M., charging 1% commission; Dec. 17, Case sold Reed
1380 bu. barley at 55c per bu.; Dec. 33, Reed sold Case 400 bbls. lime at $1.20 per bbl.; Dec. 28, Case paid a
sight draft drawn on him by Reed for $275.
The above list of five prol)lems are illustrative of the prolilems usually given in these examinations. If you
can work these problems without any trouble you will have no trouble with the examination in arithmetic.
Work these problems out and compare your answers with my solutions which will appear in an early issue of
the Business Educator. Don't forget to watch for the solutions.
Better still, send your solutions direct to me or
to the office of this magazine and they will be forwarded to me.
I will go over your work carefully and make any
corrections that I may see fit and will then return your solutions to vou.
My
It
to
3,
know
cial
teacher
in
our
new
Schenley
High.
Mr.
that
High School.
I am not sure that your attention
has been called to some of these recent changes.
Wishing you well in your work, I
am
Yours very
mercial subjects.
schools.
Mr. J.
S.
Hughes, comme-rcial
teacher from Miamisburg, Ohio, is
now located in our Short Course Business High.
Mr. P. E. Curry, formerly from
Bowling Green, Ky., is now commer-
truly,
E. G.
We
MILLER.
Marion Hart,
Conn.,
High School.
H. P. Roberts, formerly of
Bowling Green, Ky., is the new commercial teacher in the Westingh.ouse
gaged as head of the commercial department of the New Castle, Pa., High
School.
High School.
O. Clime, of Philadelphia, has been
elected teacher of commercial work
the Braddock, Pa., High School.
I.
in
most
By
L.
Moffett,
B.
Director,
Peirce
It is
organizations
that a large number of business enterprises result in eventual loss and failThe actual figures are so large
ure.
and by other
as to
statistical
almost incredible.
l)e
The same
Why
The professional
long years in study
before being allowed to practice, and
the mechanic must learn his trade before he can qualify as a journey;^man.
The time may come when the State,
as a protection to its citizens, will require a prospective business man to
prove that he is competent to engage
fession or a trade?
liusiness.
in
is not such a
new thing as educators sometimes
suppose. The earliest use of the word
"commercial" in connection w-ith a
school or college, is shrouded in the
Macaulay, ui
mists of uncertainty.
his Essay on Warren Hastings, states
Commercial education
^
record of any Sys,
There
little
is
tematic effort towards commercial education in this country until the per-
During that
of schools were estabthe famous chain
number
among them
of schools conducted by
Stratton
in
city in the
nearly
every
United States.
Bryant and
important
The courses
of
studv
little
in
bookkeeping, as well as
in
f^J^uJi/t^d^<^^i(i^iu^i/h^
arithmetic
eminent
l)usiness
men
of
the
tors
was
a graduate of a
commercial
school.
The development
of the
commercial
economy,
etc.,
chem-
years,
commer-
cial
to
shorthand and
These subjects aie but
the tools used by the beginner in business, and a knowledge of them alone
simply
bookkeeping,
typewriting.
ness.
very
training
little
is
seems more
merce and transportation, he will acquire a knowledge of markets, railways and steamship lines, sources of
production, etc., all of which will enlarge his vision as a business man.
The course
student for
the
qualifies
posts
greater
of
responsibility.
.graduation
is
outlined
above, the majority of the graduates
are either in business for themselves
or are officials or executives of large
corporations. The percentage of actual success is large.
The course above outlined presupposes a good preparation on the part
of the student.
Good schools require
that applicants for admission shall
have had an English education equivalent to that given in a first-grade
high school, and those who lack such
preparation are required to include
English subjects with other commerwork, so that when the time
cial
comes for graduation they will be
able to measure up to the require
ments in every particular.
Commercial schools in this countr>
opened
their
doors to
women from
her
income
continue
'
Women
seem pe
also much dignity.
culiarly fitted to fill such position
when properly trained. Their alertness, willingness and loyalty are 'seldom called into question, and they
among the most valued and
are
highly-paid employees.
With the increase of opportunitic-,
however, has come the increased de
mand for efficiency, and business men
require that amanuenses be thoroughly prepared before entering upon their
No stenographer or secretary
duties.
is properly trained unless she understands all of the forms of English
2i'i
^
WHAT HIGH SCHOOL
^^J^^uJ//i^^^i^^iu^i/f/
STUDIES
do.
an
Knowledge
what knowledge
is
of
most worth
it
made
He
held that
be grouped
those which
minister directly to the preservation
of the individual; (3) those which,
through securing the necessaries of
which
life
these
activities
under
five
is
up.
should
heads:
(1)
contrilnite indirectly
servation;
pared to enter the larger field of service to the state and to discharge his
obligations to the church. This ideal
is not a narrow or profane conception
of education.
No man can be a good
Christian, nor can he be a good citizen, unless he is able adequately to
support himself and his family; we
have it on the best of authority that
he who does not make provision for
his own, and especially those of his
attriliutes.
own
in
in
President,
Herrick,
A.
Girard College, Philadelphia, Pa.
life,
education
Cheesman
as
portance of tecognizing
(3')
to
self-pre-
Museum,
at the
said
South Kensington
that
into
the
modern
world, which was full of artillery, society turned out children to do battle,
equipped only with the sword and
shield of the ancient gladiator.
A
later
little
and
in
ure Charles
the education which
self
and
his
The conception
truer
under
to
the
of
purposes
Huxley seems
of
education
that of Spencer.
regard to
worth, while Huxley laid the emphaIn one of his
sis on skill, or facility.
essays Huxley offered the hypothesis
of what would be our interest in a
game of chess if we knew that at
some future time our life and happiness and the lives and happiness of
those who are near and dear to us
would
depend
on the results of a
and to give reality to
this supposition Huxley drew attention to a gruesome picture in which
game
of chess,
when,
new societj'.
The highest ideal which we could
set for American education is that
schools should train men to enter effectively into the purposes, and discharge the responsibilities, which the
present age presents. Of course, we
all know that the schools should train
for religious life; we are just as firmly
convinced that they should train for
participation in political activity; but
train
of
the
evils
we
and the
If,
when
d^t^f3^uJ//t^U/^i(/iu^i/h^
and
efficiently
liberally,
them
then he
who
training.
of educa-
is
supreme importance
of
to
promote.
We
sort makes one learned.
have largely disregarded an older and
that education is
Contrast for a moment our
power.
standards with those of Greek education, which produced men of the highmen. some
est intellectual power
culiar
We
end
construction.
life.
have
in
New
definitions
are
111.,
and
Pa., has a similar position in the Clinton, la., branch of the same school.
^t^36uii//n:^^^^/iua/fr*
A. Casey, Burlington
demand, and as
ing
to the necessity of
first
Platts-
course
the
state to
meeting
this
My
which
Enthusiasm,
Elementary Bookkeeping.
important part in
fession in general,
Business Practice.
Business Writing and Methods.
.\dvanced Bookkeeping.
as workers, not
State.
Office
Practice.
Commercial
and Meth-
.A.rithmetic
Commercial English,
ence and Methods.
Commercial Law and Methods.
History of Commerce and Methods.
General Economics.
Elementary Shorthand and MethCorrespond-
ods.
vcrsity,
Simmons
is
to
keep
plays
most
the
is
in commercial teaching.
"We
commercial teachers must lie known
merely in the teachers' sense but as enthusiastic, energetic forces thoroughly imbued with
the idea that work, incessant work,
ment
ods.
Professional Knowledge.
2.
:>.
Special or Technical Knowledge.
Skill in Teaching.
4.
1.
The first essential is a good general education, which should not in
any case be less than a complete high
school course supplemented Ijy at
least two years' work in a higher inThe North Central Assostitution.
ciation of Schools and Colleges, that
group of States of which Missouri is
the focus, for example, insists that
teachers of academic subjects in approved high schools shall be graduates of recognized colleges. The high
schools in the past have been accepting commercial teachers who do not
hold college degrees simply because
competent teachers of commercial
subjects who had completed college
courses could not be found. The con-
General Knowledge.
awake
it
in
is
Since business in
all
is
required of our
graduates and they must be equipped
to
is
prime importance,
greater knowledge
it
is
we possess
sist
we may
as-
individual
student.
supplemented
tion,
courses
in
by
economics,
advanced
accounting,
finance, etc.
In addition to this, by
virtue
of his
special
training,
he
should have well in hand the subjects which he is to teach. And while
he will not be called upon to teach
ever5' suliject in the course, he needs
to have the advantage that the train-
ing
a
in
them
sufficient
.gives,
teaching
acquaintance
with each to
d^
dent
merce.
Every one
is
coming
to
the
feel
this is
true of the best private schools also)
are already demanding of the com-
mercial
to
that of the
Norma
been
penmanship
wishes her
much
success in her
new
position.
A.
ington.
,M^r^uJineU^<^^(/iu^i/^
MISSOURI VALLEY COMMERCIAL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
Kansas
Mo.,
City,
November
16,
11:00-11:45
17,
1917
Omaha, Nebraska, W.
E.
Lockhart,
Lawrence, Kansas.
A card addressed to the president
Hutchinson. Kansas, or to any
at
member of the Executive Committee
will tiring a program to any teacher
The following
the territory.
tentative program:
in
Opening Exercises:
Glee Club.
Secretary's Report.
President's Remarks.
I
10:00-11:00 Bookkeeping
(a) The First Three
Teach It.
Months, L. E. Terry, Central Business College, Kansas City, Mo. (b)
After the First Three Months, H.
H. Webb, C. P. A., Springfield Business College, Springfield, Mo.
11:00-11:30 Training for Efiiciency in
the Business Office, S. J. Shook,
Topeka Business College, Topeka.
0:00-10:00
How
Kansas.
Field
Geography,
J.
Work
in
Commercial
Kansas
Luncheon
nic Institute,
Mo.
St.
Louis, Mo.
2:30-3:00 Critical Period in Typewriting, Miss Ethel Townsend, Central
High School, St. Joseph, Mo.
3:00-3:30 Critical Period in Bookkeeping, B. F. Hart, Westport High
School, Kansas City. Mo.
3:30-4:1.5 Our Opportunities, Isadore
Loeb, Missouri State LIniversity.
Fraternal Dinner.
water, Wis.
10:00-10:30 General Educational Value
of Commercial Studies, Dr. John
Withers, Superintendent of Schools,
St. Louis, Mo.
10:30-11:00 Machine Shorthand, C. A.
Instruction Manager,
1),
B a co
Stenotype Co.. Indianapolis. Ind.
1
Kansas.
How
2:15-3:00
May the Teacher Help
in the Development of the Student's
personality, W. J. S. Bryan, Asst.
Supt. of Schools, St. Louis, Mo.
3:00-3:30 Election of Officers.
Selection of next place of Meeting.
ll:.'!O-12:00
PROGRAM
Music
Luncheon
Saturday Afternoon, November 17
1:30-2:15 Shorthand, (a) Theory, O.
is
as follows:
few companies
find
easy
in
England,
Germany,
and
France."
the well known commercial teacher, writes us as follows:
You may be interested in knowing
Orton E. Beach,
in
the
depart-
COMMERCIAL LAW
J.
H.
ROBINSON
Edinburg, Pa.
When
we
consider
the fact that it includes the law in reference to the borrowing, lending, hiring and the keeping
of chattels, and the
carrying or working
upon them for another, we can readily realize the force
of this statement.
Bailment includes
the
owner
in
it
much
Bailment
much
as,
property,
whom
work
is
done.
Bailment
is
devisable
into
three
persons benefitted.
First, bailments for the benefit of bailor onlj'-.
Second, bailments
for
the
benefit
of
bailee
only,
f^J^uJ//i^4^^if/iua/fr'
and
is
nated
in
Deposit,
commission,
gratuitous
most
case
in
of
its
loss
or
destruction.
der.
care.
horse.
The
The
great
bailee
care
in
property and
is
required to e-xercise
Slight care
that
every
is
that degree
man
of
common
of care
sense,
own
inat-
affairs.
Ordinary care
is
'I
concerns.
Great or extraordinary care which
man reis the degree of care that a
markably exact and thoughtful gives
to his own property.
It will be noticed that in all cases
the degree of care required measures
inversely the degree of negligence for
which the bailee will be responsible.
Let us now consider the five classes
of liailments as to the thing done to
the property.
Deposit is a delivery of goods and
chattels to another, to be kept and
returned without recompense. A distinction must be drawn between this
and the ordinary deposit in a bank,
subject to check, in as much as here
the same property must be returned
while we do not expect a bank to return the identical money.
.
As
solelv
30
out recompense, and includes all cases of borrowing the goods of another
without compensation.
The benefit
being all on the side of the borrower
or
^^^^Uiiii/i^d^^^/iua^^
ments, as it is the one commonly represented in business affairs.
Hire is easily devisalile into four
sion
classes, as follows:
an
bailee.
fact
that the bailee receives all the benefits
he is liable for slight negligence, or
is bound to exercise great care.
Unless some special agreement is
was borrowed.
If the borrower
put to any expense in reference to the thin^ borrowed, he will as a rule be obligated
to pay it.
He is obliged to pay for
the keep of an animal he may borrow or for any repairs on a borrowed
machine, occasioned liy his use of it.
He is not liable for inevitable accidents that could not be forseen or
guarded against, provided there is
is
3.
Hire of things.
Hire of services.
Hire of custody.
4.
Agisters.
1.
2.
The
personal property
may be pledged. The pledge being
for the benefit of both parties, the
pledgee is required to use only ordinary care. The pledgee is not entitled to the use of the property, if its
use will lessen its value, but on the
other hand he is expected to use it
provided such use is necessary to
keep it in good condition. A pledgee
is expected to exercise a horse.
The pledgee has a right to retain
possession of the property pledged
until the debts are paid, but cannot
hold the property to cover other
debts.
the debt
is
court.
Bailment
for
hire
includes
all
transactions where property, labor
services or care of property is hired
of another for a consideration.
This
is the most important class of bail-
B employs
picture
on
noted
artist
to
paint
make good
The
bailee
is
re-
ed by fire.
Each person must bear
the loss of his own property unless
can be shown that the loss was
it
caused
carelessness.
by
through the building with a lig'Tited
cigar or carrying an open light such
as a candle or torch would be carelessness, sufticient to make the person liable for the entire loss.
An agister is one who takes cattle
or other animals lielonging to another
person into his own ground to be
fed for a consideration to be paid by
the owner.
The agister has a lien
on the stock in his possession for the
Going
is
negligence.
Where the
l)enefit.=,
bailee
receives
the
all
ment
Outline
Bailments
1.
Definition.
3.
ter.
:i
Classifications as to benefits,
Bailments for the benefit of
Bailor.
Bailments for the benefit of
b
Bailee,
Bailments for the benefit of
c
Bailor and Bailee.
Classification as to nature:
Deposit.
a
b Commission.
Loan for use.
c
Pledge.
d
a
'
4.
Hire-
Hire of things.
Hire of custody.
Hire of services.
Agisters.
it
valuable
liable to
bailments.
others to do the work for him provided it was not his own personal
skill and service that was contracted
borrower.
The lending of a treacherous horse
without communicating the fact to
the l>orrower is a good example, as it
may directly cause the death or ser-
is
The
class.
that
ment or he
for.
Anything
the hiring
strictly in
dulgence.
is
liveryman.
that
propert}' as
hiring of things
hirer
The
department
School,
Kirk
states
that
this
institution
is
ment.
College,
Hav;erproprietors, publishes a very
creditable catalogue which bespeaks
prosperity and progress.
It is covered in green, attractively illustrated,
and well printed.
C. E. Dwight, of Paterson, N. J., has
been elected to a commercial teachin.g
position in Davis and Elkins College,
Elkins, W. Va.
field,
f^^c/JuJ/zi^M^^r/fuvi^^
THEY ARE LOOKING CHICAGO-
WARD
The
Federation
will
Sherman,
Decembe.
be
held
at
Hotel
26-27-28-29,
1917.
From the standpoint of attendance, helpful programs, and
the other.
The
National Commercial TeachFederation, the leading organization of its kind in this country, will
hold its 21st Annual Convention the
last week of December, and every red
g blooded commercial teacher w.thin a
thousand miles of Chicago should
now make preparation to attend. The
inspiration as well as the new thought
to lie derived from the programs and
the real pleasure and profit that comes
from a social mingling with one's felers'
low workers
all
Guy M.
Pelton, Walter
Department. S.A.V
CONSIN.
this
You want
the
and
as
in
member may
choose.
White
now
will make
greatly facilitate
this
and
feel better
you
mat-
busy day.
first
Exhibits
very helpful part of the Convenis the Exhibits.
,\n opportunity
is
afforded the live teacher to e.xamme the very latest texts and the
tion
Room.
Special Organizations
Last year the Gregg Shorthand Association,
sociation,
and the
held their
the
the
N. Palmer .Association
special meetings during our
A.
Programs
The programs provide for social
enjoyment and for an array of talent
very seldom available.
Either President H. M. Owen, Decatur, Illinois.
ov General Secretary Otis L. Trenary,
Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be most
pleased to hear from you now, saying
that you .will be with us.
Please
remember
Convention
NOTE
Federation Request
The Federation
October
1st,
The
Mountain
State
is
demand.
The College
tion of the
courses
Saturday
Modern
Foreign
Languages
with
etc.,
are offered.
and
correspondinglv
skillful.
among our
held.
cipal of the
appreciate
it
OTIS
L.
NEWfi NOTES
The following encouraging
report
lias
enrolled."
F.
commercial department in
Brown's Business College, Peoria, 111.
TRENARY,
General Secretary,
Kenosha, Wis.
New
Constitution
Under the new Constitution the old
six sections have given way to a Private School Department and a Public
.School Department. Two dollars pays
for a memljership in the Federation
to be a part of
your doing
tion.
Now Under
WHETHER YOU
111.
He
reports that he
is
to use
Business
year
in his
t^^t:^u^'/i^^^^/iu:a/^r'
York City.
Mabel Barbour, of Macksburg, O., is
the new assistant principal in the
commercial department of the High
Parkersburg, W. Va.
with
the
recently
Crane,
Rhode Island Commercial School, is
teaching this year in the Booth &
School
at
Lillian
Commercial
Bayliss
Bridgeport, Conn.
School
of
Gladys L. Granniss,
of Wallingford,
Conn., has accepted a position in the
Boardman
High
School
at
New
Haven, Conn.
R. C. Cain, of Fort Worth, Tex., has
been employed to teach commercial
branches in the Metropolitan Business College, Dallas, Texas.
E. F. Burmahln, of Findlay, O., has
been elected
to the position as
com-
of
at Houghton, Mich.
Mabel H. George, of Madison, Wis.,
has lieen elected head of the commercial department in the Glenwood,
School
The Herrick
Institute, at
Fall
River.
Clara L.
on the
Markham
staff of the
is a new teacher
Lambertville, N. I.,
High School.
There are two new teachers
St.
opening.
Margaret Doody,
in
the
of Tully,
N. Y.,
is
son, S. D.
Mary C. Roach, of Brookfield, Mass..
has accepted a teaching position in the
Lebanon. X. H., High School.
W. M.
an assistant.
Evans, for some time head of
Green, Ky., are teaching in the commercial department of the Port Arthur College, Port Arthur, Texas.
Elsa P. Rieser is teaching this year
in the High School at Milford, Conn.
Christian Oehler, of New Rochelle,
as
the
in
Ohio.
commercial
New Haven,
.\.
Conn.
Y., is a
new commercial
Dunkirk, N.
Catherine Creedan,
in
the
Mass.,
is
jects in the
Y..
of
instructor
High School.
Hopkinton,
School.
G. Haskins, of Pittsfield, Mass.,
has accepted a position as teacher of
Anna
Fanny
W. E. Moore, Supervisor of
Writing, Oakland, Calif., reports fine
work in writing in the schools of
Oakland. Mr. Moore is also principal
of one of their large evening High
Schools, indicating appreciation and
ability on the part of employers and
employe.
Mr. F. T. Weaver, of the Ohio \'alley
Liverpool.
East
College,
Business
Ohio, reports that their institution
opened with a better attendance than
Mr.
of
institution.
Mary
M.
Hopkins,
of
Milwaukee,
in
the
New York
Military
Academy.
known
institution.
^
"WISE AND
OTHERWISE"
Stories
Life
PART
Amtricaiis. F. A.
II
from
man
by the
formed
rob the hank
Wale,
name
.,f
five
million
a
of
plan
of
to
England
by
dollars
forged bills of
To accomplish
event, they
gave a year nf time, and spent a good deal
of money, for they had already gone wrong.
Three of them were lirst class crooks and by
m ans of skillfully forged letters of credit,
had forced the banking houses of London,
Paris, Beriin, Vienna, Rome and Florence,
Amsterdam, Genoa, Moscow and St. Peters
burg and, lor ought I know, far ofT Constantinople, to contribute more than $100,000
to their war chest, and with this they built
up confidence which enabled them to carry
nieans
of
exchange.
desirable
Ibis
it
sadly or merrily.
E.
Two
went
to the
ren's
brother,
MacDonald, the
first
bundle
of
forger.
It
from
went
I.
ilcrk
T. CRAGIN
Holyoke. Mass.
By CHARLES
Synopsis of Part
was the
negotiable paper
f^J^Uiiin^d^^4i^iua^
to
bills
as this
young
they
had
already
at
bank
drawn over
of England
more."
And they
"All right." said Wade.
There were bills in this lot
did it.
amounting to $130,000, but on one of
these bills the date had been left off.
They didn't notice the fact. George
went to Birmingham, mailed the letter enclosing the bills of exchange
and then laughed over their success.
The next morning the
at
the
bank
letter
of England.
ar-
The
Warren's
of $75,000 to
credit.
Wade
gantic forgeries.
The
bank
England knew, of
was an American gang
them up in such beauand they concluded that*
of
course, that it
that had done
style,
tiful
rived
for
the
for
New
Boss
Bill
The
Tweed.
was
to
guilty
first
prove whether
^
search he found where
Wade bought
clothes.
The salesman remembered him as a customer who had
given his name as Bedford.
Pin-kerton said, "If not a crook, why didn't
he give his real name?" One of the
salesmen recalled having seen Wade
walking with a well dressed gentleman. The detectives started out to
find
out who the gentleman was.
The first house they entered, in the
search,
was the residence of the
famous physician of London. MacDonald, the forger had been a patient
of this physician but the doctor knew
nothing about him except his name
and address, which he gave as a
fashionable hotel.
They found that
no such person had ever been there
and they began to look for the
stranger
in
fashionable
boarding
houses, and finally they found where
he had been but he had left the day
his
before.
drawn for
Warren.
2,000
pounds signed,
F. A.
first link.
that
with
the
He registered in
own name, and the
swindle.
were too
New York
Pier he
found a Pinkerton
him
board
to give
at the
New York
till
requisition
came
dred lives
f^^f^ud/n^d^^'^/iu^f/ir*
are fools, for, instead of going right
through to Mexico, where there was
no extradition, he stopped at Havana
in the Island of Cuba, and there entertained the Spanish officials in royal
state.
In Havana he saw in one of
the National papers the sensational
account of the great fraud on the
Bank of England and knew he was in
deadly danger, for Havana was in a
province of Spain. He determined to
sail on the next ship to Mexico but
his wife had arranged to give a dinner party, and he took a chance of
waiting over one steamer. While he
was seated at the head of the table
at this dinner, with champagne corks
popping,
music
playing,
beautiful
flowers and rare wines upon the table,
Captain John Curtian, of the NewYork Pinkerton Agency, entered the
room at the head of a dozen Spanish
soldiers and "the jig was up."
Warren had with him .$80,000 in cash and
bonds, besides a lot of valuable diamonds. After several days confinement
in jail waiting for requisition papers,
he escaped. The jailers were bribed
to let him do so.
He tried to join
the
Cuban
Rebels
and
traveled
through jungles by night, and with
many
narrow
escapes
he
almost
to
to
to
London to join the other three behind the bars of Newgate Prison.
Remunerating the Violinist
There is an old saying, "Those who
dance must pay the fiddler."
The
quartette of choice American spirits
had danced merrily and now it was
time to pay the fiddler, and the fiddler
was not modest in demanding payIf such a performance
ment.
had
been pulled off in New York it is
probable that F. A. Warren
would have been elected mayor and
given the keys of the city out of
sheer admiration for the magnificent
robbery he had achieved.
Big Boss
quite
Bill
Tweed and
the
Tammany
ring
city for
had
fifty
crinu-
whicli death
i.u-
was
the penalty.
Good Resolutions
Before the four men
went
to
would obey
all
which infested the cell, and to, perhaps, a stray liird who, outside, hail
alighted upon the sill of the narrow
grated window high up in the cell to
look in with cocked head and inquisi
live
eyes upon the strange bein.u
there, talking to himself.
He made
dime museums.
At any
rate,
he
this
.living-death,
the
American
tell
a dead, flat,
life.
He
told
monotonous tone
it
in
like that
.^^3^u4/u^d^^^^iu^i^i7as
to
once,
less
make
and
and
interesting- more
it
calls for the story
less,
and
presently
than
grew
they
one of the last of the papers discounted, the remaining trio and Austin Bidwell would have safely escaped
before it is
ty closely
The English are still
discounted.
hundred
years
behind this
about a
country in that respect, but it is probable that the performance of Austin
Bidwell, alias F. A. Warren, convinced the directors of the Bank of England that it was possible to commit a
forgery on that time honored institution, and caused them to very decidedly remodel their method of discounting paper. But for the trifling
slip up of failing to put in a date on
investigated
tell
me,
because
the
The
fumes
kill
of
the
everything
dead lack of
liv-
later.
beyond.
of far great-
average intelligence.
Austin
r^^^u^'ned^i^i/iu^i/^
how can
cation?
Ambitious.
"Where
way"
work from
penses.
By working
school
half
other
the
What
is
different grades?
The purpose
F.
of
W.
establish certain
ercise should be
of the nerve connections for definite
of a preRepetition
writing motions.
scribed motor impulse makes for imand acof
effort
provement in control
to
movement used
therefore
be
in-
Discrimination
may
should
With
letters
embodying
straight
line
etc.
which
combination
from the very start
should
in
the
obtain
learning
process.
When movement
form quality.
are
unduly
especially
speed
stressed, perverted and distorted concepts of both form and motion invariably result. Perception must prelude performance in writing as in any
other acquired act of man.
In the primary grades, freedom in
actual writing characters and comof
and
binations
duced
enlarged
in
size
movement
and
re-
the
child's need, and not the technical
grammar of penmanship in the forn\
in
rate
of intensified
drill
of
movement
is
callisthenics,
then
close.
It must be remembered that exerare
cises are only a means to an end
"necessary evil," and that
so-called
a
the true goal-idea is facility, endurance and rapidity, or the highest
economy of reproduction consistent
TOM SAWYIER.
^^^uJ/n^ii4/^(/iu^i^r'
37
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ROUNDHAND OR ENGROSSERS'
By
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SCRIPT
Lesson No.
you have mastered the exercises presented in last month's B. E., you will find very little trouble with this
lesson.
Y.our main trouble will be to secure uniform spacing, slant, and uniform down strokes and smooth lines.
The spacing should appear the same between as in letters, hut a little study will show you that the compound
hair lines take more space than simple curved hair line connecting strokes.
To secure good uniform spacing you
must study spacing. Never do careless work. It always pays to do systematic, neat work. Watch the arrangement
on the page.
If
To secure uniform slant all down strokes should be pulled towards the center of the body. Get your paper in
you and not too far to the right. If necessarj' draw a few slant lines. Remember that there should be no
connective slant in roundhand. Light connective strokes should be on the same slant as the shaded down strokes.
front of
You should put on the full pressure of the pen as soon as you make the top turns if you wish to get the
strokes uniform in heft of shade. Hit the head and base lines every time and your work will look regular.
down
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VOLUME
XXIII
The BUSINESS
EDUCATOR
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C. P. Zaner,
E. W. Bloser.
Zaner&
2iid
Business Manager
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War,
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trinity of immediate imperative needs.
now-a-days
as
are
in
demand
to
and to provide.
But these depend upon transportan,
transaction,
and transcript,
t
o
which is but to say that men, food,
raiment, munitions need to be transported from where they are found or
produced to where they are needed.
to
serve,
mean
is
the work,
in
institutions
of
in
private as well as in
public
commercial education.
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also among principals of commercial depart-
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workers,
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subscriptions.
sist
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to as-
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Chicago,
National
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Hotel
Commercial
Convention,
Teachers'
Federation
comprise the time, place, and occasion for a royal good time with but
one exception, you.
Be there and
then it will be complete.
Announcements and preliminary
programs appear elsewhere in this
number of the Business Educator.
"Do your bit" by being it in listening as well as in speaking when "the
spirit moves" and when the "golden
silence"
is
broken
by
"silvery
speech."
us Fletcherize, HooverCome,
ize, and fraternize together, increasing our power and efficiency and thus
winning the world to democracy, enduring peace, and prosperity.
let
lions.
means barter or
transactions commonly
termed "business." This in turn demands records or accounts, hence the
gressive
IV
THE FEDERATION
BUSINESS SERVICE
We
Class Matter
Editor
NUMBER
1917
"BIRDS OF A FEATHER"
Transportation
trading
and
tional
usual.
It is not too early to plan to be in
attendance and to partake of the
"flow of soul," cheer of chin music,
and instruction which will be freely
given.
when requisitioned.
The Business Educator
is
ready to
lend
and transactions.
ing
^
COUNTING
In
the
counting
Counting
is
teaching of handwriting,
an art. not a mere act.
is
It
cating the correct rate of speed.
may and should indicate or suggest
the kind and quality of effort employed in successful writing.
But all too frequently counting is
wrong in time and indicates wron.g
effort in writing. Sometimes it is too
rapid; more often too slow; frequently it is jerky and spasmodic.
Counting should suggest pauses,
increasing or diminishing speed, and
accent or special effort. In turns, the
count should "carry over" without
halting; in difficult places it should
check or stop. Thus in r, a pause
should be made for the shoulder but
none for top or turn at bottom. The
finish of v, w, and b also deserves a
check but no other part of the letters.
The victrola "carries over" better
than most voices, but it provides few
The
as needed in writing.
human voice, not over worked, but
cultivated, and backed by study and
experienced practice, serves well to
stimulate and suggest the right speed
pauses
relieves
the
child
to
allows it
formation of
thus
movement
or
Instead
paper the
first
mind
manner
of
of
size
concentrate
letter,
and
upon
and
position,
of writing.
advocating
two years
school,
size of letters.
is
done
Practice
Books
Unruled
paper
should
come
last,
PUPILS'
NAMES
effort.
Signing the paper after it is written makes it more authentic and cultivates a habit which would prevent
many
unruled
of
and
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Why
letters
being
signatures.
not sign the
Why
SOCIAL
vs.
"Business"
mailed
name
without
last?
BUSINESS WRITING
writing
is
frequently
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MILTON
H.
L. D. S. University, Salt
City,
live, interest-
ROSS
Lake
Utah
EXERCISE
Club us hard-QUICK!
No. 17
The
first
line 2 carefully.
Note the crossing. If there is too little curve to the up stroke you will be inclined to
down stroke. Try to make the down stroke straight to the line. The curve on the line in the i is the
Mix a little brains and a good amount of sticktoitiveness with your ink.
as in the u.
Study
curve the
same
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EXERCISE
No. 18
Make
EXERCISE No
sentence is poor but the author's heart must have been in the right place. You should be
able to write the sentence nicely in less than a minute. Make frequent severe criticism of your work.
The English
in this
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stroke with the curve at the top and bottom.
Uniform slant is not
properly and pull all down strokes toward you. The b is one of the awk1 and w should be
taken in connection with practice on the b. Loop letters
should not be more than three-fourths of a space in height.
It is difficult to make the straight
difficult to get if you hold your paper
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Learn to make ovals easily either way round. The top oval in the movement exercise shown in third section
of line 1 should be made first. Counting helps to get a rhythm of motion, which assures a degree of uniformity
essential
so
to sightly penmanship.
Two or three lines of line 1 should be made before starting on line 2.
your attention to some of the important points to note in the B. The initial up
in the fore part of the B may be omitted by making the up stroke trace the
loop in the middle indicated by the arrow must not be changed to a point.
In line 3 note where the little oval joins, and in line 4 note where the pen is lifted on the finishing stroke.
common fault in making these letters is to get the large ovals flat, giving them a pinched appearance.
The dotted
stroke
down
may
be omitted.
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little
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Learn to make neat double curves both
join, 1-2-3-4-5-6 off.
each time around tracing six or eight times on each one.
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each group 1-2-3-4-5-6 join, 1-2-3-4-5-6 join, 1-2-3-4-5-6
on the slant and parallel with the lines. Count 1 for
Make both the down stroke and finishing stroke with the double curve.
Start the L with considerable curve.
small oval should be parallel with the line. It makes the L easier if you finish just a little below the line.
The D seems to be one of the hard ones. Get two parts on the line and not too broad on the bottom. The
tracer will help to get uniformity.
The
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writing without a blotter, see that the left hand does not rest on the paper below the right hand, as
the perspiration is quite likely to spoil the writing surface, causing the ink to flow as if the surface be oily.
The up-strokes should slant a little more than the down-strokes. The width of a letter depends upon the
A condensed style is made where the up-strokej have little slant. Increased slant to the
slant of the up-stroke.
Because of the little space that is given for writing in account
up-strokes results in the so-called "running hand."
books, card ledgers, etc., it is generally better to condense your forms to some extent. Use your judgment. Do
not go to extremes. The governing principle in good penmanship should be good sense.
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Then
each name.
These cities are given to review the whole of the capital alphabet.
select the poorest written and "get down to work."
F. S. Robinson,
Walnut
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PENMANSHIP EDITION
Our Policy: Better Writing Through
Improved Teaching and Methods.
Think
it
ally.
ed;
thus
same time
movement and
quire
over.
How
WHEN
portion
is
for
Next
QUITTING MEANS
STARTING
knowing when and how
to
to
knowing when
to quit.
To
something.
children
express
required
to
are
thought by writing, during the first
and second years of school.
impor'tant.
chanically,
it
seem
would
that
it
much
easier.
guage
specialists
overlook
the
substitute
fact
art
that
writing
is
a
rather than a fundamenal language,
and that its function is to record
rather than to express. Oral expression is about ten times as speedy as
written expression, and far more interesting.
and consequent-
methods!
weak or
indifferent teacher in
any
chain.
PARTIAL CONTENTS
never get
third
is
What
as
much
Editorial.
Mental
a success.
movement,
Quite
time
is
wasted
Teach and then quit; start something else; keep an eye on application
of the thing previously taught.
Incidentally watch it, but only incident-
Meanderings, Carl C.
Marshall, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Commercial Law,
son,
H. Robin-
J.
Edinburg, Pa.
Commercial
Training,
Charles
Commercial
Paper, Gervis G.
A. B., Pd. B., Goldey
College, Wilmington, Del.
Hill,
The Business
Letter, Goodrich
Rubber Co.
How
Geo.
\'ice-Pres.
Brown
tory
School,
J.
in
Brown,
Prepara-
Philadelphia.
Federation Announcements.
It's
the
big
achievements
but
it's
the
News
little
Notes.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
EDUCATION
vs.
APPRENTICE-
SHIP
Apprenticeship, a century ago, was
the method by which the man-y were
taught and trained to work efficiently.
They were taught while they worked.
As a rule the teaching was incidental
to the doing.
But the results, although sometimes rather long in materializing, were, on the whole, quite
less likely
it
will
ever be applied.
satisfactory.
Frequently the employer took advantage of the employee or apprentice by exacting the ma.ximum work
and giving the minimum instruction.
That the development of machinery
and the trend toward combinations of
capital on the one hand and of trade
unions on the other hand, led to the
abandonment of much of the apprentice system of learning through do'
NATIONAL
Otis L. Trenary
of
to
more when
National
Federation.
amounts
the
ally.
and
means
in
thoughts
tion program, and the round tables
will take
every-day work.
mere
sacrifice of effort.
being provided
in
High Schools.
More work must be brought
into
L.
Robey
COMMERCIAL
H.
S.
CLUBS?
Gentlemen:
Have you ever published any articles on the "Organization of Commercial Clubs for High Schools" in
your paper? If so, I would thank you
to send me copy or copies of the particular issue, for which I shall be
glad to pay.
have just organized a CommerClub for my students, and naturI am very anxious to make it a
complete success. Thus, I want to
get as many ideas with reference to
the activities, programs, etc., of such
I
clulis
as
membership.
Very sincerely yours,
OTIS
L.
TRENARY.
Federation Officers
President, H. W. Owen, Decatur,
111.; 1st Vice Pres., Jessie Davidson,
Kansas City, Mo.; 2nd Vice Pres.,
W. H. Whigam, Chicago, 111.; Secretary, Otis L. Trenary, Kenosha, Wis.;
Treasurer, C. A. Faust, 1024 N.
St. Chicago.
Robey
Department Officers
Public Com'l Schools
President,
ies scattered,
J.
A.
possible.
By Carl Naether,
:!24
October
18,
Principal,
Street.
McCabe
1917.
Who
Private
F.
ally
more
Iowa.
cial
ing.
COMMERCIAL
TEACHERS' FEDERATION
WISCONSIN
Wisconsin has
mol)iling.
Home
^
MENTAL
MEANDERINGS
MARSHALL
CARL
C.
516 Reaper Block, Chicago
earh'
Sherman
to
perfect
Luther
tin
dbwn
to
Billy
Sunday
He
Seer
etary, Trenary,
Clay Slinker, of Des
Moines, and Lena
\ oght, of Cedar Rapids, were on
hand.
There was a meeting of the
commercial publishers "Credit Association" on the same date, and a
pleasant
The new
No commercial
teacher
with
professional spirit and vision, who wishes to keep up with the procession can
afford to stay away from this splendid gathering of his fellow-workers.
With the exception of two occasions, when attacks of la grippe kept
me
at home, I
of
these
we know
spread before
will see
you
in
it
Well, so long;
us.
have
me
more
in
vital
Presumably
ing to
but he
this
fact
is
also pleas-
devil,
may be fooling
may well turn out
himself.
It
that the soldiers' sublime and unflinching loyalty
to humanity and liberty, may prove
to be only a nobler form of faith in
and loyalty to God.
Nothing that
has happened in this generation has
augured so
surely
Christmas.
How We Make
Most
of us, by this
time, have seen the
startling
figures
that seem to prove that the present
generation of .\mericans are the most
Spendthrifts
Great Days
for Satan
If Billy
Sunday
is
right,
and
when
he
reads
the
^^J^u4/ned^^i/iu^i/^
Kaiser's
the child.
In a general way, thriftiness and
extravagance consist simply in a
reckless disregard of the purpose and
value of money, and often, of her
property as well.
why
good
eat,
so far as
else,
Johnny's
financial
good humor.
years
of
about
money except
they
the
grow older?
children
that
Why
money
not
has
teach
other
and quarters
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COMMERCIAL
EDUCATION
CHARLES
F.
RITTENHOUSE,
C. P. A.
Correction of Errors:
4.
One
ing
of
that
books
which
weight
dence
in
ceedings,
main
purpose
in
The
declaration of
alone,
money
one
in
value
How
Use
particular.
is
whose
5.
of Teacher's Key.
ample continue
charge a
minus
To
save
time,
the
teacher should
bank
profit, proprietor's
and
merchandise
dis-
Use
of
Red Ink:
^
of the art when the clerical work of
the office was all done by hand; those
were the days when bookkeeping was
regarded more as an art than as a
science; when
the
bookkeeper or
clerk took a pardonable pride in his
work
in
is
commonly
used.
Granting that
in practice
in favor,
rapidly losing
safely give up its
is
red ink
we may
use in teaching
The economics arising
business from the iise of black ink
for all work apply as well to the
school room, and anything which reduces in even a small degree the ever
increasing cost of class roorn equipment and supplies, is certain to be
most welcome to school administra-
bookkeeping.
in
tors.
Many of us, it is true, value the
artistic touch and the dash of color
given to the page by the use of red
ink, and pupils may by its use in
7.
Stamp
for
Correcting
Work:
We
the instructor.
ine a great deal of
inspect or
work which
examis
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not
of
The use
of a stamp is a notice to
the pupil that the work has been examined, it serves to identify the examiner, the date settles any dispute
which may arise later on as to when
the work was completed, and it gives
the pupils the feeling that the instructor is business-like and syste-
all
er-
indicated,
writing by
in
know
pupil's interest is still alive and before he loses touch with the exercise
from having undertaken an entirely
different piece of work.
8.
The Journal a Business Diary:
In our teaching, we should encourage the use of the journal as a diary
of important .events that take place in
the life of the business, rather than
new
The space
ited
If
pupils
are
up such things
encouraged to write
in
their
own words,
they
all
details.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and has accepted a position with the Morse College,
Hartford, Conn. We wish Mr. Evans
much success in his new position.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
students
of
Commercial
the
Dakota
the
Wesleyan
Commercial"
School.
The purpose
of the club is to promote real and lasting interest in commercial subjects, to make the students of commerce thoroughly ac-
quainted
with
modern, up-to-date
business conditions by seeking the
earnest co-operation of prominent
local business men.
Though the new organization has
held but few meetings, great interest
already being shown in the new
is
undertaking on the part of all students, and the club promises to be a
big success.
Social as well as business meetings
are held.
At the business meetings
we have local business men and clul)
members address the club on live
tonics connected with our work.
In
addition to that, various kinds of consuch as Typewriting, Shorttests,
hand, Rapid Calculation, and Spelling
contests are held.
Good business
magazines and house organs of prominent business firms circulate constantly to stimulate reading along
business lines.
One of the most important aims of
the club is to study local business
conditions thoroughly, and especially
the needs of the local business men
with reference to office help, for the
club intends to furnish the local business men with efficient, "home-made"
office workers, who are thoroughly
acquainted with local business conditions.
W. Elmer
name
of
The Maltbv
Goldey
held
D.
S.
The
cises
its
Wilmington,
College,
Del.,
Novemlier
loth,
in
The
Play-
Mabel Miller
is
mercial subjects
High School.
handling
in
'
I
''
ji
^
The
BUSINESS LETTER
The
B. F. Goodrich
"We
beg
of your
in reply
Rubber Co.
Akron, Ohio
By special arrangement
company we are privileged
to
acknowledge
receipt
Why
with
above
the
to reprint a series
the company is l)ub-
of Copyrighted booklets
lishing for their correspondents.
We
consider
Then
THE BEGINNING OF A
NESS LETTER
BUSI-
letter
very
is
important.
Do not
est points in these places.
waste the most important position in
your letter by filling it up with stereotyped expressions that are timeworn and meaningless. The examples
given below are introductory sentences taken from our letters and we
would
discuss
to
like
them
this
in
Why
use the
"letter" a better
re-
In
what
correspondent is really
the
talking about? "Favor" is now considered ineffective and stereotyped
and should in most cases be avoided.
Then there is the expression "contents duly noted."
Much good letter
paper has been wasted on this useless
phrase.
You naturally expect that
before a writer replies to a letter that
you have written him, he has given it
enough attention to know what he is
going to tell you. This expression is
a good one to avoid. Of course, if a
letter
has interested, surprised or
particularly pleased you, say so, but
don't use time and space by conveying the information that you have
read it.
The
state"
is
duly noted."
If
obvious that
to the one
it is unnecessary
to
state the fact.
Again, why not simply state what you have to say without telling the reader that you are
about to do so? There are five unnecessary words in the second senreceipt of the letter,
your letter is
mentioned, and
and
in
it
is
reply
many more
superfluous
At the
the reader's mind
is
most susceptible to the impressions that the writer wants to make,
it
is
repelled and disappointed by
these meaningless and stereotyped
phrases. If you do not make an impression at the beginning of your lettence,
ones
very
in the
opening sentence.
moment when
f^Jr^u4//i^U/^(/iui/iir'
We
"In reply
beg to state
The
to yours of
that, etc."
the 27th,
have
letter," you
have a possible reason to surmise that
your letter was so unimportant to
him,
it
all
words out
"Replying
2nd,
we
will
to
say
your
that
fully.
fav
of
the
we
under them
improvement:
directly
is
suggested
1.5th inst. at
ure
in
shipment."
IMPROVED:
"It
is
fortunate
that
November
15th.
etc."
"We
BAD:
ceipt,
beg to acknowledge
re-
etc."
IMPROVED:
"We
acknowledge,"
(could not acknowledge anything unless you have received it.)
that
means something.
Picture
and personally.
cordially
yourself face to face with your corproposirespondent. Try to see the
tion from the reader's point of view,
and feel the situation as you think he
feels
it.
State Normal
School, Bowling Green, Ky., publish"Normal
entitled
journal
es
a
The August issue of 16
Heights."
pages, one-half newspaper size, is devoted and dedicated to war issues. It
abounds in patriotism and enthusiasm
and a sincere endeavor to do its bit
in furthering the cause of democracy
and
liberty.
F. S. Kitson, for
the commercial
in
of
the
iness College.
began her
duties as commercial teacher in
Shawnee, Okla., High School, in
September.
new
the
*^^^u4/n^d^^/iu:a/^
irCOMMERCIAL PAPER
Pd. B., Goldey
College, Wilmington, Del.
Gervis G. Hill, A.
To
the
B.,
commercial
student,
the
student
worked
various
the
operations
The
discounts," as he said.
secret is that the lad did not "learn
how to work discounts" or anything
else in those few minutes, exactly.
The fact of the matter is that he had
learned to organize what kno\yledge
This is the
he already possessed.
great secret in almost any mathematimust learn to orcal process.
ganize that which we already have in
mental store, and adapt it to the particular case at hand.
I once heard a teacher say to his
"Now we are through with
class:
the subject of interest; we will next
take up the subject of bank disSubsequent success of the
counts."
class proved the truth of his statement. What could be more silly or
The two subjects should
fallacious!
never be separated, as we all know.
The transition from simple interest
work
We
present
$.500
cash until
collected or paid.
Jt
is
due and,
oughly understood.
well
Among
learns
the
tilings
III
II
Date of note
When
When
due
The Unco
Robert
Busy
n g
Burns has
lambasted
those
"Unco Guid,"
pious frauds and hypocrites who are
good for what there is in it. I wish
I had Bobby's power to blister those
other humbugs, who are always ex-
discounted
fit-
the
do
Face of note
Interest
Term
of
discount
Discount
Proceeds
Utilizing columns
and
II of this
outline, discount before the class and
with its assistance, a note without
interest in the first column and in the
I
acquire
vivid
the
of
picture
will
mean much
take a
copy of this outline on a piece of
good heavy paper or cardboard, and
preserve it for subsequent need. This
will give him an outline to follow as
well as a theory to study out. It will
also assist him in locating and correcting any possible error.
Being very familiar with the subject ourselves, we are prone to forget
that those less experiencd have trouble with this simple process, and we
him.
to
each
student
and
bookkeeping
class
ness practice
still
we can make
the subject at
better,
even
if
later
later.
busi-
in
The simpler
we do have
first,
the
to
speak
said
about
"street" English.
interesting
be
subject,
but
we
are
To eliminate as many of
troubles.
these troubles as possible, is the mission of teachers.
MARSHALL
(Continued from page 18)
ance on hand at the end of the week,
her father pays her an equal amount,
and the whole goes into the savings
bank, on the girl's a'ccount.
,By this plan, the girl has a mo iv?
for speiiding her money wisely, as
tion.
It
is
mostly bunk.
When
efforts to see
^^^u4/n^ii^^(/iu:a/(fr'
COMMERCIAL LAW
J.
H.
ROBINSON
Edinburg, Pa.
to the consignee.
STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU
We find here an instance where
"in
Latin
one
used
is
The
much
oftener.
meaning of the
phrase
whole
"Stoppage in
transitu"
is
sent goods to a
and after sending
them learns that the buyer is insolvent, may stop the goods at any time
before they reach the buyer, thus becoming entitled to the same rights in
regard to the goods as he would have
had if he had never parted with the
possession.
His right to do this is
i termed
"Stoppage in transitu," but
if the
goods are sent to pay a precedent and existing debt they are not
subject to this right.
There are several conditions, however, that are necessary and must be
present before the seller will be permitted to exercise a ri.ght of stop-
1.
in transitu.
a sale of
goods.
2.
3.
from
4.
from the
in
transit
5.
The Ijuyer must be insolvent,
or have committed some act amounting to an act of insolvency.
6.
rights of a third
the resale of the
the
The right exists only in actual insolvency; but this need not be formal
insolvency, or bankruptcy at law; an
actual inability to pay one's debts in
the usual way being enough.
If the
seller in good faith, stops the goods,
in a belief of the buyer's insolvency,
the buyer may at once defeat the
stoppage and reclaim the goods by
payment of the price, or if the sale
be on credit by a tender of adequate
security.
effected
by
act;
buyer this
is
warehouse man.
The entry of the goods at the custom-house, without payment of dut-
of a
ies,
this:
buyer
page
enough.
If
does
not
terminate
marked them
the
transit.
at the place
his agent; or
1917
in
means
Your Convention
It's
to
his
through
Programs
Program Com-
many
Exhibitors
Besides the excellent programs you
examine the
will
be privileged to
latest teachers' books,
Under the
vate Schools
Your Dues
new Organization
Department and
a Pria
Pub-
WHITE
WHITE
NOW
You need us; we need you. Hundreds of older members of the Federation prize among the most precious
of their possessions, life long acquaintances and friends met at these
gatherings years ago.
Here mingle
the most aggressive, the most wholesouled, and the most able commercial
teachers, speakers, and writers in this
country.
them, to
is a privilege
profiable
privilege.
D O N'T IGIT.
Very sincerely yours,
NORE
OTIS.L.
TRENARY,
General Secretary,
Kenosha, Wisconsin,.
f^i^^ud/ji^iU^^t/iua^
system
is
to teach
boys and
more pur-
think to
girls to
pose.
known
It
is
and
is
it
By Arthur
When
pupils
structions
in
get
to
close
cise:
When
to
closing:
Merchandise
Expense
Merchandise Discount
Loss and Gain
Proprietor's Account.
Today
great educational institution.
that spirit is found only in the private
school, where the aim is to make
men rather than to teach things. But
the public school will come into its
own again. It will awake from its
self-complacent dream. It will shake
off the bonds which now hold it, and
it will come to the altar of the private
school, where the sacred fire still
burns, and in all humanity it will
light the torch which shall spread
light throughout the world.
until that time comes the boy
to be more than he is,
class
in
can.
the
than
way
lists
first,"
certain number of sales were assigned for the next day, to be prepared at home and brought to the
that the
class.
It was announced
fi"'uring bills,
in
From all of which it must be evident that the choice of a school must
not be made at haphazard, if the parent wishes to do his full duty by his
child.
It is often a difificult task to
select the right school for your boy.
Sometimes
has
himself
it
happens that
attended
father
preparatory
And
work
done
any
previous
class
completed
time than
had ever
it.
not.
Could the
Interest
ly
the
of sales to be billed.
Not a pupil in the class but hated to
figure bills.
as
open
Ledger Accounts for
simple Trial Balance, and then close
Ask them
But
of
some
with long
who wants
minds
the
entirely
some
principles
to
first,
bookkeeping
in
Bookkeeping
took up the new set, there were
many sighs; for the pages were filled
follow inledger
when they close the
Proprietor's
account
refuse
closing
CONCENTRATION
High
made
to others.
The devices explained on this page
would be of no use to you unless you knew of them;
and the devices you have discovered and developed will
"Now,
class,
want you
to study
Then
action.
want you
to give
to
me
the
school
Lacking
may have
advise
intimate
friends
who
can
miliarity with
is
necessary to
aided, care
make
Good schools
Educational Guide
<^
HOW
BOOKKEEPING
COURSES
Robert
H.
dent of
of Public Accountants, and Assistant Professor of Accounting, Columbia University, New York, N. Y.
them
Mathe-
as intensive as possible.
tial.
now
many
It is a
financial successes.
a minor one,
modern
establishment.
predominates
bookkeeping
in
Bad
busi-
have
as
to
enough
how
first-hand information
their students who get
.^J^u4//i^d4^^(/fu^i^
applying
regard
I
this of more importance to teachers
experiences
preliminary
than
the
which some writers advocate.
is
How
minds
complete,
textbooks
and that
on
people
by,
fails
to
keeper.
think teachers are so engrossed
I
with what they are teaching that they
overlook the possibilities of checking
up the results of their teaching. I am
aware of the casual inquiry as to
how an old student is getting along,
and the usual reply, but I see no
reason why a teacher should not investigate, say, fifty cases where students have secured satisfactory marks
in a bookkeeping course, and who are
keeping books, and spend several
hours in each office examining the
critical
compari-
Whethis
found,
Why
repetition.
have students write
hundreds of imaginary transactions if they can be shown how transactions should be properly recorded
and dealt with through illustrations
up
and
explanations
based
on
real
things? After I commenced to teach
bookkeeping, I was not content until
I could show the students some sets
of books which had been written up
and used in connection with actual
enterprises.
I
believe books of this
sort are available in all localities. The
most available records are those
where a concern has gone out of
active business, by bankruptcy as related to insolvent concerns, and dissolution (for one or many reasons)
as related to solvent concerns.
If difficulty be experienced in securing such sets of books, I would have
the students write up a few model
sets, spending, if necessary, several
years on the work, and retaining the
completed records for illustrative
purposes. The school courses would
certainly be modified if a full set of
books were written up along text-
made
the
memoranda
original
tions,
in
of
transac-
Accounts,
be
if
interesting
easy.
The
public
and figures and arranges and rearranges them, and frequently it is the
means whereby the proprietor of a
business learns for the
first
time im-
^
Geo.
Brown,
J.
Brown
Vice-President
Preparatory School,
of
Philadelphia, Pa.
What
is
education?
What
is
it
that educates a man? Had that question been put to some of us whose
lives reach back to a time when the
public school was not a system, the
would
answer
Knowledge
fore, get
empire.
Seeing such
greater knowledge.
re-
industrial,
social
and
economic,
re-
self.
Now
the opposite
is
true.
Until a
moved
Everything he does
for him.
leaves him more dependent upon
others and less reliant upon himself.
All his natural forces lie dormant, and
whether he graduates from college or
from an office or a shop, the best that
is
in him, his real self, that part
which gives him power to do, is undeveloped and almost wholly useless.
.Adding a little knowledge, more or
less, to such a man means nothing.
Jvnowledge is power when used, but
it
can be used best by a fully devel-
oped man.
Right here is where the public
schools and the private schools separate both in theory and in practice.
The public schools, pointing to their
real success in the past when circumstances forced the development of
.^J^u4/n^d^^(/iua/fr
own
sovereign
If
will.
the
will
obfor
mastery
tainment possible."
These forces mentioned by Dr. Hibben are the natural powers which belong alike to you and to every man;
yet the great majority of men go
through life inefficient, wholly unconscious of the fact that they themselves control forces which, if used,
would change their hopeless inefficiency into real success.
When it is known that these forces
can be developed in everyone, when
it is known that for a number of years
this development has been carried out
successfully as a regular part of
school work, and when it is known
that a student so developed is practically assured of success commensurate with his own mentality when
this is known, is it not strange that
even one parent would be satisfied to
send his son to a school that would
The only place
do less for him?
where this important work is carried
out intelligently is in the private
school.
What
is
In answering
education?
speak with a
representation
of
the
educational
schools.
It
is
scientific
for
it
is
in
Why.
poor
as
is
lioy get
up
We
freely
concede their ability, their
earnest, conscientious work and their
It is a pleasure
integrity of purpose.
It would be an added
to do this.
pleasure if our friends of the public
schools felt free to reciprocate, but
at present this is not to be expected,
and the most we can hope for is that
when the hosts have gathered and the
great feast is spread that we of the
private schools may be permitted to
gather up the intellectual fragments
that are scattered about.
f^J^u^'n^J^^^i^iu^i^fr'
no work that
girls with
actly
the
man gave
No one
is
same
definition
to war.
Only
dis-
in
America, and
who
cation.
courageous.
There must be
wil-
school.
There
is
It
the method.
universal law of
through
strong advocate of our pubschool system, says; "But the private schools can do one thing which
the public schools cannot do
they
can make character out of hand."
Character-building, developing the
individual, is the one thing that is esalso
is
lic
sentially educative.
There is no factor in school work to which a student
Mental
growth
begins
and
ends
every
with interest.
In this fact
teacher in both publi? and private
schools has a sure test of the work in
the class-rooms.
It can be applied
instantly and there is never by any
chance a wrong. reading. If the stu-
Usually
it
to
is
make good
I
want
to
Yet
girls
after leaving school, and
put it on record that in
Philadelphia
and throughout the
country, from the Judge on the bench,
up or down as the case may be, there
is
not one of the great professions
that is not ornamented by men who
as boys lost step in the public schools,
but who later were aroused and
awakened
to
their
own
possibilities
*^^^uU^t^d4/(^/iuv;^^
CONSTITUTION
made on
of the
National Commercial Teachers'
Federation
ARTICLE
Name
This organization shall be known as
the National Commercial Teachers'
Federation.
ARTICLE
II
Objects
The
ARTICLE
partment, in 1916.
The Vice-Presidents and the Treasurer shall be
by the general Federation
from nominations made on the floor
of the House and shall serve for a
elected
1916.
members
from
Round Tables
Any Round Table may be organized at the written request of twentyfive members for the discussion of
such subjects in the interest of Commercial Education as may be desig-
ARTICLE V
Membership
1.
Any
person directly or
interested
in
commercial
ARTICLE
Schools
VI
Officers
The oflficers of the Federation shall
be a President, a First Vice-President,
a Second Vice-President, a General
Secretary, a Treasurer and an ExecuCommittee, consisting of the
tive
President, the immediate past President and one member elected by the
Depart-
a term of
for three
ARTICLE
VIII
Special Associations
and a Secretary, elected by the members of the Round Table they are to
serve,
who
shall
also
serve
as
the
ARTICLE
VII
Election of Officers
shall be elected for
The President
IV
Expenditures
ARTICLE X
Amendments
To amend
Committee, which
act upon it and report it
body
Executive
shall
to the
BY-LAWS
BY-LAW I
him
to
membership
in
the
nate.
BY-LAW
II
Federation Year
for which dues are paid
end with December 31st of the
The year
shall
current year.
BY-LAW
BY-LAW
III
Meetings
This Federation and its constituent
organizations shall hold yearly meetings at such times and places as shall
be determined by the members in
convention assembled, or at their failure to so determine, by the General
Executive Committee.
All invitations for the next annual
meeting of the Federation for each
VI
Local Committee
committee consisting
local
se-
of
BY-LAW VII
Programs
programs for the Federation
shall be made out by the General
Executive Committee. Programs for
the Departments and for the Round
All
Round Table
fails
to
submit satisfac-
af-
ARTICLE IX
Division of Time on the Program
In the arrangement of the program
E.xecutive
Committee
the
general
shall allow appro.ximately fifty per
cent of the time to the Federation
proper; twenty-five per cent of the
time to the Departments and twentyfive per cent of the time to the Round
Tables.
entitle
each department
shall be a President, a Vice-President
and a Secretary elected by the Department who shall also serve as the
Executive Committee for that Department.
The officers of the Round Tables
shall be a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman
BY-LAW
Terms of Office
All officers of the Federation elective and appointed, except the General Secretary and the two members
of the Executive Committee elected
by the Departments, shall serve for
one year or until their successors be
elected and qualify.
The General
Secretary and two members of the
E-xecutive Committee elected by the
Departments shall serve for three
years, or until their successors be
elected and qualify.
BY-LAW V
of
make recommenda-
Department.
oflficers
shall
three
member
The
which body
years,
ARTICLE IV
Section
Private
III
Departments
indirectly
the
Committee by
si.x
weeks prior to
first
said
occasion.
BY-LAW
VIII
Annual Report
The Federation
BY-LAW
IX
Rules
Robert's Rules of Order shall govern in all deliberations of the Federation and constituent associations.
BY-LAW X
Membership Roll
The General Secretary shall keep a
complete roll of all members of the
Federation and of each department.
^^J^udZ/t^iU/^f/iua/fr'
COMMERCIAL
NATIONAL
The
TEACHERS' FEDERATION
cago,
December
26-29,
this year.
We
How
Department program:
McGoorty, Illinois Appelate
School
lic
Justice
Sincerely,
A. Book, President.
Pulilic
Program
School Dept.
Some
Scientific
Measurements in
Commercial Education
Clay D.
Slinker. Director of Business Education. Des Moines. Iowa, 25 min.
Discussion
of
J.
L. Holtsclaw. Director
of Commerce, De-
High School
Michigan. 5 minutes.
What the Business Man Expects of
the Commercial Graduate
Charles
P. Avery, Office Employment Manager, Marshall Field & Co., Chicago.
25 minutes.
troit,
in
The
Salesmanship
and Advertising for High Schools
James C. Reed, Director of Commercial School, State Normal,
Whitewater, Wis. 25 minutes.
the
educational world.
A casual
glance at the talent on the program
will convince anyone that it will be
Course
Practical
The
Education
\'alue of a
cial
Boy and
Justice
John
His
P.
Opportunities
McGoorty,
Illinois
School,
Milwaukee.
20
Election of Officers.
Remarks by President Elect.
IN-
29
ily
finances.
dule the assets and liabilities, the income and expenses, of their municipality.
I
have found very creditable accounts where all bookkeeping rules
have been violated. What of it, provided the ones who depended upon
the accounts for a true and complete
record of their business understood
them and found them to be dependable?
I am just as keen for correct
terminology and standard practice as
anyone else, but I am unwilling to be
a party to an insistence on inethods
which do not work well in practice.
Bookkeeping must be intensely practical in its uses or it is of no value.
Accounts are said to be the history
suppose
them
analyses
intelligent
parisons, and
of this
arrangements
liooks
skillful
as
if.
is
and
possible,
of
commost
a skillful
in
the
In
my
opinion
all
part of accounting.
bookkeeping
is
student taking
30
TEACHERS' CONVENTION
December
cago,
have
Programs
in
Colleges,
High
yourself
know only
in
personality
real
print,
represent
here
strong,
refreshing,
often inspiring.
much
as
them.
work
been
busily engaged in
taking care of the physical needs of
the assembly.
man, Chicago
This is the one gathering of the
year that the Hve commercial teacher
cannot afford to miss. For more than
twenty years the progressive growing
teachers have met in a National Convention for fraternal greeting, the
interchange of ideas, the discussion
of ways and means, and the general
inspiration gained from a contact
with the Ijest minds of the country
in this line of work.
Practically every state in the union
is
represented in this Convention.
Here gather proprietors, principals
all
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COMMERCIAL
NATIONAL
On Wednesday,
their
discussion
On Thursday
answers regarding details of management and presentation. On the general programs will be heard such men
as Harry A. Wheeler, United States
Food Commissioner, of Chica.go; ExGovernor W. N. Ferris, of Michigan;
Dr. Dengler, of Philadelphia, etc.
New
Entertainment
enjoyment and
for
making
for
ac-
quaintances.
On Thursday and on
Friday, a
community dinner will be served at
noon. Only those who have attended a community dinner of the N. C.
T. F. know just what enjoyment and
real fraternity fun is had at such a
gathering.
Resolved
Promise yourself
these
Associations,
together with
hundreds of other
teachers, will unite in the morning to
hear the Federation Program. In the
afternoon of each day the entire assembly is divided into two general
Commercial
meetings
a
Private
Schools Meeting and a Public ComThen a
mercial Schools Meeting.
portion of each day is set apart for
This is a
round table discussion.
general free-for-all, where questions
are asked and answered, where methods of presentation are put forth and
opinions of all sort interchanged on
any and all parts of our school work.
This is in general the policy of our
new working organization a "eneral
assembly for broad inspiration topics
at^nlicable to all teachers equally; a
division into a Public Schools Department and a Private Schools Department for the discussion of general topics applicable to these two
broad fields of work, and finally the
face-to-face method of questions and
Las \'egas.
make
will
and
who
a
Now
NOW
that
you
you
will see
distance;
that
you
will
fraternize
To withhis responsiljility.
his thought, his mind, his in-
assume
hold
we
minds
entire staff
able to take
Every
care of your communications.
mail is bringing him helpful suggestions, and many of them are bringing
Inclose a .$2.00 bill or
CHECKS.
and
DO IT NOW.
With sincere personal greeting and
a real desire to meet you face
with
to face in Chicago.
OTIS
L.
TRENARY,
Gen. Sec'y,
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Minehart, Glassport, Ohio, is
charge of the commercial work in
N. Braddock, Pa., High School.
Lillie
in
the
Anna M. Walsh,
of the State
Normal
;
!
i^
cussion.
On Saturday. October 27. a meeting of the Commercial Teachers' Association, of Long Island, was held at
the Hempstead High School with
The program
follows:
Long
dan
Linn,
Island
Town J.
Supervising
SheriPrincipal.
Bay Shore, N. Y.
The Teaching of Commercial .Arithmetic W. E. Bartholomew, Specialist in Commercial Sulijects, State
Department of Education.
The Commercial Course from the
Outsiders' Point of View:
The Business Man's Point of View
Charles
Pitcher,
Secretary,
New
How
tion,
New York
University.
rence, N. Y.
BERTHA
A,
Secy.,
Freeport, N. Y.
bans.
ciation.
words
of
the
Company.
Underwood Type-
He
tative
Mr.
of the
exhibition of the
possibilities
of
the
Stenotype.
The
coming
IRVING
V.
COBLEIGH.
wrote
15.5
now
in
Paterson, N. J,, is
of the Commercial
Holly, Colo., High
Holly, Colo.
School,
charge
Department
School,
Advertising
of
College,
New
CONSTITUTION OF THE
Orleans, La.
work
N. C. F. A.
(Continued from page 28)
BY-LAW
XI
Quorum
Fifty
members
shall
constitute
um
in
either department.
BY-LAW
Meetings of the
XII
General
Executive
Committee
of ))usiness.
BY-LAW
XIII
Election of Officers
In the Federation proper and in the
two departments, namely, the Private
the
tact
COLBURN,
*^^^ud//i^ii4^^:^/iu^i/^
now teaching
Sanitarium.
These
commercial
Colo.,
is
is
Loma
and
Linda,
shorthand
to
Meux.
Roseberg, Oregon, has two new
commercial teachers.
They are B.
E. Wick and Ruth G. Jelinek.
They
take care of the work in the Rose-
High School.
Lucy Gage, of the Waltham, Mass.,
High School, goes to the Winchester,
Mass., High School as teacher of
ber.g
BY-LAW XIV
Time of Election
The annual business meeting
of the
Federation for the purpose of holding
the general election of officers and the
selection of the place of meeting
shall be held on the day next preceding the last day of the meeting.
BY-LAW XV
Amendments
members
present.
Harry
School.
lege,
Mary Rideout
in
is teaching shorthand
Miner's Business Academy, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
ton, Mass.
Her home
is
in
Stough-
Julia
Keeton
is
School.
LuVara Smith,
pointed
commercial
Monaca,
These
Pa.,
High School
this year.
the
new commercial
are
teachers in the Gardner, Mass., High
Poore, AlSchool this year:
vine C. Walker, A. Louise Bartlett.
Emma
Mae Cunningham
chester.
mercial instructor.
Karl N. Ka^erndahl, Mr. J. F. Whitmore and Miss Sullivan are the new
commercial teachers in the Ogden,
Utah, High School.
Eleanor Hatley, formerly of the
Gregg School, Chicago, is a new
teacher in the Des Moines High
Schools.
Alva, Okla., has obtained J. L. Mo.gg
commercial
school
high
the
for
branches.
teacher
new
Wallace
is
a
Margaret J.
Manchester, N. H., High
the
in
School.
A new commercial teacher has been
added to the staff of the Wilmington,
Del., High School, in the person of
High School.
Woods'ock, Vt., takes Miss
Mass.,
Julia Pa-
Miss
dan as commercial teacher.
Creedan goes to Somersworth, N. H.,
High School.
Ellen Trewick handles the commercial and shorthand work in the Goldfield. Nev., High School this year.
Neman
C.
Swan
is
new commer-
the
commercial department.
Louise Yeorg, of St. Paul, goes to the
Staples, Minn., High School as commercial and shorthand teacher.
Grace Eyrick, Melrose, Mass., is a
new commercial teacher in the big
Maiden, Mass., High School.
Burt M. Thompson, of the Bridgeport. Conn., High School, has charge
of the commercial work of the Marquand School. Brooklyn, N. Y.
E. H. Thompson, Spokane, Wn., is
with the Macon & Andrews Business
School. Memphis, Tenn.
Ruth C. Adams, Manchester, N. H.,
teaching commercial subjects in
is
commercial
as
Mr.
Blocker's
teacher
in
High School.
Winifred McMahon, N. Wilmington,
Mass., was elected in September to
commercial subjects in the
teach
Peterljoro,
N. H.,
High School.
High
teacher
School.
in
Idaho,
Boise,
the
High
teacher.
The
M.
F.
f^^^uJ//i^^<^if/iu^a/fr'
ment
of
the
Hope
Street
School. Providence, R.
joins
the
staf?
of
High
Mr. Allen
I.
Rhode Island
the
Business College.
Commercial
the penwork, in the
in
Elk Mound,
Wis.
E. N. Johnson, of South Dakota, has
charge of the commercial work of the
Salina,
Kan.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Hiram Williams, for some jears in
charge of the commercial work of the
Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., goes to the
High School.
is
in
new
assistant
the
Medford,
the
Clara Haas, Salt Lake City, has recently been engaged to handle the
commercial work of the Coalgate,
Okla., High School.
Marion Hart, of Central Falls, R. L,
a new commercial instructor in the
Putnam, Conn., High School.
Farmington, Me., has engaged Miss
Alice Bulhnch as commercial teacher
is
in tlie
Academy
there.
Max Greenhouse
in
is
commercial work of
charge of the
St.
JoWs
Mili-
Academy, Manlius, N. Y.
tary
Meagher
for
high school
the
Hamilton as commer-
teacher in
School.
the
Laconia,
N.
H.,
High
to
the
iuton,
Beverly,
of
Mass.,
who
has
Olga
Krill
new
is
shorthand
Ohio,
Miss Carolyn
Wibaux,
Hoppe for the commercial work this
Mont.,
has
year.
S.
the
Bridgeport,
teaching in the
High School.
New
Conn.,
teachers
in
is
"Keys
to
Success"
attractively
Mankato, Minn.,
College has a new man
manship and commer.cial
person of Carl Solberg,
Arthur W. Johnson
commercial teacher
Stoughton, Mass., has engaged Margaret Delury for the high school commercial work.
Hallie C. Darbro is a new shorthand
teacher in the Edmondson School,
is
the
title
of an
catalogue
illustrated
is-
come
to
illustrations
are
high order.
The
The
new and
text
is
of a very
well written
^
WISE AND
OTHERWISE"
Stories from Recent Real Life
By CHARLES
Lady
of Quality
one who
is
otherwise.
or the otherwise.
We
girl
lantic
gow
in Scotland.
desperately seasick
Her mother
down in the
lay
sec-
mendous
quantities of coarse,
strange
child,
if
brown
Westward Ho
The next chapter takes us to a thin
clearing in a great forest of the westThe girl's
ern state of Michigan.
father,
weaver
chest,
Family History
off
bride
my
One
of the
first
33
There
she
Shipwrecked
;
T. CRAGIN
Holyoke, Mass.
MJ.3BuJi>t^^(^^^iu^^^
some few
which
he intended to clear, and then he went
back east to work and sent the family
out there alone. His wife, a son of
there were
thin spots,
An
Indian Visit
The family had one delightful evencall, when a dozen Indians with
a two-gallon jug of bad whiskey came
and stayed all night with them. They
ing
harmed.
In the forest clearing the girl
learned to swing an axe as vigorously as a man. She could dig with
a hoe and shovel as well as anybody,
and could shoot a squirrel out of the
tallest tree with a rifle or shot-gun.
At sixteen we find her teaching in a
log school house to the few children
of the scattered settlers in the wilderness, for her father had come
west, and had taught her quite a good
deal, plenty to enable her to teach
the children of the settlers.
It is entirely safe to say that she
had the best of order in the school,
for she was strong enough to wrestle
a grizzly bear or knock down a prize
fighter, after chopping those hard oak
trees of the
The
Michigan
young
forests.
woman
earned
$25
winter,
and
what do you suppose she did with it?
Did she buy books to improve her
mind? She did not. I am glad to
sav that she bought a ball dress with
it
and it was some dress, too, red
magenta in color and the skirt braided with black cable-cord and big buttons, and I presume there was a hat
to match with purple feathers and
red, white, yellow and green posies.
Perhaps not quite so bad as that.
teaching
school
that
Startling Proposal
This lady
dress.
It was from a youth about
twenty years old, six feet, two inches
in height, and very thin.
The girl
was less than five feet in height and
very thick.
The costume of the
fully as striking as
She says he wore a blue flannel shirt and a pair of trousers made
out of flour sacks.
Such trousers
were not uncommon in that part of
the country.
His mother had made
the trousers and selected a nice pair
of clean sacks.
But on one leg was
the name of the firm who made the
her's.
flour,
A.
W. &
S.
W.
Green, and at
^^^^u<i^n^d^<^e^iiaaf^
stamped, "196 Pounds." I; was some
costume and some proposal, too. that
followed, for the young man was nervous and the girl scared, as well she
but I am engaged." He
I am sorry
turned sadly away, put both hands in
his pockets, and said. "That is a darn
disappointment to a fellow." and left
the house.
Getting an Education
Well, this girl of the forest clearing knew just enough to know that
she didn't know anything, and she
determined to have an education, and
so she went to live with her newly
married sister at Big Rapids. Michigan. Her family wanted her to learn
a trade, be a dressmaker, about the
only trade there was for a woman
then, but some way she got into the
high school, and the high school
teacher was a woman with a mind.
This girl always had what was known
to the pioneers as "the gift of .gab."
She had a splendid voice, clear,
strong and far-reaching. In the forests she liked to hear herself, and she
spoke pieces and preached sermons
and delivered addresses to the chipmunks and gray squirrels and raccoons, the same as Abe Lincoln used
to do when he was a boy.
She could
talk readily and she easily distanced
all the others in the Friday rhetoriat the school, and one day the
Methodist presiding elder of the district astonished her by asking her to
preach a sermon. She was about 20
years
old
then.
Preachers were
mighty scarce in those pioneer days.
There was not one ordained minister
to a whole county.
They took everybody who could talk and had some
kind of religious belief and made laypreachers out of them to spread the
Word and help battle against the
powers of evil which were strong in
the rough timber country, and this
girl became one of these lay preachers of the Methodist Church, and for
several years while getting an education she gave much of her time to
this kind of work.
She preached to the Indians and to
their squaws.
She preached to the
rough lumbermen of the Wisconsin
forests.
Terrible places, these Wis-
cals
to preach at a
lumber
herself
stories,
till
at night?
She replied. "You
perfectly well what I am.
I
woods
know
I am on my way to
keep an appointment tomorrow."
am
a preacher.
be
"I'll
damned
if
"I
going
to
means business
that
in
will make
his stomach
did.
got
to
her
most
if
it
destination
said.
early
in
She
the
As
told
of
quality
descendant
from
Scotch outlaws, and while she enjoyed a joke and had a lively sense of
humor she was not a safe person to
lady
play
like
with
feeling
it.
the
opportunity.
And
then
this
pioneer
the
their
stockades.
were enclosed
camps, and in them the vilest of liquor was sold to the lumbermen and
the vilest of women from the slums
of Chicago were kept prisoners to
serve
the
murderous
liquor
to
Brooks was
man
that
set
the
joke.
He was
weighing at
ing about 6
a handsome man
least 250 pounds, standfeet 2 inches in height.
in
the
college
was
her.
She went to a
church in Quincy where she
preached with good success for a
year or two. and then she had a rare
small
f^^^u^in^d^^t/iu^a/tpr*
You know
horse
of the Cape
trade, if you have a chance to look the
lie
doesn't
horse over and the seller
about him, you take your chances.
Anna and a lady friend who lived
with her, decided to buy a horse, for
she had taken in addition to her regular church another chapel three or
four miles distant, where she preachThe two ladies went
ed afternoons.
to look at a fine appearing mare offered for sale by a man in a neighboring town.
They asked him if she was sound,
and he said she was perfectly sound.
They asked him if she was kind and
safe with women, and he said "yes."
and to prove it had his wife come out
and harness the horse, and the two
women got in and drove her, and
when she came back to the stable,
unhitched her and decided that she
was indeed a darling. They bought
her, and at once named her Daisy,
and drove her home.
did.
in a
woman met
of
ly a city,
ened."
of the Suffrage
A.
women
over.
Party:
Brilliant,
er-
women
will
remedy all the evils
which now make the world a rather
risky place in which to live.
It is
said
fore's"
don't
of our politics.
understand them
women
If
any
better
good penmanship
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Making loops
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steals one, but it must be done just
It
takes
as easily and gracefully.
about the same kind of initiative and
conlidence, that is, after you have
gotten on first and want to make the
in
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the
plate
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to that place
Home Run
as
to
In
baseball
counts
and
number
When
I
want
think
the
of
to write
ornamental
standards,
ornate
of
of
in
it's
the
score
ornamental
loops you
it's
that
the
that look
and slant that
counts.
Drawn loops are as impossible as walking out a bunt.
Pure
"Muscular Movement" loops are as
iregular in shape as a ball diamond
in a dog fennel lot, when you try to
apply their true proportions to ornaalike in height, width,
mental penmanship.
pearance.
get
faltering
Thus we
height.
said,
"My
make
the
find
why Madarasz
when I
breaks
writing
minimum
letters
large."
For proof of
pieces
of
Having produced
the
"w" and
"i"
one can't.
However, a
necessary to get the lower
rule
stroke
is
way
finger
still
rests.
first
give
it
to
This
my
is
the
students.
we want an exact
well since
is
reproduction of
ing ideas.
fast
ornate writing
is
about
in shade of final
in
variety,
way
the
writing.
of
speeds and
for running
several
Ijeing
away
deter-
that
happen
There
first
one.
depair
but
am
glad
wooed con-
stupidity
beach
to
flounder.
swer
W.
C.
BROWNFIELD.
have
and I
earnest, and if
you can't make a strike you are out.
Remember, don't get mad and fight
the umpire.
have
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in
dead
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and
the
and
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in
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VOLUME
XXIII
The BUSINESS
EDUCATOR
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new as we are or
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calendars
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It will be as
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old,
much
as
as
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cial
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dress,
vance
We
lose many
old as well as the new address.
journals each issue through negligence on the
part of subscribers.
Pojtmasters are not al-
them
is
we do
If
is
new
in as
mucli
is
different
We
well,
travel
have
how
to
learned
make
many
things,
things
,how to
whether
humanity.
As a profession of co-workers, we
are aiding in the onward and upward
movement of humanity by inspiring
those who come under our influence
to do and to dare in life's work the
best and the highest within them.
and
new
and
each
as
ship
him
to
where
his
cated.
May
NUMBER V
1918
We
are Americans for America because it is the best place for the individual who desires to own his own
soul.
tion.
read
among those
also
among
ments
of
principals
of
commercial depart-
as well as
students, etc.
leges,
among
office
workers,
Col-
home
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mar
much
as today.
would
in
the high
want of
Too much
development.
Our conviction and
conclusion therefore are strongly in
favor of more oral and less written
expression in our schools, particularly in the lower grades.
Pronunci-
employed.
It
in
much
written
work
of children in the
schools, especially in the
elementary
primary grades.
Indeed it appears
that there might be less in the gram-
Mental calculation
than
written
is
arithmetic
worth more
because
it
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POSITION
The first essential
movement writing is
successful
to
Position.
Unthe machinery is well adjusted,
good results are out of the question.
Movement should not be attempted
unless and until Position is taught;
otherwise it is waste of eflfort.
Teachers teach at position rather
than teach it at least more attempt
than succeed in teaching it correctly.
Occasionally it is overtaught in that
hands have a formal, stiff, sheet-iron,
inefficient look wherein all individualless
Business Handwriting
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EXERCISE
No. 23
After making a few lines of ovals and the straight line exercises to get your pen and arm in good working
order study line No. 1 and you will note that the down stroke is straight. This is difficult because of the turn both
at the top and on the line.
This should be practiced in groups as shown in Exercise No. 8 of the October Business
Educator.
Line No. 2. Make the two down strokes of the y on the same slant, with the first part rounding. In making
the loop have the up stroke cross the down stroke on the line.
Line No. 4. The first part of the z is made like the first part of the n. The loop is made with curve in both
the down and up strokes.
This letter is ordinarily very poorly made, but is one of the easiest in the alphabet
when it is mastered.
EXERCISE
No. 24
The
p can be made easily without a pen lifting, but a pen lifting at the bottom of the long straight down
stroke does not retard the motion. If the loop is used as shown by the dotted line the letters should be made
longer and of course without lifting the pen. Study the last part of the p and s and learn how to slide under and
out without a loop.
/'
Line
1.
at the top.
dotted line
a a^aaja a aa^
EXERCISE No. 25
Note that the first four tracers on the line are each made without a pen lifting. Come to a dead stop
Count l-2-3-t-5-6-ofl[. The other tracer is made by lifting the pen, but with a continuous motion. The
shows the movement of the pen while not on the paper. Count 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, making four in a
group.
Line 2. This style of the capital Q is made the same as a capital A above the line. Note the long, straight
stroke. The curved up stroke joins the down stroke on the line.
If you master the capital Q you will not
have any trouble with the small q.
Line 4. If you cannot get seven "queens" on a line, see if the spacing between the words or between the letters
down
is
,^
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EXERCISE
No. 26
.Review the straight line exercise, two spaces high. Also the letters 1 and o. Notice carefully the joining at
the top of the letter o. Make the part of the small q that is above the line the same shape as a small letter a.
Note that the down stroke is straight, with a slight curve in the u-- stroke. Join the down and up stroke on the
line.
Line No. 3. The letter f is made like an 1 above the line, and like a q below the line. The arrows in the copyshould be noted carefully. The letter f is difficult more on account of its length than of any hard strokes that
need to be mastered.
Line No. 4. Practice on the word writing will test your ability to apply the forms you have practiced in the
separate letters. The word should be written without a pen lifting. If you lift the pen on the letter s do not let
the pen lifting show.
EXERCISE No. 27
dozen lines of each word before you try the next. Study the combination of letters as well
Keep the words close together. Use freedom of motion, but avoid a scrawlly appearance.
Make about
as the forms.
a half
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This is also a review of small letters. Try to keep the loops uniform in size. The word "handcufif" in line 2
gives an excellent illustration of how the loops should not be.
Some of these words are more difficult than you
will ordinarily use, but practicing the difficult things make the easy things easier.
in
the line.
If you havx a copy book that your mother or father used, you will find the small q with a double curve in the
up stroke. This, however, makes an awkward joining with the u, which always follows the q, and someone was kind
enough to think of the present form, which I am sure you like much better.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PENMANSHIP EDITION
Our Policy: Better Writing Through
Improved Teaching and Methods,
the Start.
OPPORTUNITY
A
f^^^u<i/n^d4/i^^iu^ii^
and thoroughly qualified workers.
There will be fewer shirkers from this
time on than in the past, and as a
consequence, there will be more workers and the demand will be for greater skill, higher efficiency, and more
thorough knowledge than in the past.
Hence the need of qualification of the
most thorough and technical type in
all lines by young people.
Today seems
to be the
most oppor-
By "thoroughly
those who have
qualifying"
subjects.
we mean
an elementary educa-
tion as a foundation
technical training.
supplemented by
MR. DAKIN
Your
Mr. Dakin
as
he
Dakin
is
is
is
great
one of
modest as a man
Mr,
a penman.
the most skillful penas
as
Subscription
we need
is
Education
nent.
Efficiency
is
cess.
The pen
is
still
mighty, and
wielded skillfully.
mightier
The
B.
still
E.
supplying
if
the
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition of
this Number of the Business
Educator
Editorial.
Mental
Meemderings, Carl C.
Marshall, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Commercial Law,
Commercial
dififidence
preciated.
subscriptions.
necessary to sustain
education as well as
is
conscription, in
in war.
War
commercial edu-
alive the
cational torch,
son,
J.
H, Robin-
Edinburg, Pa,
Training,
Charles
The Business
Letter, Goodrich
Rubber Co,
Schools Prosperous, J, F. Fish,
Important Questions.
Two
in
Oliver
D.
New
Com-
Announcements.
News
Notes.
EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
lating to
Commercial Education
Massachusetts in 1899 gave its citizens seven years' schooling. Tennessee gave three year.
Massachusetts'
citizens produced on an average $260;
Tennessee citizens produced $116
yearly.
selves
Jt Affects
We
Women
are hearing
much
and
Men
of the
"new
world" brought about by the exigencies of war, and the still newer world
to follow the war, wherein human reinternational,
racial,
indussocial are to be as
lations,
trial,
L
I
'
I
economic and
never before.
No
good and ill than the relationship of the sexes as brought about
of women in the
world's
every-day
work and the
achievement of political suffrage. For
suffrage, like prohibition, are both in
for both
by the employment
reality here.
Students of
.
more portentious
factor seems
human
affairs
never be-
fore had such immed.ate and momentons questions to puzzle over and to
One's answer
depends largely upon one's faith in
his fellows and in the ultimate, both
of which are dependent largely upon
early environment and the condition
of one's liver and spleen.
But no matter about the present
war and consequent unrest and ultimate relationships economically and
socially,
commercial education and
the business college were the pioneer
factors that, more than any other, experimentally demonstrated that education that served a useful purpose
was real education and that women
were as competent in its mastery as
men.
prognasticate results.
'
If
world
the
'
p.
Anyhow, we
find
best,
women
anticipate the
few so-called
citizen.
With reference
to distinguished ser-
vice, the
CATION
iiiL;
unto
its
own.
education
is
com-
22, liy
CARL
C.
MARSHALL
Josji
was
Whitcomb would
learned
"Mitchel's'
from
School
Geography" the
pic-
the
and
rivers
Alleghaney
Monongahela
which unite to
supplied the reading matter. The Atlas took its name from the crrcumstance that a muscular and mythologic gentleman of that name was
figured on the cover carrying the
whole world on his shoulders, and
seemingly .having a hard time of it.
The "confluence" of the two parents of the Ohio is still maintained
at Pittsburgh, but not content with
this distinction, the Iron City has
added another.
This is the confluence of the "Educational Association of the Upper Ohio Valley" and
the "Pittsburgh Teachers' Institute."
The union of these two roaring
floods,
or
murmuring
streams
F.
Fish,
Chicago,
writes:
"In-
shows an unprecedented
commercial
enrollment
in
private
schools throughout the United States.
is especially true of the schools
affiliated with the National Association of Accredited Commercial
Schools.
This condition may be accounted
This
that
the
for,
in
this
country for
vice has
men
thrown open
young
men
between
twenty-one and
thirty.
the
It is
ages of
apparent
Ijusiness
MEANDERINGS
SCHOOLS PROSPEROUS
J.
vestigation
MENTAL
to everyone that this demand will increase, and those possessed of a patriotic spirit see here a chance to do
their "bit," and again, those desiring
to get on in the business world find
are
remunerative employment by
attending day or night school. Convincing, co-operative advertising matter has been used with telling effect.
There never was a time when the
value of commercial training has been
so apparent as now, and the schools
meeting the requirements deserve the
patronage which is being accorded
them."
used to frown upon it and upon commercial education which measured its
worth by its earning power.
The
world is moving.
Trulj',
f^^^uJ/ziedS'^^f/aai/h^
had a seat
in the ^^landstand.
started Friday morning
Syria
mosque.
This is not, as
the
you might think, a joss house for
Mohamedans, but a great big parallelo-pipodon of ornamental pressed
brick.
I
don't know why they call
it a mosque, for it does not have one
of those inverted turnip things on it.
such as the mosques had that were
I
The doings
at
dbT
my
Howold "Mitchell."
ever, the walls and sides are frescoed
with some queer looking hnguistic
camouflage, which Bro. Zaner told me
was Syriac (I don't know who told
him).
It did not look like lauguage
to me
but more like scrambled lisiishown
in
worms.
Inside the mysterious structure I
found an immense double-galleried
auditorium that looked big enough to
hold the whole population of PennAnd it was chock full of
sylvania.
teachers when I arrived, all of them
talking and most of them knitting
things which the soldiers over in
France will later find handy as traps
(If
you don't sabe
for cooties.
"cooties," read Guy Empey's "Over
the Top").
Supt. Davidson was in process of
eruption when I entered. Have you
Xo?
ever heard Davidson erupt?
Well you've missed something. He's
a howitzer, a Gattling gun and a star
shell thrower all working under one
gear, and he can say more things per
minute and say them harder than any
other convention orator I know.
"welcome-to-our-city"
made us feel it, he
which
jounced us up and down with some
patriotic red-hots right off the bat,
which made us want to eat the Kaiser
alive, and then touched off the final
rocket that started the main show.
The first hour was given to a
pleasing and very rer-.iarkable musical
program offered by the students of
the six or eight Pittsburgh .high
schools.
There was a select orchesAfter
his
really
For
my
part
.half a
training.
It
sounds sensible.
and
his
hideous "German
f^^^ud/nedi^fudfu^i/^
be forgotten by those of us who heard
I hope that when the time comes
it.
to hang the Kaiser on Tyburn Hill
for the Lusitania murders (for which
an
new term
this is a
lately invented
by
the
"Measurement"
idea.
These
measurement
idea, as
applied to
To me it was
various school work.
all
very interesting, but really not
Apparently
so new as it sounded.
"Measurement" stripped of its camouflage, means little more than what
all of us teachers and book writers
have been doing lo, these many years,
under the name of tests, reviews, exNo doubt
aminations, and the like.
high-brows have worked out
the
some clever new processes, ana
made the whole thing more scientific,
but after all it seems to be but the
same old problem under another
name. Johnny comes to school and
the teacher goes to work on him.
Then to make sure that the work is
worth while, it becomes necessary to
"measure" both Johnny's and the
from time to
teacher's work, also
time to "measure" Johnny himself,
and incidentally, the teacher also
Should this "Scientific Measurement" thing reach the dimensions of
another educational fad I can see a
certain danger in it. There are likely
to be vain attempts to measure things
You can
are immeasurable.
that
measure things like space, time,
weight, motion, physical force, etc.,
but no man will ever make a yard
stick
management
Men's
Clubs.
of
Unity" and
The former
the
"School
the
"Uxority"
is
made up
of
The
sitions
Whoever attempts to
or his soul.
put these down in figures will waste
time.
or
scale
that
will
measure
the
of
their wives. The eats were followed
by a program of funny dialogue
stunts, and good singing by the club
j
1
members.
latter
It
on
for
talks
and
responded
briefly.
cannot give in
regret that I
greater detail the unique program
work of this interesting meeting. The
people who planned it did themselves
proud, and have proved that the
teachers of the upper Ohio region
are right up in the first line trenches.
The meeting of the National Educational Association is to be held in
Pittsburgh this year, and in a later
contribution to the Educator I hope
have something interesting to
to
offer regarding the wonderful civic
the
out
in
center of Pittsburgh
Schenley Park region, and the exceptional setting and facilities it affords for a great educational gatherI
is
some
penmanship.
literature has been received from Astoria, Oregon, Business College; Wilkesbarre, Pa.. Business College; Phonographic Institute
Company, Cincinnati; Geo. T. Churchill, Chicago Heights, 111.; Western
School,
Normal
State
Kentucky
Advertising
Bowling
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COMMERCIAL
EDUCATION
CHARLES
F.
RITTENHOUSE.
Methods
there
speaking,
Broadly
are
bookkeeping; all
the
unit
in
bookkeeping is constructed
around it; familiarity with the
account must precede its use in
tour
These
method;
(2)
method;
count
the
(3)
journal
method; and
through
use
the
original entry
business.
of
the
common
(4)
Ijooks
to a
of
mercan-
tile
Each
who, it
different
method
has
its
advocates,
is
ject.
prove helpful
in
method may
follows:
(1)
The
ledger
method
the ledger and
around
is
the
built
ac-
which it contains.
The
pupil first
becomes acquainted
with the form and purpose of the
ledger, after which a study is
counts
made
common
The
pupil
count.
The
(3)
ready
recording transactions; the account is the goal in bookkeeping, and the ledger as the book
of accounts thus becomes the
bitious
pupils
learn
form
and
their
its
of
effective.
origin
for
keeping
the
necessity
some records of dealings with
debtors and creditors.
The arguments in favor of this
method are that the account is
its
in
C. P. A.
Teaching Bookkeep-
of
bookkeeping had
that
Professor of ^
ii.
familiar with
journalizing, beaccurately
any ordinary commercial transaction into its debit and credit,
w.hiie at the same time, the function of all accounts debited and
credited is thoroughly learned.
comes thoroughly
the
ing
process
able
to
of
analyze
the
case
to
learning
The
analyze
ditions
it
requires
rather
^^^3^u4/ned^<^i^iuvi^^
tions it is probably
than any other.
(4)
The method
more used
common books
be
first;
realistic
classification
In commenting upon
these four
methods an attempt has been made
to present nothing more than a digest of the principles underlying each
and
to
he usually possesses.
In any other subject, general principles are mastered first and then an
application of the principles is made
to the concrete purpose for which
the subject is undertaken. While dictation is the goal in shorthand, the
pupil achieves this only after hours
of study have been given to shorttypewriting
the
hand principles;
pupil begins to write actual letters
learned
keyboard
is
the
only after
construction
precedes
and principles
subject.
which
underlie
the
the
or
it
is
con-
To
for
letters
of
commendation
which application
is
made.
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The
It
BUSINESS LETTER
The B.
F.
the above
to reprint a series
of Copyrighted booklets the company is pubconsider
lishing for their correspondents.
them exceptionally excellent and our readers
specially fortunate in having the opportunity
to study these monthly messages to corre[Editor.]
spondents.
By special arrangement
company we are privileged
with
We
any
LETTER
point, the last sentence ofany business letter is very important. It holds
a position of emphasis and its wording should be effective and convincing.
Yet our files are full of letters
that have "stereotyped formulas" for
endings that are dead and meaningless to the reader.
participial
that
this belief
is
known
is,
closings
for
Lilated
"Trusting that this will be satisfactory and hoping to hear from you
by return mail, we are."
ably,
ably
if
neces-
etc..
so many of our
exceedingly awkward and very unnatural in conversation
why inject them into our letters? If' you were leaving a inan after collecting a debt or receiving his
orders you would not use such a
"Goodbye" phrase, and letter writing
is nothing more than conversational
letters.
English.
They
in
are
eager
"We
rass
we
are."
STRONGER
"On October 1, we consigned to
The Blank Tank Company, Chicago,
111., five 50-ft. lengths of hose.
The
consignee advises us the goods have
not arrivad. Please start a tracer at
once."
STRONGER
"We
"With regard
to
your
order
No.
we
6626
lbs. of
STRONGER
to your order No.
shipped 100 lbs. of the Red
We regret this delay
Seal Nov. 9.
which is due entirely to unusual con-
"In
6626.
reference
We
Of
course,
after
each
of
the
experience that pu
nviable position.
ith
of our
To
commands,
We
We
a
as
of
letters:
have as a result of
spite
just before
We
in
it
No. 2
ticipial
used.
statement
direct
anything
more
your
C. F. Crum, Wichita, Kansas, Business College, writes as follows: "Enclosed find $2.50 for five subscriptions
I find more and more
to the B. E.
that the B. E. is very instrumental in
creating enthusiasm in my classes. I
expect to send in more subscriptions
from time to time. Our enrollment'
is the largest it has ever been and I
am getting along nicely with the work
and feel thta I am getting good results in
E. R.
C)hio.
my
Chattanooga,
Wood much
tion.
classes."
Wood,
now
is
forinerly of Ashtabula,
supervisor of writing in
Tenn.
We
success in his
wish
new
Mr.
posi-
.^J^u^n^d^^diu^i^
difficulty."
some element
of profit.
The
specifications
are
not
reached by
all
retail-
nicious
evil.
it
mind
concerned.
The one
all
of us
There
is
confidence?
jo^'t believe there are any that
And I am convinced that the
a purchasing agent repreggnted would save money in the long
j
would.
house such
puj^
Qf
$3.91
Bills received:
$38.00
36.75
37.50
35.50
-'^
B
C
D
Total saving
Cost
saved
excess
oe
moods.
started
fo
$2.50
are a fair
are reputable
say,
to
hang around,"
ui^g .^^bat
$1.40
made
to
critical
amount
of
a purchas-
this.
argument
j^is
tell
ig agent
time.
in
counts.
Two
made
mon agreement
clear
'^;:L^.^l.:^!^TlX\n^r'^
difference to me.
know
it
at
like
every opportunity.
If
yo" don
Be man enough
'" the
work
of their associates,
COMMERCIAL LAW
J.
H.
ROBINSON
Edinburg, Pa.
this
and
when
we
some
encounter
pupils
environment.
In the
little
child
we
find
an ex-
The
tion.
tnediately
having
While
it
is
desirous to
clination
is
We may
red, round,
see.
we
S-W-E-E-T,
who cannot
it,
beginning
wit.'i
easily.
If
black
R-O-U-N-D,
to the oerson
read these are meaningwhile the real apple makes
less,
mental impressions on even the mere
baby, even though he cannot read or
evil
have
color,
word
R-E-D,
Yet
We now
pleas-
pressions.
letters.
,^J^ud//ie^^^/iu^^^
etc.
talk.
cture.
them commercial
law.
main
until
the
advantage
of
most
of
their
highr
tion
that
is
attributed
most pupils
to
in
^^J^uU/w^4^^/iu^g/^
PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT IN
THE SENIOR YEAR OF THE
HIGH SCHOOL COMMERCIAL COURSE
Dept., Manitowac
High School
marked
than
ing,
ing.
effort to offer
something more
are
office
and
High School
the
teachers.
Another plan
is
to secure this
out
work
in the office
in
"times
of
It
was
peace"
first
with
nate.
The office during the apprenticeship
period must displace the
school only partially. Any plan which
does not recognize a contmuance of
school instruction is merely a shortening of the regular four year course.
In carrying out the idea last year,
the high school program was arranged so that all of the non-commercial
subjects recited in the morning. The
Senior commercial branches were all
scheduled
for
afternon
recitation.
Only afternoon office work was permitted.
This afternoon office work
was of a very varied nature
typewriting,
billing,
stenographic,
accounting, and filing, and was permitted to displace one-half of the
work originally presented in the
shorthand and typewriting work.
The Senior Commercial Class was
divided into two divisions, one-half
of the
class
to
work
Each
in
'all
local
offices
day Saturday.
division
merchant,
wholesale-retail
hardware company, a garage, an abstract office, an architect's office, and
a lawyer's office.
a
group were encouraged to make reports on their previous week's experience as office employees the kind of
work they had been doing, mistakes
made, difficulties met, and shortcomings in their school training. Because
which the
Senior Commercial Class of thirtynine students. Although it was originally effected as a second semester
plan,
number
the
men and
of
office
positions
week
of school.
plan of office apprenticeship can
be a satisfactory educational solution
if it interrupts, diminishes, or interferes with the instruction in the noncommercial subjects regularly offered
in the Senior Year.
Neither is it successful if it does not permit the school
to continue its training in the commercial branches at the same time and
parallel to the work in the offices.
The school and the office should alterfirst
No
of
the
these
very
They were
the
varied
class
reports
of
nature
of
work
interest
to
re-
uminum Goods Manufacturing Company, through its efficiency record division, furnished a most detailed report on each student in their employ
each week. Their report consisted of
a tabulated statement of the total
work done each afternoon, the total
number of errors made, and the num-
one
work and
The
tive.
In dollars and cents this office tenure meant from six to ten dollars a
month received by students from families where earning power was appreciated. Those students who were employed by the larger concerns were
permitted to have their apprenticeship count on the automatic salary
increase given according to length of
service.
In several instances this
meant $10 more per month on July 1
than they would have otherwise received.
to conserve
energy, materials, and wealth.
Perhaps a plan of education wherein
the student may earn as he learns and
food,
learn as he earns
is
a partial step.
*^^^u4ined^^ifi^iuiai^
what
but
weak
the
spot.
gestions
same
Chicago,
Zaner
&
111.,
Dec.
1,
1917.
Bloser,
Ohio.
Dear Mr. Editor:
On page 24 of the December B. E.
you ask for points from teachers that
may be of interest to others in their
daily school work.
submit, herewith, an idea, or
I
scheme, that I have been using for a
long time in my Bookkeeping classes,
especially beginning ones. If the plan
as presented appeals to any teacher
of Bookkeeping he should be able to
get results from its use in the class,
at least, I have derived considerable
satisfaction in checking up the results
obtained from the discussions in my
Coluni'lius,
daily classes.
ti
that
this
text,
but
Instructor
II
Technical
very truly,
N.
Accounting,
H gh School
CORD,
Harrison
Chicago,
111.
Who
own
ideas?
this space
Why
not your
Help.
BOOKKaEPIHG
occupy
will
next month?
BOOKKEEPIHS
V0UCHBH3
Checks
Botes
Drafts
Acceptances
Bills
Invoices
Letters
Receipts
Orders
Statements
Telegrams
Bills of
lading
irs
My
BOOKKEEPIHO
Transact lou6
indioated by
various papers.
%.
'i
OLIVER
sion.
it,
Yc
il
;r
fc
Trial Balance
Financial
Statement
Ledger
>
Sales Book
IHYEHI0RIE3
etc. .etc.
Purchase Book
and
e.re
Closing Ledger
recorded
in Books of
Original Entry
>
Hote Books
Balance of Balances
NOTE
I
as written
My
drawn up
as accurately as intended.
We
But
it
is
on blackboard.
say to
my
them
detailed in-
is,
the
O. N. C.
26
Solution of Problem
Planning a Civil
Service Course
J. F.
SHERWOOD, C.
Ft.
Formerly
in the
Wayne,
P. A., B. A.,
of
Commerce.
were prepared
One
Crosswise
Addition
Ind.
Department
f^^i^Uiiin^^^^/iuvi^^
24182y
684391
29898
4387462
5687
4876389
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8093311
8543
2154490
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7385643
78247709
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800718107
92110872
7904221
4556480900
290096
8907745
53072877
5598503331
821087420
54801533
53110368
9857431
26668073
5800999
94417009
9528004412
5138009
828614819
3274970975
133079140
96670298
810581225
123655334
46296097
4658991220
9528303051
16200241
138657861.:5
19517362403
3266900.941
with
Proof
5598503331
53072877
19517362403 -\nswer
Solution of Problem
.!
:::
28.3696
Two
190.4
149
.8
78 528
etc.
am
1346
1341
pleased to report that I received a great many replies and many excellent
solutions to the problems.
While I received no papers containing
a correct solution of all the problems,
the following persons submitted soluI
98 Hi
190 4
596
596
288.56 .Answer
persons examined
50000
submitted.)
34%
failed to pass
75
$98,340 .\ppropriation
.$17,028-^
17000
50000
17000
Answer
33000
passed examination.
33000
171/1% appointed
16500
11550
231000
33000
16500
49500
46100
persons appointed
5775.00
the benefit
of
.$6
6%
1%
100%
of
of
of
Investment
Investment
Investment
realized.
=
=
With proceeds
4^%
bonds.
.75
= $75.00
.Answer.
IN
CASE.
ACCOUNT WITH
REED.
Dr.
Cr.
!
1904
Dec.
To
"
"
12
"
Balance on Acct
11,670 Cedar Posts
$7 per C
Com. on Lumber
600 Bunches Shingles (250 in
in each)
$3.50 per
23
"
1
40O bbls.
Lime
$1 20 per bbl.
567
816
11
85
90
80
Dec.
525
480
29
12
17
28
28
2401
55
237
10
Dec.
ll
By
"
"
i
"
I
"
I
56,200
*^^^u<iin^d4^^(/iu^i/fr'
The following Civil Service Examinations were held throughout the
country, during the month of December, and undoubted!}' similar examinations will be held throughout January and the following months, for
the Government is urgently in need
of typewriter operators and st-enographers and typewriters as well as
clerks, bookkeepers, and accountants.
Any one who is interested in any of
these examinations should get into
touch with the U. S. Civil Service
Commission, at once.
December 13, Editorial Clerk, Departmental Service, Washington, D.
C, salary $1200 to .$1600.
December 14, Clerk with Knowledge of Stenography or Typewriting,
Departmental Service, salary $900 to
$1200.
December
for
Stenographers
On
and
Typewriters.
commercial
subjects,
it
is
certainly
else
as
possible.
welcome
shall
correof the
of the
The
E.
of the difticulty in
of the service for
to
co-ordinate
community, but,
the whole world
community
in
in
in
a larger sense, of
order to keep the
equilibrium.
To
ac-
was Mr.
Commission announces
order
activities
makes
8,
the Commission
the following announcement:
"The United States Civil Service
in
without interruption of
the nation as a whole. It is the duty,
he claimed, of the commercial teachers to meet, not only the needs of a
ize
November
eligible lists."
conditions
made
that, in view
meeting the needs
Typewriters, and
Stenographers and Typewriters, and
until further notice, su'bjects of countries allied with the United States will
be admitted to these examinations,
provided they are otherwise qualified.
Such persons may not be certified for
appointment, however, so long as
there are United States citizens on the
27
The
Which
first
the
paper,
"Some Ways by
Teaching
of
Commercial
State College for Teachers." The object of the course was given. method.s
used
and
what
the
course
accom-
plished.
The afternoon
velopment
of commercial education
during the past two or three decades,
Mr. Smith showed us how co-operative education was the logical outcome of this development. He exnlained how the different departments
more nearly
were discussed:
1.
What
advanced bookkeeping.
The columnar cashbook.
2.
Teaching of percentage.
.J.
Adjournment.
J.
LOUISE ANGELL,
Secy.
t^^^u^/ned^/^t/uai^
Program
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES
1st,
ments
1917
(c)
Schools
The following
is
the
Erie.
Supt.
Compensating Teachers. Supt.
Hilborn, Coraopolis.
(d) Retiring Teachers. Prof.
of the
Sies.
School of Education,
of Pittsburgh.
Room
W. W.
Chairman,
Dr.
Reading- Dr.
Measurements
H. Judd.
in
G.
1.
SECTIONAL MEETINGS
Saturday Morning, 9:30-12:30
Administration Section
Room
High
School
the
.\dministrator.
duced
in
Strayer.
general
To be introway by Dr.
Ability of Pupils of
F.
3.
Elliott,
President
lege.
(b) Can
Room
107
Thaw
Pittsburgh
9:30
Business
Meeting.
Col-
Ability
Saturday Noon.
Luncheon. AdGeneral Session.
dresses by Professors Judd and
Strayer.
Commercial Section
Room
High School.
The
Waynesburg
Professors G. C. Basset
Report
and F. A. C. Perrin. University of
Texas.
9:50
Some E.xperiments in Vocabulary Building, Peabody Word Tests.
Mr. Norman E. Henry, Peabody
10:30
Special
turing Co.
Hall, U. of P.
of
Association of
and Vicinity
High School
Classical
W.
School.
2.
Saturday, 9:30 A. M.
C.
Saturday,
Strayer.
Room
Miss Marguerite
Allegheny High School
Clubs.
Measurement
Friday Evening.
General Session. Dinner and Entertainment by the Schoolmen's,
Unity, and Uxority Clubs.
Addresses by Professors Judd and
D. Sones. Schenley
Secretary,
M.
High School
Friday, 2:30 P.
University
Biology Section
110 Thaw Hall, U. of P.
Chicago University.
Friday, 6. P. M., Dinner at Syria Mosque, $1.25. Entertainment by the
2:30,
State College.
Discussion ^John A. H. Keith, Principal of Indiana State Normal
School.
Selecting,
(c)
program
Schools.
Friday Noon.
College and Normal School Luncheon at the University Club.
Academic Success and Life Arthur
Holmes, Dean of Pennsylvania
Supt. Bush,
M. Standards of
11:30 A. M.-12:30 P.
Measurements for
General Sessions:
Scientific
Round-
up of Measurements.
of
GENERAL PROGRAM
at
(d)
Adee. Johnstown.
Association
Classical
Valley
Pittsburgh and Vicinity.
Friday,
How
and
Kindergartens of the Upper Ohio
Elementary
work
at
How
(a)
10:30-11:30
Held
Secretary,
Prof.
A.
W.
Wilhoyte,
1.
Measurement of
Standards of
Ability in Commercial Courses. (5
minutes allotted to each speaker.)
Fine, Industrial,
Commercial Spelling
Maud
Woods, Technical High School,
McKeesport.
Commercial
Law
(e)
J.
E. Fan-
cher,
(f)
Room
ter,
1.
Bookkeeping.
(h)
W.
F.
2.
3.
Dunn &
D. Salee, R. C.
:!.
A.
Co., Pitts-
Room
Saturday Morning
Schenley High School Library
1.
2.
Mathematics Section).
10:30-11:00
Business Meeting.
lection of subject for study.
School Principals
Supervisors Section
Schenley High School 212
Chairman,
J.
A. HoUinger,
and
Principal
Mary
J.
Cowley School
9:30
tor.
10:30
Standards
Music
of
Attainment
in
in
the
Prof.
E.
A.
Cummings,
Standards in English
Composition.
(a) Dr. Beardsley Ruml, Carnegie
Institute of Technology.
(b) Miss Clara A. Scott, South Hills
9:30-11:00
High School.
11:00-12:00
Measurements in English
Composition Dr. G. D. Strayer.
Standards of MeasureSecondary
in
of Ability
School Mathematics. R. H. Henderson, Schenley High School.
Address:
ment
Discussion.
Room
of a
the
Little Children.
Teaching
How
Miriam
Note-Book.
South
George D. Strayer.
High
High
School.
11:00-12:00'
sical
Hall, U. of P.
in
Recent Adjustments
Dr. C. H.
Language Teaching.
Judd.
Room
Fred
Chairman,
G.
Fifth
Masters,
High School
Re-organization
Curriculum in
2.
of
the
the
Science
Secondary
W.
and
Miss
Stein,
Teaching Spanish in
Schools.^Miss Mary H. Morgan,
Peabody High School.
Modern Languages in the Junior
Miss Frances
High Schools.
High
Latimer Junior
Foulke,
Van
Dr.
M.
School.
the
of
Childhood,
University of Pittsburgh; Miss
Elodie Carlin, Principal of Schaeffer School, Chartiers Township,
Allegheny County; Miss Sara
Jones, Assistant Superintendent
of Schools, Cambria County.
position.
Keep
to
Stella
of
Hall, U. of P.
9:30-11:00.
Standard for
\'ocabuIary
Thaw
J. F. L. Raschen.
University of Pittsburgh
Secretary, Miss Christine .\lberti, Al-
Johnstown
The Importance
201
Chairman, Professor
(a)
Holmes School
Secretary, Miss Grace Swan,
ary Schools.
History Section
Schenley High School
109,
Measuring
Elementary
TeachMiddle
and Maryland with the
Mathematics Section of SecondStates
tions).
Household Arts.
Se-
11:00-12:00
in
Dr. Judd.
9:30-10:30
tic
Algebra.
Discussion.
burgh.
Chairman, Prof.
Maryland.
Standards of MeasureAddress
ment of Ability in Arithmetic and
ments
9:30-10:30
2.
Baird,
University of Pittsburgh
G.
Hall, U. of P.
Commercial Arithmetic. C. W.
Annable, South High School.
(g)
Thaw
200
High
Westinghot:se
Eckels,
School.
P.
Mathematics Section
Section
(d)
f^^f^uJ/n^iU^i^f/iu^a^r'
3.
J.
Miller,
High
Schenley
School.
Mr. C. E. Baer,
Discussion:
Castle High School.
New
Ex-
of
Braddock.
Recording Secretary ^Catherine Ullery, Johnstown.
Fred L.
Corresponding Secretary
Homer. Schenley High School.
Treasurer J. H. Bortz. South High
School.
vocational education.
means
It
that a program can be agreed upon
and can be developed progressively
from vear to year."
of
C.
C. A. Prosser, Director
EXPORTATION OF DOMESTIC
ANILINE COLORS
Notwithstanding the constantly indemands of the domestic
creasing
$6,515
The
exportation of aniline
colors for the first quarter of the current fiscal year amounted to $1,173,total
In the four months since its organization the Federal Board records
the following steps of progress:
Acceptance of the vocational education act by 46 of the 48 states.
Approval of plans for vocational
educational systems for 22 States, involving an expenditure this year of
more than $850,000 of Federal money
and at least an equal amount of State
439,
money.
far,
line colors
ter ending
cies.
ico,
of
more than 50
night classes to train radio and buzzer operators for the United States
Army, with an enrollment of more
than 3.000, and still growing rapidly.
Working out a system of vocational training for the Quartermaster's
countries
chases.
Establishment
education,"
declares
^^Jr^g^nel^^/iu^i^
the
Hughes
shipped
classification.
England
September
30,
1917,
fol-
Mex-
other
$75,353;
It is
States
with
worthy
is
pur-
United
the only country which has
of note that the
N.
J.,
Nov.
9.
1917
'
Columbus, Ohio.
Gentlemen:
Below you will find an account of
the Annual Convention of the High
School Commercial Teachers' Association of New Jersey, held in Paterson, Saturday, November 3. The Ex-
convenient.
if
Yours very
J.
The
truly,
C.
EVANS.
High
School Comrnercial
Teachers' Association of New Jersey
held its annual convention in PaterThe
son Saturday, November 3.
meeting was called to order at 10:30
o'clock by the President, Earl Tharp,
of East Side High School, Newark.
John R. Wilson, Superintendent of
Schools, Paterson, delivered the adC. D. Clarkson,
dress of welcotne.
Director of Commercial Education in
the State Normal School, Trenton,
gave an account of the work in Commercial Education being done by that
Institution.
Horace G. Healey, of
the
Evander Childs High School,
New York
City,
Phases
Commercial
The
of
spoke on "Current
Education."
at
year
in
Trenton.
figures as a
basis for the estimate, we are now
exporting our surplus production of
aniline colors at the rate of $4,693,756
annually, or practically twice the value
of our entire domestic production for
the fiscal year 1914, which amounted
to $2,470,096.
This refers to values
only, which are, of course, much
in
any
line.
We
want you
^^f^ud/n^d^<^i/iua/^
^R"
1
|C^K^
1
Commercial Club of the Department of Business Administ ration in the Dakota Wesleyan Univer sity,
communications concernirig which appeared c n pages 17 and 20 of the December number of the B. E.
THE ONLOOKER
(Continued from page 22)
one who
is
This
ly.
the general
to enlist
fashion.
yourself."
this
type
of
How
how
After
ly,
know we
are right.
gage
by
its
knocker.
little
cliques
even
more
least,
traitorous.
tions.
I
remember hearing a world famous salesman relate how he secured
the business of a certain house that
had for years remained obdurate to
the arguments of his concern.
S.
D.,
scroll;
Mitchell.
he said, 'that
is
only part
of the reason.
"
'The
first
it.
lowing
fol-
to
covers
the
entire
"Science in business is advanced as never before. No one of
us can make the world move on very
far, but it moves only when each one
of a very large number does his duty.
Our duty is not in doing what we
think is best, or what is best for ourselves, but in doing what is best for
Con,gre3s
thought:
the
that
common
.good of all."
^^^^^ud/^mi^fa^i^iuYii^
Miss Dorothy Goodwin, of Osceola.
Wis., is a new commercial teacher in
the El Dorado. Kansas. High School.
The James
Illinois,
filled
by the appointment of Miss
Helen Bronson.
Mr. W. M. Cutchin, for ten jears a
service of Uncle
in
Laird.
High School.
New
Castle, Pa.,
Iowa,
of the
War-
Miss
Fern Bronson, of Albany, fills Miss
Monroe.
Mr. Jay W. Miller, last year with the
Dakota Wesleyan University, now is
at the head of the commercial work
Carr's position at
of the
School, Provxlcnce. R. I.
Miss Helen Beckett, of Atlantic City,
is
a
new teacher in the Heffley
School. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Mary E. Cope is an assistant in
the commercial work of the Mt. Carmel. Pa., High School.
Mass.,
is
new com-
School,
in
Paul, Minn.
St.
$4,443,000,000
er
Monmouth,
111.,
High
School.
for
000,000,
falling
ofT
of
at $221,-
$15,000,000
imports
were valued
pared with
into
the
United
States
ten months
cent of the October imports entered
free of duty.
Gold imports
in
October amounted
only $4,000,000, while exports totaled $11,000,000. For the ten months
to
ended
with
October
gold
imports
amounted
against
to
$532,000,000,
$480,000,000 for a similar period in
1916.
Exports of gold, on the other
hand, were valued at $360,000,000. as
compared with $101,000,000 for the
first ten months of 1916.
000
the
in
amounted
to $5,000.-
ten
LAW
practice cconomj' of time as well as
monej' and strive to hasten the time
when they are earning th" much
needed money. This condition promotes industrious study.
Many of the pupils in high scl"ool
have never shouldered any real responsibility and as tuition and books
free,
they
ofLcn
do.
attend
some
to
have
good
time,
a real
weaknesses
in
his
and the
class
in-
dividual pupil.
will aid
its
which
application
or
further informatioti,
and vacancy report nlanks by com-
are
to
corre-
the
in the
G.
City.
Silver imports
School.
branches
now
is
Mason
of
High School.
lar
H. C.
R.
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AND
'WISE
In
OTHERWISE"
Stories from Recent Real Life
By CHARLES
T. CRAGIN
Holyoke, Mass.
A Modern
Colossus of Rhodes
Paragraph From
lire
tilt
Will:
visit
which
and
used to
iwhich
View
of
called, ''The
the
"I
World"
in
a
in
square to be cut
the rock on the hill,
covered with a plain
brass plate with these words thereon:
"Here
Cecil
the
lies
remains
John
of
Rhodes."
rarely
beautiful
valley
where
birds
of gorgeous plumage,
flitted
from
branch to branch, of the luxuriant
African trees; where flowers of gorgeous hue, encrimsoned and spangled
with violet, gold and purple the rich
green of the lush grass; where at
night the deep roar of the lion made
the air tremble; where the laugh of
the hyena and the yelp of the jackal,
following the great king of cats,
was heard throughout the night, with
the chattering of monkeys and the
loud, long trumpeting of wild elephants tramping down to the water-
ing place.
It
was here
man,
England
and
that the
Italy
and Spain,
chose
his
lonely
.grave.
The Story
of a
Modern
Colossus.
I
am telling you this month, the
story of Cecil John Rhodes, a modern colossus of men, and it is very
fitting- that I should tell it to young
Americans, for probably nearly one
hundred young men of this country
are enjoying a two-year post gradu-
He
the
lurid
light
of
the
terrible
world conflagration that is now lighting the pages of history with sinister
glare and encrimsoning the waters
of all the earth with blood, it looks
as if Rhodes'
dream might indeed
come true; for the bulldog English,
the wild Irish, the dour Scot, the
powerful Canadian, the long limbed
Anzac and the lean, swift moving
Yankee, are all fighting together as
allies in this great day of struggle.
Early Life
some
measure
of
health,
when
in
South Africa.
The diamond
is
small
When
and
shell
shaped
ears.
a youngster, diamonds
rare, but now, a girl in
was
were very
and
common.
The
black
diamond,
black diamond,
common,
is
not very
common
ing so
will
make
artificial
diamonds from
coal.
Until about 1870 most of the diamonds of the world came from Brazil
or from the Orient, but about this
time a shepherd in the Transvaal, or
Boer settlement, of South Africa,
saw what he thought was a rather
bright
quartz
crystal,
sparkling
among the shift, or loose stone of a
dry water course.
He picked it up
news
covery
rnust start
did so, in
dark night.
some."
The Coming
of
the Man.
Inlying
and
A London
.Africa.
nett Isaacs, a
la
jew,
actor,
in
South
.Africa,
to
to
mond was
called to
a
all
We
make
or lose
big fortune."
f^i^^u<i/ned^^ti&u^a/i>r'
.And
Hammond
sent
to
.America
down
the
the
into
the
grounds,
astonished
And
still more deliberate Boers.
they found deep down in the great
South African strata the rich goldstudded veins of quartz as Hammond
had predicted.
"White Queen" as they called Victoria, but they were turbulent, restless and ferocious.
The Boers treated
these
natives
with
inconceivable
cruelty.
of
and half
child."
Hammond
all
the
Europe,
men
as
of
A Man
of Iron Nerve.
Mr.
The royal commissioner from England having heard of this, went down
there to remonstrate with the .African
king. The old savage scornfully kept
him waiting three or four days and
wouldn't see him. Then Cecil Rhodes
went down himself. He went there
alone, scorning to take even a guard
with him, and stalked into the room
Why
Princely Giver
You
he was master and brooked no interference with his plans, he dealt out
such firmness and justice to the savage tribes of South .Africa that they
They
had deep afifection for him.
were no little black lambs, those NeBasutos
groes of South .Africa. The
the Zulus, the Bechuanas and the
savage and terrible Matabeles of old
lo Bengula, who had fifty wives besides hundreds of female slaves and
who didn't think anything of ordering a few heads chopped off before
breakfast if he got out of bed wrong
side
first.
some
knew
where
this
were up
in
insurrection
against
the
^
against tlieni, ami Rhodes was
anxious to meet the chiefs, for
he spoke their language well enough
to he understood, and he thought it
he could get them together he could
induce them to lay down their arms
and avoid great bloodshed for they
were murdering every out living setFinally it was agreed
tler and miner.
out
A'ery
Rhodes
and
rivals
po'itical opponents.
a few months eaL-h
went back,
He
sity of
And
Oxford, and
finally
title
That
it
was
ed him
if
is
'^erely secondary.
knifemanship.
penmanship
ing-
A.
his
rate,
Jameson knew well
at any
enough Rhodes would approve if he
succeeded and Rhodes was tried for
St..
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FOR
UULLHn
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UI1L DdLLAR
before the
raid
complicity in this
At this trial,
En^'Iish Parliament.
Rhodes took full charge of Judges
and the Parliament jury, and shocked the august judges by calling for a
sandwich and a glass of beer, while
he was on the witness stand. They
almost had a fit, for they are very
ceremonious in the English Court,
and Rhodes was anything but cere-
like this to their native country's dominion, was quite likely to be of positive nature and that kind of man,
of
New
graduated.
and
shouts
the battle of
year
to do thus!
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^
PENMANSHIP THEORISTS
Read Before Commercial Section
of
1,
1917.
normal
and
presidents
College
sometimes talk
instructors
school
about subjects of which they Iiave
The fact
practical knowledge.
that they are leaders in the educational world gives their peculiar ideas
little
have.
I
do not know why the opinions of
these men relative to longhand writing should be regarded as authoratative.
Many of them have never spent
a day studying or practicing muscuFew of them
lar movement writing.
have ever had any experience teaching the subject, and not all of them
by any means know the penmanship
demands of the business world.
Xotwithstanding the above facts, a
college president now and then thinks
a perfect copy,
That statement
my
cJings to
wrong.
so
it
order
the
Smith.
Prof.
for
The
money
make
"Why
much time
^^^^^ud/zi^d^^lf/iua^h^
the
face.
If
how many
and
FRANK
for
penmanship theorist?
visionary
ha-\e
to
to
H.
listen
ARNOLD
to
such
"authori-
ties."
cular
tion.
can't be taught
Xo particular position
You can lie down on a
required.
is
desk, and do
finger movement work. You can get
your eyes within a few inches of the
paper, and still write legibly with the
fingers.
No "criminal waste of time"
in learning to sit healthfully is required, if we pay attention merely to
But such methods
legible writing.
are thirty years oehind the times, and
ignorantly helps to
the man who
create conditions that will take us
back to such methods is so old that
he is dead, chirographically speaking.
"But- typewriting is to take the
place of longhand," state our college
Yes, I have heard that becritics.
fore.
It
isn't
friend
Our university
discovery.
can't get that statement copyrighted.
people
use
type-
these inresults of
the
writers,
vestigations, if published, will not
fear and trembling among
create
pencil and pen manufacturers.
When I had listened to this nonsense about typewriting taking the
place of longhand until I was "sick
and tired," I wrote a letter to each
of several business men of my city. I
told them that if they thought that
longhand writing was soon to go to
the garbage can that I wanted to
know it. Naturally a penmanship
the matter.
know
They
conditions.
the old methods are being sup-
business
when
B.
my
I quote
letter.
to
letter received from R.
Spothe
of
Patterson, president
a few replies
below from a
ii/i^4/^/iu^ai^
business documents or checks, but if
your signature is a scrawl, it weighs
heavjly against you.'' The writer of
the foregoing lines is not a penmanship theorist who talks about something of which he knows little. Kar
from that. He is the head of a corporation that employs hundreds of
men and women every year,
R.
L.
Rutter, president of the
Co., saj-s,
not be long
until about seventy-five per cent of
ineligilile
girls
will
be
and
our boys
longhand writing
it
will
would
tire
you,
if
It is the
up-to-date business men.
same story told in very much the
hesitation
same way. I say without
that I prefer to trust the knowledge
of these business men in a case of
this kind rather than to accept the
theories of educational dreamers.
But our critics come back at us and
say, "Why teach a fine Spencerian
hand to every boy and girl?" Why,
bless you, we are not guilty of the
It is only the freak in our
charge.
ranks that is trying to teach anything
than a plain, rapid, business
else
don't hold the entire fachand.
ulty of a college responsible for the
sayings and actions of one freak
professor. Be equally as charitable,
We
gentlemen.
man who
it is said that our methods of teaching writing tend to deThat old "indistroy individuality.
scare-crow
is
often
viduality"
brought out from its stable and
paraded before us as though it were
But the nag
a young, spirited nag.
is so old that it is toothless, and sad
to say, it is spavined and has the
heaves. But the theorist who prances
But again
little
bit
does.
careful.
course,
it
they were made after the same patWell, I am not worrying about
tern.
the individuality of these boys beingEach article shows undestroyed.
mistakably the individuality of the
boy who made it. These boys are
same
not
being moulded in the
moulds; their minds do not run exactly in the same channels.
my
of
city requires all the children of a
certain
writing
cramped
finger
movement
writing.
examine
this
individuality
problem for a few minutes.
have two boys who go to the
I
same grade school. Both do work
in manual training.
Both are required to make the same article, and
both use the same tools. Each fashions his article after the same pattern.
One boy makes his article a
Let's
'
[
!
By
P,
Such individuality
stroyed quickly.
some
of this individuality in
my own
known penmanship
remedies.
None
of these remedies are patented.
I
cheerfully recommend them to all
who suffer with this individuality
complaint.
I
visited a teacher
talked individuality to me.
She
teacher, too.
Before 1 left
the room she happened to show me
some pages of writing done by her
I picked up two papers.
pupils.
One
was a beautiful piece of work. No
one needed to tell me that the child
that did it used the right movement
and sat healthfully at her desk. The
who
is
fine
other paper
finger
had
writer.
been
It
done
liy
efifort
Here
was
'
rubbed in.
Let me say
in conclusion this:
A
to my home almost
every winter. I have had more educational advantages than some of the
men who do such work. I knowsomething about a number of subjects that the average plumber has
But I don't know
never studied.
I
never try to give him
plumbing.
lessons in that subject, and never
pose as an authority in plumbing. I
never
never studied plumbing. I
wish
I
don't
practiced plumbing.
authority
as
an
quote
me
people to
I know other people
on plumbing.
who might follow a similar course
with profit. No doubt they are good
men in their particular field, but they
should stay in their own field. Need
The subject
I say to whom I refer?
of this paper answers it penmanship
plumber comes
theorists.
FRANK
H.
ARNOLD.
Sam
Uncle
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The Penmanship
27.
1917.
is
a movement era
the extreme." said Mr.
Primary
Grades we
"In the
Zaner.
come into contact with two forces.
Nature and Art. As teachers of writing we are not consulted as to when
writing should be taught but it is our
business to see how it is taught.
"In the Primary Grades three factors are to be considered. Health,
"This
Writing.
to
habits.
If we
we must teach
view.
its
accuracy in writing
grade as a standard.
The
pushed
made
"^'ork
in
*^Jf^ud/n^4^^ei&u^a^r^
Writing
as much larger
than adult writing as the child is
smaller than the adult in size and caLarge writing makes it pospacity.
sible for the child to write with the
arm instead of with the fingers."
and
scientifically
than
At the afternoon session the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Miss Alice
Benbow,
Schenectady;
Vice-Presi-
poor writing."
Dr. L. A. Pelchstein, of the UniverRochester, gave a helpful talk
on Penmanship Scales, and rightly
contended and concluded that they
were of service in improving writing
through learning to measure it more
O..
when
This institution
will
be in Springfield, Mass.,
School of Commerce.
in
Primary
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accurately
the past.
is
High
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woman
of
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many
singularly
wholesome.
I
recall her trip to the great
Northwest. No one who has ever made that
journey has written home letters so full of
the joy of life, so human in intimate touches,
so delightful in depiction of these scenes to
her so new and wonderful. Her life work was
the instruction of children.
Ideal teachers
are rare and by ideal teachers I mean those
who get down into the child heart, who are
responsive to its beatings, who can work with
the clay in which their little fingers are always playing and join with them in rearing
the temples of the soul.
Miss Curtin was
such a teacher, patient, helpful, winning with
a smile wherever she went.
I know of no
way of measuring the influence of such lives
as hers
lives that are sweet as they are gentle, lives that make us all better because their
paths cross ours.
They enrich the world beyond computation when they dwell among us
and meet us every day.
They make the
world infinitely poorer when they fold their
hands above a silent heart."
The main
er,
State
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A 13C DE.FG-M
term of years. Mr. Brown formerly conducted schools in Bridgeport and South Norwalk, Conn.
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Roscoe Kincaid
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It will thus be seen that all. the trophies in the above Speed Contests, with but one exception, have
There has been
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no International Contest since 1914.
What
the
"I have not always been a follower of Isaac Pitman Shorthand, for there was a time, very early
my career, when I took up the study of Pernin light-line and connective vowel shorthand; but
after three month's faithful study and practice I was convinced that for simplicity, grace of outline,
ease of execution, brevity and legibility, light-line shorthand could never compare with the system
The Isaac Pitman Shorthand does not
of shorthand laid down in the Isaac Pitman textbooks.
attempt the outline abbreviations of the Graham adaption, because the daily experience of the great
living writers is that increased legibility results from a restricted use of abbreviation in the outlines
I think that in writing as fully as we do in our system, the hand travels along
of uncommon words.
with more swing, and one can write as in longhand. I have carefully compared the Isaac Pitman
system with the Graham and Munson, and I know of the many troubles their writers have to contend
v/ith." Nathan Behrin, Official Stenographer, Supreme Court, New York.
in
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VOLUME
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EDUCATOR
The BUSINESS
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them
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Subscribers.
If
re-
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among
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of
principals
of
commercial depart-
as well as
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leges,
among
office
workers,
home
to as
VI
The why
If
value to other teachers and to students that escape the average literary
man.
His stories are truthful biographies
of people and faithful chronicles of
actual happenings. He has the happy
faculty of making facts as interesting
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and sensible.
ter and
forts.
we do not acknowledge
NUMBER
1918
Watch
series,
young
INFLUENCE
of
an
inclination
or
more
inspiration
farces
depleted
this
little
blue-
sociation
added
that
doubtless
Thus
it
It is
periodical of its kind published today.
the aim of the publishers to make of it a
positive factor in the betterment of business
education.
is
we come
posed in
by chance or choice we come in contact with a book or friend or circumstance or opportunity and our whole
life
is
altered thereby.
COLUMBUS, OHIO
We
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Contributions in
Illinois,
GRISET
Township High School
Standard
is
Position: You cannot use free arm movement unless you sit properly. Your right arm must be perfectly free
order to produce an easy, graceful line.
If you wish, you may lean lightly on
Sit erect, with the back straight, but inclined slightly toward the desk.
your left arm.
Keep your head up unless you wish to ruin your eyes. Your eyes should be kept from fourteen to eighteen
inches from the paper, as the normal eyes focus at that distance. If you sit bent over with your eyes nearer the
paper than fourteen inches, you are laboring under an eye strain, which will eventually ruin your eyes. Besides,
if you sit erect you can see your work as a whole, and can determine slant, spacing, etc., with more exactness.
Furthermore the erect position gives your lungs a chance to do their work. Active lungs are conducive to
good health. Good health means good, steady nerves. Without steady nerves good writing is an impossibility.
Determine to keep your eyes 14 inches from the paper. If you do this, you will have to sit up erect, thus giving
your lungs and right arm a chance to do their work properly.
in
Position of the Arms: The arms should be kept out from the body about si.x inches, or so; they ought to
(at the elbows) over the edge of the desk an inch or so.
clothing of the right arm should be loose, so that the arm may glide freely back and forth in the sleeve.
extend
The
the elbow.
finger, or
if
you
prefer,
on the
and
little
fingers.
The
flat.
The
side of the
The paper should be placed so that the pen does its writing directly in front of the
Experiment so as to know e.xactly where your hand can do its best work; then shift
The
deal.
To
Plate 1. These drills should be practiced from }4 to 3 spaces high. The ovals and compound curve exercises
should be made in both directions equally well. Start ofiE each lesson with a few minutes' work on this plate, until
you have mastered it.
Plate
2.
The O should be
Make
at least
as
1^
wide as high.
space high.
^ ^
2^
form)
letter
(^2^
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Oiic^-T^T^z^
CZ^^T^f-z^
z z a- zz
CyCc'-y'-f-T^
U^
3.
(yCcy
LyC-c^T^T^L^
CyCc^^-j^^-z^
Where does
the
Why
finish?
is
it
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C^Zy C^Zy
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y-^-c-^
L^-^c^
C-><^'7-?-^-^
Z-<^
(JUy
Z^o^^^y-T-ry
Plate 5.
the E? In
CZc.c^<?---T-'z.'>7'-Ly
Z^-<-c>^?'Z^
Ll.<^
ZZl^
iJZc^
C_--!i-<i-^?-?--z..-^
ndd&&d^dd
CLy d^.
LZ-cy
Finish the
L_..c^c.7-7.z^
of
its
height
na&aa
Cl^. CL^.
(Z-^-t^c-^T^T-T.^
Notice the slant of the little loop in the center of the E. Does the beginning loop begin at the top of
making Exercise 2 and 3 do not lift the pen; make each complete exercise with one complete move-
ment.
in their order.
,1^
^^J^u<i/n^i^^<(i^iu^a/h^
jy^jjL
/rjyjx.
'jyj^jx.
Plate
the
7.
at the
base of the
is
rather abrupt.
dot the
i?
Where does
finish?
Push and
Don't drag
it
along.
Plate
9.
Knd
part of the w is about Ya, fis wide as the first. The first part is a "u."
so that it may be conveniently joined to the next, or following, letter.
Form correct writing habits first.
The second
the
Don't hurry.
stroke.
rounded,
Study the
but
finishing
f^^f^ud/'/t^U/(a4/uai^i^
x9^z^ xri^/^7-2y
The
Plate 10. Each part of the m and ii should be '4 as w.de ai high
turns similar. The lower turns should be as rounded as t .e upper one;.
Be sure your m's and n's are rounded not angular.
down
Make
Plate
11.
finishe.; like
the w.
y^^Cy.yliy
>z^
as
yzy y<Ly
^^y. ^i^'
Plate 12. The upper x is preferable because it saves time. It is true that when made individually, these letters
are made at about the same rate of speed, but when written in a word (please notice the word "e.xamination" in the
plate) it is very evident that that one style requires a separate move, and in long words, a considerable waste o
time.
.^s both are easily mastered, why not learn Ijoth?
'
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You can have
Business Handwriting
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EXERCISE No. 29
Line 1. Make the reverse and the direct ovals one space high with the edges touching. RememlDer it is the
The latter part of the line is just a review. It is a good plan to practice them
first time round that is important.
in sections, both ways across the page.
Line 2. The capital letter X is one of the easiest letters in the alphabet if you will get enough control to make
down strokes touch.
Line 3. Study carefully the two parts of the letter x, and then learn to make them without lifting the pen by
retracing the down and up strokes. This is a much better way because the cross is always where it belongs, no
matter how rapidly you write. A common mistake is to make the second part higher than the first part; avoid this.
the two
EXERCISE No. 30
up considerable speed on these exercises. Notice in the first group the down stroke retraces the up
stroke about half way. In the second group make the points shap and open not retraced. The third group is very
difficult.
Get a double curve both to the down and up stroke, and have the up stroke on the same slant as the
down stroke. Six lines each way would make a better group.
Work
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EXERCISE
No. 31
have the points sharp and open, and note that the first up stroke curves to the
In making the capital
Watch for uniformity in space, size, and slant.
right, and the second up stroke turns to the left.
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EXERCISE No. 32
In practicing the movement exercises shown on the latter end of line 1 and 2, you may use a guide line at first,
but by a little care you can soon make them accurate enough without a guide line. Be sure and have them diminished regularly to a point. Don't string them out on the end. Do not try to count for these movement exercises.
In making the capital
you can count to advantage, thus: 1-2-3-4, making a down stroke for each count. The
first part of the
can be made with a loop, but be sure not to loop the second part.
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EXERCISE
If
capital
No. 33
exercise No. 30, you will have no difficult
particular attention to the dotted lines.
or capital V.
Pay
in
in
making
good
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EXERCISE
No. 34
Start the ovals on the outside and keep getting them smaller till you get to the middle. The second group is
better practice than the first, as the shape shows more plainly.
Make them all the reverse way round. Count for
the capital Z 1-3-3, one for each down stroke.
Work up considerable speed on this letter, as it is an easy one.
The capital Y is not difficult if you have learned to make a good capital U. Be sure that your loops in the z and
y do not come more than half a space below the line. When practicing the sentence keep the space narrow between
the words. If you are writing a good size the entire senience will go on one line.
C7^
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EXERCISE
C7^
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No. 36
Learn to make regular double curves; then you will have no difficulty in making a beautiful capital T and F.
When you make the down stroke or stem come to a dead stop before you lift the pen. This will leave a dot on the
end which will give the stroke a finished look. After mastering this standard form, any of the simplified forms may
be easy.
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PENMANSHIP EDITION
OurPoIzcv: Better Writing Through
Improved Teaching and Methods.
term with Freedom fron? the Start.
to
The mechanics
complex
and
Not
in
than
in
9,
1918
all,
Since
Springfield.
at
there has been such a great
well
as
change in traveling conditions,
as in other matters resulting from the
Board
World War, that the Executive
has \oted not to hold the meeting thii:
\ez<-.
We
wish
to
manner
suitable
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a
announce
through your columns the postponement of the meeting.
HORACE
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President.
still
in
the
game when
it
comes to
penman-
producing
man
voice.
it
should be re-
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consumes, it is probably a hindrance rather than a help to child development, both physical and mental.
fort
it
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Holyoke, Mass.
By CHARLES
Large of Heart
month.
John
Childhood
was
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A Woman
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man and
er,
who was
a large,
man
stately
of
Quaker gentleman
among
bered
his
of
Illinois
friends
numrising
ate,"
Child's
While even
Sympathy
had wondered
why
so
many
and miserable.
came home "under the influence," was one of the happiest women
she had ever seen, and she knew of
sions,
reasonable
way
of looking at
it,
in-
after they
Rockford.
name
in
her
home
state.
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de-
Women's
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produced."
tioneer
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she was 17 years old, this
young western girl went to Rockford
Female Seminary. She was ambitious
to go to Smith College at Northampton" but, her father knowing her rather delicate health preferred having
her near home, so she went to Rock-
When
women.
Most
a highly religious linstitution.
of the girls experienced religion, more
being
considthat
or less violently,
ered almost a part of the course.
very large proportion of these girls
went P"; missionaries to the Orient,
scornfully
ery
and
omnibus
that
Saturday night."
She
life
better.
^
If you want to know about "The
People's Palace," go to j'our public
library and get and read Sir Walter
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This happened
conditions of men."
Cheerful Surroundings
they first opened Hull House
it stood between an undertaker's shop
on one corner and a saloon on the
other. Cheerful company on one side
in 188'-.
and quiet company on the other.
With this young woman, now
They moved in on the 18th of Sepabout 36 years old, there was a cul-' tember, 1889, with another young
tured friend of her own age, or a woman who began by doing house
older.
little
in
common and
with them.
What
do you suppose
these two cultured young women decided to do? They decided that they
would go to the great, sprawling,
dirty,
vicious,
savage, brutal, fine,
splendid city of Chicago for Chicago
is
all
of these things, and "then
some" they decided that they would
go there and make them a home right
in the heart of the "White Chapel of
Chicago," which is over on the West
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for in that part of the city were a
great many Jewish people. Many of
them were very, very poor. Exiles
from Russia, largely, where the terrible pogroms of the black hundreds
had driven them by murder, robbery
and
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of
them
to
this
When
Hull House as
ago,
saw
it
many
years
was
and around
many
They decided on
a location at the
time
great
owner.
in
It
was occupied
at this
its
help.
,^J^ud^n^U^(/iu^i/^
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dance
houses
women went
and
its
the swift
dives
where
road to ruin
and death.
of
the
It
was
just
women
magazine
had a prodigious
it.
Then
again,
They awakened
nation,
through their
efforts,
to
f^JfS^u<i/ned4^^(^^^[u:a^
the fact that there was such a thing
If you
as the White Slave traffic.
could have seen the section of Chi-
cago
which
in
they
worked
you
Street
Women
had nothing on
that
may
it.
It
is
no wonder
of the
worked youna;
district
found their way into the
dance halls and dives of this reddest
of red light districts. All that is done
away with now, and largely through
the etiforts of Hull House and its great
Of
Chicago
but trying to
man who
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it
If
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is "Verbo-
If
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like to
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it
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forbid-
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No liquor was sold in the place except at the one hotel, to guests. But
there was a ring of beer saloons and
rum
Pullman Company.
Then again
in
much
worry
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HANDWRITING QUESTIONS
Chicago for Investigation, Study, Discussion and Solution by Individuals and at
Conventions
Proposed
at
By
1.
Zaner
C. P.
begin instruction
When
in writ-
ing?
2.
guage?
What
3.
is
of
When
returns?
6.
When
When
uniformity
differentiation?
7.
How
to discover and
for each. Or is
way
the best
for all best?
develop
one way
How
to draw, to read?
What
advantages
functional
have the fingers in writing; what, the
arm; what, the two combined?
9.
10.
What
effect
have vocations on
handwriting?
Why
quired?
12.
14
Is writing one of the fundamentals of an education, or is it inci-
dental in life?
is
Why
What
How
does leverage
has
Certificate
writing of the
How should it be
be done?
the
tell?
Winners. Wilk
What
Form
are
speed?
16.
How can Form be taught and
How, Moveformalism avoided?
ment, and mannerism avoided?
What are the learning processwhereb}' conscious effort is converted into unconscious act?
17.
es
What
19.
should 10, 15, 30, 30, 40minute schedules for formal writing
instruction and drill be maintained?
5.
13.
will
15.
When
^^J^Uii/n^U/^(/iu^9/i>r'
teaus,
How
20.
W'hen are instruction, drill,
suggestion, criticism most helpful in
learning to write?
What
22.
What are the mechanics of eating; of walking; of talking; of writ-
How
ing?
ing touch?
38.
What part in learning to write
in writing do the eyes perform;
the mind; the muscles?
and
29.
What are the functions of exercises in writing; of sizes; of letter ex-
ercises?
30.
When should rhythm be promoted; when diminished or subordi-
nated?
31.
Is lefthandedness in writing an
Should
inheritance or an accident?
left hand writers be changed to right
hand writers?
Are
32.
What
Are we
saying that
26.
oral rather than written language is
right
in
33.
What are the fundamental- differences between learning and writing? To what extent does the means
differ from the end?
What
34.
blackboard
more important
in a school
room, a blackboard and a teacher who
can write skillfully upon it, or a room
equipped with writing books and a
teacher who cannot write well?
the
is
What
35.
write.
left
What
is
between
is
momentum
in
writing?
36.
How is the writing movement
How created? Does
controlled?
writing typify power or motion multi-
plied?
What
and
37.
tural, essential, or
es,
stops,
writing?
DDdson Proprietor, A.
J.
iship Instructor
'
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Lesson No.
For this lesson use paper ruled Y% of an inch. All preceding lessons were planned for /2 inch gaper. ,.Th!^
object of large work is to enable you to get a good percept or mental picture of the letter, uniform do*n strokes',
and beautiful graceful curves. Unless you have mastered the large work, do not attempt small work.
It will not do to have one light
It is very important that you develop a uniform pressure on the down strokes.
and the ne.xt one heavy. In the letter i, start the down stroke with a square top, continuing the same pressure until
you start to turn at the base line. Avoid a wedge shape form. It is one of the marks of an amateur. In the first
down stroke of m, start the shade gracefullyl and put the full pressure on as soon as you pass the turn. Learn to
hit the head and base lines, beginning the shade on the down strokes as near the head line as possible, and carrying
it down as near to the base line as possible without making stiff turns.
Perseverance is a good quality, but don't make the mistake of making letter after letter, and page after page,
without carefully studying your work and the copy occasionally. Have a definite thing in view to master. See
where your work differs from the copy. You can not e.xpect to master roundhand in a week, but you can learn to
make a few of the simple strokes and letters fairly well, which is all that is expected of you. Weeks of study and
careful practice will bring results.
You cannot be too careful with the dots on i. -x, c, r, and s, and the retrace or blind loop on v, w, r, o and s.
Study them carefully so that you may know exactly what to make. Take time to get them correct and neat.
Good script is not written very rapidly.
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National Penmanship and Supervisors Association
Hotel Sherman, Chicago, December 27, 28, 29, 1917
J. A. STRIPER and C. A. BARNETT, Presidents
land.
Among
the
"The supervisor
presented he said:
needs to create the right atmosphere
to make the teacher happy in her
work, to help rather than criticise, to
know the subject, to recognize that
the psychology of writing was as important as any other subject, that
supervision means teacher training as
well as leaching pupils, that one's policy of procedure should be definite,
that one should write out his educational creed each year, that supervision
meant
intelligent co-operation.
and Thompson.
Miss Hendrickson. the Supervisor
from Lakewood, Ohio, also brought
a very creditable exhibit of children's
writing.
ways
Friday Afternoon
Dr. Frank N. Freeman, of the Department of Education, Chicago University, gave an illustrated talk under
the title, "Experiments in Education."
It proved to be a most stimulating
and illuminating informal conversational
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Your Editor was then called upon
for the paper he had been asked to
present, entitled "Specialization and
Supervision." but which he begged
leave to omit because the ground had
been covered so much more masterfully the 'day before by Dr. Himelick.
The paper will be printed in these
pages by request of the Association.
He then requested the privilege of
substituting some questions which appeared more timely and which were
given for the purpose of arousing
thought rather than satisfying it. It
was then reauested that the questions
lie printed in these columns, which re_
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Prepared for Penmanship Section N.
C. T. F. Convention, and Published by Request
Chicago, Dec.
28, 1917
never
merely followed
In teaching,
it
for a living.
we have two
kinds of
specialist
is
one
Fifth,
Seventh,
or
Eighth
grade
teacher.
Such a specialist can teach
almost any subject or art advantageously to the pupils in her grade. She
can do this because she knows the
human element at that stage of development and can anticipate its trials,
failures, and triumphs.
The
of
one who
some
fully.
who cannot
:.
The whole
is to be found in
two viewpoints of
one comprehending
truth
a union of these
specialization, the
visor, or principals.
tion
The
technician
who
human
studies
The
grade
who
teacher
penmanship becomes an
practices
efficient
in-
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1908
1910
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Isaac Pitman
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173
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1913 Nathan Behrin
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1914
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GRESHAM
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GRESHAM,
Principal.
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Contributions in
Illinois,
GRISET
Township High School
LESSON
No. 2
As this lesson introduces three capitals (P, B, and R) which demand considerable indirect movement, let us
limber up on some indirect movement drills.
Sit erect, and push and pull the arm in and out of the
Plate 1. Make exercise No. 1 about one space high.
sleeve with a lively, but well contrrilled motion. Try for an even shade.
oval
drills, going from one to the next without lifting
and
line
the
straight
In exercise 2 count ten on both
your pen.
on the compact oval, then without lifting your pen make the five running ovals, then
Exercise 3. Count
count 5 on the next compact oval, etc.
on the direct oval, then 5 on the straight line exercise, then 5 on the indirect oval all
E.xercise 4. Count
without raising your pen.
Exercise 5. Begin at the center and gradually work out to the outer edge.
comExercise 6. Make the indirect oval exercise 54 space high, then without lifting your pen go on to the
pound curve exercise. Count five on each part.
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.5
Plate
They
will
2.
.fine
medicine.
Practice
(s^x
them
c^- (^^
a while each
'-f)-^
p^^
it
finishes.
first,
The
and slowly.
large oval
is
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Plate
4.
"-;
^e
size.
finish.
^ ^ ^^ -5^ ^^ 7^ -^^^
Notice that the big loop comes down below the middle, then goes back up until
above the center) where it forms a little loop that slants obliquely downward.
Notice how narrow the R is at the base line. Curve the beginninsr stroke.
Plate
stroke (a
5.
it
little
Plate 6.
stroke
down
The crossing
is
straight
of the e is
of its height
of the way to the top.
free
line,
and
it
finishes clear
up
at the top.
Its
first.
Use
top.
letter.
If
you use a
little
finger
movement when
Plate 8. You must master the a because it is very important, being the main part of the
oval of the a is 2"^ times as long as wide. Visualize its slender form.
a should contain an i, and ought to finish at the top.
d, g,
and
q.
The
The
Plate 10. This style r is made about half again as high as any of the small letters we have already studied.
This r should finish just as the i or u finish. The letter is quite narrow. Study
first stroke a good deal.
the top carefully. Look for the small compound curve.
Practice the enlarger, retraced form first.
Curve the
lj2t^sL-J2t^
'^jst^^-
finishPlate 11. The s is just as tall as the r, or just half again as tall as the i or u. Curve the beginning and
ing strokes alike. In making the graceful compound curve downstroke, retrace (for a little ways, at the start),
the beginning stroke. The s should be narrow.
Don't try to make speed on the r or s until you have acquired the correct form.
Hurry is the cause of much very poor writing.
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Business Handwriting
MILTON
H.
L. D. S. University, Salt
City,
sufficient control to
practice
make
tlie
No. 36
movement
on the paper.
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,/
./
,^
It
is
better to
tlie
ay
/^
QUICK!
Club us hard
Utah
EXERCISE
You should develop
a live, interest-
ROSS
Lake
/'
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EXERCISE
^fj^
a^y
<fi^
^^
f^^c^
No. 37
Make
the ovals reverse and note carefully the arrangement. The latter part of line one is an excellent movement e.xercise to develop an easy inotion across the page. Count glide-l-3-;!--l- J-6, glide-1-2-:!, etc. For line two
count gljde-l, gIide-2, glide-3-off. Keep the form small b it the spacing wide.
If you have trouble you will find
that the long connecting stroke you make is not a uniforpi double curve parallel with the lines on the paper.
The
capital
point on the
H may
The second
part
is
the important
part.
line.
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EXERCISE
-t:yVT-<^A^~r<^'-z?,'-7'7^^
No. 38
K common
error
is
as
to get this
't-
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EXERCISE
No. 39
EXERCISE
No. 40
Make both
iZ'-f'T-T^C'd-ir'?^
Vifl-^'-f-f't^-UT^L-Cy
The down
stroke of the I
lines to get
^Jt^^
J^TH-d-T^fn^t^l,^
EXERCISE
Leave
provement
line.
J.
t#
No. 41
between the checks you practice, that each may stand alone so that you can mark the im
arrangement.
a blank line
in
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t^
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of the copies of former lessons in this course have been printed up side down.
good ballast of sand and enthusiasm will keep your equilibrium.
getting upset.
That
is
no reason for
If you are practicing these lessons with a class, you will find keeping your feet flat on the floor, both arms
on the desk, and breathing through the nose all during the class period will not onlj- enhance your improvement
and health but will have a salutory effect on the general discipline of the class and the teacher's temperament.
^^^f^uUn^U/f^i^uai^
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Mr. Frank H. Arnold, Supervisor of Writing and Principal of the Lewis & Clark Evening
School, is stimulating exceptional interest and securing unusual results in all grades from the
As will be seen, the specimen above is written with a rapid arm moveto the eighth.
ment, just such as hundreds of others are writmg the Spokane system of schools.
first
ESTHER SWANSON
t^A^L^^-'L-^-^
By Margaret Ryan,
F.
A.
pupil,
Fargo, N.
D.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PENMANSHIP EDITION
Our Policy: Better Writing Through
Improved Teaching and Methods,
Form with Freedom from the Start.
"The Pen
is
we can
Many
are the hearts that are aching, but more that would be frantic,
and broken, were it not for the many
messages that are being received from
the suffering fathers, sons, friends and
sweethearts that are across the ocean,
who let the people at home know that
they are well and among the living,
sweet.
and
at
times
mighty
We
are having our meatless, wheatless, heatless and eatless days, all of
n g.
.And the
erable.
freightage
We
consid-
quite
is
have smokeless
Conservation,
days.
say, let us
and drinkless
economy, and clearness of vision
would result. "Eat more and drink
less" would not be a bad war slogan.
UNIVERSAL INVESTMENTS
Spendthrift
.\merica
thrift-saving America.
ing
tragedy.
momentous,
CONSERVATION
We
have
us
lessons
been
in
difficult
i.s
War
thrift.
for
Ijecoming
is
It
us
to
teach-
would
have
moneyed
classes.
Conscription is
helping the latter to become interested in the world afifairs because their
in the armies
fighting for liberty. .A.Iready the benefits of the war right here in America
are noticeable in that the war is not
being fought solely by the poor but as
well by the rich, who are contributing
young men as well as money.
PHILIPPINE PENMANSHIP
Daymek. Principal of the Philippine School of Commerce, Manila.
P. I., recently favored us with some
specimens of penmanship from his
pupils which we found to measure up
E. J.
may
pine School of
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition of
this
Number
of the Business
Educator
Editorial.
N. C. T. F. Public Schools Re
port.
Call
to
Colors,
Mary
C.
C.
Bradford, Pres., N. E. A.
Appreciation and Obituary,
W. K. Jenne.
Appreciation and Obituary,
Henry T. Loomis.
Appreciation and Obituary,
Charles W. Willard.
Marshall's Meanderings.
The Business Letter, The Good-
rich
Rubber Co.
Standardizing Transc r i p t i o n,
Miss T n a Thomas, Des
Moines, la.
Salesmanship, Robert E. Bloser,
Columbus.
Commercial Geography,
J. Paul
Goode, University of Chicago.
The Boston Clerical School, R.
G. Laird, Prin.
Qualifications
Manager, D.
of
Hughes High
nati.
Announcements.
necessary to vitalize, the second is necessary for economy of effort and ti
necessary for efficiency.
On tfie same principle that the one C serves th
so each word suggests and serves more than one purpose.
an
Export
E.
n o
1 e s,
.School, Cincin-
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
SOME
seas.
it
is
many
poor people are having more and better food to eat today than ever before.
equally true that many rich
people are living more wholesomely
today than ever before, because they
are being forced to eat more wholeIt is also
some
food, and through food restrictions are being taught to live more
sensibly, and fewer drug prescriptions
are necessary.
For unquestionably,
entirely too many ultra-rich people
were unmindful of their own extravagance, and of the suffering of others.
many
seemingly drastic
are being indited in
Washington and elsewhere, are having a tendency to sober the judgments of many who have been too
long intoxicated by their own affluenced and affected superiority. Conscription has taught many a son of
wealth the seriousness of service and
.\nd
measures
that
just
would
human
conflict began.
You
moned
good health
world
life.
for
and
service.
Still
more im-
an
unsurpassable
medium
through
is
by
Today
end that
W.
K. Jenne Passes
81st
C. C. Bradford, President of
To
17
Away
in
His
Year
typewriter
"Father
The
week
of his
that
18.'i7.
Lancaster,
naturally by
at
He came
Model
Remington.
was one
of pjieat discouragement.
It
many years to convince the pubthat the writing machine supplied
a real and practical need but all the
time, under the superintendency of
Mr. Jenne, the improvement of the
tjdk
lic
place
in
the
/i^^ud/ned^i^i/iua/^
Among the notable improvements
of the typewriter which occurred un-
MENTAL
machine
peared
in
school
MEANDERINGS
CARL
C.
MARSHALL
tabulating mechanism, which first appeared as an attachment of the Remington Typewriter in 1896.
During
the long period of Mr. Jenne's superiiitendency of the Remington factory
nine different Remington models were
A Day
in
1904, at which time he was made resident director of the factory in Ilion.
The closing years of Mr. Jenne's life
were spent in comparative leisure,
which his long and splendid service
had so richly earned. To his fellowtownsmen. Mr. Jenne was not merely
the 'Father of the Typewriter."
To
them he was above all, the "grand old
man of Ilion," and his passing is sincerely mourned not only by the old
employees of the Remin.gton factory
l)Ut also by all of his townspeople, by
W'hom he was held in the deepest love
more
and veneration.
Typewriter men the world over,
who know' above all other men what
they owe to the founders of the industry, will hold the name of William
K. Jenne in lasting memory.
CHARLES
WILLARD
E.
1918,
folks
cans.
home on
after
with cancer.
His age was 59 years.
Mr. Willard was born at Columbus,
Wis., in 1859; removing to Western
New York
cated at
in
early
life.
He was
linville,
Business College
at 'Baltimore.
Foi"
considerable
property.
is
ninety
It is
such towns
edu-
are.
which
railroaders as a class,
Up
at the big
was due
to the
N. C.
BREWSTER,
Wellsboro, Pa.
There
is
no class distinction,
Nor
school.
It
grajles.
space.
Anna
of his success
artisan.
know.
Much
'
Altoona
to
Nufif said.
.^1.
was
foundry
with clean,
making things from
Also there was a job
printing plant, a sewing and garment
making room, an up-to-date cooking
a
molten
steel.
in full blast,
but there
rent that
is
thunder
more power
in
- cloud,
the cur-
4^
^^J^uJ/zi^M'^^/iua/fr'
More than
We
hear a good
deal about this
being a war to
safe, but the issue
Political
is
Liberty at Stake
Savings
make democracy
involves vastly more than
Certificates,
weeks
This
cause'
big lot of
among
is
many
of the
and
them
for a
the
Whether looked
evolved.
movement
of
few
will be sold.
worthiest
war has
at
as
popular patriotism, or
economy,
it is
It is
is
it
important to note that this proposed popular loan is something radically different from the Liberty Bond
proposition, which allowed everybody
It is
to subscribe for as
and
much
as
he liked
tion
Shall
money
calling
affairs.
for
we have
It is a
situa-
it?
that.
What
of the
ternal
God
free
Christian nations of the
in resisting German kultur, are
fighting the hordes of Satanism and
anti-Christ
a combination of Hunnish devils and soulless and faithless
materialists.
Of course, the subdued
and stupid but relatively innocent
the
world,
and
in
each
found a new
come
asked her.
"O, I'm out for a job
in dad's office,"
she answered breezily. "You see his
secretary was drafted, and I decided
to see if I couldn't fill his place. Dad
says I may if I can get ready for it
in
months."
six
like
the
work?"
"O,
it's
fine,
from
course,
before.
anything
typewriting are
business English
to take that
I'm supposed to
had
Next term
be a college grad. too!
I'm to have oflice practice, whatever
is, also commercial law and some
bookkeeping, if I can get time for it.
But it's all awfully new and interest-
that
Newport.
Mr. N. H. Indra
is
the
new commer-
cial
Y., has
teacher
School.
R. A.
mond,
in charge of the Departof History, to take a commerposition in the Elkhart, Ind., High
School, has just accepted appointment
to one of the St. Louis High Schools,
as commercial teacher.
having been
ment
cial
^
The
BUSINESS LETTER
The
B. F. Goodrich
Rubber Co.
as
This letter
We
No. 4
We
CONCISENESS IN A BUSINESS
LETTER
A letter is concise if it says everything that should be said in the briefest possible way.
Conciseness includes brevit}', but it also includes"
completeness.
Conciseness
recognizes that a letter should be as short
as possible, but should say everything
that is necessary under the circumimportant that the
words be few than that each be a
definite help in conveying the thought
It is less
effectively.
it
short.
Yours very
a letter in order to
plete, we mean a letter
in
And
letters
want
To
point.
Correspondents must remember that the reader of their letters is
able to take some things for granted;
detail
business
tedious.
letters
brief.
of
prices
"Gentlemen
Answering your
relative
to
order
letter of
Xo.
January
12075
for the
to ad-
be
impossible for us to
make shipment before the 26th.
"We are sorry that ii is necessary
to hold up your specilications in this
way, but delays with us are unavoidable under existing conditions in our
factory department.
"In the division where many of the
parts are being prepared, we are from
six to eight weeks behind on orders
and in view of this situation it is out
of the question for us to give our
friends the prompt service we would
like and which under normal conditions
it
will
would be
possible.
"We
we anticipated.
"Vou may rest assured we
them
will take
hand
moment and
with
all
Yours very
truly,"
It
answers
make
it comwould not be
So, com-
The following
illustrates
clearness.
how
a letter
"We
Sir:
are sorry
to
say
in
reply
to
weight.
"If it
that
it
completeness
means making
the letter clear and it also means saying everything in a letter that a wise
correspondent would say when all the
circumstances are considered.
undue brevity:
"Yc
not clear.
truly,"
This letter would appeal to the customer because it tells him that we
have his interests in mind and are do-
and
is
cise
your
and
balls.
truly,"
the inquiry fully; yet it is not conbecause the circumstances demand a great deal more than a bald
answer. The requirements of brevity
are modified by the circumstances
that
demand a fuller reply. The
things that go to make up completeness in a letter may be divided into
two classes: those that are absolutely
necessary, and those that are helpful
in building good-will.
When we say
that something is absolutely needed
Gentlemen:
The John Ferris Company
with
We
clearly
water polo
illustrating
like qualities:
the above
to reprint a series
of Copyrighted booklets the company is publishing for their correspondents.
consider
them exceptionally excellent and our readers
specially fortunate in having the opportunity
to study these monthly messages to correspondents.
[ Editor. ]
stances.
we do not have
regret that
Yours
Akron, Ohio
By special arrangement
company we are privileged
catalog
courtesy.
necessary
thoughts
tersely.
If
we
were
GUY
M.
PELTON
^^^^ud/n^d^^/^fojf/^
TEACHERS
This
is
YOUR
Department Keep
21,
1918
Columbus, Ohio.
accept the challenge issued under
"Points from Teachers" on page 25
(I
January B. E.)
There is a tendency on the part of
the human mind to desire to continue
to do the things which have been done
of the
the "whole
works." He will find in the "guide"
the instructions as to the transactions
that take place; in the text, or hand
book, he will find instructions as to
the entries to be made for those transactions
which are found in the
"guide.".
In the blank books and on
the blank business forms he will find
space to make these entries, etc., etc.
sales
force
and, in
fact,
some
bookkeeping
teachers who spend hours of good
honest effort out of school and in
excellent
it
Well Filled
came
work
of teaching.
know some
worshippers"
it
for yourself,
of
will
the
"old school
just try
criticise
first.
point.
(yes,
student
had a
full
balances.
They were able to
close the ledger and make statements
of Profit and Loss, Resources and
trial
Liabilities.
I
Bookkeeping
money.
To
I
was some younger than I
I sat one day behind a pile
books and a stack of notes and a
the
from
When
am now,
of
learn.
"i'^'
C. E.
BATEN,
Department of Education,
Waterbury, Connecticut.
REPORT
(Continued from page
2.S)
some
cial
Department,
School,
dent,
Nordstrum
High
Guy M.
cess.
Secretary, 1917.
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December
27, 1917
The
lic
first
called to
first
out
carried
number,
as
"The
ReTranscript
quirements for High Schools," being
a report by Miss Ina Thomas, West
High School, Des Moines. Iowa, of an
independent survey conducted by herself, during May and June, 1917, for
the purpose of ascertaining what high
school students of certain training
can actually do. Her paper will appear in full in this or the .April B. E.
Under the head of "What the Business Man Expects of the Commercial
Graduate," Mr. Charles P. Avery, Employment Manager of Marshall Field
& Co., Chicago, said that the business
man
of
shall
mindedness and
gum
chewing.
sage.
The department
is
much
in-
Measurements in
Scientific
Conitiiercial Education." The fact was
pointed out that there is little uniformity in the grading of different
teachers. To illustrate this, a copy of
Dr. Starch's chart was used, showing
a probable error of nearly 5% in the
judgments of 142 English teachers; in
"Some
fail
of passing.
He
showed
5%
below
74%.
Dr. Starch's
plan of class division is similar to
Mr. Slinker
this, with 7% of failure,
failures,
ning
classes in
petition
cial
Salesmanship
and
Advertising
for
High Schools."
The
first
in
short-
have
standards.
"The
recitation
obtains
of typewriting
Some
very few schools.
schools had no definite time scheduled for their typewriting. Commercial
teachers as a whole have no apprecia-
methods
among
pointed committees
equipment, reading
on:
circle,
Standard
standard
He said
.\ppellate Court. Chicago.
that the boy he meets is the one who
d^
leaves school at the age of fourteen,
the end of the compulsory limit. The
boy in a great city has not much opportun.ty.
The boy who lives in a
wholesome environment has those opportunities which American life affords. The boy a justice knows is the
'
I
I
;
I
i
1
I'
f
[
ing.
P.
Briggs,
Principal
Rockford
mercial
department has to do
in
'
He
Business."
ly
said:
shortcomings of the
have often heard
can do
wonderfully
well
on "typewriting
speed tests" have to be shown how
to arrange a business letter attracothers,
C.
the
of
commercial.
that
We
We
tively.
learn that many beginners do not understand that letters
are placed in files so that they can be
quickly found when wanted again.
They are ignorant of stencil-cutting,
of mimeographying, of tabulating, of
billing, of office appliances and time
saving devices, and of the proper use
of the telephone.
Beginners are often
characterized as "helpless and lacking
business sense."
mosphere
The
du.-.trial,
Quoting
Thompson,
four
are suggested for curriculum:
college preparatory, technical and incollege.
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23
Ci^i't^j/:-;^4^i^'^4rr^r^
own
stationery,
busi-
The
bank
its
Training
is
accomplished
solicit letter
pay
at commercial rates.
Such work
may be obtained in a variety of ways.
The third plan which may be used
to acquire business experience as a
part of the high school course, is to
secure assignments for the students
right out in the field, out in the offices.
a system of office apprenticeship.
An imitation, no matter how perfect
it may be is never quite as good as the
original.
students useful to the many organizations of the hi,gh school. One student
general bookkeeper. He works in
a room provided for that purpose, and
is given credit for a part of the recitation period. The money is kept by
a member of the faculty.
Another
student is general treasurer. He must
sign all checks, which are countersigned by the principal. A financial
report is submitted each month by the
student treasurer and the faculty
member. This must tally with the report of the general bookkeeper.
In
each student organization an accounting student is elected treasurer.
He
is
responsible to the general treasurer.
To introduce such a. plan involves
considerable work for the
teacher at the outset, but eventually
the students can do nearly all of it.
Along- with the vouchers and other
records, there is kept a program o
is
events.
Mr. Yoder especially emthe point of keeping the
principal in clo-se touch with all transactions throu'gh the signing of all
checks.
all
phasized
Mr.
first
is
ters,
conducted
throughout
the
entire
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Standardizing Transcription
metnod
THE
STANDARDIZATION O F
TRANSCRIPTION REQUIRE-
Please
desire
al
advise
make
to
be
shall
MENTS
glad
us
if
it
your
is
We
this extension.
to accept the renew-
note.
truly,
Two
course
Thomas)
City.
years
in
came
to
me
to
my
of
one
is
a crying
This
is
tion upon
collecting
my inspiration. I
my theories last
began
ac-
winter by
from several of our leading
City
State
Date
My
St.
We have
(3 m.) several days ago.
arranged with the bank to grant this
extension, but we must
urge upon
you the necessity of meeting this renewal note promptly when due.
The interest on
the old note
arnounted to $U0, and we have given
the bank our check to cover. Kindly
forward us your check for like
amount.
With sincere regards, we remain
Yours very truly. (3 m.)
|
W.
Mr. C.
Mr. F. H. Gray,
1
West Madison
Dear
Sir:
How
would you
with
Company,
in mind,
$2000 note signed by Mr. Jackson will come due Jime 1.
are
in
receipt of a letter from Mr. Jackson, sending us renewal note for a like
amount, payable December 1. Since
this note bears your endorsement, we
are not in position to advise Mr. Jackson Cl m.) what we can do in the
matter until, we have your instruc-
We
about
it.
those
in-
my
were sent to me at
for grading.
I leave it
to estimate how much of
time has been spent in the criticism
of these manuscripts from 557 students and the tabulation of results.
All papers
own expense
you
to
my
for errors
were made:
For transcribing that affected- the
in such a way as to render
the
letter
unusable,
5%.
(Faulty sentence structure due to
weakness in English charged under this.)
For any slight error not afifecting
the meaning, 1%.
meaning
Spelling, 5%.
tions.
Briefly
.\X\
Ave.,
Portland, Greg.
tract
of tests
Sir:
47
number
tions.)
Martin,
Louis, Mo.
St.
of a
Dear
summary
the test.
structions were:
Date
State
ducting
Test No. 2
dear Sir:
I
As
the
Calofornia
Iowa
Yours very
Birmingham.
Long Beach. Stockton.
Ames, Cherokee,
Des
Moines, Dubuque, Independence.
Kansas Kansas City.
Michigan Detroit.
Minnesota
Poul.
Missouri Kansas City.
Neliraska Omaha.
New York Buffalo, Rochester.
Texas Dallas. Galveston.
West Virginia Wheeling.
Wiscojisin Madison.
Washington Seattle.
Alabama
^^^^u^'/i^U^^/uojfi^
Each paper was given a grade on
the 100% basis, such iinal grade being
listed in all summaries of "Accuracy."
The rate was found liy dividing the
time into 200, the total words of each
Following is a specimen of the
test.
typewritten reports on individual pupils sent to
Vo
semesters work.
thrown
ingh'
Medial of Time.,
Medial of Rate
Mediar Accuracy.
21
Medi;
Rate
Trans.
Sp.
liy Survey
Rale 14
Accuracy 86
:
Typing
Pet.
5%
r.
1.
C.
11
9
8^
1)
IM
i)
15
27
10
H H
18.2
22.2
24.2
20.
midway between
tenth.
96%
92
27
5%
1
1
1%
2%
4
6
What
satisfied
were tabulated
lower
Nn.
No.
as follows:
Time
iSlo.
Nn
Nn
No.
\n.
8
9
Rate
16.6
20.6
No
Nn
20.
12
13
Wo. 14
Nn, 15
No 16
17
18
19
No. 20
From
the medians
of
th.e
14.4
12.8
8.5
10.8
7.6
12.8
10.5
7.6
twenty, a
86
89
92
89
87
85
89
91
82
69
83
5
5
5
i"
GEN-
a
-f-
we do
to raise this
Demand
least
teach
erasures.
a.
med-
of
The
ac-
shows that 3%
could have been added to the median
through accurate typewriting.
At
companying
ACCU1?ACr
u
can
First:
t, .
to
your students
a more practical knowledge of shortGive them more dictation.
hand.
Time
Require more transcription.
them and bring them to a realization
of their own possibilities.
Second:
D was foi nd to be
ERAL MEDIAN of SPEED
14 words per minute.
GENERAL MEDIAN of ACCURACY
found to be 8 %
Me
al-
standards.
What
ian?
10
No. 11
Nn
Nn
No
Accuracy
\o
You may
Are you
35%
1%
13.3
7.4
point
1%
Fourth
Accuracy
foregoing
twenty
into
Time
each teacher:
Av. Rate
The
to
i-f
chart
students
to
make neat
ti^
f^^^U<^^l^M^^lfi^l^^^^^
EFFECT OF TYPEWRITING ON
FINAL RESULT
=.=
si?
S
g
7^
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
86
82
84.3
88.2
86
77.5
84
71.5
86.5
89
92
89.5
87.5
85.5
89
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12
13
14
15
Ifi
17
18
19
2)
92%
89.5
85
5.5
5.5
3
2
2
3.5
82
69
83
2
2
advise
amounted
arranged
balance
18 bears
1
dollar
due
4 endorsement
123 extension
89.5
92
93
95
93
88.5
91
93
85.5
71
85
3
1
furnished
Galveston
6 herewith
3 injustice
1
instructions
Jackson
know
26 later
necessity
Oregon
Third:
to
TT
'
promptly
44 referring
regards
^Tl
^ -^-1
fs
IS
-^
_|
a
f>
''
17 renewal
II
II
"
9 remittance
'^
3 receipt
^^
"
2 position
1
93%.
100 overlooked
1 payable
71
2 until
69%
ACCURACY
:ified
this
If perfect spelling
reveals a
that
than
23 arrears
8 aside
87
76
4.5
greater
2 accept
87.3
91.2
88
81.5
+
2+
4+
3
indiv. duals
rate,
classes.
^v
*"--
3.5
of
in
2 absolutely
3%
91
rt
t!.&
89%
a'H
SB. S
study
shown bv
2 o c
"
.\
variation
11
lil
10 urge
ii
yourself
T
21
,^
"
w^u'H
fio*
en
-^Ji-
s=
<~
_:.
S"
"c
J-l
'-^
* "
^
words misspelled
by (approx.) 280
,a
students.
41B
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
50%
62
73
56
49
64
70
63
67
15
30
25
40
50
50
55
16
55
17
18
19
20
30
50
60
60
11
12
13
14
89%
3%
92%
86
82
84.3
88.2
86
77.5
3.5
90
90
87.3
91.7
89
84
71.5
86.5
89
92
89.5
87.5
85.5
89
91
82
69
83
83.5
4
5.5
88
77
88.5
90
alarming.
95
92
2.5
2.5
90
88.5
92.5
92.5
86.5
74
87
3.5
1.5
4.5
second
column of the words mis-spelled by
that particular school.
in
"
is
words
7*
?:s2S.I
Certainly the variation of ability
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
What
logical speed
uation from
^Ot Sp
T\\'EL\'E
How
FOURTH SEMESTER?
determined?
Bv
the median of
f^^^u^/ied^^ti^iua/i^
lowest points of the span of the
middle 50%.
(See "Speed" chart.)
By reviewing the individual rates in
each of the 20 groups, cuttinug off the
jO%
are
lines,
12 words.
It seems logical, does it
not, to say that in order to pass this
work, any pupil should come up to the
median
lowest
established by the
point of the big central division of the
class?
larger
80% ?
Or
we extend
shall
this
to a
So,
we assume
12 words as
for passing this year, and
if
a minimum
insist
that all who graduate must
reach at least this rate, it is most
probable that in a year or two the
general median will be raised and like-
mum.
All third semester work was graded
on the same basis as fourth; class
medians were determined and tabulated as follows:
Rale
Accuracy
16
15
10.5
12.7
84
85.5
79.5
.?5
16
5.6
12.5
11.6
25
17
9
Tim;-
H
19
of
84
68
84
57
third
to be:
all
or higher
Rate
13
14
14
Accuracy
84%
86%
89%
Summarizing these:
During fourth
semester the twenty schools measured developed only one word per
minute and 3% in accuracy beyond
the attainment of third semester students.
Work in advance of fourth
semester does not add to the speed,
and it adds only 3% to the accuracy.
One might say that perhaps these
third semester class figures came from
better schools. That is not true in al!
cases, for two of them are from
^
this last half of the second year, and
that in the course of two or three
tlie
MISS INA
West High
THOMAS
School, Des
SPENCERIAN COMMERCIAL
Moine
SCHOOL
The object of the plan I shall promote this year is twofold. First, to
follow up last year's work and see if
the medians already found
Second,
raised or lowered.
will be
to note
morning of this
was at his office
-week, at
11:30.
He
last Friday and appeared to be as well as usual. Saturday he complained of not feeling well,
and on Sunday was stricken with
pneumonia. The funeral will be held
at the family residence Friday after-
noon at 2:30.
Harold is a lieutenant in the Ordnance Department at Washington.
His little daug-hter, \'irgiuia, four
years of age, died four weeks ago.
and Mr. Loomis was greatly affected
by her death.
He had lost twelve
pounds during the past four weeks
and had aged, apparently, five years
during that time.
I have come in almost daily contact
with him for fifteen years and shall
miss him very much indeed.
With kind personal regards, and
with the hope that you are well. I am
E.
MER^'ILLE,
known
as
the
Practical
Text Book
Coimpany.
Mr. Loomis Was a man of refined
and educated tastes and of a very reserved and retiring disposition. Few
men had a more discriminating and
critical judgment pertaining to life's
activities in education, art, literature,
and business.
He began his career as a
penman
of
special
skillful
excellence, and
man of affairs
(Concluded on page
31
f^J^Uii/n^d^^^i&U:!^^/^?^
Manager
Qualifications of an Export
D. E. KNOWLES
Hughes High School, Cincinnati, Ohio
my
marketing products
tries..
When
man
ness a
as the
first.
be divided
again,
products
through Commission Houses, or the
Manufacturers' Agent. I have found
a great many manufacturers who dislike the second method because, as in
turer
all
may
dispose
of
his
lines
mission
many
ing.
necessary,
if
Send Translation
to
Your Customer.
This
As
is.
companies so
as to get as
low a rate
as possible.
The Insurance
Contents of Policy.
Company will probably ofifer you a
general policy which they have writ-'
ten up, but which is not the best proposition you can get, if you know
what you want. You should have included in the policy a stipulation that
if three or more percent of the goods
are damaged, they will pay all. if less,
they do not. Three percent does not
customary
It
is
cover breakage.
among them that, except in case of
stranding or breakage or collision,
Somethey do not pay for leakage.
times they may state that there has
been a stranding or collision or breakage, and which we may doubt.
can ascertain the correctness of thi^
by going to the captain of the ship
and asking him to show us his Log
Book. In South America most breakages occur when trans-shipping from
one ship to another, which is necessary in a great many cases. We can
always insure goods when they go
dir,ect from one port to another, but
where trans-shipment is necessary, it
is very hard to get insurance.
We have to tell the Insurance Company in advance what our maximum
shipment will be at any time. Tell the
broker 3^ou want a "Floating Policy,"
Marine Insurance, to cover risks of
goods shipped to foreign ports. When
we have taken out such a policy we
We
We
when
rates fluctuate.
But offer
York, or port of shipment,
him a price with cost,
insurance and freight included, letting
him take his choice. Ask him if, in
case of war, whether he wants you to
insure against War Risks.
This is a
plan
f.
o.
New
and then
ofifer
War
Risks.
Your insurance
policy
little
but insurance for War Risks is separate and distinct, and rates fluctuate
according to the amount of merchant
shipping lost during the month.
In
case your customer does not notify
I would not insure War Risks.
Let him know that if you do not receive an answer in due time, you will
not insure.
you,
Model
Policy.
The following
is
as
ter)
may
all
made by them
fore any
known
damage.
Authority
or reported loss or
shall
be issued whose
certificates
and conditions conflict with
those contained in this policy.
Warranted by the assured to report
particulars of all shipments applying
under this policy to Messrs. (agent's
name), with regularity and due despatch for transmission to this Company.
Loss if any payable to assured or
terms
order.
f^J^ud/n^M/iSf/iuvf/^
tiSSr
nent
thereto.
American,
Subject
particular
to
amounting
average
By
Per $100
French.
Ger.
No.
Cunard, Allan, White
Star, Atlantic, Transport, Red
if
each
Star,
Hamburg, American
(as
means
men
tions.
Schedule of Sates
At
other
and
from
interior
States.
.ST^/aC
To
Greek
lines)
..
.40}/^c
Amer. Lines,
direct or includ-
ing transhipment
.'.'.oyic
other German
and Swedish-Baltic ports -not
north of Stockholm, direct or
transhipped
To Petrogad or other Russianand Swedish-Baltic ports be-
To
Stettin
and
30c
To
Australia and
New
35c
4254c
Zealand,
Via Suez
Via Englind, including transhipment
Via Ameri'n
Side
75c
'.)0c
Simon Axelrod
65c
45c
45c
(3kla..
direct or
transhipped, by approved
steamers,
including
railroad
40c
.School.
yond Stockholm
risk to int
25c
Monte-
all
and
Aires
video
10c
18c
By
To Buenos
of
To
de Janeiro, Parnambuco,
Para, Santos, Brazil
To Rosario
To West Coast South America
via Panama
Via Cape Horn or Magellan via
Lloyd,
To Rio
14c
is
new commercial
High School.
of
Royal Oak,
Mich., is the new teacher of penmanship and bookkeeping in the Oil City.
Pa., High School, following Mr. M. J.
Talley, who, after several years of
distinctly successful work, goes into
business_at an attractive salary.
0^
SALESMANSHIP
By ROBERT
Columbus, Ohio
all.
The answer
lot of
tion
what
to this
salesmanship?
question covers a
is
Emerson
Horace
in
Efficiency
his
Course:
ovver to
ersuade
lenty of
eople to
easurably
thing to sell.
All over this universe of ours you
the ability to
but lack the
do the thing
faculties necessary to market
seves successfully.
actually
The
ability
capitalize
to
them-
the
legal
There are many who have the ability to sell themselves, that is, to secure a position; and that is as far as
They are not able to hold
it
goes.
this position after it is once theirs.
If you understand the principles and
practices of salesmanship and their
application, you can market yourself
at true value.
2.
',.
4.
5.
6.
Look
successful.
7.
Salesmanship
is
persuasion.
sin-
How-
before speaking.
The man who thinks before he
speaks, and when he thinks it best
not to speak keeps silent, is tactful.
be interested
Be receptive
it
The fellow who keeps his inipays.
tiative on the job is his own best boss.
Rememlier, you can only be what
vou make vourself. The fellow who
it
fit
men
to
but big
you must:
Pick successes to sell to and all
successful selling vvill result in
satisfaction and confidence.
Know all about the article vou
1.
2.
sell.
:>.
telligent
The
their
fit
jobs.
rofit.
built to
md
roduct at a
find
demands.
Jobs are not
ermanently
urchase your
will
The
BLOSER
E.
f^J^uJi/i^J^^i/uai^r'
4.
li.
7.
in-
s.
work.
heart that
aggres
sive. thinking man advances with the
good wishes of everybody, with every
one pulling for him.
upright,
progressive,
rewith a
to
You the
1.
our mind
Honesty.
3.
Sincerity,
."i.
is
2.
Industry.
Intelligence.
Special qualities required,
1.
Confidence in one's self.
Confidence in goods or pro2.
position.
(b)
"How
ialized
Health.
'>.
in
1.
4.
himself.
'
5,
Use
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
situation.
12.
is
that effort
is
1.
ing a sale.
Generally considered there are
three steps to the taking of an order:
the approach to the prospect.
First
Second the demonstration of the
goods.
Sense of humor.'
Learn how to talk and when
:;.
Have
goods.
selling.
mak-
Calmness.
of the goods.
2.
hit
in
Initiative.
Tact.
2.
The goods, commodity, or ideas
that are the reason for trying to persuade others,
Unorganized
methods raise the cost of
There are standard operations
of efficient principles.
Persistence.
Clear expression of ideas.
to quit.
4.
the
presence.
The order taker canvasses looking
for people who want to buj'.
persuader.
Qualities required,
(a)
makes
as
.").
:;.
the
4.
The acceptor
of your persuasion
buyer.
The
sale
itself
Agreement
of
minds.
Remember Salesmanship can be acquired. Learn its principles and practices and apply them.
^'
COMMERCIAL GE03RAPHY AS
AN ELEMENT IN BUSINESS
EDUCATION
J.
its
But the
for business.
raphy
so vast, and
field
of
geog-
its
from the
when
difficult
task
it
to
is
an ex-
delimit
Human
it
ially
Hence, it is a worthy quest to attempt to establish standards in subject matter and methods of presentation; and it is with a hope of helping
on in this quest that this paper is
written and the following sug.gestions
offered.
The best approach I have
found to the great study of industry
and commerce is by way of a general
swing around the horizon of the chief
commodities of commerce.
study calls for a recognition of the
entire list of geographic influences
acting, as they may anywhere in the
This
world, in the production and movement of a given commodity. This establishes a wide view of world-relations, and gives a good preparation
for the study of a country or a region
as a unit. A study of the commodities
of commerce, then, is recommended
as a minimum unit of study, to occupy
This
half a year in the high school.
countries:
Briefly,
may
Ije
the
pre-
commerce.
life
as
commerce: stage
of industrial de-
is
Our
life,
tivated, as a basis of
II.
of
Com-
merce:
Products of the farm, orchard,
1.
and range: The cereals, sugar,
drugs,
beverages,
animal products.
Products of hunting and fishing:
Furs and fish.
Products of the forest: Lumber,
rubber and other gums, cork,
ve.getable3,
2.
:'..
4.
5.
Second Half-Year
The Geographic
Commerce:
III.
Influences
The development
in
refer-
of land routes of
trade.
Winds and
ocean routes.
organization
merce.
The
of
ocean
com-
market foci.
Commercial Countries
The development
and rank.
of
d.strib.ution, accessibility.
it
Hali-Vear
Brief Introduction:
influences underlying industry and commerce.
Posit. on on the earth as deiermining climate.
Land relief: barriers of mountain or
dissected land; passes and valley
routes through highland barriers;
plains and their influence.
Mineial resources: character, areal
areas,
soil,
The geographic
field of
the
delimited,
.^J3^uJ^/t^U^^/iu:a/^
of
Leading
IV.
and Their Commerce:
Selected important countries, studied as to commercial development
and possibilities.
The growth of worldtrade and the
part played by leading lands.
The countries might be chosen in
United
order:
following
the
States of America, Brazil; the
United Kingdom, British India;
Germany.
the
Russia;
France,
contrasting
a
etc.,
highly developed country with a
new or undeveloped land, a temperate climate land with a tropical land, and so on.
.\s an illustration of the method of
study, showing the thought-provoking
possibilities of the subject, let us indicate' the subtopics in the study of
wheat: (1) Origin and plant characters of wheat; climate and soil required; types and qualities of wheat;
relations between plant characters and
the climatic conditions hi place of or.Argentine,
machinery, transportation
(7)
The
revolution wrought
(;>)
World's
wheat-producing
in
indus-
view, and
influences
commerce
igin.
facilities,
of the farmer.
(4) Problems of
mill.ng, marketing, establishment of
world-market center, and the method
Wheat in
of making the price.
(.5)
international commerce and politics,
(fi) The problem of the wheat-supply
of the future.
Or suppose we take a mineral commodity, say, iron: (1) The qualities of
iron which make it valuable; the significance of iron in the civilization of
the race.
(2) The chief iron-produc(.'!)
Mething regions of the world.
ods of winning the ore in France,
Spain, Sweden, and the Lake Superior,
region.
(4) The transportation of the
ore; the role of coke and limestone.
Rank of producing regions. (6)
(.5)
The world's present steel centers, and
reasons for their location and rank.
skill
LOOMIS
(Continued from page 27)
and influence, leaving behind quite a
large fortune.
In recent years he traveled extensively in foreign lands, and moved
among the most exclusive people at
whom
an
profession had as
acquaintanceship, many of
more than pass-
[Editor.]
from among
us.
32
fall
work
to
Xew
to high school graduates only.
pupils are admitted on any school day
during the months of September and
Beginning November 5,
October.
pupils will be admitted to classes on
Monday of each week. Conference
may be had with the head master on
any school day. That sufticient accommodations may be provided for all
pupils, it is urged that applications
for admission be made during June.
This course includes
Business.
bookkeeping, intercommunication business practice, business English and
spelling,
business
correspondence,
employment.
Shorthand
shorthand,
manship,
rapid
girls:
Entrance Requirements
Girls are received from all sections
of the city of Boston. All courses are
open to high school graduates. The
to those who
have completed at least two }-ears of
high school work with full credit.
The shorthand course is open to those
who have had at least three years of
high school work with full credit, and
is
open
either
the
business
or shorthand
course.
Both courses can be completed in about two j'ears, since certain subjects when finished in one are
not required to be repeated in the
other. Pupils who have had commercial training before eniering will find
that their time requirement is shortened. The secretarial course requires
about two years' time, and it is recommended in all cases where the
pupil is qualified and has the time to
devote to
Its object
is
work and
the
positions.
Stenotypy
more responsible
Stenotypy
oftice
may
be subeither the
for shorthand in
shorthand or secretarial course.
The pupils who have not earned
eight points in physical training in
high school are required to take the
subject two periods a week.
stituted
Length of Courses
little more than a year
of close
application by the average student is
required to complete the work of
it.
Special Features
Pupils may enter at any time during
the school }-ear, and are graduated
and placed in positions as soon as
they have completed the course se-
The school
equipped
is
labor-saving
latest
business course
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devices,
with the
such as
adding, computing, billing, and addressing machines, multigraph, copying and filing devices and dictaphone.
For several weeks during the latter
part of the shorthand course the pupils are trained in the various duties
of a stenographer or secretary in a
model-oftice department under conditions similar to those- in an actual
business office. They also spend two
weeks in the office of the head master,
where they are required to do much
of the work of a secretary.
In the business course, after receiving a thorough preliminary training
in accounts, the pupils are advanced
to the business practice department,
where they perform transactions with
one another, with the office department, and, through the mail, with pupils in schools in distant cities. When
the pupils have completed the work
of this department they are transferred to the office practice department,
which has a set of offices and a bank
equipped with m^odern books and ofEach pupil performs
fice appliances.
the duties of the various positions in
each office. This training is especially
valuable in developing the initiative
pupil.
demand
the
for
Boston
Clerical
number
in
of girls in the
school.
Hours
The school day is from
2:15
p.
noon.
m.,
8:45 a. m. to
with luncheon period at
is
the
same
pils
may remain
Ravmond
G. laird.
Head Master.
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"WISE AND
OTHERWISE"
Stories from Recent Real Life
By CHARLES
Napoleoness of Finance
There
women
any
are
in
tlie
quantitj'
wise
of
world,
then,
A Young Woman
of
Promise
of the brightest
girls that ever entered the old B.
S.
Business College at
She was a
dark
lanky,
tall,
&
complexioned
got
striking
filled
show
out.
girl,
womanof
be-
tried to
type.
make
it
CRAGIN
T.
Holyoke, Mass.
expected.
The business course was
not so long then as it is now.
I
graduated in less than four months,
and they gave me a diploma that cost
five dollars, for it was printed on
sheep-skin, and it said I was Master
of Accounts, and I thought I was.
There were very few things I didn't
know when I was about twenty. Most
people are built that way, and know
more at twenty than they ever do afterwards.
The Graduation
They had graduation exercises at
The B. & S. B. C, with an orchestra
and
essays,
and
ice
orations
cream and
and dancing,
"buz-wagons"
could get
in
across
wouldn't
had
l>ut
she
Her
features
refined
of
The Lightning
Strikes
The
there
a bit
West." and he galloped off with Marin a very short period of time
garet
;:oom.
flashing
ruby
blue
were
lemonade
some
the typewriter.
f^i^^fiiUVieii^^^/iu:a/h^
real
sapphires,
It
transpired
that
in
fairs
"Whiskey Ring,"
banded
Ions of distilled liquors without paying the dollar and something a gallon
duty that the United States required.
They had fixed it up with the gaugers
who measured the contents of each
barrel, and the gaugers said there
were only forty gallons in a barrel
when there were really fifty, and the
Whiskey Ring made ten or fifteen
dollars on each barrel.
There were
plenty of arrests, and Margaret's husband, the confidential man of the big
concern, and a dashing all around
sport, was made "the goat." He drew
a nice little ticket for ten years' free
board and lodging in the United
States prison at Atlanta, for frauds
on the United States revenue. I don't
suppose Rivers was by any means the
man highest up, but he was chosen as
"the whipping boy." You know in the
good old times there was a whipping
boy chosen for the king's son. When
the king's son threw spit-balls at his
teacher or planted a tack in his chair,
so as to make him rise rapidly in his
profession, they didn't lick the king's
son, but walloped the whipping boy,
good and plenty, and that was what
was done with Rivers. He took the
punishment while the bigger ones
w-ent free
much
out
spent his
money
left very
Rivers had
as fast as he got
it.
The house
^^J^u^/i^d^i(ifui^i^r^
1)aiid's indebtedness, so, she hustled
her glad rags out of town with her
packed up
in
stenographer,
but
of
Way
32 years
chief ste-
the
Well,
resist
Margaret
the
anybody else. It is
an uncertain game anyway. Perhaps
readers of this magolder
the
of
some
azine may remember the play made
Robson
comedians.
the
famous by
and Crane. The play was called "The
of a
the
name
was
which
Henrietta."
to
go broke
as
He
was called "Bertie the Lamb."
Wall
always speculating on
and after a while he became
known as a j'oung Napoleon of Fi-
it.
At the end of the
will pay you whatever divican.
I may not invest it for
days, I may in\-est it twice
questions about
was
month
Street,
dends
several
over, but
about
You must
me
do
bring me $250." The girl brought
money. Two weeks later Mar.garet handed her $275 and said: "You
got a 10% dividend on your money in
two weeks. That is as much as the
bank would have paid you in two
more."
lar
It
is
big
game
of
chance,
In
ever.
she
fact,
dressed
her.
liked
Her
tastes
were expensive.
Symphony
the
concerts
She
and
month
ting
want
that
as
you
is
twice
will
as
make
much
in a
it
in
year putIf
you
me and
my
it.
my
to
judgment.
If
leave
it
entirely
you wish
to
this,
the
would
cousin
like
to
put
$20(i
in
gins &
of her
Women
tial,"
draw
this
Mrs. Rivers'
Woman's Bank
And
The floor
and rich in appearance.
was of inlaid marble. The carpets in
softest
of
the
were
rooms
waiting
the
The writing desks and tables
velvet.
rosewood.
and
mahogany
of carved
The cashier's window was of plate
glass
with
silver
grill.
The money
table
bed.
No men were
allowed to do
l)usi-
rooms up one
There
street.
rooms for women where
were private
er in the buyin.g or selling of securities, but these people did not luiy or
^^J^ud/n^d^^i^iu^a^
sell securities, far from it, nothing so
risky as that. They simply came and
opened an account with Mrs. Rivers,
and gave her power of attorney au-
thorizing
her
to
dispose
of
their
The new
'
'
gone
to
some-
where.
business?
took
paid
very much.
money
of
it
She simply
that came in and
back and spent the
the
part
If
conditions
there
talent
legal
was.
More than
it
all
Month Bank.
I
once worked with a
young rnan who had traveled
brilliant
all over
country giving exhibitions of
hypnotism.
He finally settled down
and began advertising modestly that
for $.5 he would send a course in hypnotism that would enable the student
of that mysterious art to read the inmost thoughts of everybody with
whom he came in contact. Now I
wouldn't want to do that, I wouldn't
care to know the inmost thoughts of
a while lot of people, but the idea
took like wild fire and $5 notes came
pouring in from everybody, from college presidents down to boot blacks,
this
or up
to,
scrub
bought a
li-
mousine, a fine house and lots of costly raiment and jewels rich and rare.
I ventured to suggest to him one day
that most of those people who invested in his course in hypnotism at $5 a
hyp. wouldn't get much out of it, and
he said:
"No. most of them won't,
but there's a sucker born every minute
He was
about
live
right.
grow
to
I
old."
don't doubt
that
ofif
so far as
know
she has never done any crooked business since she got her final discharge,
if she ever did get a final discharge.
I don't know but indictments are still
hanging over her for one of the most
bare faced swindles ever pulled ofT
on the wise women in New England
by one who was Wise or Otherwise.
It
anying about
The
her.
editor of
my
stories carry a
Now, this
entirely lacking in
is
There
mor-
don't
know
is
as
We
fifty-three
measured up
Smith
cate standard.
mighty
shown
skillful
liy
the
pen
little
to our certifiis
swinging a
these
days,
specimen of
as
I'.is
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y. '^"^--:^r^-^-<l.'CZ
<s^<s--z.
reader.
poor pen-
of
manship?
.\
HARRY HEILMAN.
While
illegible
writing
reasonable
dispatch
and plainness
conserves eflfort and promotes efficiency on the part of both writer and
money on account
^.^.
loss of
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apt to try
Editor.]
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Mr. Todd is one of
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Possibly no better high school penmanship specimens have been received than those from the pupils of
Houghton, Mich., high school, Glee
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writing seems
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Wright.
Fine specimens of penmanship have
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High School, Santa Ana, Calif., who
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number of specimens received.
Though small in number, the class is
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T.
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J.
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S.
long been
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penmen
in this
country.
Spec-
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pils,
ment
of taht school.
The
J.
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Mr. Marshall and Mr. Cragin must
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with their recent articles in the B. E.
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short
cities
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Train Youf Hand if You
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Head and
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LESSON
No. 3
VVhenev'er possible, it is good policy to finish capitals above the base line, for doing so i.-akes it handy for one
to connect the small letters that fojlow onto the capital.
If one forms the habit of finishing capitals like A, K, M,
N, L, Q, etc., below the base line one must either leave the capitals of a word separated from the small letters that
follow, or join them together with a connecting stroke with which one is unfamiliar.
As the majority of letters that follow capitals the a, i, e, c, o, u, etc., for'instance are made one-third as high
as capital letters, one should form the habit of finishing capitals one-third of their height above the base line
(wherever it is advisable).
and N contain both direct and indirect ovals you should start your practice on this lesson by
As the H, K,
limbering up on the movement drills presented in Lessons 1 and 2. The beginning strokes are the same in the four
Master the beginning stroke now.
letters.
Plate
Study the beginning stroke carefully. The loop at the start is parallel to the main slant of the letter.
strokes of the
are parallel; both begin at the top with a curve, but are straight lines
of their length,
1.
The down
the
lower %.
H %
Finish the
of its height.
Visualize the correct form, before you practice.
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2.
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Plate
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The down
strokes
in
'?7
'^
Plate
as the
5.
9v
9z.
The t contains an
The t is twice as
t is tall.
final
^t-'^z^ 9z^
The
i.
tall
t
(Exercise 5) as
it
^^ 9r
comes
in
handy
y^.
Tz.-^
a,
e,
etc.,
and
^^
9?
9u
c,
to
be }4 as long
line.
/-
1.^^^
^^^^^^^ ^.
^ ^^
^.^^:x^,.^?z^t^^ci^...tyt^
Plate 6. Notice that the d is but an a with the stem lengthened to twice
d should be Yi the height of the d. Finish the d Yi its height.
^-^tZC
its
former height.
The
-^
>ziZy^'i^,.-'t^^-t^,.-efZ'^c^
f^^^u^it^eU^i^(/iUi^
The p extends
Plate 7. One-third of the p extends below the base line; two-thirds are above the base line.
above the base line as high as the t and d. The loop at the center of the p is quite narrow fully 2J4 times as long
as wide.
^glgp
you know
definitely just
how
it
should be made.
Business Handwriting
MILTON
H.
L. D. S. University, Salt
ROSS
Lake
City,
Utah
live, interest-
ing
Club us hard-QUICK!
EXERCISE No. 42
four capital letters separately with uniform spacing, then retrace them two or three times without lifting
the pen. Show some improvement on one before you take up another. This is an excellent way to develop ability
to make combinations of capitals. There is nothing more interesting than this in business penmanship.
Make
h,^t:5b'
No. 43
this
way.
Always keep
r
-^^^'t--'i?i.--0'i'Z^7'7-z^ct--^7^
'l^^-L.A-e'-7--7--Z-y
i^ ,ft^
L^,!S<>t-<:^V7'Z-^^^?-i-^
^.^7^7'^'^:z-d^
^/yCi^-^yi^'C.-ty
C^^^-iAyLd^
EXERCISE
Note that each of the words is
other arrangements similar to this.
(::y
made up
'~c:yy---aiyL'iZ..<...d^ '^:;=r^^(^<?-2:<^^<^-/
-^^
No. 44
Try
^;2^^^7'^,2^'!^,<i-<ll<?^^<-V^
EXERCISE No. 45
After giving each of these combinations considerable practice try making up a good combination for your
own
initials.
ifi^<^^'t^-4'-^i'-^^i^-^i>^
EXERCISE
Change the names and amount
in the receipt
and see
if
No. 46
you can make the arrangement as neat as the copy.
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stands for painstaking perseverance and well directed energy, and means that the owner possesses a practical business handwriting.
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PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition of
this Number of the Business
Educator
John H. Francis
tion.
An
apprecia-
Letter of Inqtiiry
David H.
O'Keefe.
Marshall's Mental Meanderings
Carl Marshall.
Training for Business Dr. Glen
Levin Swiggett.
Steps to Victory The M. & M.
Nat. Bank. N. Y. City.
Goals in Bookkeeping Irving
V. Cobleigh.
Connecticut Business Educators
Convention, Shorthand and
Typewriting Contest.
Commercial Law J. H. Robin-,
son.
The Importance
ing
C.
Research
in
of
Hjmdwrit-
P. Eberhart.
Work
California
Penmanship
M. E. Austin,
in
Read.
The Bnsiness Letter
The
Goodrich Rubber Co.
If I Were a Principal Editor.
ter L.
Notices, Etc.
^
EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
Commercial Education
.^^3Bu^i/u^d^(^/iu^i^
sion is for nature in the open and
When perplexed by
large and wild.
some large and intricate problem, like
the patriarchs of old, he seeks solitude
and solves the enigmatic problem, unless it involves the sacrifice of some
essential principle, in which case it is
knocked into a cocked hat or aban-
MENTAL
MEANDERINGS
CARL
instinctively turn to him for inspiration and encouragement and sympathy. With him, there "aint no such
animals" as bad boys.
His third great passion is his friendAll sorts and conditions of
ships.
men and women call him friend, or
Some are worldfeel him to be such.
M ide in reputation and some are lowly: some are large in ability and some
are small, but he grips them with the
all
clasp.
We
so
from Columbus.
The commercial teaching fraternity
may therefore take inspiration and
courage from his success. His energy
and resourcefulness are well-nigh
boundless. We are safe in predicting
and expecting much from him in his
enlarged field of modern welfare and
intensely practical human endeavor.
Mr. Francis is a thoroughgoing"
democrat, not in a partisan or political
broadly and generally
but
sense,
speaking, and is one of the simplest
men in his tastes and one of the most
unselfish in his desires with whom I
have ever come in close personal Contact.
ishes.
179
Publishers B. E.:
Please find enclosed check in your
favor for $1.00, covering subscription
to the teachers' professional edition
of "The Business Educator" for the
year beginning with the current number.
brary
is
very
Vaughan's history
incomplete.
of
Was
commercial ed-
might refer?
I
whom was the
American Business School opened, and in which High School was a
and
installed.
course
commercial
when?
anywhere, to which
Wiien, where and by
first
Cordially yours,
DAVID H. O'KEEFE.
will supply the best answers
above questions, to be printed
[Who
to the
in
the B.
E.? Editor.]
MARSHALL
doned.
C.
Atlantic City
The Department
of
the
of
Superintendence
;2.5
March
3.
It
was
my
privilege to be an
onlooker, and Bro.
Zaner asks me to give
Educator readers my
impressions of the
performance.
It
can hardly be
more than a thumb nail sketch, but
here goes.
express.
When
we finally pulled up at Atlantic City there was a general scramble for hotels by those of us who_ had
reservations.
secure
neglected
to
Picking at a venture one from a long
line of electric busses, of course I
drew a lemon a many verandaed fire
trap a mile or so away, where they
soaked me three dollars for a onewindowed inside room, a size or so
larger than a clothes closet.
word as to these Atlantic City
hotels. There are over a thousand of
them,
City,
you know."
,^ MJ^u^/n^d^^/iu^i^^
18
landward
my
cheap place
to display and
disport itself.
The only serene and
natural thing are the Ijlue sea and the
itself is inter-
esting as a human exhibit. Transportation for those too lazy or too fat to
walk, is by means of hundreds of luxurious wheeled chairs, of large size,
propelled mostly by negroes, which
may be hired at seventy-five cents per
hour.
In these, loaf in complacent
aristocratic comfort, a tribe of fat,
stock-broker looking men, in silk hats
or sport caps, and be-diamonded
shirt-fronts, and double or trebble-
frivolity.
and
Anyway,
the
side-whiskered
plentifuly
'with
the
bespectacled
ones
mingled
Board
Walk
cators.
The
in
do nmch either as
or financing.
Thrift and
Aid came
tion, and
to official direction
War
in for a big
Unfairness to
Convention
Exhibitors
bitter
more
Of course,
fifty
cent or
jjcr
more
of their
good
money.
This
historj-
is
of
not
the
the
N.
first
E.
time
A. when
guilty
in
the
the
of bad
riding
It
is
rather petty business, and quite unlorthy of r.n organization that ought
to stand first for morals and justice.
If the N. E. A. takes the exhiliitors'
money
it ought to give them a square
"
i;eal.
The
Official
Muddler
The committee
these
when
students
would
be
employed
offi-
"considering."
The Commission had sent out an
appeal to secretaries of Chamljers of
Commerce throughout the country,
asking them to urge local btfsine>men to "contribute" from their office
force, certain clerks or steno.graphers,
who were to be turned over to the
Government.
They admitted that
still
Thus they
i
I
'
fiddle wliile
Rome
is
burn-
.-;
There is no doulit that the Government 'S in immediate and urgent need
of
many thousands of competent
clerks and stenographers, but there
seems to be no competent machinery
.^^^u<i/n^d^(^iu^i^
permanent
cial
and careers.
government and
institutions
Leaders
have
in
busi-
The
country
are
mand,
and
public
.'choois
demand
is
of
unithe
signs
that
this
most conservative
factor in our natiunal life may, in
time, prepare the young men and
womeji of this nation to pursue successfully their careers in the com'plex economic and social life of today.
social n ed.- of
a nation are not stable; they are
changing from year .to year, however seemingly immutable the soc'al
ideals and economic policy of the
nation may be.
Through industrial
specialization,
economic
exDansion
and social changes, business has be-
enactment by Congress; ihe establishment of commissions to investigate industrial, social and economic
conditions, to conserve the dignity
and status of labor and to facilitate
the exchange of proaucts through the
natural carrying out
of
economic
laws; the release of capital for foreign investment through the establishment of farm Loan banks in a
commanding
position
among
the
The Department
of
Commerce
is
practical
tistics.
application
However
tnat
of
these
may
be,
sta-
the
This department
organized through its Bureau
of Domestic and Foreign Commerce
to co-operate effectively with business at home and abroad, not only
.come incredibly more complex w'thin' t'"roi'gh the consular service of the
recent years and it has been comDepartment of State, but through its
pelled' in some cases to prepare withown commercial attaches and agents
in itself its own service.
Many of in local branches and with the forour large industrial, manufacturing eign-trade experts of chambers of
and banking companies have estab- commerce and business organizations.
lished schools in order to secure a
The trade adviser of other .executive
trained body of experts equipped to
departments that have to do with
carr}' on the special work into which
production, distribution and consumpreorganized large-scale business of tion is exercising more and more an
today finds itself and to compete
War, .had become negligible by 1910,
oFlice of increasing value and imporsuccessfvilly with trade rivak of comtance.
The Federal Trade Commis- really less than one per cent of the
mercial nations that have had par- sion, whose first statement to the pubsecondary school and college attendtial
success,
least,
in
at
relal-ng
ance.
By the spring of 1915, stalic less than three years ago was to
school instruction to part'c'-dar catistics show an increase to two per
the effect that its "first work .would
reers.
The establishment nf t'l-se be to find out what to do, has, like cent and statistics to be published
special schools in our country at this
shortly by the Bureau of Education
Kipling's Ship, found itself and has
time indicates an effort similar to t^at not only offered a unique text on
will- doubtless register a remarkable
which led nearly a century ago to .Amer'can export trade, but is co- growth in the study of this language.
the establishment of the private busioperatin.g through a lar,ge stafif in_ \or have our schools responded by
ness school that has had a career of trade activities of permanent value.
Ihe introduction of adequate foreign
long and successful service thr-.iigh Manufacturers' associations of nation
relations courses, articulated and codistinctive American business charand state have passed beyond the ordinated study courses on the reacteristics,, namely, adaptability, foremere work, of propaganda and are rources and industrial life of the comsight and initiative.
Whether these giving positive help in the increase mercial nations of the world, precorporation schools are to live on and of industry and trade.
Perhaps the sented not as political units, but in
become a part of ou. educational sys- most si,gnificant of all has been the relation to one another and as
tem like the private school remains .growth of the National Forei.gn actors in the great drama of world
to be seen.
The answer may rest Trade Council and the United States commerce where, as Shakespeare
with the established s^diools. public
Chamber of Commerce. The former, says, "All the world's a stage, and
and private.
all
the men and women, players."
with headquarters in New York, was
Our country is now calling for established as late as May, 1914, to Since 1909 I have made a careful
trained business experts.
The de- foster foreign trade. The help given study j^ear by year of the catalo.gues
mand is far in excess of the supply to the small manufacturers in par- of our leading colleges and have
failed to note until 191(5 any encourof this trained service, particularly
ticular through the ntscussion in the
for foreign trade.
Variou,? bureaus
group sessions held in connection agin.g response to the general demand on the part of business that
of the federal .government have stated
with the anni'al convention of the
foreign relations courses be taught.
repeatedly through the press in recouncil lias stimulated to a high deTrue, here and there, due largely to
cent months that there is not onlv
,gree the trade activity of these manuthe travel experience of the instructor
great need for trained men in such
facturers and has doubtless been the
executive branches as state, treasury,
means of crystallizin.g sentiment in one might have, found a "sport"
commerce, etc., but that private en- favor of legislative measures framed course, using a biological term, on
terprise in fields related to their work
to facilitate this trade.
The United Latin America, the Near East or the
Orient, but usually tau.ght nut of reis handicapped by the lack of expert
States Chamber of Commerce, with
service.
This demand will increase. headquarters in W;5iiington, is now lation to the other subjects and with
no
career intent.
Industry, quickened by natural and
most efficiently organized for the
unnatural causes in recent years; ex- purpose of direct mediation between
Training for foreign service must
change and transportation bec-omin.g .government and business. Not only be based, in my opinion, on adequate
less
difficult
with each legislative
is
it
concerned with the theory of commercial education which not only
of recent creation.
is
now
^
furnishes
the
and domestic
technique of foreign
but creates the
trade,
viewpoint essential
successful
pursuit and makes possible the necessary organization and administration of the home factory and office.
If this be true, we have yet much to
do before we can engage successfully as a nation in foreign trade.
The history of education in the
United States reveals certainly an
lapparent apathy of organized education for commercial training.
How
many attempts, praiseworthy but imrelated at its establishment, frequently
doomed to failure through lack of
to
its
can
countries,
have
fortunately
had
among their educational leaders practical men of vision, and these have
proceeded de novo
others
after
in
some
practical
f^^f^fi^i/neU/i^deu^f/^
preponderant or educational authorities cling with mellowing memory to
the older academic traditions of culture?
For these smaller centers,
largely in the majority, two paths
are open in order that the boys and
girls of these communities may be
prepared to enter industry and trade,
equipped to do the thing for which
they are engaged, although untoward
circumstances may compel thein to
leave school at an early age.
Either
local
once
business
training
courses
in
school
and college, which, with no restriction save that which vocational guidance may impose, will train for the
varied and classified work that business has now to perform, or some
co-operative
way must be found
which will permit a larger usefulness
in
the educational system of city,
state and natiim of tlie e-Xtranuiral
cases, in
of re-
one might
ship, has lagged behind whenever situated in the smaller towijs. The pri-
Western and
show
proportion
of
Statistics
smaller
.Atlantic states.
surprisingly
pupils taking
ters;
fied
the
we do
We
We
strive
We
with
efficiency
of
for
is
so
far
as
concerned.
must continue
the
traditional
demand
betteaching of business.
interesting and encouraging to
note in this connection the increasing
value put by teachers upon the use of
trade journals and trade reports in
their classes, to see the adoption as
text of a book written solely for the
trade by a business man, and to find
so large a sale of the practical series
of texts published by business training corporations. Some of the older
texts should be discarded; others can
need, however, in one
be revised.
or more of the fundamental as well
a.; in many of the highly specialized
subjects of instruction, quite new
texts prepared solely in view of rediversified
organized
business,
its
character and larger and richer opportunities for service. There is urgent need for a new series of graded
geographical readers, desi.gned particularly for the large number of city
boys and girls who have to leave
school at an early age. This boy or
to
DR.
do something
in this
state university, which
expect to assume leader-
school
bookkeeping
tfie
to
corporation
school of today, we face a series of
concrete examples in the way of effort by business to secure a training essential to its success, which
the schools have outwardly failed to
recognize.
The municipal college of
public or private support has natuto
not participate
required today
tion
modern
opportunities.
The
can
pertinent
rally tried
direction.
the
later
plan
duced
ticularly
itself.
The
largest
possible
deof
instruction applied to modern conditions will fail without educational direction and vocational guidance. Cooperation of education and business
is essential and has now become imperative.
A very great responsibility rests
these days upon those engaged in
teaching. With them lies largely the
preparation of our young men and
young women for the demands of
modern
life,
economic or
It
is
situation
recalls
when one
is
We
girl
suggestion which
final
beg
to
make concerns
5,000 lecturers.
ing Institute
numerous
local
chapters engaged in the study of
banking and related subjects.
One
The
relate to business.
these schools and of others
evaluated, standardized and
which
work of
must be
MJ^u4/nel^^/iu^i/h-
States
chambers of commerce have committees on education qualified to interpret sympathetically a national policy
in
The
academic
Through
local
chambers
of
com-
merce or any
institutional type of organized business, the necessary rapprochement can be found in this
country as it has been found in
France and elsewhere. A general
policy can be determined upon or the
problem can be solved according to
local business needs a.ia school op-
portunities.
activities
of
city,
state
and
nation.
work for the purpose of certificaThe day may come then when
tion.
the
come
more common
practice.
The
MEANDERINGS
(Concluded from page
18)
ment
but
nothing
mudding
Commission.
Mr. O. A. Hoffman, of Milwaukee, has
opened the Milwaukee Business College, securing the services of Mr. F.
L. Middleton as principal and manager.
Mr. Hotifman has been ill for a
couple of years and is now resuming
school work. He reports a fine
e'quipment of furniture, etc.
new
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STEPS TO VICTORY
A
Do Without
Economy
New York
COPYRIGHT. 191B
"I
to
to
show my devotion:
express my
tangible form,"
patriotism
is
in
a statement
want
some
we all
have made.
In seeking out hard tasks to performs, some of our citizens have, indeed,- found an expression of their
patriotism in duties that are proving
of inestimable service to the
activities
is
nation.
our warevidence of
in
that.
All of us have not found the opportunity to undertake hard tasks, however,
from
toward them
distance we have felt con-
and
a
in
looking
that rest upon us, duties of regulating in our individual lives the
ies
of
if
would serve
as well as
any
Love of
who have already gone.
country would on the battlefield find
in
them
its
highest expression.
But
because they remain at home, and because they do not wear the badge of
home to them.
It is not a very heroic part to play,
determining for oneself the things to
ly
in
as well,
knowledge
hardship
in
men might
order
be fed
and armed.
Modern warfare
requires
an
infi-
Their part
reckoning.
oning.
wortli
ways
in
which
By
it
is
Rigid
most decidedly
There are three
is
to be applied:
Economy
Thousands
of economic facts
who fails directly to associate
the elements of business and financial
life with the vital elements of the war.
The strength and prowess of individcombatants counts, but there
ual
never was a time when war's success
and
Things to do
and the
Things to do without
the front,
By
Careful Saving
tail.
bread.
Liquor,
tea,
The
bill
was
$3,915,000,000.
coffee,
chewing
There
gum made up
this
total.
omy
in
We
Our paramount duty is to den^- ourselves that others may live and that
we may gain victory. In the United
States 35 pounds of cotton per capita
are now required to make the cotton goods we wear in a year. In 1870
we used 11 pounds per capita. Our
per capita consumption of sugar lately
was 89 pounds a year. A generation
ago it was one-half that amount.
Economy that carries us back to the
habits of our grandfathers will not
hurt.
We
omy,
meaning
unemployment
and
f^^f^uJ^'/i^d^(A<(i^iu^i/^
Furthermore,
economic
instability.
we
an automobile.
mind or body,
The kind
of thrift that
makes
for
serious depression in business activity
and for personal inefficiency is wrong.
affairs,
strength as well.
So, then, we can
economy on
people.
1
'
no negative
afiford
What we
Saving
In the period of the war there are
two things
The other
bought by
One
to save.
is
money.
is
material.
Material
not
Saving
in
is left
war time
is
simply a
di-
We
the
community and
We
himself.
for spending.
need to
money when
means saving
can
save
afford
to
commodities.
Let us keep
to
argue
that
We
necessities.
handling of
the
ier
ernment
for others.
war.
Work
The duty that rests upon each producer of the Uniter States is to exert
his greatest possible effort in turning
out those things necessary for the
war. What is required urgently is the
product of our farms, mines and
shops.
We are not all farmers and
miners. Nor are all of us mechanics.
But we all have our part to play in
conducting business energetically and
in doing our utmost to bring about a
speeding of the wheels of industry.
The duty of the farmer, the miner
just as
and the mechanic is clear
clear as the duty of the soldier and
sailor daring all things in the trenches
and the minefields. That duty is to
labor with more zeal than ever beFood, fuel and machines are the
fore.
present-day staples of war, and America's ultimate success or failure lies
in the plough, the pick and the lathe.
This fact does not for an instant,
however, modify the duty of the railroad worker or steamship man, the
merchant, the banker or the clerk. It
Every human effort is
enlarges it.
bring
henceforward
to
necessarjr
about a right distribution of the commodities used in warfare, and to promote the facilities for producing more
of those commodities. The sum total
of America's finished products are re--
from month
month, by
producers to" the shipping men.
merchants and all the others, and
nation can afford no apathy on
leased,
the
the
the
the
dealing with the
to
An
^
finance will serve directly to weaken
the nation in the task it has undertaken.
we
augment our
the demands
efforts,
of
We
United States
is
calculated at
which reAmerican
citizen.
The Goal
The muscle and money
that turn
the wheels of industry, that support
the soldiers, and that will bring victory in the end. must come from the
great mass of the people. The United
States is rich in resources. It is rich
in man-power.
It is richest of all in
^^Jr3^u4/n^d^(St/iu^i^
GOALS IN
BOOKKEEPING
By IRVING
B.
COBLEIGH
Burhngton, Vermont
because
we
in
is
it
Is
Do
course?
with the
pupils
teach
the
idea
that
they will
Do
When
was
owned
inclined
to
to
a business college
this
that
the
in
school
and
stenography
been done more
I
represent
typewriting
efficiently
the
has
and has
attracted
taught the bookkeeping, and the present instructors received most of their
training under me, so I can quite
easily place the blame for the presFor some time I had
ent condition.
been cogitating on this condition, but
the effort to place my ideas on paper
my
brought
has
meditations
to
focus.
\
or
ers
gaged
will
raphy, and typewriting are largely dependent on the dictation. The work
of the pupil is limited to accuracy of
transcript and neatness of the page.
largfr,
it
indicates
profit.
ize
the
if
we
technical skill
ball,
the ledger.
was
it
modest amount,
taught
.high
in
school or busine.-^s
Technically,
for
in
which we
larger
we
in
goals
strive.
in
them.
the school
a social center.
is
rec-
believe
is as it should be.
What are we
doing to foster that spirit?
Why
not have a night school in which the
that
arate book, but it is the basic principle of all books of original entry.
After posting we get the trial balance.
college.
The differeme between the
details of conducting a life insurance
business and that of the Central Vermont Railroad is so great that their
bo:iks would not seem at all alike to
beginner;
the
granite
business
a
would form a third variation, a
creamery the fourth,, and so on.
wonder
estab-
Vermont have
not commenced with the wrong idea
of what teaching bookkeeping means?
We at once commence double entry,
thus implying some fair de.gree of
I
means
really
method
Journalizing
lishing
adults could
come
in
to learn single
IRVING
V.
COBLEIGH
bills
and
receipts,
how
to
make
sales,
especosts
farm
f^Jf^u^n^M/^a^uoi/h^
Do
The world
t._.
Or
How
How
How
How
who
We
of
opportunity.
great
ture.
be kept better.
It
means
demand
books.
mercial
teachers
qualified
increased
as
oi
auditor.
the
Vermont
has
necessity
for
better
my
rg
We
it,
more,
'twill
make
man
son."
him
We
listened.
Smiling as he heard;
For, "I will make an angel of
Was the sculptor's word.
LAW
(Continued from page 28)
it,"
by
statute, or
specifically agreed to.
to repairs, if any are needed, the
tenant making them can compel the
others to contribute a proportionate
share of the expense; but, if one
makes improvements on the land, he
cannot compel such contribution. The
only advantage he might acquire
would be that upon partition, he
would probably receive the improved
portion as his share, if such disposition of it would not be unjust to the
others.
Estates in common are dissolved either by agreement among
the tenants, by parcel or deed, setting out respective portions by metes
and bounds, or by a suit in equity.
As
Beneath the
The
chisel's
edge
.\nd plume
freed
by
plume
was slowly
And where
the shapeless
block
can
teachers,
you see
the future?
Can you
carve to the imaginary lines?
Can
you inspire those who are placed in
your care to look above the trials of
the present, to lives of influence and
helpfulness?
Fellow
"power"
whom
in
STEPS TO VICTORY
(Concluded from page 23)
the spirit of its people.
The people
of the United States are awakening to
Shown
their own great capabilities.
the need for supporting the war even
beyond what they have already done,
there can be no question of the response of the whole population.
Today the eyes of all mankind are
directed upon us, "the eyes of the
earth," as one of our statesmen has
it, "with hope and expectancy, the eyes of the military autocracy of Germany with outward contempt but inward fear."
Therefore, while carrying on the
nation's war business at the highest
possible speed, can there be any rea-
expressed
and support of
liad
been
interest.
just
for
is
of you,
threshold
worth of distance
is
that's in
And what
unforgiving
each
fill
sixty seconds'
run,
the
no apparent
you can
minute
"If
With
nolde
'
require it.
In cases where an actual
division of the estate is impracticable, it is sold under the direction
of the reference, and the proceeds divided among those entitled thereto.
The remedy in equity is preferable, as
being most complete. There are two
species of estates in common which
need separate mention. The first of
these is an estate by the entirety.
This is an estate given to a husband
and wife in common, the husband
having usually the right to receive
the rents and profits, but neither having the right to dispose of it sepThe second is an estate in
arately.
This results where real
partnership.
property is purchased out of partnership funds for partnership purposes
and held by the partners in common.
The partners are tenants in common
of the property at law, but in equity
the property will be held as personal
estate held i" trust for the purpose
i-.t
the prr'nErship.
(To be
c-ntim-eil.")
f^Jr^u^'n^d^^^/iu^i/^
ANNUAL
CONVENTION
CATORS'
Held
15th
in Bridgeport,
Conn.
etc.,
dridge.
On
Saturda}',
members
Februarj-
16,
the
Annual Convention
in the
its
15th
Sun Parlor
This is the
third time that Bridgeport has been
the Stratfield Hotel.
of
It was
the host of the association.
the largest, best and most enthusiastic
meeting
in its history.
The association is doing an excellent work in the state, bringing to.gether the teachers in both business
colleges and commercial departments
of high schools, thereby Inaking a permanent place in the minds of all educators for work along business lines.
all
Held
at
16,
191'8
Words
Net
Macliine
N.ime
Und.
Und.
Sx the close
of
per
Gross
Errors
Penalty
Words
Florence K. Fischer
Gertrude D. Wilke
Emma Seibold
1516
1627
23
115
1401
93
57
285
1342
89
1398
32
160
1238
83
Conrad A. Langner
1214
41
205
1009
67
61
Minute
Rem.
Wood.
Rem.
Rem.
Emilie Stieber
1005
19
95
910
Andrew
1579
136
680
899
60
Und.
Alta Ziegler
935
40
20O
735
49
Helen Thompson
946
54
275
671
45
Und
L.
Tackus
Name
School
Alta Ziegler
& Bankers
& Bankers
Stone Business Collegi
Stone Business -Collegi
High School
Gutchess College
High School
Helen Thompson
Booth
Florence K. Fischer
Gertrude D. Wilke
Emma Seibold
Conrad A. Langner
Emilie Stieber
Andrew
L.
Tackus
Merchants
Merchants
&
Hartford. Conn.
Hartford. Conn.
New
New
Haven, Conn.
Haven, Conn.
Danbury, Conn.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Danbury, Conn.
Bridgeport, Conn.
Bavliss
Words
present.
room across
Name
Machine
Rem.
Emma
Und.
.\melia Wilke
Rem.
Anna Dorsch
Anna Jessen
Und.
Seibold
Rem.
Frances L. Carr
Und.
Royal
Rem.
Und.
Und.
Und.
Martha Leonard
Gertrude M. Hickey
key
Lucile O. Lord
Rem.
Rem.
Und.
Und.
Mary
Slotnick
Elizabeth H. Blake
ke
per
Minute
Gross
1398
32
1238
1355
35
1180
79
83
1189
35
1014
68
1160
1177
31
155
1,005
67
49
235
942
63
993
16
80
913
61
1139
48
240
899
60
992
23
115
877
5S
991
34
170
821
55
945
30
150
795
53
Elsie Didsbury
1072
58
290
782
52
Plazel Sperring
891
47
235
656
44
Mary Taylor
Marie Emery
945
69
345
600
40
915
81
405
510
34
Leila Wells
873
fJ4
470
403
27
Name
Emma
Net
Vords
Errors
Seibold
Amelia Wilke
Anna Dorsch
Anna Jessen
Frances L. Carr
Martha Leonard
Gertrude M. Hickey
Lucile O. Lord
Mary Slotnick
Elizabeth H. Blake
Elsie Didsbury
Hazel Sperring
Mary Taylor
Marie Emery
Leila Wells
City
School
New
Haven, Conn.
Hartford, Conn.
;e
re
M^3^u4in^d^^/iu^i^f^
SHORTHAND CONTEST
120
Words
Errors
Marion Nuttall
100
Words
19
J.
H.
ROBINSON
Edinburg, Pa.
REAL ESTATE
System
Sten.
a Minute
5
Waterhury Business College
Marion Nuttall
(Excluded from this class because of winning in 120 Class)
11
Waterbury Business College
Frances Carr
16
Danbury Business Institute
George Krebs
?e
21
Merchants' & Bankers' Bus. College
Amelia Wilke
26
Stone Business College
Mary Smart
80 Words a Minute
2
Jewett Shorthand School
Lucille Lord
4
Waterbury Business College
Frances Carr
5
Booth & Bayliss
Rachel Pickett
Bristol High School
6
Olive Porter
Waterbury Business College
T
Marion Nuttall
Merchants' & Bankers' Bus. Colle je
10
Amelia Wilke
11
Booth & Bayliss
Anna Thibault
11
Bristol High School
Ruth Hanna
Danbury Business Institute
11
Mary Smart
13
Stone Business College
George Krebs
13
Bristol High School
Dorothy Cosic
14
Waterbury Business College
John Sweeney
14
Waterbury Business College
Lewis Di Zinno
16
Stone Business College.
Harold Moore
26
Danbury Business Institute
James Torraca
33
Josephine Teitter Stratford High School
COMMERCIAL LAW
a Minute
industriales.
Sten.
Gregg
Sten.
Gregg
Munson
Pitman
Gregg
Graham
Gregg
Sten.
Gregg
Graham
Gregg
Munson
of
Sten.
Munson
Sten.
the
omission to do something
which he ought to do. An instance
of the former kind ot waste is the
of
life
wood
to
self
take
it
will
of
constitute waste.
ance.
creation
is
emption
sists in his
the taxes.
strictly
Gregg
to
in
He must pay
Homestead Estate
when
estates
life.
Gregg
Gregg
Gregg
Estates as to
Number
of
Owners.
As
An
Estate in Severalty
a single
owner
in his
own
held by a
right, with-
is
in interest.
to be held
alienation.
to
is
28
^
POINTERS TO AND FROM
r^J^ud/n^d^i^e/iua/h^
in
common with the other
owners. A deviser of his share by one
The
inoperative.
tenant
is
usual way of destroying a joint tenancy is by partition. This is accomplished either by an action at law
TEACHERS
We
tenant
ward.
joint
mon
It
law
when
the
heirs
were
all
males,
took
being
females;
or,
equally by a custom called govelkind,
and the bulk of the property did not
pass to the eldest son by an estate
The cotoil, in the usual manner.
They
parceners.
are
called
heirs
have all the unities except that of
of
suris
right
but
there
no
time,
vivorship. Under circumstances which
would create such an estate at common law in England, the parties here
would be tenants in common.
An
Estate in
Common
is
one held
but with
ideal,
warded
ters.
An
envelope, and 94,000' were forto the Division of Dead LetNo record is kept of those
which are absolutely illegible because
of the writing, but it is estimated that
about 3,000 of the number forwarded
to the Division of Dead Letters were
Philadelphia,
Pennsylillegible."
the
or higher standard,
ed or illegible writer.
are told that there are many
soldiers in the service of Uncle Sam
today who are not able to write a
letter to their friends at home.
do not mean to lessen the value of
Certainly we cannot
their service.
honor
question their patriotism.
them as we do all other brave and
true Americans who have answered
But how
the call of their country.
We
We
We
Xew York Post Office. Of this number the addresses on 460,000 were corrected by the employees of this office,
37:i.6T0 were returned to the senders
because of their 'card' appearing on
good
the manuscript.
C. P.
EBERHART,
M^^^uUii^U^^/iu^i/^
vSplendid Research
on Vital Question
At Los Angeles, Cal., by Students of
the Los Angeles Normal School.
Some
his
Penmanship
many
of the writers.
to the child.
ment
is
The
child's first
movement may
Mary
writing
are:
child's
At seven, the
sensory and
is
motor but not central. Our increasing knowledge of a child's mind, his
muscular and nervous systems, and
special senses, bring to use the
conclusion that this subject does not
and second
first
belong to the
grades, and that our present program which rests upon an accidental
rather than a psychological basis
should be recognized and changed to
meet the child's needs and capabilihis
in the
early attempt to teach writing when
the child was both physically and
mentally unfit for it.
lietween
come
is
may
be taught to read
much
script
this
period,
ties.
bow
more muscles.
cannot have
of
the
mind
The one
in his
story.
the thought
act
will
in-
It
The
does not
sit
still:
one must,
to
'.viite
Gesell aptly says: "That handis one of the latest and highThe rudiest achievements of man.
ments of handwriting are found in
the playful scribbling of the children.
Avelh
writing
The pedagogy
rijcognize the
of
penmanship must
genetic background of
necessary to make
connection with his own stock of
Trying to
concrete mental imsges.
make children write legibly has a sod
record behind it. Tney are not nily
very often injured in their health, but
they learn to hate writing for life."
Comment by teachers of
Note:
penmanship and teachers in the education departments is invited.
penmanship.
It is
M.
E.
.AUSTIN.
J.
of work.
*^^3Bfa/n^U^^Uiug^
WALTER
S.
We present the following with more than usual pleasure, well aware
that the editor of the B. E is as guilty as anyone. [Editor.]
Aspirant for honors should thoroughly familiarize
himself with the following words and train himself in
their glib use.
Meaning is of little importance as few
persons will be able to check you upon this, but no particular harm will result from learning their meanings in
a general way, if no time be lost in an endeavor to be
too precise.
'
Publishers, Chicago,
Content
nevertheless
This word means outline. Be careful, however, never to say "outline," as "syllabus" is much
more dis tong gay.
Semester.
No twentieth century educator ever says
"term." Think how it would sound.
Educator. Of course, if you want to lie just a teacher,
it's
your own business.
But ambition should be
made
of sterner
stuflf.
When
Imprest account.
Art forms.
This
has as
many
another splendid phrase, and so beauCan be used in almost any connecuser is almost always safe because it
is
tifully elastic.
tion, and the
No true educator will ever hold a "discussion" or a "meeting." Where two or three educators
are gathered together, it is always a conference and
the^ never fail to "touch shoulders."
Divisional Conferences. The word conference, standing
alone, has proved so soul-satisfying, that many ramificalinons of it may be safely devised.
Standardization. This is really a good word, denoting
as it does the ultimate purposes of svirveys. ques-
Conference.
tionaires,
its
to broad.
s.
tinction.
that
ogy.
to college
psychology
Its
class
at college.
In the Reflex.
flex.
Commercial
Institute.
.\
Tutorial.
Not half bad. It adds a digijity to individual
instruction that it never had before.
Exhaustive.
.Said
tors."
interests.
Wider
of
all
"conferences"
among
"educa-
pertinent queries as to
some proposed plan. Just say that the plan serves
"the wider interests."
Broader is almost as .good
but has been "somewhat commonized."
Psycho.
Any
relied
on
in
Social Values.
terests."
Group Relationships.
evits as entrances.
tests.
public movement.
good word because
it may be used either as flattery or in derision.
If
in derision, accent it in speech, or put quotation
marks around it in writing.
Propaganda.
advise
Apperceptive material.
in
Opposite
Intensive.
Syllabus.
111.
known
advise the
when asking
Monograph.
written.
It is a
Clinic. .\ critical
monograph.
This definition
is
serious.
you want
Brochure. There is as much difference between a brochure and a pamphlet as there is between $200.00 and
$100.00, as
many
Promotion Literature.
expressions.
To you as an educator, such
words are as "the grand old flag" to the spellbinding
politician, or "meet your mother in the skies" to the
Salvation Army captain.
tund
Mental measurements.
difficult,
same
Broad.
on'
studv.
Self-conscious.
Cannot be defined, but may be used as
follows: "The movement has become self-conscious
in many terms."
Socialize. To motivate through appeal to the social experience
Generic.
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Rubber Co.
Akron, Ohio
B. F. Goodrich
By special arrangement
company we are privileged
with
the
above
to reprint a series
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ily
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Cor d
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of
in
is
We
divisions of a subject.
Specific directions about paragraphEvery letter of
ing cannot be given.
any length has certain aspects relating to the one general subject. These
'
die:Ued
in
The main
our
o ler.
subject of this
letter
is
in
received
but
order,
3.
ject discussed:
most
for
copy
i
fore
tell
was massed
24th.
new
thought. The
white space tells him to be careful,
for what is to follow is not mere repetation of what he has just read, but
something important that he should
know. Therefore, he skips nothing
because he wants to know what this
new group of sentences is all about.
tigued
enclosed.
is
to p repare for a
No.
BUSINESS LETTER
The
are
Extension.
conveys.
^^^^ud/'/t^d^^a^iu^^f/h^
the
32
making his letters sound too aggressive and curt. Short paragraphs often
antagonize when they should conciliate, and startle when they should inThe single sentence
vite calmness.
paragraph especially should be used
sparingly.
Every
made
to
to read.
effort
should be
letters inviting and easy
possible
have
From
the
many
ill-arranged,
into action.
IF
WERE A PRINCIPAL
man
liability.
were
a fchool
ate,
or
efficiency
in
this
*^^^u^/n^d4/^4i&u:a/ir'
were
If I
a principal
and
saw
a principal, I would do
could to stimulate the right
were
what
who cannot do
things
writing lesson.
If I
after
I
were
the
a principal,
would look
handwriting personally, or
the
less
penmanship.
I were a principal.
best to encourage
sliders in
If
my
would
quality
of
being executed
ing
in
school
work
cialist.
recognize after
spoken word is
and that writing
of
all
that the
importance
first
of second impo.rtance.
Nevertheless, there are times
when the written word far outweighs
the spoken word, and therefore handwriting should be promoted to supplement rather than supplant oral
work. On the other hand, oral work
should be promoted early in school
life when ears need training, rather
than the finer and more technical memovements of the hand,
chanical
which involve eye, nerve and muscle
is
EDITOR.
strain.
Mass.
now
the
Temple
Miss Ethel
University, Philadelphia.
I.
Bradbury,
of
Woodland.
Me.
Mr. Henry, O. Wood, of
New York
City, has taken charge of the commercial department of the Albuquerque, N. M., Business College, of which
with the
J. D. Henderson, last year
Rider-Moore & Stewart School, Trenton, N. J., is now the principal, in the
absence of the owner, J. E. Goodell,
who is with the army as an officer.
George Robinson
studies
in
is
superintendent of
Middleton School,
Mr. Robinson forschool at Torrington,
the
N. Y.
Brooklyn.
merly had a
Conn.
Ivan S. Ahlgren, last year with the
Neptune High School, Ocean Grove,
N.
J.,
<\->
oral rather
written work in the primary
would encourage concise,
I
grades.
unmistakable written work in the
grammar grades, aiming to secure
than
expression
Frank
^^i^r^u4/neU^^(/uaf^r'
'WISE
AND
OTHERWISE"
Stories from Recent Real Life
T. CRAGIN
Molyoke, Mass.
By CHARLES
A Man
by the
Name
because
if
to live in
wade
through a
hundred pages of
Smiths. There are five
pages of them right
Holyoke, but this man was a
to
in
am going
much
so
you
his story
this month, and tell it as a lesson to
those young men who want to get
rich quick, and who cannot realize
was not built in 24 hours;
that
to
tell
Rome
Scotchman, born
above Montreal.
Now,
the
which
was only
livcb,
Canada,
where
he
that
all
Idirectory to see
little
pany were the beaver, and these beaver furs were not used, as now, in
making muffs and toques and jackets,
furs were not so fashionable 70 years
ago.
The furs were used in making
hats.
If you have ever seen a play
meant
you happen
here
first
Just plain
'Smyth,"
of Smith.
him
German
done brave
of
the
Hudson
Bay
Company.
light
Lawrence.
"It
is
the
Other
Quebec stage Wednesday."
clerks sympathized over his promotion, for they knew he was likely to
remain at Tadousac for years. They
told him there was a mean officer in
charge, the provisions were bad, and
furs were scarce; the only advantage
lay in the plentiful supply of seals and
The youth
salmon from the Gulf.
had hard' work getting to his new
post.
dians.
of a
the fur buying business, and the business of trading with the Indians, who
taken by the
the
was
the
in
services
its
when
he got his
second promotion. Smith was a powerful young man, 3& years old, when
he finished his apprenticeship at Tadousac.
He was never much of a
hunter and couldn't ride a horse
worth a cent, but on snow shoes and
in canoe or over the forest trails, he
was tireless and developed great
shrewdness as a trader.
was known that he had some beautiful furs in his possession, two black
fox skins among them; and Smith
was sent out to get those furs. He
reached the hut of the half-breed
about nightfall after a tramp of 20
miles, and was received gruffly.
He
made himself at home, helped the
get
supper,
chopped
squaw to
up
some wood for the fire; all Indian
husbands are too strong to work, and
leave that kind of business for the
squaw. He told them stories of what
was going on outside, and the gossip
of other trappers along the river,
gave the squaw a brass bosom pin
and a red handkerchief and the halfbreed some tobacco, and fairly set
the children wild with some colored
pictures with paste on the back of
them, which were very popular at that
time.
To 4 make himself still more
popular, he had put some barley su-
gar
left
^
captured
woman
the
and
her
life
said Smith.
"I would have told !iim
to go to hell and take Eskimo Bay
with him." "I had a notion to i
so
the
house.
A Hard
sac.
On Stormy Laborador
The young man got
his promotion
The
singular manner.
winds blowing in from the
Gulf, and the blinding glare of snow,
with zero temperature were very had
for the eyes, and young Smith became half blind. His eyes were badly
inflamed, and he had written to headquarters for permission to go to Montreal for treatment, but had received
no reply to his many letters, and an
old Indian medicine man told him
he would soon be totally blind.
Alarmed by this opinion, he finally
set out without permission to Montreal.
He reached the city about 8
o'clock in the evening.
He was so
in
rather
fierce salt
blinded
way
of
to
Sir
that
the
he
could
not
find
his
company headquarters
Simpson.
You wil!
George
remember
"Young man,
said the doctor.
will be reported for leaving your
post without permission, and I vvill
give you just a half hour to start to
your new station at Eskimo Ray,
Labrador, where you will find a place
waiting for you," and he marched out
Eskimo Bay, by the
of the room.
way, was the most undesirable station of the Hudson Bay Company,
located far north on rocky ice-bound
Labrador, where, when the thermometer gets higher than 40 degrees below zero, the inhabitants put on the'r
"Palm Beach Suits" and where the
missionaries don't preach hell as a
hot place, for the inhabitants would
"What did you say
all want to go.
est,"
you
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chil-
Apprenticeship
"males,"
enough.
Eskimo Bay
It was to the Hudson Bay post at
Eskimo Bay that Donald Smith came
as chief clerk and soon afterwards as
factor, and there the man showed the
Tlie
metal of which he was made.
Indians of Labrador were even less
attractive than the Montagais of the
Saguenay. There were two tribes
Xascopies
Eskimo
never
and
in
the
in
took
fish in
stones and
ing fish oil.
igloos left
The
much
ventilation of these
to be desired, and
other filth diseases
killed off a great many of the people
The Nascopies were a
every year.
more attractive looking race of peo-
smallpox
They
and
and
w-ere
tall
men were
Their
igloo, and
get rid of
maiden for
the
trail.
(Concluded
in
May
B. E.)
Wyoming, High
the
Casper,
School, and during the last year principal of that school, has recently been
appointed as commercial teacher in
the New Mexico Normal University,
at Las Vegas.
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is now at the head of the commercial
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mercial College, Madison, Wis.
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of
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In this lesson we present the upper loop letters, whic h are beautiful, difficult and very important. While they
are given as three space loops in this lesson, they should be shortened or lengthened to fit the space. Sometimes
the loops can be made only two spaces high or twice t he size of i in order to crowd in all the words desired
written on a given space. Start the shade up high in or der to get firm looking letters.
Remember that the 1 is an extended i and that the tu rn in 1 should be round and full the same as in i and u.
Watch the blind loop on b, and study the curves on both si des of the loop. Raise the pen at the base line a,lways for
fine
work.
The second
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ment.
letters,
etc.
change
drills
It
be
provement
is
'may be necessary
to
yet the
kept before
terest
pupils until
noticed.
movement
drill
is
some im-
of benefit
It
is
now
beginning.
The form
of a letter is studied by
the letter singly; but after
form is learned, practice writing the
letter in words and sentences.
writing
J.
BECKER.
Supervisor of Writing.
Salt
Lake
January
City, Utah,
1918.
2fith.
and
the
same
d's
W. NICHOLAS.
and
ARTHUR
as rapidly
it
be produced.
t's
J.
1.
will
in
forms
Can
3.
to
2.
Should the hand be held
position as in business writing?
in-
drill
1.
as business writing?
M. Farlow
ing.
A.
penmanship from
is
his
pupils
in
the
his pupils
tificates.
cer-
38
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omakpthplobor
of
M.
name
Shepherd,
High School,
is
Oregon,
Joseph,
getting good results
him.
School, Sacramento,
Calif.,
is
securing very practical results in
handwriting.
All of the nine specimens submitted by Sister M. Stephen
measured up to the Certificate stand-
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We
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open.
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Paper cover,
When finally these forms are reached the student writes through them
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Soliciting, Etc.
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ciples
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"Your answers
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sound by the use of that particular system. Habits are hard to break, particularly bad habits,
and no teacher has a right to hand down a bad habit in the selection of a shorthand system
to one who has not yet acquired a knowledge of shorthand so long as there is a better system of shorthand writing available.
ROWE SHORTHAND
commended to those who are willing to admit that there is a difference in shorthand
systems and who feel it to be their conscientious duty to teach the very best system to be
found without regard to the particular system thev happened to learn.
is
two
than one hundred word
less
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convincing one teacher after another of its sujjeriority and that is putting
school after another as its superiority is being discovered and appreciated.
is
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the labor of the teacher in many schools to the extent that work is now a pleasure instead
of a drudgery.
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don't you
They know because they have tried it out.
in its use in their classes.
know for the same reason? If it is not a better system than you are using, you should not
Short-'
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sole
grounds
systems
if
should.
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it is, you
hand asks for the consideration of any teacher.
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refreshing and encouraging to analyze your "Brief
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should be followed. I hesitate to enlarge on what you have
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"General Structure First."
It is astonishing how easily
the student grasps the main abbreviating principles, such
as circles, halving, lengthening and the simple hooks.
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established, the mind is more mature and is then ready for
the exceptional applications or the nonuse of a principle. At
first everything seems of equal importance, but later on the
student understands the relative values.
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only by teaching phrasing from the first, so that it is as
unconsciously assimilated as the child acquires its native
tongue.
The only division into "theoretical" and "practical" was
utterly illogical, and I am pleased to see that you have
arranged your course so that there is "no transition from
thi= theory to the dictation work."
These and other of your ideas, combined with the graded
series of exercises, should lead to the most satisfactory results.
I am glad that you called my attention to this matter.
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CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
Pitman=Graphic Shorthand
I
have given Challenge Shorthand. Pitman-Graphic, a
thorough trial, and find it to be all you claim for it, viz:
*
* After having been
"the best shorthand on earth.
obliged to write shorthand in all the directions of the compass, it is a great comfort to use a system where practic='
Ex-Graham-Pitman
Now, fellow
writer).
will
leaning characters.
You cannot, for the soul of you, imagine why a
Pitman-Graphic writer could be induced to mix with
his or her writing the vexatious and scrawl-producing
left-slants of the Pitmans.
I have investigated and studied other systems,
to the conclusion that one who becomes
Challenge Shorthand will never have to worry,
reading or writing his notes. ./. G. Goodman,
Graplc soldier-secretary).
come
SAN FRANCISCO
and have
expert in
either in
(Pitmanis
good.
up to Pitman-Graphic Shorthand.
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By
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THE
great popularity of Rational Typewritdue more than anything else to the basic
method of approach in fingering. It follows
the established pedagogical axiom that all teaching should proceed from the simple to the complex.
The index fingers, which have been in use from
The
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ing
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RE\ ISED
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EOniON
Leading Features
Acquirement of a command cf the keyboard in the
The student completes the letter keyshortest possible time.
Each lesson includes three important features:
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drills; acceleration drills.
I.
board in four
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student's business education.
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the matter of business correspondence. "(:?(('. W. Stitt, District Superintendent of Schools, New
York
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'Style Book of Busines English' is the only text that I know of that contains completely
and in lesson form all the points on business correspondence needed by students of stenography,
bookkeeping and typewriting. "Leo P. Callayj, St. John's College, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"Your
"I have just completed a review and comparison of a number of books dealing with business
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Other features, especially your treatment of
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XXIII
The BUSINESS
P.
C.
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EDUCATOR
Editor
ing, Conventions,
etc.,
and proprietors.
Many
believe
We
Subscribers.
If we do not acknowledge reyour subscription, kindly consider first
the journal you receive as sufficient
evidence that we received your subscription all
If you do not receive your journal by
right.
the 10th of each month, please notify us.
ceipt of
copy of
read
among
also
ments
of
principals
of
commercial depart-
as well as
students, etc.
leges,
among
office
workers,
home
you are
sist
in securing subscriptions.
war
of the unprecedented
demand
for ev-
May
all
it
come
to
air;
fuel for
etc.
pass,
to bring
it
THE BEST
Mr.
C.
My
P.
March
to aS'
Certain
engaged
pupils
isfactory,"
how much
or
better
it
do
themselves
seem
not
how
if
concern
to
laboriously people
it is readable it is
much.
as
11,
1918.
HANDWRITING
MEASUREMENTS
If pronunciation and
enunciation are important in oral expression,
why not penmanship in
written expression? Ink lasts longer
than breath, and may charm nearly
about.
Pittsburgh, Pa.,
IX
How
without
ECKELS.
sent
subscriptions.
the
gressive
Change
after
that
NUMBER
1918
Measurements
are
all
right, as
we
enough" we protest.
"If it's worth doing,
ing well,"
and
is
practice.
old
but
The
worth dopedagogy
"good
it's
safe
merely
it
is
"unsatisfactory,
or
how much
purposes.
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Contributions in
Illinois,
GRISET
Township High School
LESSON FOUR
Prepare for this lesson by limbering up on the indirect oval drills, and the push-and-pull straight line exBy this time you should have all these drills fairly well mastered.
ercises presented in previous lessons.
Most beginners are impatient, and so skip from one letter to some other before they have really benefited
from the little practice they did on the first letter. After all, the fastest way to learn to write well is to stay on
one letter or group of letters until you can see some definite improvement. Be a sticker!
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be easy.
The \V
is
Make
the
with the
finish
attached,
and V, the
narrow.
tir
WTT Tir
2lr -7r
Vr
Plate 4. The Y is like the U. It is very slender. Two-fifths of the Y is below the base line three-fifths
above. The finishing stroke doesn't tooich the body of the Y, but crosses the long down stroke at the base line.
Finish the Y so that the small letter following may be conveniently attached to it.
In business writing the upper loop letters are usually made a? tall, or nearly as high, as the capitals. The
h, b, k. and f, are all based on the 1, or loop, stroke.
in the 1, b, and f.
Study the first line nf letters on Plate 5 for letter comparison. Look for an
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letter correctly
and
part of the b
you'll
have no
is
an
1.
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difficulty joining
finishing stroke
is
like the
Finish each
them.
down
do.
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the
rounded.
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8.
first
first
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Business Handwriting
M^
MILTON
H.
L. D. S. University, Salt
City,
live, interest-
ROSS
Lake
Utah
Club us hard-QUICK!
EXERCISES Nos. 48 to 53
Note the
Before practicing each sentence fill half a page with the capital letter for a movement exercise.
spacing between the words. If your writing is not scrawly or too large each sentence will not fill more than one
line.
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EXERCISE
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EXERCISE
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China
Dear Sirs:
Perhaps you
-v
will be interested to
the Zaner Method of Arm
Writing- has been adopted
in our school, and I take pleasure in
know that
Movement
enclosing
herewith
some specimens
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idly.
I
hope the time will come when
will parallel the Americans in promoting good handwriting
in schools where the English language
we Chinese
is
By a pupil of William Lee in William's Evening School, Shanghai, China. The engraving
does not show the freedom of the original specimen, as it was not written in ink suited to
reproduction by the photo etching process.
The accompanying
letter
speaks for
itself.
taught.
Good handwriting
tainly essential.
a good business
to a man as that
be able to write
is as necessary
he be neatly dressed.
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cer-
is
To
hand
Angeles
Polytechnic
at
the
High
Yours
faithfully,
WILLIAM LEE.
Please address me as follows: William Lee, The National Committee,
Y. M. C. A., 3 and 4 Quinsan Gardens,
Shanghai, China.
is the new commercial teacher of the Rochester, N.
H., High School.
Mr. B. C. Beetham follows James E.
Brown as head of the commercial department of Link's Business College,
Boise, Idaho.
as,
It is no more iniportant to live one day at a time than to teach one thing at
nd to be content with problems sufficient for the day's needs. Primary teachers are
D attempt too much
and to accomplish too much in form, which is always 'done at
er.se of health, nerve strain, correct motor habits, and other subjects.
J.
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Appli
the othf
:d
Writing.
The
first
of three talks
(outlines)
Principals
of
Columbus Schools by
the
Editor.
Do you want
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PENMANSHIP EDITION
Our Policy: Better Writing Through
Improved Teaching and Methods.
the Start,
SLOUCHINESS
Observations
Camps by
in
officers
conclude that
Training
nas lead them to
Officers'
many
the recruits
Slipare characterized as slouchy.
shodness is frequently noted on the
part of people in various lines of efThis comes from loose thinkfort.
It finds
ing and indififerent acting.
expression in defective enunciation
of speech, a characterless method of
walking, and a rather low grade effort of execution, no matter whether
the task be painting a house, operating a typewriter, repairing" an automobile, cooking, etc., etc.
of
^^J^ud/ned^^f/uoi^^
BUSINESS EDUCATION
War has again popularized
business education.
It was in 1865 that
thousands of soldiers turned to the
business college upon their return
home. It was in 1917 that Americans
turned to the business college for
quick results in business training.
commercial
As
a
consequence,
schools are flourishing.
Of course, the young women are
in evidence, and many who are not
so young, to fill the depleted ranks of
Teachers, clerks, and,
office workers.
would you believe it?, society belles
are seeking instruction in the intricacies of shorthand and typewriting, and the manipulation of numbers.
diff'erence
them.
But war
What
is
it
that
cational
price.
Service,
York
The
cators.
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition of
this
Number
of the Business
Educator
bringing to
virtues
and
the surface unnoticed
from the clouds undeveloped powers.
Efficiency has displaced academic culture, and service is giving snug selfishness such a tussle for its very
existence that it never had before.
So on with the hum of the typewriters, out with high-brow culture, and
down with kaiser kultur.
is
leveler,
Editorials.
A.
ers.
E.
High School,
E.
Gustafson.
Mae F. Marsden.
ton. D. C.
Washing-
O.
Practical H. S. Patriotism.
C. Shorer. Grover Cleveland
High School, St. Louis.
The Business Letter. The
Goodrich
Rul:iber
Commercial Law.
Company.
J.
H. Robin-
"Mighty
Good
Doctrine."
Penmanship
C.
Lister,
C.
Kansas
City,
Mo.
Bookkeeping
Timeliness in teaching is as vital as in seeding.
taught out of season and place.
Much
is
lost
beca
in
the
High
School.
G. G. Hoole. Dawson
County High School,
Glendive. Mont.
Notices.
EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
lating to
Therefore,
elementary
Business?"
we
"How
will
quently asked.
the war?"
is
are
it
fre-
be after
that
now
losing
money,
after
lines
money
be
will
the war,
that are
or barely making
greatly
improved
and
likewise,
many
now
Our guess
ment.
Our guess
is
getting
that
abnormal prices
subnormal
bases are
today
are
are
earning,
Our guess
is
that
"How's Business":
BUSINESS
that
it
is
not
in
the
S. Cutler, chief of
will be counterbalanced by
prices, before the normal
achieved, if ever.
Many
So
far as
EDUCATOR
is
abroad.
THE
con-
17
German
If
efficiency
comes
make
"HOW'S BUSINESS?"
"How's
M^^u^i^n^^<^/iu^i/^
-iT
of
and
us,
may
state
confi-
command
us.
myself
"I
supreme
have
faith
in
world powers
ever be
will
stamped
goods both
at
home and
abroad."
MENTAL
MEANDERINGS
CARL
C.
MARSHALL
BY
I
am
Civil
WAY OF WARNING
old
War.
to remember the
matter of fact, as
12-year-old in 1S64
on the Kansas border,
through over-inquisi-
enough
As
fight to
I
got near
to one real
have some of
"O
Pap
tiveness,
enough
I
bullets
my
head
Price's"
whistle over
but, as
Kip-
habits
will
wages.
exporters
utilize
present
more
were urged
economic
fully the
to
lab-
isn't
ual
applications
foreign
for
data
from
the
But
five
j-ears
later
there
'
^
board which consisted mostly of corn
bread, boiled potatoes and buttermilk.
And it was ten years before things
began to change for the better.
Again we are in a big war, and
though our population is four times
as great as it was in 1865, we are
money
spending
four times as
War
dollars.
We spent more than
first
three months of this
war and before we had a soldier in
field.
It
the
looks now as though we
are in for at least fifty billions, maybe
more. But again, "Times are flush,"
everybody has a good job at wages
from two to three times as high as
were ever paid before. But now, as in
the civil war, we have mortgaged the
lion
that the
future, and
will come.
the
LOOK
When
OUT! Then
shall
SAVE
NOW!
to
come."
A Day
Quite
dropped
at
Girard College.
the other day I
little visit with my
casually
for a
in
birth and
sailor,
a
sea
captain,
merchant,
banker, and philanthropist. Most people also have heard that one of the
.^^^u<i/n^U^ti^iu^i^ir*
provisions
of
the
endow-
founder's
ment was
But
about
school
an
little
and
to
know
wonderful
institution that, so
far as
"college"
the
ordinary
a
in
it is more properly classified as
boarding school for boys, although
Perhaps
it
is much more than that.
it
is more
like a
big family, with
enough daddies and mammies and big
brothers and sisters to go round with
not
sense;
them
built
ago.
The main
century or more
building is a classic
half
and 'laughing
away with
and
happy,
stowing
who
is
farmer
see
in
the
hotel.
they
but
fix
up whole jaws
full
of
making them
Then came tluhospital
ward after ward filled witli
snowy cots, many of them occupied
teeth that don't "jibe,"
by cases of
wood
to one
who
believes as
do, in the
educative
women
also,
who
costs
money and
is
a lot of
it.
something
The
like
ex$500
TEACHERS
High School,
Riverside
15,
refers
Sir:
me
to
to
alyzing the
above-named
facts
set
forth
communication,
in
the
do
tinizing.
don't,
is
before his class in the manner described, that is, according to his own
ideals
and personal fancies, you
would have as many plans and methods as there are colors in a raii'jow
just think of the lost motion where
pupils move from one part of the city
to another, he would find plans and
the
to
smoke."
191S.
Dear
G. E. Gustafson
Pittsburgh, Pa.,
March
^^^^udin^U'i^fi&u^a^r'
pupils,
don't
"going
know
up
in
exactly what
or
and Demostehenes.
E.xcuse me for quoting the following paragraph: "I know some of the
old school worshippers will criticise."
I would think flowers would be more
appropriate.
The aim
my Waterbury
of
friend,
methods
as
much
Stripes to the firing line, were to follow such a scheme, why, we would
soon be polishing boots for Euro-
In contrast,
"no accounts,"
however, their plans are worked out
great
carefully, beforehand, by our
pean,
Military Leaders.
Quoting from the article the author
"Some years
states the following:
ago it was decided that bookkeeping
should be taught according to the
the Start'
from
"Actual Business
method. This 'Actual Business from
the Start' way of teaching bookkeeping provides that each student be
equipped with all the business forms
known to the commercial world; a
set of books; a text book; a budget,
and any other papers, boxes and devices
which can be sold to the
schools" some bouquet to our most
worthy authors, who have done much
noble and hard work in order to raise
he puts
it,
is
to
get
away from
we
deal
Teacher
of
America
COLE.
1.
'be
given.
Conduct
b.
Earnestness,
c.
Management
let-
taken
a.
Position
b.
Movement
written
in
given
time
The
II.
that
a.
Form
(As an aid
in delerniininy; a just
true grade for a student)
and
By Mr. Gustafson
I.
The Writer
(Graded
by estimate):
esti-
b.
Arrangement
Uniformity
b.
Style
Size
c.
Spacing
a.
d.
Slant
e.
I,ine
f.
C.
Keep
4.
in
Low
Editor.]
General Appearance
Business like appearance
B. Rapid expression
(Graded by
Speed (quantity)
\.
Maximum
B.
Normal (Natural)
test):
2171 65th
M.
Department of Penmanship
Marsden, Director.
March 14,
F.
1913.
My
ship doctrine.
ers
sincerely,
C. C. LISTER,
Height
The Time
rational
intensive
.\.
III.
Under Speed
High
b. Normal
c.
nfore
up.
it
Yours
a.
3.
the
of
who
OUTLINE OR ANALYSIS OF
BUSINESS WRITING
by
would lay
New York City is now experimenting with the idea of dropping of all
written work, even number work, in
the first half of the first year I understand that the experiment is proving very satisfactory.
You are publishing "good stuff."
Legibility (quality)
A. Accuracy in
B.
j'ou
(Graded
Writing
mate)
:
2.
grades.
In order that the student may
know exactly what is expected of him,
specimens or model pages should be
exhibited.
These should be marked
A. B. C, D. or E, and used as standards, a different set for each semesIt may, however, be unwise to
ter.
exhibit these models.
No just or correct grades can be
found unless the four essential elements are considered from these three
viewpoints.
I
may look at writing
and say truthfully that it is perfect
in form and general appearance, that
eiifort
"Student attitude"
B. Physical Attitude
d.
it
for
to follow.
work
a.
ters,
same time
foundation
it
f^^^Uii/n^d^^f/iua/^
20-
is
words
my
like to
add
number
in particular,
The February
mite.
was
full of "food
have in our Norfor thought."
mal classes as well as in our teachers" round table, been trying to crack
some of the nuts you gave in your
series of questions.
The subject of handwriting certainly ofifers food for thought, to those
who bring to it an open mind and an
imderstanding of child nature. And
I
We
am more
some
of
its
many
difficulties will
and
My
you know,
heart, as
is,
and
suppose always
child, and
mary
will be
as she needs.
series of
second
d^
THE
*^^^Uii//ieiU''i(/iu:^i^h^
ANNUAL CONVEN-
dress as follows:
21st
TION
Of
in
ers'
On Wednesday
26th,
26-29, '17
evening,
December
there convened
was interrupted
just long
enough to hear a splendid patriotic
four-minute address by one of the
strongest of the Chicago four-minute
men.
27th,
Owen,
many
teach-
am
grew
in
Secretary's service.
Funds
The Federation does
not
possess
We
meeting
with
their
memberships.
Generally the member defers the matter until he decides whether or not
he will attend the meetin". It is recommended that a committee on
membership be appointed to work
and co-operate with the secretary in
receive.
Won't you,
est
to
Some reference to the new constitution under which we have endeavored to serve you is apropos. In the
main the new constitution is, in my
opinion, a good one.
Article 6 makes provision for Officers and an Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee consists of
the President, the immediate Past
President, and one member elected
by the Private Schools Department
and one member elected by the Public
Schools Department.
given
the
officers
Whatever success
fine
co-operation.
results
from
this
meeting
is
funds from this source will he availI also recommend that the annual dues be raised to $3.00'; at pres-
able.
is
$2.00.
source
Education Publications
Another avenue of support, and one
that cannot be computed in dollars
and cents, is the loyal support and
backing received from the Educational press, and from the traveling representatives of these publications,
Many inches,
the publishers.
in fact pages, of news items,' reports, programs, and the like, have
been contributed, and many kind
loyal words spoken in behalf of this
Federation.
To all these who have
and
and
Federa-
tion
(^
,^^3Bu<i/n^d^(^fi&u^a^^
High School,
Among
Dawson County
Glendive, Montana
Hoole,
G.
G.
commercial subjects
easily the pioneer.
is
business schools
private
The earliest
accorded it the place of honor and it
the
bookkeeping
Many
has never lost pre-eminence.
high schools taught it long before the
list
long
with
its
commercial course
of applied business subjects was even
elementhought of. In some states
tary bookkeeping was included in the
list of eighth grade subjects and a
state exam, was each spring solemnly
propounded.
The teaching of bookkeeping thus
marked the beginning of our commer\Vith all their developcial courses.
ment and modern
fullness of curricu-
bookkeeping
lum,
retained
has
its
is
will
tations on such subjects as the analysis of the balance sheet with its attendant formulas of Assets minus
Worth, and
Investment
Today a high
keystone position.
school commercial course is consid-
construction of a
Profit and Loss Statement; the purpose of closing the ledger and the
procedure involved; the relation between current assets and current lia-
bilities
ered
it
commer-
cial
group.
highly
Is this
justified?
surely
is
It
is
important position
opinion that it
my
of view.
tional,
disciplinary
educational,
clerical
work
in
formation
necessary
for success in
any
and important
endeavor?
line of
opment
side the
field for
the devel-
of
disciplinary value.
This is probably partly due to the fact
that the written record is so much
They do not appreciate
in evidence.
sion appreciate
its
significance;
charges;
capital
depreciation;
the
the
its
reserves, etc.
and
informational standpoint.
As a vocational subject it trains
directly for positions in accounting
and
minus
the
revenue
and
ample
Probably no subject
high school exceeds it from a voca-
Gain;
equals
the
in
Worth
Present
as
we
in
there
has
are
sitting
all
-
at
way
to a
is still
subject.
such irregular,
Furthermore
a really
searching exam-
taught
know very
pils
in
little
this
manner
bookkeeping.
really
The
ject
knowledge
*^J^u<i/n^d^^^^t/iu^i/^
The
vice
In this manner the instructor always has the class in hand, is the
leader at all times and has the best
possible chance to reach the slow and
knows.
I employ the account method as my
approach to the study of bookkeeping
and the cash account is the first one
that I consider. For obvious reasons
of
Profit and
business.
Asset and Liability state-
the
Loss and
ments are then prepared.
Books
of
we
backward
work
is
pupils.
definite
unit
of
all
should be.
of
This
far preferable
in succession.
and the
add that
in
my
opin-
BEGINNING
my
file of this great periodical intact, I, of course, could not afford to miss a single number."
O. C.
continue
DORNEY,
is
To sum up
will further
ion
On
Falls,
S.
formed
of
thrifty
type,
little
realized
that
"How
the mighty have fallen," according to their own former standards, and yet in reality they have
risen, even though late in doing it.
After all "necessity is the mother of
invention" in things educational as
well as in things ingenious and mechanical.
Ga.,
of
penmanship
as well as a prosIncidentally he rerecently added another farm to his possessions and that
he hoped to keep busy from seven
in
the morning until midnight or
He is one of the most indeafter.
workers we have ever
fatigable
known, and the quality of his activity
is on a par with the quantity of it.
fine
perous
school.
marked having
^^Jr^tO/n^d^^/tu^Oi^
room 1011, Drake School and "Sit
yet down" at 10 A. M. on the sixth
day' of April, Nineteen Hundred and
Eighteen.
Wat'chr say?
Yours scribbingly,
^
We
hope to be included in the future meetings. W'e are the richer for
the fellowship of the first meeting,
which was the result of Mr. Kane's
inspiration, initiation, enthusiasm and
.a;oodwill.
THE COMMITTEE.
E.
VV.
M.
J,
H.
J.
C.
Slater,
II.
Kane, Addressee.
New York, April
6,
Errors
Opening
C.
J.
in
conventional
Kane.
the Identification of
S. Osborn, 233
IDart
only
the city,
member-
DRAKE'S SCHOOL
154 Nassau
St.,
N. Y.
March
1,
1918
Dear Scribbler:
gathering of "Ye Old
Guard" of "The Ancient and Honoraible Scribblers," is coming.
There will be times of entertainment and pleasure.
Inkslingings, with old scribbles and
new, will be observed at Ames' corner, Palmer's and Dennis' too, and
"Ye old writing" of pot hooks,
straight lines and hooks without pots,
adorned and unadorned, will be
The
first
talked
and
COMMITTEEW.
J.
E. Dennis,
M.
Goldsmith, S. E. Bartow, H, B.
Scarborough, G. G. Price,
Slater, A, J.
C. Kane.
J.
Philadelphia;
A.
Scarborough,
J.
Brooklyn; A. R. Lewis, New York
City; W. E. Dennis, Brooklyn; C. G.
Price,
New York
City; C. C. Lister,
were to be eligThe purpose is to relate reminescences rather than to promote discussions of modern methods and
practices.
Fellowship, and what has
been done and who did it, seemed to
be the keynote. It was worth much
more than the price to New York
City to mingle with so many who
have achieved so much and who were
yet so young in years and spirit in
the work.
The oldest, 76, did not
look a day over 60, and most of those
suspected of being in the sixties were
of a century service
ible.
in
the
fifties.
DIS-
191S.
Handwriting Albert
Broadway, N. Y.
III.
Reminiscences
ZANER.
C. P.
Bartow,
E.
S.
Dennis.
Goldsmith,
lines.
You
will
find
no
MAE
F.
MARSDEX.
Raymond
been
with
High School
is
now
Newark, N.
J.,
with an
initial
salary
of .$2000.
E.
W.
Atkinson,
who
has
been
in
as
a very
salary of $1300.
R. C. Smith, of Canton, Ohio, is with
the Erie, Pa., Business College.
Mr. i. Kerk Smith, of Smith's Shorthand School and Commercial College, Norton, Virginia, is promoting
penmanship in connection with the
other commercial subjects, as indicated in a letter recently received, in
which he speaks favorable of the
in his
classes.
ter has been received from W. J. Elliott, Prin., Elliott Business College,
penmen.
^^^^u4/neU/<S(/iu^i^
ippartmrnt nf
25
3ntpriur
tl|p
Surrau nf lEbutatiou
January
20,
1918.
W.
p.
The courses of study are intended for classes of secondary school age
although they may, for the present, be pursued with profit in the first and
second years of school of college grade wherein no work of similar character is now offered. It is earnestly hoped that all schools of high school
grade will offer immediately the opportunity to pursue a two-year course
The Bureau of Education does not indicate in
similar to the following.
this general letter the amount of time to be given to each subject, nor the
method to be pursued in teaching it. The bureau will, however, gladly
co-operate in relating the course to the particular needs of any community.
STEINHAEUSER
P.
W.
Prof.
D.
C.
S.,
P.
Ph.
Steinhaeuser,
A.
M.,
principal
of
the
D.,
Roanoke
was educated in the public schools of Rochester, N. Y., following which his
])reparatory education was received in
commercial
College,
Wagner
time
his
liaeuser,
department of
Salem.
was president.
At
Second Semester
Typewriting.
Business English, penmanship and
spelling.
spelling.
cal-
culation.
Stenography.
forms.
and
correspondence
Commercial
business ethics.
Year
Second Semester
Semester
Geography*.
First
Commercial
Typewriting.
Business English, penmanship and
History of Commerce*.
Typewriting.
Business English, penmanship and
spelling.
spelling.
cal-
culation.
Stenography.
Bookkeeping.
Stenography.
Second Year
Second Semester.
Applied economics*.
Business administration and organ-
First Semester
Principles of economics*.
Commercial law.
ization.
Stenography.
correspondence
Commercial
and
Social
correspondence
and
social
forms.
business ethics.
Banking.
Civics.
Office
Should this course of study be offered durmg the first two years, as
Spanish, might be
part of a four-year course, a modern language, preferably
The starred subjects, however, should be
offered as an optional study.
*
J.,
happily
affable personality, is
married and claims as friends hundreds in the profession. We have always found him to be a congenial
friend who always has a good word
to everybody of everybody.
cut,
of Education.
First Semester
Typewriting.
Business English, penmanship and
CLAXTON,
Virginia,
P.
Commissioner
The Roanoke
ginia, offers
in
College,
Salem,
Vir-
commercial
studies
for
teachers
such,
under
VocaGeography,
Industrial
Guidance, etc. The N. E. A.
meeting will enable many teachers to
stone" by
"kill two birds with one
attending its meeting and then remaining for study.
ish,
tional
^^J^u^i/n^i^^/iu^i;^
SALESMANSHIP
cupper,
':H0S. E.
Editor
that "Salesmen
This may or
not be correct;
however, much has
been said and written
about the "Man on
the Road," and he is
often-times the topic
made."
may
this
and
discussion,
for
really
good and
all
is
well,
the
because
good Salesman
Booster
for
his
HOUSE
and home
city.
He seeks to give his employer the maximum of efficiency in
conscientious
service.
He knows
to mix and mingle with the
various classes with which he comes
in daily contact, and he puts discretionary powers into practice within
the limit of his authority.
It often happens, for diverse reasons, that a S.ALE is not easy to
make; therefore, the truly successful
salesman should be resourceful in
man}' respects.
Not infrequently he
works along the lines of LEAST RESISTANCE all the while steering
town or
HOW
toward the
objective,
the
DRIFT brings home to both sides the
true mission of the interview.
.Ml in all, the Salesman who has
the welfare of his firm at heart, is
constantly
on the alert studying
their best interests
and applying the
results thereof in a concrete manner
real
until
itself.
WATCHING
He is not especially
for sim-down and pay-day, but on the
other hand he is looking out here and
there and everywhere for
customers, with the anticipation of driving an entering wedge into new business, and not infrequently get results
that yield manifold profits.
No doubt, many have often heard
"Nothing Succeeds like Success," and
"Prosperity begets Prosperity."
Let
us paraphrase these by saying -OPTIMISM and PROSPERITY are
CONTAGIOUS, and if practiced to
fullest extent, may be made an essen-
NEW
CORE
GIST and
the
making
a nut-shell.
in
of real
Sales-
Association,
dent,
is
New England
and prosperity.
City, Mo.,
March
36,
1918.
Business
Educator:
Uncle Sam didn't ask for the
amount of business done by the Private Commercial Schools on the first
and second Liberty Loan Campaigns,
but he wants to know this time, and
it
is
up to the Private Schools to
show what they can do when they
are called upon.
Why not allow the Private Commercial Schools of this country to
have the credit for bonds bought and
sold by them, instead of allowing the
go
credit to
committee or
to a local
Remember, every
other organization?
bond
Private School
a big
DENT
make
Chairman
ivno
directs
this
work, asks that every Private Commercial School in the L'nited States
be reached. You are one of the 1350
schools.
What is >oar school going
to do?
This is your opportunity to
speak up for Uncle Sam. Here is the
plan:
The slogan
Sell
"Buy
is:
Bond and
Bond."
payments.
he
cannot afiford to make the investment
now, should sell two bonds (or more).
4th.
How
to
Do
feels
It.
practice
his
selling
talk
on
YOU
By jumping
only
patriotically,
M.
HUFF,
March
12,
19la.
peal to your
tion asked in
would
it
my
last
But
letter.
we
are
Here
as
is
list
which occurs to
me
write:
there
Is
Let's
the
in the skull of
N.
The
Manager
Kaiser!
credit.
tial
Kansas
inc. Acct.
Bingen, Ga.
Commercial Education?"
2.
Is there
any bibliography of
bookkeeping texts later than B. F.
Foster's of 1852, listing those then in
his collection or known to him, from
1543 to the date of his pamphlet?
is now collecting books in this
line? Where is the largest collection
of such texts in the English
lan-
Who
guage?
Who
3.
have complete files of the
"Business Educator" or of magazines in its field?
Where is there a
list of the magazines in this field, or
where has
it
been published
if
in
print?
What
*^^f^u<i/n^U/^i^!fuaii>r
27
week on eac'i
bond purchased. ,A total of $3400
worth of Liberty Bonds were thus
elected to pay $1 per
.$50
PRACTICAL
H.
S.
PATRIOTISM
placed
in
possession
the
of
the
the agency
the Grover
"this
little
bank"
ol
AN EARLY LESSON
AND
IN
FINANCE
Uf the many
were called to the
PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM
O.
C.
Grover
Schorer,
High School,
For the
St.
Mo.
bond
fruit"
States
in-
The Liberty Bond Publicity Bureau of the Treasury Department undertook an immense work when it
announced that an effort would be
made to place a Liberty Bond in
every home in the LInited States.
That the methods employed by the
Publicity Bureau were effective, and
that the efforts of that body were
highly successful cannot be denied.
results obtained speak for themselves.
To increase the number ofUnited States Government bondhold-
The
from an insignificant few hundred thousand to almost twelve million is an accomplishment in whatever light we may look upon it.
ers
*Acts
the
private,
reserve banks,
organizations
of all kinds
probably none is more
striking, and none is more productive of real deep-rooted results than
the activity of a "very small bank"
conducted within the walls of the
Grover Cleveland High School of St.
Cleveland
Louis,
organizations that
aid of this unpre-
Louis.
Bank was
first
to give
thrift and
the pupils in the
age habits of
department of the
work
in
commercial
school
practical
A sav-
amount whatsoever.
When
Loan was
Cleveland High
School Savings Bank placed itself in
tion,
the
Grover
same terms
as
of-
To make
it
Cleveland
The
trustees
made
the
purchase
of
The
real
for
fact
boys and
girls
are being
the future
placed into
The
from
this
^^^^u4/n^d^^/iUi/^
The
BUSINESS LETTER
The
B. F. Goodrich
enemy.
fairness.
letter written
Rubber Co.
Dear
Akron, Ohio
By
arrangement
special
We
No. 6
of the doubt.
Your interests and ours are closely
allied, and for that reason we want
to help you.
have instructed Mr.
Blank to stay as long as he can be of
any help to you. He is at j;our service in any effort that will bring your
relations and ours to a more satisfactory and profitable basis.
Yours very truly,
COURTESY
We
Some Suggestions
for Correspondents
the oil that lubricates
the parts of the business machine.
Courtesy is even more essential in
letters than in face-to-face conversation.
There is no other quality in our
letters that can do so much to build
up good-will for The B. F. Goodrich
Company as courtesy; nothing can
tear it down so quickly as discouris
tesy.
Many
must be done by
for
future
friendly
relations.
They
We
Yours
is
a
a
truly,
to write
letter.
Letters like this
hurt the reader, and they hurt the
writer; they are unwise, unnecessary
and insulting. This man is now the
business and moral enemy of the
He
possibly a
.\
correspondent, in trying to be
often becomes discourteous,
instance, the phrase, "We thank
polite,
Sir:
When we
This
Sir:
with
the above
company we are privileged to reprint a series
of Copyrighted booklets the company is publishing for their correspondents.
We consider
them exceptionally excellent and our readers
specially fortunate in having the opportunity
to study these monthly messages to correspondents.
[Editor.]
Courtesy
as
or
you
in
advance,
etc.," is
an expression
Sarcastically,
Whenever
received,
there
answer in the
spondent
who
discourteous letter is
is
a temptation to
same
is
tone.
corre-
cool-blooded enough
receive an unjust
unjust accusation,
until
complaint or an
do not answer it
off.
It is poor
usually
ters
come from
anger,
and
anger
Business
many
of his pupils.
efficiency of
He writes a
well.
M^^iO/nei^^i/iiai^
COMMERCIAL LAW
J.
H.
ROBINSON
utterly insignificant.
Edinburg, Pa.
money
try,
can
law
be
enforced
at
unless it
rests
a consideration;
by which
meant a
word
is
cause
or
reason for the promise.
If it does not it is
called a
gain, and
naked
the
barl-
prom-
sideration.
The second
e.xception
it
it
is
is said to be good
does not represent
still regarded as a
relates
to
4.
Intrusting a Person With Property is a good consfderation for a
contract upon his part to take care
of it.
He is only liable for misfeasance, not for non-feasance, however; that is he is only liable if he
does something which injures it; he
is not liable if he does nothing at all
about
it.
blood,
an
upon
value,
CONSIDERATION
is
consideration
when, though
REAL ESTATE
It
imposed upon. As to trouble or inconvenience to the promisee it is immaterial how much, provided it is not
tion
relationship
and
it
is
or
said
to
e.
is
good consideration.
ing
asks
owes'
difficult
it
promise
to
do
something
limitations.
.Among
.5.
many
considerations
which have been upheld by the courts
support
a contract are
sufficient
to
as
the following:
forbear pressForbearance.
To
1.
ing a claim entirely for a limited
time is good, but there must be a
bona fide claim upon which some one
The party promising need
is liable.
have no interest in the delay to make
the consideration good.
the
By setPreventing Litigation.
3.
making a
a pending action,
compromise, or submitting a disputed
matter to arbitration, is a good contling
In the case
subscription to a fund.
of subscriptions for charitable purposes, they are not binding unless
liability
If some of the subscriptions are fictitious the innocent subIn the case
scribers are not bound.
of pecuniary enterprises, each promthe liability is
ise is binding and
purely several.
For instance, if ten persons each
subscribe to the stock of a company,
promise.
^
PENMANSHIP IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS
By Ashton
E. Smith
Chairman,
Mr.
Cruttenden,
My
thought was
first
since
that,
this
me
that he thought it
take a broader
view than that, on account of the
growing feeling that, if the work be
well done in the elementary schools,
ever,
informed
would be better
ters
Our
to
The
habits.
mostly
usually
is
figures.
Grade
2.
but
continued,
emphasis than
the
tall
letters
on paper
reduced
is
Grade
3.
Primary.
(a)
the mo^t
common
It
seems
idea today,
it
large,
devoid
unrestricted, and
drill or repetition.
fr=e and
of intense
Many
only a
fair
rate,
and
mainly
imi-
tative.
The
at the
best
alternate
to
small
letters
an<l
7.
Because of the immaby actual age or by
mental
or physical developlack of
Grade
either
turity,
ment
of
many
children of
two
the
many
pupils
ters,
in
both progressing
the easiest
previously.
paper
letters on
half inch.
The
in
this
rate
grade
is
is
slightly
onein-
creased.
The work
of this year is
very similar to that of the one preThe rate can be increased
ceding.
4.
to
many
two
and
adopted a methol
based upon this plan for state-wid?
New Mexico
use.
(b)
Grades
the
grades,
all
The corresponding
reach.
and small letters are now
than an alrather
together,
laught
ternation of capitals and small let-
lowing:
Grade
teach
these
capitals
Grade
contend that no
to
in
of each
capitals, thus haviiig part
taught in the technical manner in
each year.
If the pupils
are well
taught and respond normally, the tall
letters
may safely be reduced to
three-fourths of the ordinary threeeighths inch ruling in these years.
most
and strength.
customary
of
form
i^
bo
to
and
It
details
making
.^J^ud/n^M^^a&u^ii^
by
many
Grammar Grades
and
6.
penmen
"technical
Psychologists tell
years" of writing.
us that the age from eight to twelve
of strength,
period
years or older is a
They say.
mentally and physically.
further, that anything that the child
needs ever to know can be taught at
this time, if properly presented.
to
the
climax from
in
most
difficult,
as
Due
ability.
gain
8.
still
grade and
time to do
all
their writing in
one of
the styles which vary from the normal standard, such as a very round
style,
very
angular
style,
very
He should then be
allowed and encouraged to give recthe most natural.
pose is, I take it, to develop confidence rather than to uevelop freedom
in the arms, for the average person
could develop freedom immediately
upon the letters if he only thought
he could, a condition w;hich is rare,
When the pupils are
but possible.
ready for the practice on the letters
or words, they should have such
practice, and, in order not to undo
in getting freedom
not to criticise negatively
it, for such
a plan many times reduces the puconsidered
It
is
pils' confidence.
better pedagogy to tell the pupils
how it should be done. This has a
who
while the
some
first
classes, too
student's
independence
and
many
best
is
:t
elementary course is
taught through a sufficient number
of years to bring pupils who were
started
on free or arm movement
forty-five
work done
the
High School
good
If
mind.
Time is wasted, too,
teacher talks more than
child's
make
personally advocate
minutes daily, which
can often be arranged in schools having forty-minute periods by combining with Spelling.
We must be willing to pay the
price of time and efiiort for this subject, which is the small-st and most
tioned
at
exists,
least
rapid
thirty
(hence, most
difficult")
that
all
who
use.
the
necessary
the con-
trary,
of the other
lum would be
must make it
sciously
it
is
On
to understand
teaching
in that
when
a point
teachers sometimes seem not
how slow children can
be in perceiving form.
What seems to me to be the greatest waste of time is that caused by
Ifcck of concentration or poor conIt requires a good focus
centration.
ot consciousness to master the techIn fact, it is not
nic of Writing.
radical to say that pupils would do
well to discontinue practice when unable to keep their minds in line, for
practice
to continue means aimless
and actual reduction of skill.
to
clear.
treme
upon the
effect
positively beneficial
haven't any.
f^^^u^/ned^^t/iu^a/^
To
etc.
not
is
standard
high
The pupils
for our schools.
have time to leafn the art so thoroughly that it will become habitual
enough
come
to
it,
unless
quently as to
cause it was not' taught us while
younger, and we either haven't time
or do not take it to learn such things_
trained to memorize the products of
numbers, after which their
such
Some persons have been
now.
memories are willing servants for
life. In the same way, children who
acquire a good handwriting are fortunate, and, in the natural order of
events in the greater number of
cases, those who have not done so do
not have or do not take time to do
so later and so are handicapped. Let
us realize our opportunities for doing
good
4,
in this.
The Acquirement
of Skill
state
of
make
The
tions.
topic.
teacher not
to
take advantage
of
good disposition of the pupils toward school life and use enthusiasm
the
as a force
sired,
preciation of
course, must
their
be
work, which,
of
be
ef-
sincere
to
fective.
6.
Grading the
Work
class
fixing the
of
grades can be a source of discourof
enor
irritation,
of
or
agement,
couragement to the pupils, according
The matter
spirit
to the method used and the
back of the method. Examining the
work
of the pupils
is
^
time that
acquaint
and
if
with
his
how
show him
to
faults,
correct
to
These objects
method
be,
for
will be
grading, varying,
of
the
different
but based
year,
so.
accomplished
teacher will adopt a certain
the
if
may
it
terms
of
the
percentage
placed upon the element that needs
most attention, etc., and then make
the
the
pupils,
largest
Then
tice
if
and kindness
the
that
pupil
his
in
will
grading, so
feel
that
the
grading
make
it
is
as
it
is,
showing how
to
cerely wishing
him success
say if
the teacher will do these things, unless my own observation has been
very faulty, the pupils will respond
as one big family of good-mannered,
good-natured children, and the work
will be a joy to all concerned and
very satisfactory in result-getting.
In connection with the method of
grading, it might be well to advise
keeping each day's work in large envelopes, so that all can be examined
at the end of the month or term
not
I
LAW
(Continued from page 29)
will
riot
Failure of Consideration.
Where
the consideration at the time of contracting was supposed to be valuable but as a matter of fact was utterly worthless, the contract is void
and money paid can be recovered.
There is, however, a distinction between this condition and a mere failure to receive any benefit from the
thing received, as this is not sufficient to invalidate a contract.
Gifts are not presumed.
promise to make
naked
forced, but
will
stand.
if
every state
knew
do
women.
It
is
article
under whose progressive administration most of the important educational activities I have here described
have been developed and perfected, is
himself "one of us"- a commercial
educator. For many years before assuming his work at uirard, he headed
the commercial department of the
Central High School of Philadelphia,
law
MEANDERINGS
it
pupil
the
^^^^u^/n^d^i^i^iua/^
be used merely
to reward or punish the pupils for
merit shown or merit absent. The
main object of grading should be to
takes
it
where
he
splendid
fine
boys
them out
In
the
to
fill
ten
school
like
Girard, and
As
may make
as
know
I
tion
from
perhaps a thousand
could
ANNUAL CONVENTION
21st
tion.
responsible positions.
leading cities of this
whom
the Union.
I
wish I
big profiteers would
in-
the
his
in
that
it.
self-sacrificing
with
and
leaders
in
the
past,
fine
(Continued
in
June B. E.)
endow
still
have
Two new
teachers have been recently added to the Commercial Department of the Butte, Montana, High
School Mr. C. S. Schilz, of the Butte
High School.
employs
six
^
"WISE AND
OTHERWISE"
Stories from Recent Real Life
By CHARLES T. CRAGIN
Holyoke. Mass.
.stormy Labrador to lie the chief factor of the great Company, with headquarters at Montreal, the biggest city
It is worth noting
of the Dominion.
that he went there to take the place
made vacant by the death of rough
old Sir George Simpson, who thought
him a sissy and who sent him to the
very undesirable post from which he
now came to be first officer to the
great company. It was like promoting the mayor of a small city to the
presidency of the Lhiited States, but
Grover
such things have happened.
Cleveland made the presidency in tw(]
jumps from sherifif of Erie County,
and the long preparation, the thor-
pany choose
A Romance
of the
North
A Long Jump
f^J^ud/nedi'^/iua^fi^
known man
magnificently
as
long
the
as
existed.
Smith came to
Monereal with a few thousand pounds
saved from his salary, and his share
of the profits which every factor received.
He at once became interested in a growing financial institution, which is now the great bank of
Montreal, and became intimately acquainted with its manager, another
canny Scot, George Stephen, afterwards Lord Mount Stephen. Almost
company
of Metis
a dash
of copper in his blood, who had been
educated for the priesthood but who
had no priestly yearning, made a lot
of trouble about this purchase. Louis
Riel was the name of this young man,
just well enough educated to be dangerous, and Riel had been over in the
United States, and he formed the
plan of setting up an independent gov-
against
Government
Dominion
and
instructions
which
was
to
in
save
the
imminent
garrison
danger
of
when
33
stormy
political
career went
treason.
gone
^
to tackle the big problems of the best
Magnifiprovinces.
England's
of
cently in this hour of England's deepest trial has the Dominion of Canada
fulfilled the predictions of Strathcona
made many years ago, that the sons
of England under the mapleleaf would
prove as loyal as those of the "right
Tour hunlittle tight little island."
dred thousand of them have already
clad
Germans
of
gray
met the hosts
on the battle fields of Flanders, at
Ypres and the Somme and the Aisne,
and the German steel has drunk deep
of the loyal blood of the Canadian,
who has paid back blow for blow as
An Old Age
of
German trenches
High Honor
of
the
Dominion
of
He
C?na''a
had ac-
by the increase of value of lands he had acquired in the building of the great
railroad system and in the stock of
He spent
that gigantic corporation.
royally.
More than $7,500,000
in gifts before, at 94, the gallant
old man surrendered to the great
A million dollars at
captain. Death.
one gift went to the fitting out of
600 irregular cavalry who did gallant
service in the Boer war, which opened
up the Transvaal of South Africa to
Another million
settlers.
English
went to the 'Victoria College for
Women in Montreal and $3,000,000
to various hospitals and universities;
.\ single banquet
$500,000 to Yale.
to the alumni of Aberdeen College
There were
Strathcona
$40,000.
cost
nearly 3,000 guests at his great tables
of Dondays
on that day. The last
ald Smith, Lord Strathcona of Mount
Royal, were in striking contrast to the
lonely years spent among greasy, illsmelling Indians and Eskimos of Tadousac and Eskimo Bay, for the
stately old nobleman associated with
kings and queens, for Victoria and
Edward the Seventh came to him for
information about the Canadas, and
Gladstone and Disraeli, and all of the
money
went
^^J^u<i/n^d^(ai///^4ii/iT^
great ones.
"Kaiser
Bill,"
when he
dangerous.
The
Government House
white-haired
old
was carrying
message across the street
on the opposite side. The
man rushed in and said to one of the
officers:
"For Heaven's sake, can't
you get somebody to take Strathcona's message over for him and not let
him risk his life among the horses
and motor cars, of Picadilly?" Said
the officer: "He always goes himself
the last thing at night to send a mespatriarch, 94 years old,
a telegraph
to the office
gentleman
to
dictate
old
this
man
that
wedded
On
ful
behind his
coffin,
of heliotrope
and
is
now convulsing
The
man
is
there.
r
/
/
nfield.
1914.
after
^MJ^ud/neU^^/iu^i/^
riovv
35
little
mama
fly
birds
bird sat
very well at
first.
little
bird
And when he
The
Two reduced and reproduced pages of the thirty page plates from the twenty-four page book, 554x7f^ inches, for teachers, parents,
nd children, by Jno. O. Peterson and Alice E. Strong, of the Tacoma, Wn.. Public Schools.
It is probably the most original book of the kind ever written and published, containing wonderfully interesting, stimulating, and vital:ing material for primary teachers, supervisors, and parents.
The pictures are veritable "movies," dealing and describing as they do the motions employed in writing.
Black card covers with white, chalk-like full title-page, postpaid, 50 cents. Zaner & Bloser Co., Publishers, Columbus, Ohio.
the side, will say that tliere are many
reasons why it should be held at the
side rather than at the top.
Holding
it
at the top nearly always casts a
shadow upon the writing, pulls the
left slioulder forward too far, or pulls
the paper too far left-ward, and consequently turns it around so that the
head is inclined to be turned to the
left in order to see the
writing.
[Editor.]
Long Beach
Ellsworth
Severance,
H. A. Via, Elizabethtown,
Super-
visor.
March
11,
1918.
Editor B. E.
am
you
for
lems.
May
LETA
SEVERANCE.
Summer
School.
bring to the work
valuable experience and an enthusiasm which will mean an inspiration
to those who attend. He is a teacher
in
the
Mr. Wiatt
City Schools,
Penmanship Department,
Lfta
Pa.,
Col-
Educator.
head of
BUSINESS EDUCATOR
is
THE
better
of teachers,
wisdom
in
will
whose
forte
teaching
is
and
skill
not
and
mere
Words of
my March
Appreciation. I received
journal. It embodies the
things that every business
student needs for every day in the
It is not bulky; it contains no
year.
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man
vitally
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to
any young
has ambition.
C.
McCANN,
Mahanoy
City.
Pa.
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The medieval
of
art
illumination,
discovered,
was
reached
art
very
its
perfection as
the
of the middle ages in the mon-
highest
practiced by
monks
Mr. O. M.
Writing in
Hammond,
Supervisor of
the Public
Schools of
Ind,,
was born near
Stiffney,
He worked
asteries of
volumes which
todaj'
may
Ije
seen
in
all
On
and durability
after them.
From what
f'ttil
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and
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.gold,
To the
a figure of $250.00.
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or city he will doubtless find many
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engrossing
this
showing specimens
out of print, and cost
money.
These volumes
a great deal of
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Much benefit may be desired from
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art.
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As far as results are concerned and the work that you can do with the two systems, the
Gregg system meets the needs of a first-class writer as well or better than the
system.
After five years of experience with both systems, I do not kno.w of anytliing- that can be done
with the Pitmanic system that cannot be done with the Gregg system, and -with much less effort.
We are not now teaching the Pitmanic shorthand in this Normal School. Last Se])tember
I registered one hundred students and all those who registered in shorthand chose the Gregg
system, except one. The Pitman classes have been getting smaller every year until it was finally
entirely superseded by the Gregg.
The same has been true of the high schools in the state. The
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system and the Gregg system taught side
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/ am also convinced of the fact
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taught the
think
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(Signed)
Director,
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JAMES
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dictation of letters from their text. After they completed the textbook, dictionaries were provided for them, and each day they were
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speed drills. The pupils looked up the new words in their dictionaries. At present most of the class is writing at a speed of more
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above report to you for it shows what can be and has been done with
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Charles Miller, teacher oj Isaac Pitman ShorUiand,
Columbia University. New York: Formerly teacher of Isaac Pitman
Shorthand, Batten High School, Elizabeth, N. J.
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Contributions in
Illinois,
GRISET
Township High School
LESSON FIVE
movement
make good on
the
not,
drills
Plate 1 The G is all curves. The first down stroke comes down almost two-thirds the distance from the top.
how the beginning stroke and the second down stroke afe parallel. When you finish the G on the beginning
stroke, stop with a dot. Take your pen ofT the paper after you stop the motion.
Notice
Plate 2 Notice how the beginning stroke of the I commences, almost at the start; to curve and slant toward
the right. Make the down stroke nearly straight. The upper loop leans very much toward the right. Notice how
far above the base line the lines cross.
:3S^Jl
Plate 3
Three-fifths
of the J are
as the upper.
The down
line; two-fifths
stroke
is
below.
of
its
two-thirds as long,
length, which three-
is
fifths?
The
The
letters
j,
line as the
g, y, z
and q
is
tall.
should
Watch
Don't make
it
too long.
line,
part of the j is like the i. The downstroke of the j is straight two-thirds the way down. The finishing stroke should cut the down stroke on the base line, and then finish even with the top of the j. The beginning
and finishing strokes are opposite curves, and do not touch one another.
first
f^^f3^u4/n^d^^(<^iua^
combined.
Be sure
to
make
the upper
that
Plate 6 The g is made up of the first part of the a and j combined. Study the slender "a" oval and observe
it is not touched by the g's finishing stroke.
Finish the g above the base line as high as the
or u.
i
Z'lZ'^
Plate 7 The beginning stroke of the z is like the beginning stroke of the n or m. The second part of the z (the
lower loop) is unique; it diflfers from all other loops, excepting the lower loop of the Z. Compare the lower loop
of the Z with that of the z.
The cross lines cross on the base line.
Two parts of the z touch (three, if we count the start of the beginning stroke) the base line. Notice how
near together these points are.
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not given to make you expert in lettering, but there are so many places it can be used where
business writing is not practical that the little effort necessary to learn it is nothing compared with the value of a
simple marking hand. Hold your hand the same as when writing, but draw the strokes instead of writing them.
Do not try to use arm movement. Use pencil head and base lines always when practicing. If you master the first
line your success is assured.
Do not use a curved line where a straight line will do. Pay especial attention to
spacing. The copy is made to show the pen liftings rather than to hide them.
This exercise
is
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It is the kind the B. 'E.
Method and System, Pedagogy and Practice are Combined in Business Educator
Philosophy.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PENMANSHIP EDITION
Our Policy: Better Writing Through
Mr.
himself
in
Cragin
and
your
Mr.
his
is essentially unselfish and inspiring in the service he renders personally to those who come under his
stirring imagination by reading the
stories he has been conlributmg to
which
these columns.
The instruction, the advice, the suggestions and the inspiration in the
contribution in this numoer comes
close to being a classic in feeling and
thought, ft is a sort of prose poem
in
What
Three
is
R's.
They
is
poorly equipped
would be nearer the truth to locate the trouble with the large numIt
Also one trouble is the fad of teaching children to write fast, with which
of our educators have been affected.
They have seemed to think
every boy was going to be a bookkeeper, and must learn to scribble
scientifically at a high rate of speed.
On the contrary, most people in this
age of typewriters do not have any
large amount of writing to do by hand.
They need to write very legibly a little at a time, to be able to write signatures and addresses and memoranda
so that they can be read at a glance.
Excepting those who are to do clerical
work for a living, what most people
many
has
writing.
the Start.
MR. CRAGIN
Our
Cragin
remember,
should
.^J^^fO/n^U^^f^iua/ir-
little
The above
is an editorial from an
Daily commenting upon so
much poor handwriting. Haste is
one cause of poor writing. Lack of
correct instruction at the right time
is another, and the chief one.
Indiana
Many
at a
Others, allow
ordinate and control.
their pupils to draw letters so slowly
that when required to write freely
their penmansliip goes to smash.
More efficient instruction comprising position, form, and movement is
It is waste of effort to
the solution.
teach one or two of the essentials,
and that is what is too frequently
done.
.\ quickened conscience rather than
an assumed contempt is necessary on
the part of those who have a tendency to belittle the art of writing
well.
U.
S.
tion
the
of
newspaper
Owing
all
swered;
letter
will
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition of
this Number of the Business
Educator
EditoricJs.
Two
of the
Creek, Mich.
Report
Chicago Convention of
of the Official
the X. C. T. Federation.
Naming
The
Bul-
S.
day
U.
Official
shall, Battle
CONSERVATION IN CORRESPONDENCE
government
President, a
The
This
letin.
the
War
Garden, Wini-
fred Black.
Business
Letter.
The
Commercial Law,
H. Robin-
J.
Federation Membership.
Newton.
Business English,
Lacey, Boston.
Maurice
Inspirational Address,
Wm.
J.
For-
kell.
Cantonment Education, D. W.
Springer.
vriting
;s
to
suit
the child
should alternate.
Salesmanship.
Thos.
per, Bingen, Ga.
E.
Cup-
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EDITOR'S PAGE
PROFESSIONAL EDITION
A Forum
U.
AND LATIN-AMERICA
l'>.
of
(1)
Pan-American
Convention
next
be
to
To
held
Educational
Havana
meeting President
Menocal has invited the heads of the
great
fall.
this
universities
North,
of
Central
The establishment
Latin-America.
In this way American young men may take post graduate course in countries w'lere Spanish is spoken and thus learn the
Spanish language and Spanish-American institutions, as is impossible to
do today.
(3) The preparation of young men
in the United States for diplomatic
and consular service in Latin-American countries. The courses of studyto be followed by American students
at
Latin-American universities will
be chosen with the advice and cooperation of the State Department.
(4) The teaching of Spanish as a
prescribed study in the public schools
of the United States.
Mayor Hylan
has already begun an investigation to
determine how this can best be done
in the schools of New York City.
DEPARTMENT OF
THE INTERIOR
March
With
18,
1918
article by Winifred
Black regarding the garden campaign
Department
of the
Interior
is
JO'S.
J.
COTTER,
Private Secretary.
Naming
the
War Garden
new idea in
School Garden Army. It's
There
is
the U.
S.
this:
What
your own
What
are
in
you going
could be possible
no,
it
isn't,
make
the
it
Sam Brown
Brown is a boy who
if
because Sam
never had a
chance in his life till the war broke
out, and then he saw his chance and
took it, and he is over there in France
today fighting for you and for me
and for Uncle Sam, and I am going
to name my little garden after him.
What are you going to name your
garden?
Who is the soldier you
know? Who is the one you think of
when you hear them singing "Over
There" and "The Long, Long Trail?"
It's a long, long trail he's following, brave boy, a long, long, trail, and
far away from home ond those who
love him may he follow it 'till it
turns and brings him home again.
Home to love and shelter and friendHome to the old fireplace and
ship.
the old books and the old songs at
evening, and the little brother who
has been so. faithful to his memory
ever since he's been gone.
called
Washington
able to
And
little
in the
garden
meantime
in
our
if
there
is
County
Fair and
17
rememlier.
Come,
sister,
little
the
name
What
is
of
my
garden.
yours?
WINIFRED BLACK.
MENTAL
MEANDERINGS
CARL
C.
MARSHALL
WHAT
IS
THRIFT?
New
In
Society
known
of
as "The
Metaphy-
After meeting
for some twelve years,
the society disbanded
because they could not
sics."
what "metophysics"
agree
as
tc
For some three or four
means.
years, this country has been hearing
a great deal about the word "thrift."
and so many tons of thrift books and
pamphlets have been circulated, that
the idea might fairly be considered a
But most of
a new .American cult.
this voluminous propaganda has been
method and
einirly lacking both in
content. In fact, it could all be com"avoid
words,
pressed into five or six
waste and extravagance and save"
Franklin
little more than what Ben
preached
in
his
"Saving
of
Poor
is
a thrift
character
^
teaching rather than for exhortation.
is little use in appealing to people to save unless, at the same time
we teach them how to save.
Perhaps the best way to get at the
kernel of this matter is to raise the
question that forms the caption of this
meandering. "What IS Thrift?" The
There
word
tell us that
the
comes from an old Icelandic root,
PRIFASK, which meant, "holding
Some of our
fast to what one has.
thrift preachers do not seem to realize that the word has far outgrown
This
this narrow primative meaning.
shown in its kindred word,
is
THRIVE. What do we mean when
dictionaries
We
ative.
Now
that
is
just
what
thrift
so
German onslaught on
civilization, has
taken hundreds of thousands of our
of st'-res.
shops, banks and
business
offices.
Fifty per cent of these vacancies will
have to be filled by women. And
these women will have to be trained
for their new duties in a hurry. There
is not time for the slow moving process of the high school and the technical college.
These thousands
skilled office helpers are wanted
ONCE!
Fortunately the
for their quick preparation
of
AT
machinery
is
at
'
au'l
the
French.
The business colleges are
supplying these keen practical girls
seems to me
that during the past winter and spring
I have lectured to five thousand acres
by the thousand.
of
them.
visit,
find
In
It
from four
to six girls to
In Pittsburg, I talked at
one boy.
one school where there were two hundred and fifty girls and just one loneCuriously enough, the
some boy.
theme of my address was, "The Cash
Value of a Man!" Of course I had
to explain that this was another case
We
.^J^u^ned^^/iu^i^
we
-\
it.
Erreat
human
bee-hive of
New
York.
Few of
or two
other.
course, for
a certain small class, these effects are
What
a change in a single generaIn the older days when one perrode, a thousand walked: now
As a matter of
it is just the reverse.
fact, you will see more athletic physiques at a society function than you
will in a movie audience, or on the
walks at Coney Island. It is now the
shop girl, who has lady-like figure and
dainty feet rather than the golf and
tennis playing aristrocrat of Fifth avenue.
Not long ago. I was in a town
where an accident in the power house
put the street cars out of business for
an entire day, and I saw long lines
and students,
of clerks, shop-girls
who had to walk from one to three
miles in order to get to and from
tion!
son
work.
how fagged
f^Jf^u^/N^d^^/iiai^ir'
The
The ordinary
BUSINESS LETTER
Th
B. F. Goodrich
Rubbr
Co.
Akron, Ohio
We
No.
biisines.s
letter
meciiaiiically
consists of:
The Heading
The Introduction
The Body of the Letter
4. The Conclusion.
The Heading consists of the name
2.
3.
the
ter
let-
is
The Introduction
consists
of
the
whom
The
is
chief
to
tell
his reply.
Our
contain all this informa-
letter
tion.
The
fir?t
requirement
is
tiie
title
of
No
business discourtesy is
less excusable than the omission of
a title before the name of the addressee.
Soine correspondents sign
letters that begin this way.
respect.
Hammond, Ind,
Then they wonder why their
letters
are ineffective.
same surname.
business
ir used, it
follows the name, and no otlier title
Because it carprecedes the name.
ried an atmosphere of affection, Esq.
has fallen into comparative dis-use.
The abbreviation
for
of
above
the
titles
of
an additional
designating
title
official
Mr.
W. W.
The
Sims, Agent,
Superior, Wisconsin.
If
usually likes
It
is
"The
Corporation,"
Steel
States
The
Mmes.
abbreviation
name
for
ladies.
of a firm
Is
Mesused
composed
women.
Rev.
is
used
in
connection
with
clergymen only.
If
may
many
ment
of
Only one
respect
the
is
sonality.
In
Mes-
Doctor
Fred Wilson,
in
Messrs.
1.
of
used
.MECHANICAL MAKE-UP OF A
LETTER
Every
titles
letters are:
19
minister
has
of Divinity,
the
it
is
degree
of
well to ad-
munication.
Dear Sir is always a correct salutation to use when addressing a busiIt is the customary acness man.
form
cepted
and
never
almost
is
wrong.
is
the
salutation
that
Dear
but
is
ters.
Dear
My
may
My dear Madam.
My dear Mr. Wright
is
familiar
form
of salutation.
only
lie
*^^r^u4/n^d^^e/^fu^f^
signed.
It would be incorrect to begin a letter with '"My dear
Mr. Jones" and tlien sign it "The..B.
F. Goodrich Rubber Company."
sonally
more
still
is
fa-
miliar.
Only unquestioned familiarity warrants the use of such a salutation.
It shou,ld never be used in
writing to strangers or to those with
itself.
There are a
ciples that are
applicable
are
to
this
part
of
the
letter.
Paragraphs should
the
first
all
be flush with
All
graphs.
Short letters should be set
as near the center of the page as
possible and should have very wide
margins. The shorter the letter the
wider the margin.
It
ject
in
ters
is
good practice
write
a plain signature.
For them, a simple scheme is to elaborate the widely
used plan of indicating the initials of
the person who dictated the letter.
good arrangement
.\
Yours very
THE
B.
F.
partnerships
to go
party.
names.
Care should be taken
by the writer to avoid the use of
trite,
hackneyed expressions at the
end of a letter. Such expressions as
"Believe me, I remain, and We are,"
are representative of the weak and
unnecessary ending.
The complimentary close is justified on the ground of courtesy.
The
words "Yours truly" mean nothing
than
but
still
they
very
are
The complimentary
close
which
may
if
overlooked
discourteous omission.
followin,g
standard
the
Important.
Is
form
be taken as
For our .use
forms
are
recommended:
Yours
L. A.
COMPANY
is a good one.
illegible the actual
This plan
how
may be.
ter
the
name
of the
truly
Yours sincerely
Sincerely yours
Cordially yours
commercial
department
of
Hunt-
ment
J.
ing the
coming
year.
Grant Armstrong, of the Santa Barbara High School, was recently elected for the commercial work of Potts'
Business College, Pasadena, Calif.
L. White, of the Marion, Ohio,
High School, will be on the commercial stafif of one of the Des Moines
High Schools next fall.
Miss Alma Cagley, who has had
charge of the commercial work in the
Spirit Lake. Iowa, High School this
year, will have similar work with the
Windom, Minn., High School next
G.
(Signature)
Houser/HBB
Xo
mat-
signature
writer is
clearly shown.
year.
ing" and "per Secretary" prove unfortunate for our Company and for
the dictator.
There is only one right method of
signing a business letter and that is
with pen and ink in a legible standard way.
of this notice.
Mr. C. S. Chambers,
truly
Yours very
in
truly,
GOODRICH RUBBER
By
more
This
is
Duluth
Business
L^niversity.
Mr.
An
BUY W.
S. S.
I
>
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that
We
great changes.
These changes cannot be entirely foreseen at this time,
yet it is very essential that during
this period of readjustment and reconstruction we should be mindful
of the important part that will be
played because of the possession or
the lack of possession of accumulated
savings.
should begin to build
now upon a foundation that is certain to be one of the vital problems
in this final adjustment.
Capital has long since
practiced
principles of economy and
saving;
labor is just as certain to be forced
to a recognition of these same principles.
The effect of the existing
econoinic pressure cannot be denied
and the nation at large will be compelled to learn what it means to be
thrifty and economical.
When every
one shall have learned and experienced that even a small preparation
for the future; that the laying aside
of something for the proverbal rainy
day is one of the most vital factors
in the existence of a satisfied, reasonable and efficient laboring class, then
may we expect to see come forth
from this new order of things a better,
more considerate, a more
a
wholesome
relationship
between
these two important factors of production.
In the short period of one year that
marks our participation in tlie World
War we have gone through the
We
changed manners of
thought. We have found a necessity
for temperance in our every mode of
however,
we
Unfortunately,
life.
have not yet acquired the ability and
the desire to conform to that necessity.
Our problem of the war is not
of
life
and
and economize?
If American public education
now
ple.
considerable attendant
forerunner of
difficulty, is only
a
what is to come. Even now the unrest of labor is apparent to all, and,
in the years that aie to follow the
termination of the world war, the relationship between labor and capital
and
will necessarily undergo many
passing with
is
to
fulfill
acquired
them.
The time for an active campaign
on the part of the public high schools
of the United States for the teaching of proper and systematic habits
of thrift has never been more opportune than just now.
The general
public has been awakened to both
possibilities
for
and
the
the necessity
of savings, The two issues of Liberty Bonds has transformed a government bond-owning public of a few
hundred thousand to a vast body now
carefully estimated at 1.3,000,000 peoThe present sale of "Thrift
ple.
of
the
larger
corporations
of
the
These corporations
ploye's wages.
and employers of labor have so thoroughly recognized the fact that only
can
financially care-free employes
^^J^u<i/n^^^f<&ua^
and
satisfactory
render contented,
honest service that millions of dollars are being spent in an efifort to
encourage savings and thrift among
their wage-earners. * These are facts
prominently
very
stand out
that
general pubat this time and the
lic is being made more conscious of
these facts and tendencies every day.
Right at this time the parents of
the
school children are awake to
need for the practice of the strictest
kind of economy and they are in the
proper mood to permit, and even to
demand, that the schools assume the
in
making a savings in the
earlier years should now be made
more real and should be made to
conform to the practices that prevail in the business community in
ious
and economy.
tical
paternalistic
One
public high
depending
in a
degree upon
and
should have acquired during attendance in the grade school the habit
of putting aside some part of the
money that may have come into its
possession, however, up to the time
of entrance into the high school any
such habit that may be formed is not
the result of thought and deliberation, but rather it is the indication
of the willingness of the child to carry out the instructions of the parents. When the pupil enters the high
been
reached
an age has
it
should be entirely possible
understand the reasons ror mak-
school
when
to
methods
tices
may
tor
Co..
Detroit;
Prest-o-lite
Co..
In-
lowed
which he
resides.
training
to
the
pupils
in
the
confront him
first business
porated bank
school bank
when he engages
in
will
iiis
the
ties in
Some
loans,
issuing
letters
of
credit,
is-
cannot be made
available to the patrons of the school
bank.
On the other hand, tliere are
suing of drafts,
etc.,
have accomplished
Many
it
worth-while
purpose.
M^^u4/hed^t/uai^
shark
the loan
money-lender.
and
professional
Members
the
of
most
advanced
to
tal
perform
will
all
complished.
very quickly
The
student
lution
fice
real
that
show
they
E.
TALKING
The
art
We
-,
We
is
an ac-
anyone may
proud it is
not mastered in a day,
but small
progress. Added to the
lie
CAL
and
THEORETIPRACTICAL foundation
must be an
THEORY,
PRACTICE,
Good
efficiency.
of
higher sphere
talking is worthy of much admiration,
and is of GREAT assistance in practically all lines of
is
to be
HIGHLY
endeavor it surely
desired and encour-
aged on every hand, but it may conscientiously and safely be said that
the BEST Salesmen of our day are
not necessarily the BEST Grammarians.
talk
is
who
readily
SELL
which
that
SELLING
The knack
of secret of
is truly a combination of essentials,
and upon careful examination delving into its secret forces it may be
found to
include
INIATIATIVE,
TACT,
DENCE
SUPPLY,
MENT.
DEMAND
and
MOVE-
SELLING
short
season,
or
a
neither is it to be
learned altogether
from books alone; the
TEXTS, of
various
are designed
course,
and calculated to give
withthe THEORY,
out which there would
chance for satisfactory
VS.
of which
well feel
lines
lines,
Inc. Acct.
conversation
of
c(inii>lishnieiit
have
Close
of their school duties.
supervision by a teacher, will at all
times be necessary, and it will be essential for that supervisor to correc;'y
set forth the proper uses of the various forms used in the bamc and the
way in which the work shall be done.
CUPPER,
Bingen, Ga.
any
en.
SELL
to
THOS.
MAN
Figuratively speaking,
there
are
those who possess the
power of
speech in sufficient quantity to orally
paint an immaculate flower garden, or
a most gorgeous land-scape, but who
rtterly lack the ability to
while on the other hand,
we find
others less favored along expressive
SALESMANSHIP
bankers
tion,
assume an attitude of
feeling of responsih'lity
never indicated in
ciiuntrv."
may
It
our
of
26
High School.
Mr. Garten, of
Cofifeyville,
Kansas,
is
Miss
Mable
tomie, Kansas,
cial teacher at
year.
Mrs. Hattie D. Lufkin, who, for several years, was in charge of the commercial work at the Orange, Mass.,
High School, recently took a similar
position in the Millburn, N.
School.
J.,
High
Sherman
Business
School.
Mt.
Vernon, N. Y.
Raymond
S.
MONEY WINS
BUY W.
S.
S.
1^
*^J^u4//i^ii^^^aiu:a^^
COMMERCIAL LAW
ROBINSON
H.
J.
Edinburg, Pa.
PARTNERSHIP
Partnership
is
tlie
relation existing
their
common
profit.
The
transaction
out
which, considered
it>elt.
will
joint
of
by
rule
one may be
legal
This
those
women
who
in fact
Nominal partner,
as
the
name
ceals his
business.
knowledge.
themselves
implies,
is
Dormant
and
tors
is
liable
trusted
account or not.
as
ficulty arises.
This liability to third
arise in two ways.
(1)
participation
business.
out
in
as
persons may
By holding
(3) by
partners;
profits
of
the
The
liable.
problem
is
The defendant cannot be held liable unless he knew that his name
was being used as that of a partner
and did not stop
sought to charge
it.
Where
it
is
bility as a partner,
By
the
participation of the
business.
upon which
The
person
profits
of
former
who
theory
shares the
common
strong
exists
partners.
OUTLINE
1.
2.
Partnership
Who may be partners.
Exceptions.
1917
(SECOND INSTALLMENT!
Civil Service
Commission
vice
For
number
of years,
it
in
1883.
was an ex-
would
w-ritten,
fill
without examination
get it in an easy way through political
Money was forwarded
influence.
In one instance, a
quite frequently.
young man sent me a very nice fifty
ment
service
happened to see a
invited him to go
States Marshal. It
courts and put him
For a few years after my introduction into the work that continued until today, it is an unknown quantity.
Postmasters were the first to come
under the hand of the law, while in
earlier stages they didn't like the
They thought, "I am
Civil Service.
I
post rhaster; I control this office.
must make the appointments." Well,
today almost every position in the
Government of the United States is
under Civil Service rule and filled by
certification from Civil Service examination.
Prior to the breaking out of the
war,
in
made on
us, this
was
demands
true.
want to
impress on you before I go any further. A great many people look upon
the Civil Service Commission and its
There
agents
is
through
aristocratic
the
body.
It
country as an
nothing of
is
the kind. The Civil Service Commission is nothing more nor less than a
great big employment agency. That
is all
we
are.
know what
to organize
an army and
navy.
The
We
of
war service
raphers, typewriters.
ent time, the supply
of the
Address by Mr. Peter Newton, Secretary of the Seventh Civil Service District, United States
MJ^u^/n^^i^/iu^r/^
ammu-
nition
Up
we have
attained
has been far from sufficient. I started
a class just before I left the building
to come over here of twenty-five stenographers and typewriters, where, in
fact, I should have had at least fifty.
period.
should the war suddenly cease or terminate that they would all be thrown
out.
If the war should close tomorrow, it would take us at least two and
a half or three years to square up
our accounts.
As an
illustration of that,
can
tell
blacksmiths,
machinists,
(boiler-mak-
copysmiths, and in fact every position in the trade line, but there has
been a lack of one thing patriotism.
ers,
do
get?
We
must
individually,
all
sacrifice
personally.
something
don't be-
over
in
Judging
from
We
machinery
in
Washington.
fifty
words.
They
curred to me.
26
tion
rapher-typewriter
only
present
examinations
At the
stated intervals.
time, I am holding examinations for
the departmental service every Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, every
Thursday evening at 6 o'clock and
every Thursday morning for the
at
Field Service.
The Commission
will
We
need
or your advanced pupils.
the stenographers and we need them
badly, and as I said a few moments
ago, if this war is to continue, the
demand is going to grow vastly during the next twelve months.
in other examinations, other services, the demand is not so great.
have the examinations periodically.
kinds
I had one today for teachers, all
of draftsmen, and I ask you all to
SerCivil
the
in
interest yourselves
vice Law" and help us all you can by
will
material.
sending us the
take good care of them afterwards.
thank you.
I
We
We
By Maurice
of
Commerce Teachers'
Convention, 1917.
.At a meeting of the New England
.Association of English Teachers an
interesting discussion took place as
to whether there should be any difEnglish
the
between
ferentiation
course of those pupils who plan to go
to college and the English course of
those who intend to enter some vocation at the end of their high school
the
that
days.
It was noticeable
champions of the "one course for all"'
were imbued with the colle,ge atmosIt was just as noticeable that
phere.
those maintaining the other side were
teachers engaged in vocational school
work who were practicing their own
T)reachings and were convinced that
their cause
"There
is
was
just.
English"
best
fits
is
them
f^^f3Bud/n^d^^4i&u^f^h^
il^
letters,
culiar to
To my
nothing
is
Business English
composition, whether the
thinking
more important
than
there
to
oral
pupil is to enter the selling field or is
to take an office position, a most
pressing need is skill in the use of
This is especially
the spoken word.
true in the case of the salesman, who
full
on oral composition. W^e do not neglect the written work, but we believe
that oral expression is paramount not
only as an end in itself, but also as a
of improving the written wort^
Let us outline briefly
of the pupils.
the plan we follow.
Every English class begins with
two oral compositions, each boy havThe work
ing his turn in rotation.
isdaily and this plan I hold is a
jecret of success in oral composition.
The pupil selects his topics from
means
about to
upthen
an ord-
on the instructor's
faces the class and
He
desk.
talks
in
voice
of
inary conversational tone
verbal
or
savors
Anything that
must
pupil
memory is rejected; the
talk naturally as he would outside the
class-room. At the corc'usion of the
talk, which lasts about three minutes,
a general criticism is indulged in by
Gradually errors become
the class.
less common and in some cases abBesides, the pusolutelv disappear.
pils are frequently allowed to give
upon
talks"
In the
subjects of interest to them.
senior year we encourage such talks
as nomination speeches, after dinner
toasts and their like.
unpreoared "voluntary
Business
In planning a course in
English, an instructor should make
allowance for thorough drill in pracvocabulary
spelling
tcal grammar,
A thorbuilding, and punctuation.
is oblistudies
these
of
ough review
gatory in high schools. A master of
nominatives
predicate
such topics as
an-l agreen:ent of a verb with its
subject will assist him greatly in both
kinds of composition. Practical grammar must not be neglected. Technical
grammar that has little or no practical
value should not usurp the time of
the
teacher
or
pupil.
Spelling
and
We
type
pupil's
tion.
Stroll
in
means
of
the
Written Word."
.Ml
letter,
it
is.
ters.
is
far
cry
at
first
flush,
that
to be drawn is
studying literature the comkeep their eyes
should
pupils
mercial
open to possibilities for practical use
used in
expressions
and
of the ideas
tlie
in
book.
*^J^u4/ned^<S(i^iu^i^iT-
of effective models and practice in writing sales letters can the pupil qualify himself
to become a writer of good sales let-
"New
Time make
We
We
11114.
in
crown upon
to
his
own
his
lan-
guage, "Not by the edict of the people, not by the will of parliament, but
by the
will of
my
upon
That
is
God,
head."
place the
Let
me
crown
tell
you,
friends, there
is
FORKELL
MR. WM.
of the
The
morning
fact
that
those
who
are
interested
patriotic
triotic
line,
the
propaganda.
my
without much
der Kaiser."
means
power.
What
a great military machine.
has America been doing? Two years
announced himself
after Frederick
emperor by the will of God and laid
the crown upon his own head, saying
that no people, -no parliament had
anything to do with it two years
after that, there stands down at Gettysburg our own immortal Abraham
He stands before that
Lincoln.
throng and gives that famous GettysImrg address: "Fourxcore and seven
years ago, our fathers brought forth
on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are creaieri
equal." That is the great psychology
up
28
t^^^tid//i^d4/^fi[U^i^^
wad
hour
is
being-
at
we
We
We
We
We
Employment Manager
shall Field
Public
School
tional
&
of
Mar-
Co.
Department
of
Na-
Commercial Teachers'
Convention, 1917.
is
of
gum.
We
don't care what they do on the outside, as long as it doesn't affect them
the next day. The girls are snicker-
perhaps.
ing,
who
Occasionally,
come who
those
though,
are serious-minded
serious business.
people are applying to a
These young
hire
tion
is
they can
to
man
or to a
them
if
services right.
In mj' talks to high school lioys
and girls, I try to impress vipon them
the idea that just as they enter the
office
it
sell their
is
up to them.
The Employ-
ment Manager
of
Provided
they will fit best.
general appearance of the individual,
the mode of address, the approach,
as we term it, is satisfactory, he has
gone a long way toward obtaining a
position with us. If you can impress
upon the boys that their appearance
must be their first consideration, you
which
and
"If there
think,
little
You would be
their future positions.
surprised how dirty and almost unrecognizable some of the apnlications
come back in the space of five minutes. Then, too, we find a large number of misspelled words. You can't
emphasize spelling too much.
Writ-
ing
essential,
is
though
this
depends
is going to
Sales Department, it is
enough if the writing is legible; in
the Clerical Department, the better
the handwriting the more valuable is
the promise of the applicant.
I believe it would be a good thing if application forms such as might be
used in any business house, would be
passed around from time to time as a
part of their closin.g course. Let them
realize what questions are asked by
do.
In
We
right
Some
ideas.
perhaps, say,
the
use?
around?
Why
Look
at
should
that
stick
fellow!"
.^^^ud/n^d^'^^iu:a^iTmy
what
anywhere
and
girls
mentals.
in
short road.
use
them,
We
find
that
altogether too
many
am
just
want
go back to personality
long enough to suggest that the
to
and no individual
boys into the idea of making notations of the things they are going to
do.
Let tliem make notes and keep
those notes until the job is performed,
checking each item as it is carried
And 'you as teachers must be
out.
willing to use this follow-up in repeating over and over to these boys
MR.
ADDRESS OF
D. 'W. SPRINGER
made known
Kentucky.
Up
Those
cational work in the camps.
of j'ou who are familiar with its service know that it has been confined
to the religious work, physical work,
entertainment and social features. But
following the first meeting of that
committee, the entire program of the
A. was changed and they
new director in each camp
and a new secretary in each building
to be known as the Educational Director and the Educational Secretary.
They attempte_d in selecting the Educational Directors to obtain those
representatives or to obtain representatives of all of the various types of
We find there
educational activity.
are college presidents, there are professors in universities, there are city
superintendents of schools, there are
principals of high schools, all rendering service' as Educational Directors,
and I believe that the Governmenf has
in mind not only the work that is
being done under present day conditions, but also as the result of the
Y.
M.
C.
took on a
if
where
to
him was
of English.
(privates I am talking about, not oflScers) w'ho last year received a salary
of $26,000' a year, and occupying the
cot next to him a private who never
earned in bis life what the Government is now paying him, $30.00 a
month and keep.
We
and
find
young lawyer, who has been the leader of every movement in his communand occupying the cot next to
is a fellow with a police record
cities in the state o( Michithree
in
gan, and so I can go on and in forty
different ways I could enumerate comparisons and contrasts that have been
produced not only in Camp Custer
hut probably in every camp throughout the United States, showing that
we have welded together there a
group of men who, had they remained
in their several cities and in their
several communities would never have
mingled. Each would have remained
ity,
him
in
but
are
his
own
when
group,
in
war
is
this
his
own
status,
over, these
men
made, when
this war is over and this country
comes to a basis where we shall have
universal military trainin.p^ where all
all
investigations
that
are
have
^^^^u<if^t^d^^;^iiai^
for them educationally?
In the first
place, we succeeded in offering to each
one in his barracks or in the Y. M. C.
Some
of the officers,
approached them,
said,
when we
"Oh,
first
well,
we
Americans."
ment
The Colonel
one
of
regi-
regiment
if
he would bring twenty
could not speak any English
for a conference, bringing
his entire staff, bringing all the officers and bringing three men, if he
would, from any company that might
see what could be done with a group
men who
together
of foreigners.
Now, of course, some
of you that come from large cities
and know the work that is being done
with foreigners, that is an old story,
but there may be some of you that
are not familiar with it, so I will take
the time to simply explain our first
demonstration
class.
We
met and
we had
fifty?"
room
until
we
have
men
in
cult
the
our
"We
We
there is a demand."
knew those
two things would be demanded and so
we have organized classes in Spanish,
trigonometry, in geometry, in telegraphy, in penmanship, in. correspondence letter writing and we even had
a request for one class in German.
I
in
m
camp
;o
is
o"f;,-=i different
^;ffr<.t f,-
entirely
from
,^,.i;_
work
You
tional
tures.
for
all
and inspirational
lec-
call,
lecN'ot onlj'
We
going
to be given a definite
amount of
war
came
see
to
the
Camp
as
at
boys
with other Americans with whom, under ordinary conditions, the opportunity would never have presented itself if they had not gone out of their
way to make such an opportunity.
(.\pplause.)
4,
issue of
No.
7, is
Remington Notes,
war number, full
"How
forcibly
on the opportunities for
greater usefulness which this condition presents to every typewriter operator.
A reminiscent article occasioned by the recent death of Mr.
William K. Jenne, the man who super-
first
Tale Ribbon"
is
a bit
of
war
fiction
the
timely interest.
Indeed the stenographers' opportunities for war
altogether
the
service
constitute
We
\\~
of
prominent feature of
this
issue,
al-
f^^^u^/n^U^^ti^iu^i^
FEDERATION MEMBERSHIP
IS
GROWING
D. Contarsy, 285S
Chicago, III.
F.
The
ers'
ful
in
cousin,
and
membership
certificate
be mailed to you.
S..
W. Twelfth
St..
Chicago, 111.
Mrs. Helen S. Young, 1063 Dakin
St., Chicago, 111.
Leo Tark, 1359 N, Campbell Ave.,
Chicago, 111.
Ivan E. Chapman. Nort'awestern
High School, Detroit, Mich.
Southeastern
Auch,
F.
Earnest
High School, Detroit, Mich.
Miss M. E. Peterson. Northwestern
High School, Detroit, Mich.
Miss Grace Maichle, Nort'.iwestern
High School, Detroit, MicM.
Miss
change
in the personnel of the instiThe school will continue withinterruption, but slight changes
in the courses of study and equipment will be made. A Collegiate Department was added some time ago,
and it is the intention to add a course
Mr.
for commercial teachers soon.
Hanson held the position of Principal
of the Shorthand Department, and
Secretary of the faculty of Concordia
College. Moorehead. Minn., for one
year. Before that he managed .taker's
tution.
Clara
out
work, and
Mr. .\aker
Wis.
tion.
elTorts
J.
trying
C.
who
of those
Sacramento,
R.
lege,
Cal.
B. F. Regal,
Butler, Pa.
Miss
Butler
Bus.
Col-
La Crosse, Wis.
Miss Mildred Passewalk, 1202 Main
Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Jesse Graham, Central High
M. Yoder, Washington H.
Bertha
Seward,
\\
business
educators
of
photograph
grossed
of a beautifully
Roll has lieen
Pa.,
reHonor
PhoenixJ. Warren Baer,
who is quite skillful in en-
W. E. McDermut, 1522
Ave.. Chicago, III.
Mrs.
St..
Mary Weisman,
Chicago,"
Bryn Mawr
5037
Fulton
111.
lips
Mentally disabled.
NESS EDUCATOR
THE
I
for one year.
your helpful
thought I
magazine during the war period, but
I find the sacrifice too great so I have
(-lut something else aside."
Lunatics.
(3)
(4)
Intoxicated
Idiots.
persons.
Married w o
n-'
(sometimes).
(3) Alien enemies.
:i.
Kind
of partners.
(1)
(2)
Ostensible.
Nominal.
(3) Dormant.
(4) Secret.
(5) Limited.
4.
How
the relation
created.
-As
(1)
By
holding
them-
selves as partners.
in
participating
the profits.
object of partnership.
effect of the relation.
(1) To partners.
(2) To others.
partnership property.
(2)
By
6.
The
The
7.
The
s.
Termination.
5.
is
between partners.
(a)
(b)
(1) Expiration.
(2) -Act of parties.
(3) Breach of agreement.
(4) Transfer of intrst
(5) Disability.
(6) Judicial decree.
(7) Notice of dissolution.
could sacrifice
(1)
(2)
Profligate,
Legally disabled.
(1) Infants.
(hi
School,
(a)
en-
Pa.
LAW
the
ceived from
ville.
Commercial School
in
country.
grammar grade
Harrisburg,
formed
Savings Bank,
"After
writes:
myself that I
Have
St..
habit
Calif.,
convince
to
need the B. E.,
auwatosa.
now!
institu-
Home
didn't
Berkeley. Calif.
Join the Federation
many
Wis.
Milwaukee,
Alvin
Miss
Wis.
Miss
Wis.
Miss
Los Angeles,
S.,
Forks
Grand
his
to
E. Bottomley,
have paid their dues since the publication of our April issue:
will
undoubtedly make
will
splendid
High School,
9.
of the dissolution.
authority of
to
(1) As
parties.
(2) As to disposition of
the firm property.
(3) .As to firm and indidividual creditors.
(4) Contracts in restraint
of trade.
covers two papers. No
outline
The
will follow.
Efifect
Two
r^J^Uii/n^U/^f/iu^i/^
INFORMATION R E G A R DING
EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR CERTIFICATES
TO TEACH COMMERCIAL
SUBJECTS IN THE CHICAGO
PUBLIC SCHOOLS. MAJOR SUBACCOUNTING AND
JECTS:
PHONOGRAPHY (MUNSON).
The next examination
proba-
will
dium and
The
Bottoiiie,
recently issued an attractive eightpage school paper bespeaking prosperity in that institution.
Irish's
Miss Mary P.
ceived from the following: The Lawrence, Kans.. Business College; Jones
Commercial College, St, Louis, Mo.;
The L'niversity of Chicago. 111.: Bay
by
th.^
Mrs.
S.
A.
Edmunds
is
in
charge of
work
for the
(a)
college.
(b) Two years of successful e.xperience in graded schools, and two years
of practical experience in the major
subject,
or
(a)
college.
(b)
Two
WILLIAM BACHRACH,
Suoervisor of Commercial
the
Work
in
High Schools.
the
South High School,
to
Youngstown, Ohio.
left one of the Des
M.
Gump
has
C.
Moines High Schools to take comAnderson, Ind.,
the
mercial work in
High School.
Simon Axelrod is a new commercial
teacher in the Lincoln, Nebr., High
pal
School.
V. Kennedy, last year of the Albany, N. Y., Business College, is, this
year, in charge of the commercial
work of the Mamaroneck, N. Y., High
School.
Oral W. Seipp, last year in Michigan,
is this year with the Yeatman High
School. St. Louis.
Geo. L. Crisp, for several years at the
J.
111.,
High School.
Sir
panj'
of
London, and
in
future
the
Xew
are:
"Aeroplanes
W.
and
Dommett,
marire Vessels" by the same
ships"
by
E.
Air-
"Subauthor,
"Elementary Aeronautics" by A. P.
"Artificial
and Natural
Flight" by Sir Hiram S. Maxim,
"Wireless
Telegraphy
and
Telephony" by William J. White, "RaThurston,
The Lawrence,
lege some time
full
pages of
Daily Capital, advertising that prosperous institution.
Bay
Path
embossed
title.
Advertising
Path
literature
has
been
re-
Springfield,
Mass.;
of Business Administra-
Institute,
The College
of
111.:
Remington
Notes.
Xew York
School.
subject.
Salary, $1,100 to .$],SI)0.
.Annual
increase, .$.5.5.
Candidates for general
certificates
They must present in advance credentials showing the following:
:
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attractively illustrated and presents
courses for those qualifying to teacri
business as well as those qualifying
for business.
Salem, Va.:
College,
ness
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Modern
Busi-
Wash.; School
of
department.
The Martin
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nf
well.
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new
position.
J.
Newton,
in
writing in the grades
as head
Iowa, to accept a position
bookkeeper in the leading bank in
teachingthe
Thus
it
is
that
Xewton.
profession loses a mighty good man
and tlie banking and Business proMr. Browning
fessions secures one.
is on the square as well as on the
job.
OTHERWISE"
from Recent Real Life
T. CRAGIN
By CHARLES
brilliant
many
young
women
all
thousands
and
over the
men
country are going out from the business schools to be Wise or Otherwise, just like the remarkable men
and women I have told you about in
the past nine numbers of "The BusiThis month I am
ness Educator."
not telling you about anybody in particular, but just preaching a little b't
of sermon for the benefit of those,
who are going out to seek fortune on
the troubled sea of business; for the
sea of business on which you are
Two
George?
What
confinement
in
intelligent of women?
figures and finance,
the
you
do,
If you
really want to be rich.
can.
The trouble with most
you
WANT
You
is true of women.
not keep a woman like Anna
or Jane .Adams from success no
matter what handicaps might hold
them back.
same
just
intelligent,
ergy, just
the
bright, so full of
alive with genuis."
so
en-
He
wouldn't
do him or
He wanted
any good.
want
he got
to.
cendent genius.
way
about
failure.
You say circumstances in"He could
fiire some against failure.
He is so
not help being a success.
is
it
else
could have
got it that way well enough. I have
earned a lot of money in my day.
You want to be a great business man
like John
Wanamaker or Marshall
Field.
You SAY you do, but when
you come to get right down to brass
tacks you don't want to. for you a'"
not willing to work as those men did
to get success.
Would you like to be a great light
iionored
an
in literature and have
name and L. L. D. or P. H. D. or
name
by
your
Litt. D., stuck after
Well,
the colleges of the country?
you
you can be if you want to, but
don't
Concerning Circumstances
Tt
other day with more than one hundred volumes of magnificent historical
it.
Byron
in
work
to his credit.
Are you
will-
you are
NOT
as these
men
willing to do such
did.
work
No, everybody
in
this life gets just about what he deserves to get, not much more, not
much
less.
it!
We don't any of
do as well as we might, but we
all have a place in the great scheme
of life. We all have a part to play in
the big drama of
existence
which
makes up the human race and it depends a great deal on how we play
this part, whether this world is a
Well, what of
us
place
fit
to live in or not.
Concerning Opportunity
any
The same
We
of us
half
money and
Shaw
genius for
ending in the
which
anybody
could
verdict of
prisoner's dpck with
a
"not guilty but don't do it again"
or a disagreement, I have forgotten
down where
success no matter what the ctrcumstances may be, for the indomitable
.spirit of a man who is "the captain
of his soul" will carry him through
every cloud and over every obstacle
into the sunlight of success.
want
about Margaret
makes
WILL
tomb, ending
and
exposure.
Rogers, most
in a living
starvation,
How
success
extremely intelligent,
well educated, alert, active, good looking young men, buried by tiie charity
of saloon keepers, gamblers and news-
paper men
Holyoke, Mass.
and
,M^^u^n^d^^/(u^i/h-
"WISE AND
Stories
We
had
very
brilliant
United
/I
I
don't remember the words,
but the gist of it was that Opportunity knocks
at tne door o*^
every man and woman and if t'le man
or woman don't get right out of bed
and let Opportunity in he goes on
ity."
ONCE
It
was
about
built
she said
as
she
it
Opportunity
comes
your door agaTn and
have
turned
him
again after you
away, after everybody has said you
were such an infernal fool that you
never would have another opportunity
He comes back again
to make good.
Especially is
and again and again.
wasn't
true.
pounding on
this
true
in
greater opportunity
this
is
country, where
given to young
any-
/^
tic
sum
have
if
of
c^^^^Ml^WIM^d^t^SM0i^
own
make good
It isn't a great
yourself.
that astonishing genius,
trying to borrow a
thousand dollars to make a little flivver that wasn't going to cost more
than four or five hundred dollars and
that would not break down and have
to be drawn home by some old horse
every time it got ten miles out in the
Mr. Ford makes quite a
country.
number of these things now and the
balance sheet of his company last
year showed more than fifty million
It isn't so very
dollars net profit.
long ago that George Eastman, whose
father u^ed to run a one-horse ousiness college in Rochester, New York,
was taking pictures in a little photothat
graph gallery and they
say
Eastman had to borrow the carpennecessary to make the
ter's tools
models for the first Kodak that he
sent to the patent office at WashingIn an estimate of the wealth of
tion.
American millionaires the other day
I
saw George Eastman down for
fifty millions, all made out of Kodak.
shall say what opportunities are
offered to the j'oung men who are
going out today to take their places
I am not
in the ranks of business.
talking to those v/ho are o'd enough
to take their places in the ranks of
war.
A wild, grim game witli iron
dice, is that of war, and I pray the
Great Ruler of the Unlvers- that it
may come to an end before the young
while
since
Who
this
article,
will
be
necessary, to
thf:
ALL
in
any avenue of
life.
You may
deed,
man who
beyond.
life
from whatever
YOUTH,
with
its
all
future you
that the
future can oflfer to a young man or
woman coming into the field of action
in the greatest period of the world's
history.
Do you know that the last
seventy-five years have seen more of
development than ali the millions of
years that have passed since this old
world of ours cooled off enough to
let animals live on it?
am not &s
old as I mean to be, but 1 have seen
in my life the com^n^ of n ^'cry pretty
little list of improvements
in
the
glorious vision of
have
that,
the
ali
world's method of living. The electric light, the pneimiatic bicycle, the
phonograph (not an un-rnixed blessing
as anybody will say who has heard
one next Kor grind "Its a long !ong
to lipptrary' at all hours of the
day and nig'.it) the trolley c.Tf, wire
v,-ay
of
all
the
larms to the oppressed
world (unless the skin of the oppressed happens to be yeilow) and to our
shores have come the best, and some
of the worst, of all nations and so we
a very Cosmopolitan race with our
mixture of Saxon, Teutonic. Celtic,
Slavonic. Latin, Indian and .African
citizens of this great and splendid and
not altogether lovable republic, for
the mixture sometimes i v^t for the
best.
I
don't like the looks of the
Mulatto though
fault
of his.
his complexion
All the rest mix
is
no
well
English or
of America.
Well
great
world
You
power.
not
are
of business that will manage the affairs of this world, now, all on fire,
in the days that are to come, when the
roar of battle and the thunder of guns,
blood
and
powder
the stench of
shall have died away and when
birds shall again sing in the trees and
flowers bloom on the shell torn fields
smoke
of
Whether you
and
succeed or
will
Italy.
will
fail
whether you
are Wise or Otherwise.
There will
continue to be success and failure of
individuals in the future as there have
been in the past. You will see young
men and women with splendid opportunities and favored conditions go
down to wreck and ruin and disaster.
You will see other young men and
depend
entirely
upon
women
in spite of unfavorable conditions, in spite of every possible disadvantage struggling up and rise step
by step until they reach the same
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Co.,
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five
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in penman-
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Commercial Dept.,
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Head
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stantial
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is making headhandwriting under the leaderMiss M. F. Marsden, the
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Mass., is accomplishing rehandwriting under the Superintendency of Mr. C. S. Jackson, and
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penman,
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E.
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Mills.
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L.
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HAYWARD,
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President
ciently
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Masterful.
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Saturday, April 13, 1918
MORNING.
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2.
.Address of
Welcome
Dean Everett VV .Lord
The College
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Administration
:i.
President's Address
4.
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President
J.
in
Business"
."j.
Mr.
Nolan
Mr.
Hayward
Mr. C. A. Burdett
President, Burdett College
"Blackboard Lettering"
Mr. Harold C. Spencer
Head of the Commercial Department
West Roxbury High School
6.
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"Facts Worth Knowing About
Figures"
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Instructor, A. N. Palmer Co., Boston
3. Question Box
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1.
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Your editor
way attempted
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