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ANNOUN CEMENT
The Board
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commencing September,
to
1915,
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WEST
NEW YORK
STREET
45th
SUPREMACY by SUPERIORITY
tests, held May 5th, 1915, under the auspices of the New York Board
of Education, at the Williamsburgh Evening High School for women to deterrelative merits of the Isaac Pitman and Gregg Shorthand.
Comparative
mine the
Test No. 2
Test No. 1
Percentage of Class Accuracy.
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VOLUME XX
COLUMBUS,
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SEPT., 1915
NUMBER
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Zaner,
E. W. Bloser.
Zaner & Bloser,
Editor
C. P.
Business Manager
Publishers and Owners
WHO DO NOT
KNOW, AND THE OLDER ONES WHO
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or
Two
The
Teachers' Professional
Edition contains 48 pages, twelve pages of
which are devoted to Accounting, Finance,
Mathematics, English, Law, Typewriting, Advertising, Conventions, etc., and Departments
specially suited to the needs of teachers, principals
and
Editions.
By
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proprietors.
cial subjects.
The Business Educator is devoted to the progressive and practical interest of Business Education and Penmanship. A journal whose mission is to dignify, popularize, and improve the
world's newest and neediest education. It purposes to inspire and instruct both pupil and
teacher, and to further the interests of those engaged in the work, in private as well as in public institutions of business education.
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of Address.
If
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pose.
Subscribers.
If
we do
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home
students, etc.
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Rates to Teachers, Agents, and Club Raisers
sent upon application. Write for them whether
you are in a position to send few or many subscriptions. Sample copies furnished to assist in
securing subscriptions.
Never conceal unfinished work under blotters, in pigeonholes or drawers, depending on memory to find it.
If necessary to leave unfiished work,
it should be placed on
the desk in
sight, under a weight, so if you do
not come back in the morning the
other man will know just where
things are and what to do.
The less you require looking after,
the more able you are to stand alone
and complete your tasks, the greater
your reward. Then if you can not
only do your work, but also intelligently and effectively direct the efforts of others, your reward is in exact ratio; and the more people you
direct, and the higher the intelligence
you can rightly lend, the more valuis your life.
Never carry matches loose in your
have a metal match-box.
The love you liberate in your work
is the only love you keep.
able
pockets
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excused from attending the drill class, I am
running counter to the accepted form of class
administration. It is my ext erience, however,
that well-motivated drill is not only acceptable
to children, but is absolutely
great majority.
It is
hundred
more than
degree by
which leads to
The lnqnlrlng mind discovers the need
>m.
ource of troth, and extracts It from countless
want to
la
the Instinct
appear together.
CURTIS
ON
STANDARDS
IN
WRITING.
The first of these is the doctrine of the limitation of training. Formally stated this principle is that in the development of every mechanical skill a level will ultimately be reached
where the law of diminishing returns makes it
uneconomical to continue the training. Put in
aditferentway.it is possible to say that no
matter how important any skill may be, there
will always be a degree of skill beyond which
it will not pay to go.
Up to the critical value,
the skill may be of fundamental importance;
once the critical value is passed, however, the
skill in question ceases to be a factor in determining the efficiency of the individual.
Professor Thorndike pointed out in his monograph on handwriting that when a child's
handwriting has reached a level of merit equal
to quality 12 or 13 on his scale, further time
spent in direct drill on handwriting is wasted.
The time might much more profitably be given
to learning typewriting, for instance.
all
know that if the whole school time
were given up to handwriting alone, a
very much larger percentage of children
than at present could be taught to write
We
copperplate.
My
for ninety-five
children out of one hundred there must be specific drills directed toward the attainment of an
objective goal. I grant that the drill must be
self-directed to be effective, and I would safeguard it by measurement, before, during and
after the drill, but I, for one, believe that .properly conducted drill will always form an essential feature of efficient teaching.
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been held, would not only prove most benefibut great interest would be manifested.
It appears to me that if a contest of this sort
was tried, there would be eighty per cent more
students in high schools making an improvement in their penmanship.
It would perhaps be difficult to judge in such
a case of this kind, not only the best writing,
but penholding, position, slant, form and materials should be taken into consideration.
I
cial,
Leslie
May
20, 1915.
E. Jones,
Elbridge, N. Y.
We
to
On June
Ellsworth- Walker-Carstairs-Lewis.
59 McAdam Ave,, Winnipeg,
June
The Editor B. E.
Dear Sir: -Referring
at the
10, 1915.
rank of Lieutenant.
Mr. Spencer devoted his life to the
Spencerian Publications, being the
chief editor and author.
to Mr.
H.
W.
Ells-
system was
first
communicated
to
motion
&c.
entitled "Lewis on Penmanis
I have the book.
Perhaps some other reader of the B. E. can
Your series
throw further light on this matter.
of illustrations from the "Universal Penman"
by G. Rrickham. are most interesting and much
The book
ship."
appreciated.
The
Thanking you
idea
for
is
splendid.
Editor B. E,:
Permit me to use a little space in your valuable magazine.
It is the custom to' have prize speaking in
high schools and other institutions in which the
I
say why
students of these are contestants.
not have prize "writing" in schools. I think a
contest of this kind, if such a contest has never
He was
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BUSINESS
WRITING
By
Learning
How
(FOR TEACHER
S.
E.
LESLIE,
to Practice.
AND
PUPIL.)
Good writing being the product of rightly directed action, no one may hope to acquire an
automatic good writing habit who has not learned to correctly direct the writing muscles of the
arm and fore-arm. Much time is wasted by pupils who practice with their minds on effects
(good letter forms) rather than on the cause
(good muscular action) of good writing. Too
much stress cannot be put upon the importance
of the pupil acquiring right movement in the
very beginning of his practice. He must be
made to understand the process of relaxation.
All muscular tension and anxiety to make good
exercises or letter forms must be eliminated.
He must be shown that good action and freedom of movement is far more desirable than the
most perfect letter forms he could possibly
make with tense muscles and cramped movement. The pupil should be taught to swing
easily from left to right in exercises and letter
practice, not so much to make good forms as to
develop correct action of the writing muscles.
Once this action is developed, good writing
will be a natural product. Aside from the right
mental attitude, perhaps the most important
movement
is
CORRECT POSITION.
Correct posture is necessary in writing (1)
Because of the ill effects of poor position on
the health. (2) Because of the greater ease
with which one may develop right muscular
action when in a good position.
In the illustrations the correct writing posture
A careful study of these pictures
is illustrated.
will give you an understanding of the correct
position of the hands, arms, feet and the approximate distance of the eyes from the line of
writing. The body should be three or four
inches, from the edge of the desk.
The feet are
flat on the floor.
The eyes are from ten to
fourteen inches from the paper.
The body
bends forward from the hips. The shoulders
are kept well back at a'l times.
This is especially important. The body is steadied on the
left arm. This leaves the right arm free for
easy action. The right shoulder should not be
higher than the left.
The arms form right angles at the elbows,
and the hands, lying on the desk, in proper
writing position, should be at right angles to
each other.
MATERIALS.
Now that
DEVELOPING MOVEMENT.
The pose of the body should be that of complete muscular relaxation. This is the proper
condition of the muscles in the developing of
good writing action. Study illustrations. Now
with the right arm resting lightly on the desk and
muscle in front of the elbow still completely
relaxed, begin rolling the arm about in the
sleeve, which should be very loose.
The arm
should not slide on the desk, but simply roll
around in either direction describing a circle
as large as the relaxed muscles will
permit. There should be no finger or wrist
to
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POSITION OP PAPBR.
The illustrations show the position
POSITION OF
The second, third and fourth fingers turn under the hand in a half-closed position. The index ringer in a half-extended position lies on
top of the holder and with the aid of the thumb
keeps it in position against the root of the nail
of the second ringer. The thumb bends at both
joints. The hand rests lightly on the backs of
the nails of the third and fourth ringers. The
second ringer does not touch the paper. The
pen-holder passes a little below the third joint
of the index ringer and points in the direction
of the shoulder.
Two
in as
natural a position as possible and the penholder held lightly. Study cut No. 4.
AMOUNT OF PRACTICE.
will
make.
PRELIMINARY SPECIMENS.
In order that you may see how much improvement you make in a given time, you will
now prepare a specimen page of your work to
file
with
your teacher.
should be written before
and hand
tice
so
EXERCISE
on the lessons
This specimen
beginning prac-
in this course.
Write
repeating until a page is filled:
the
following,
(Mame of school and place)
(Present date)
This is a specimen of my plain business writing before beginning practice on the lessons
by S. E. Leslie in The Business Educator.
(Name)
This specimen should be tiled with your
teacher and carefully preserved for comparison
with a final specimen to be taken when you
have finished the lessons,
1 : Swing half way across the page with the elbow acting as a hinge or pivot.
Wrist should not bend. Hand should not turn on the side.
strokes should be made to a regular and uniform count of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Line 2 and 3: These strokes are made as 1, but require more control of the swing. The arm should not slide on the desk. Aim to make eight,
quick strokes with your thought more on the action than the result.
Line
The
EXERCISE
is designed to enable you to develop a movement which is the foundation for the slant of all letters.
Keep the paper
regular position. The down strokes are made toward the center of the body. The action should be very free and regular and continue onefourth distance across the page. Two spaces in height.
in the
EXERCISE
In developing movement you were instructed to let the arm rest lightly on the desk and roll it in either direction. With pen in hand this rolling
action should produce an exercise like the above. Think very little of form. Try to develop the right action now and control will come later.
Follow the direction of the arrows, making the oval in both directions.
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EXERCISE
In this copy you will continue the movement half-way across the page without lifting the pen. If you keep your
the form of the exercise, it will be easy. The pen should make abeut one hundred and fifty revolutions per minute.
EXERCISE
Move
the
first
Count
1, 2, S, 4, 5,
7, 8, lift
ti,
mind on
It
EXERCISE
Retrace the oval two spaces high.
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the pen and repeat, linking six ovals together in a quarter section.
These beginning movement exercises should be practiced until they are made without muscular tension, and
or more of them should be reviewed for five minutes at the beginning of each lesson.
a fair
degree
of control
is
acquired.
One
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EXERCISE
Line
count
is first
Line
3:
etc.
same
Aim
Make sixteen
Lift
letters to a line.
An
movement
easy regular
is
EXERCISE
1
moving.
letter
retraced exercise in line 2 is made with a large swing downward to the base line and a small swing at the top.
easy action, alternating the exercise with a single and keeping a regular count between exercises and letter.
for
letters
on these beginning
movement
when
The
lessons.
aaa
aa
Line
is
intended for practice, but given to enable you to get a mental picture of the correct form of each
The
practiced.
is 1, 2, 1, 2,
is
to the
at
the top.
Make
eight to a line.
letters
letter,
1, 2,
for
each
sea
A and
single
A alternate
in this
this exercise is
copy.
it
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a a a a aa a a
EXERCISE
: To conform with the beginning stroke of the
ction and the regular count 1 to 8 for each oval.
1
the
letter.
a
aaa
aaaa
Line
Make
Count
1,
made on
Lift the
pen a
little
Make
three to a quarter
Line
3:
-Keep the
ishing stroke
is
letter nearly altogether closed at the top. Fifty or sixty letters are
indicated which is used when joining the A to other letters.
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EXERCISE
10
: You will notice that the exercises are becoming a little more difficult and require greater control. The action, however, should be none
the less easy. Set the pen down quickly swing to the left and downward forming a small loop slightly above the center of the exercise; then with
another easy swing to the left and downward to the base line and upward to the beginning stroke, retrace exercise 8 times to a regular count. Practice
this same exercise one space high.
Line
Line 2: Study large form of E. You already understand the correct action for making the letter. The finishing stroke swings
upward the same as C.
Line 3: Study the shape and direction of the small loop connecting the two parts of E. Count 1, 2.
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During the summer we had the pleasure of examining some specimens of writing from the
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so during the
exhibition
"GOOD WRITING-WELCOME"
was displayed upon the archway, and as a consequence thousands of people inspected the
writing. Improvement in the writing shown
was not that of an occasional child, or of an occasional room, nor even of an occasional school,
but seemed to be the result of every school on
Omaha, June
Specimens
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of the
shows
that
Miss Mellon
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successful super-
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man with
free criticism.
to
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Place this exercise in two spaces.
this exercise fully.
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Nos. 4, 5 and 6. After you have practiced these words carefully, see how many words you can write in a minute.
Follow previous instructions.
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No.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum
for the expression of convictions relating to methods of teaching and the art of writing
EYE TRAINING
The first writing may be said to
take place in the brain of the child,
for there it is conceived and reflected
to the hand. The eye is the chief
Montessori
avenue to the brain.
emphasizes the touch, but sight rather than touch is the chief avenue to
the brain else the blind would excel
those with sight in the perception of
written characters.
But the eye, even though the natural medium of perception needs direction, else it sees everything and
the brain comprehends nothing or a
image of meaningless
blurred
scrawls.
The
child's
attention,
a white letter
Perception
first
article.
PARTIAL CONTENTS
ers.
Number
of the Business
Educator.
sult of failure
therefore,
Buhlig,
Chicago.
Accounting,
Chas. F. Rittenhouse, C.
P. A., Boston.
Arithmetic,
J.
troit.
plex.
Commercial Law,
Efficiency, Harold
Kan-
S.
Cowan,
Passaic,
N.J.
child writing.
The eye which directs and guides
the pencil in drawing, the brush in
painting, and the chisel in sculpture,
may and should forerun the pencil
in child writing.
Motion, even more than touch, aids
the child in perception as well as in
performance: Thus primary teachers write a large form on the board
and then have children motion in the
air by tracing over the form in makebelieve-manner of writing it on the
air.
P. B. S. Peters,
sas City.
Diary Snap
smith, Philadelphia.
Vocational Guidance, W.
Everett, Wn.
S.
Hollis,
Sight, touch
for children.
To achieve the highest, it is not enough to do as well as some one else, more even better than some one else, for that would be letting others
prescribe our standards or achievements, but the "The Best Possible" is the motto or ideal to keep it in mind. It knows no limitation except the
capacity of the in lividual. Inheritance, ambition, and concentration are the individual's powers of achievement. How about ^-"'"sr-
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Marshall's
Professional Edition
to the best interests of business education and dedicated to the
expression of conscientious opinions
upon topics related thereto. Your
thoughts are cordially invited.
3C
FEDERATION FORECAST
Never in the history of the NationCommercial Teachers' Federation
has there been so much real punch
put into the push or promotion of
that organization as is being done
al
this year.
sequently of commercial
education
generally.
All commercial teachers may rest
assured that the coming convention
at Chicago, during holiday time,
promises to be the largest ever held,
and the best also. The various Federated Associations are endeavoring
Vocational Guidance
Meanderings
DC
inc
Let the business school manager put himself in the place of a salaried commercial teacher and ask himself the question,
"If I were offered two jobs, at the same pav,
one in the high school and the other in my
school, as I am at present running it, which
would I take?"
As for the pay, there is not so much difference between that of the high school and the
private business school, but for the rest, it is
perfectly plain that the advantage is all with
the public school. It should be mentioned also, that there is never any trouble about the
high school teacher's getting his salary check
on the dot each month. In all too many private schools, teachers are not only required to
wait for their salaries, but in many instances do
not get it at all. There are a lot of fake schools
who make a point of robbing their teachers in
tion and ability.
Mental
Devoted
UC
our readers.
Business English
3QC
The
Call of the
With an
ever
increasing
High School, pull, the high school job continues to draw the commercial teacher. I think
I can name at least a hundred strong commerschool instructors who got their professionbusiness colleges, but who are now
teaching in high schools, and I know as many
more in business colleges who are watching for
the first chance to take high school positions.
The private business school proprietors are
each year finding it more difficult to get dependable teachers. Some of these employers
do not seem to know what is the matter. They
do not seem to understand why so many teachers prefer high school jobs. Perhaps if the employing school man were more capable of lookcial
al start in
ing
his
From
friction,
nobody
Very often, the rest of the school organization, at heart, regards the commercial department as a sort of encumbrance, and the more
easy going the head of it is. the better he is
liked. In the live business college, the teachers are held to a constant and strict responsibility.
like that.
easy.
this
way.
all of
prietor, there
how he
will digest
better salaries."
It is hanl to realize that the
author of "Little Journeys"
to Garcia" has gone from us
forever; that the vivid sun of the "Philistine"
has set; that the familiar figure of our Fra lies
cold and still beneath 60 fathoms of the blue
Atlantic, whither it was sent in the interest of
German "Kultur."
Hardly any man among us could be more
missed by the average reading American. For
twenty years he has held a unique place, has
been
a figure, apart
from
all
others different,
As
The
big
cities
of this
&
There was
In other towns,
service
al-
required. In
costs but five
is
Rome and Greece and carrying the law of rapine and ruin, into the other capitals of Europe?
What cheer was there for the optimist, when,
nine centuries later Tamerlane and his hordes
overwhelmed Persia, the seat of the
ancient learning, and carried their wave of savagery to the very gates of Constantinople? But
Attila met his Chalons, Tamerlane was stopped,
just as in later days Napoleon met his Waterloo.
Whether we believe God rules, through Evoof Tartars
Napoleons.
runs.
Let us hope.
There
is
also
cities as to
the
down and
killed
Broadway,
by
ence of someone
payer to YOU.
wrong
side of the
that
where
quire to know.
E.
Cupper,
Inc.
Acct.
Bingen, Ga.
There
is
scarcely
it.
Make
NOW
By Thomas
promise be
way.
a dividend
else,
Is
the time
that article,
to
write
make
that
suggestion
had
in
you have
mind.
&
>^{:>36tsj//uJJ&//ua/</ACCOUNTING
Accounts,
principles alone
ing of abstract
would, it may be imagined, be little
read and would perhaps be of little
benefit to the reader. A discussion
of concrete material will, it is hoped,
serve to fix attention upon the principles involved and at the same time
to provoke further discussion.
Let
us make of the department a clearing
house of views and opinions. Let us
submit any questions of bookkeeping theory, any practical problems,
or any point on methods of teaching
in order.
Owing
to the limited
time
and space at our disposal, no attempt will be made to lay out a connected course of instruction in higher accounting as might be implied
from the name given to the department. Those teachers who are prepared for such work and who desire
to add to their equipment by pursuing a course in accounting and allied
subjects have ample opportunities
for
number of
commerce and
large
excellent schools of
accounting established in connection with many of
our universities and colleges and
through special schools giving such
courses. A number of such institutions offer summer courses open to
teachers, while many teachers are
able to do resident work during the
in our daily
work.
As a large number of such
questions will doubtless deal with
principles in which there would be
general interest these will be given
to the readers and discussed from
month
who submitted
so that all
may
bene-
it.
is
Problem
Instead of keeping a Merchandise
account it is desired that such subdivision accounts be kept by this
concern as will show the operations
of the business to the full extent.
Following is a synopsis of the
Merchandise account:
MERCHANDISE
July 1 Balance
Dec. 31 Purchase
Freight on
Dec. 31 Sales
$ 40.000.00
358.520 00
Returned purchase
Discounts
retur led
50.00
80.00
3.200.00
Sales allowance
240 00
Freight on
purchases
110.00
sales
Discounts
Goods
month
we
sound
to
the
who may
1914:
tice.
ling a
The
the
S365.000.00
1,200 00
000 ii"
I
Illustrate by means o
a better one.
ledger forms.
It is obvious that the purpose of
both of the above questions is (1) to
bring out the objections to the old
Merchandise account, and (2) to present as a substitute such accounts as
will show the trading operations in a
more teachable and practical manner.
Briefly stated the objections to the
Merchandise account are as follows:
(
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22
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS
ROSE BUHLIG.
CHICAGO.
i
cnc
Basic Principles
business English?" I
is
"Is it differfrequently asked.
ent from what the rest of us studied
when we studied English? Why do
you specialize and call it business
"What
am
English?"
This is the age of specialization, in
English as well as in other departments of human thought and enBut the term "business
deavor.
English" hardly represents the full
specialization that has been introduced into the study of English. At
the high school in which I teach in
Chicago we have specialized still
more by dividing business English
into commercial English for those
studying stenography and bookkeeping and into electrical English for
those studying electrical construction.
We are, moreover, considering
special English courses for shop pupilswood-working, foundry, machine-shop. These pupils, especially if they are taking one of the twoyear courses that are growing im-
who know
despair.
And nowadays
am
everyday,
common-sense English based upon a
very definite knowledge of the fundamentals, and it includes practically
every department of the subject as
it is taught in practically any English
class. To be sure business English
been
among
us.
It
is
hopes
would
impression,
have
profitable.
One of the
found
best
she
probably
the directness
results,
to
my
mtdeuwt#i*&&u*air
ZDCDl
made
IDEAS OF AN
Arithmetic
Teacher
J.
C.
HOWELL,
DCZIC
Ideas of an Arithmetic
ZICDC
Teacher
articles
cheerfully made.
When
this
tination?
with
you certain habits are going to be
formed which will have a strong influence upon the weeks which are to
follow. If students get the idea the
"we haven't really
first week that
started yet and I can soon catch up,"
they are likely soon to discover that
the crowd is out of sight and has left
no trail which they can follow. A
large percentage of failures is made
during the fivst week of school.
The first time you meet your class
there should be a definite assignment of work to be done before the
next recitation. It should be work
The
first
is
tion.
calls
to do so, he
later the prob-
thus assisted.
To determine the.student's mastery
of a topic, the.use of the short test is
very helpful. This should consist of
one or two representative problems
selected either from the lesson or
They
from some outside source.
should be such as can be solved in
five or ten minutes so as to leave the
larger part of the class period open
for the development of the lesson in
hand and the assignment of the ad
vance lesson.
The success of the work often depends upon the way in which the assignment is made. Some teachers
never make an assignment of a lesson until the gong for dismissal
other teacher
will
take
fifteen
or
twenty minutes to make the assignment, going over the problems involved, talking about the peculiarities of each, explaining the phraseology and otherwise simplifying the
work for the student. Much depends
upon the work to be studied in determining the amount of time to be devoted to making the assignment. If
the teacher wishes to arrive at the
initiative shown by pupils in understanding and solving problems, very
little should be said about the problems; but it is frequently true that
very few pupils in a class will show
any initiative in solving problems.
23
who
habitually fails in
"How
NEWS ITEMS
Carl E. Katerndahl, who has been teaching in
the Commercial department of the Scandinavia
Academy. Scandinavia, Wis., has been successful in securing an appointment as commercial
teacher next year in the Sweet.Grass County
of the
to take
charge of the shorthand department in the Excelsior School of Business, Utica, N. Y., next
year.
is to be a teacher on the
the Packard Commercial School, New
City, next year.
Earle Simpson
staff of
York
School, Phoenix,
Ariz., has been fortunate in securing Miss Kosella Highland, of the Kdinbc.ro, Pa., State Normal School, as an assistant in the commercial
department next year.
G. L. White,
now
new school
there.
Y..is
to accept a position next year in the Braddock,
Pa., High School.
^<S%u4vuW@du#a*r'
=nc
pi
BUSINESS GETTING
~i
KEEFOVER
A.
F.
INSTRUCTOR
IN
which
an impelling thing
is
ADVERTISING
ting the
benefits,
Create desire
"
3C
'I
3C
OR REVISING AN
CRITICISING
AD.
The
(2)
have the
IF
it
to create
method.
the correct
is
in-
for get-
till
ant.
you wrote your ads and letters as most of them did, up to a few years ago, you
wrote copy mostly by "main strength and awkardness.
That is not saying you may not have done some mighty fine work that brought
results.
But perhaps the same ability and effort we all gave would have brought more
business if we had known well in the beginning how to criticise and revise our copy before sending
any person.
to
first
terest,
TACOMA, WASH.
$10.
out.
Now-a-days, the good ad men have learned more of the "why" than most of us used
know, and this helps them to master the "how" in finishing their copy.
No mere ability to analyze will make one a good ad writer, any more than a Knowledge of grammar will make him a good writer of English.
But, a knowledge in grammar will enable one to eradicate glaring errors from what
might otherwise be excellent writing. And the ability to criticise copy for an ad will enable one to avoid errors and to make a good ad pull still more business.
In criticising an ad, there are two things to do
First, discover the weak spots and get rid of them.
Second, study out points of appeal, and put these in the briefest, most empelling way.
to
presents an obstacle
right
the
at
start,
(3)
will
is
not
good.
"The
(4)
mortgages his
It breaks
spendthrift
out of order.
is
the reader
being led.
is
To have
argument.
It
a negative
is
greatest
effect
it
is
it
on an
effort
accompanying ad
in at class,
ad omitted
is
let
by a student. The
it was handed
just as
errors and
to
But,
all.
save space.)
in class for
Stereotyped formality
to
the benefit
a careful
suspicious.
the reader
Let
is
not
parently definite.
in
consistent
that locality.
the
statement
is
true;
if
not,
to see
length of
There
It
is
if
person" throughout.
some
is
make
It
is
easy to do this
work.
class
In others, difficult.
places.
Here
POWER
sentence
last
talk,
of
is
a comfort-
sonal
in
MONEY
is
finish
"It
exact amount.
in
safety
7% compounded
unreasonable
with
just before
Remarks.
(5)
stated,
losing dignity.
offer of
the
appear
it
able feeling."
The
so
is
(1)
criticisms
of the student.
or else
made
(Signature of
The
ment,
conservative way,
the result
still
view point.
Try
to
another
it.
(CLASS REVISION)
$500
$500
C,At
in
MONEY
com-
know
We
Complete Security,
eral Dividends.
day.
It
when need
you have money in
a comfortable feeling,
is
comes,
to
know
that
the, etc.
(Note "Reap
figure.
What
the
will
cream"
is
not a good
you substitute?)
25
]DC
3CZ1C
EFFICIENCY
HAROLD
Hiitli
E.
COWEN, n
School Comme
Department,
cial
endeavors
Evidently then, our
shall be directed toward the average
pupil.
Thus the question resolves
itself to what we are going to do for
How
and hindmost.
these average boys
and girls without slighting the subaverage ones, or allowing the superaverage ones to waste valuable time ?
There are certain very capable and
energetic young people in our classes whose aim in life seems to be to
This is the
tell what they know.
kind of student we sometimes are
forced to discipline because he tries
to take our job away from us. They
are keen and arrive at conclusions
much more rapidly than their fellows. In oral work, speed drills, or
the foremost
may we educate
cannot allow these people to monopolize the class period; neither should
we smother this very valuable ambition with which they are endowed.
We
lack
we
tion
He
realizes that in
some way
same
lesson
from
two different
angles.
where the more able student should becalled upon the scene.
There are times when the teacher alHere
is
perimenting
They
like
it
be-
cause the one is imbued with a feeling of importance, while the other is
glad enough to have help in his
tasks, particularly in that it relieves
him of many tedious after school
hours.
comes
in inspiring these
all
young peo-
ple with the spirit of generous co-operation, the spirit which Edward Everett Hale loved when he wrote,
"Look forward, and not back,
And
lend a hand."
We often realize that many of our
hardest working young people strive
not for knowledge, but for credit,
for the glory of beating someone else
out rather than the satisfaction of
accomplishment. This is a dangerous characteristic and a hard one to
break. In fact it is impossible to
break if we keep our students on an
entirely competitive basis. It is by
(Continued on page 27.)
26
C?Ae>36uM/i&i4>C'du{*i&r
an enormous pity," one was
"It's
nc=ic
September
8,
1913.
I've decided to
begin a diary.
I
don't intend to
write in it every day, but merely to jot
of interest from time to
time.
I believe I shall be glad in later years to have a record of this new
life I'm entering, and the best time
down events
to
commence
first
it is
right
now when
the
mood,
it
hampers me
to
have to
sit
was
"stuff"
wondering what
he
sort
of
commenced
My
writ-
When
I was fourteen
I
wrote a romantic tragedy, copied it off in my
best penmanship, tied up its pages
with a pink ribbon, and launched it
upon a series of voyages to current
magazines. I loved that story and
had faith in its merits. I felt confident that the editors would welcome
it and clamor for others from the
same pen.
Its
return
me
with a
grew bitter at the
filled
hurt surprise. I
editors and concluded that unknown
genius was not fairly treated the
writers whose stories were published
must have a "pull" which I lacked.
I had the conceit of the fourteen-yearold, and never for a moment thought
that my work was faulty.
I
too,
homeward journeys.
In school
my
confidence and
persistent-
my
my mind
plans
relieving
gers.
yet
how
author of the mechanical and irksome part of his labors and spare
energies for the glorious work of
creating books.
I didn't lose much time in putting
my plans into operation, for I hadn't
the right to be a financial burden to
my family for one day longer than
was absolutely necessary. Besides,
in seeing just what
I was interested
plan-
#>
er.
A very pretty girl and a tired looking gentleman entered the building,
stopped a moment to read the office
directory, and then came toward
where I stood at the elevator door.
"Please go now, father," said the
girl.
"I want to go into the school
alone."
Evidently her muscles hadn't
turned to jelly as mine seemed to have
done.
"All right," answered the man.
"But let me remind you again of
your ultimate purpose in coming
here. With the education you've already had, it won't take you long to
But you want to
learn stenography.
do more than that. Keep in mind albecome
an expert.
wish
to
ways the
The world holds thousands of stenographers but very few expert ones.
Don't be satisfied with the pace set
by the mediocre students, but take
advantage of every opportunity and
put your best efforts into whatever
you do. Then when you leave the
college you will be efficient, and your
services will be sought. More than
that, you will have gained a feeling
of self-esteem that will not only be a
source of satisfaction to you but also
a means of inspiring confidence in
you on the part of others.
"I'll
go now.
Goodbye, daughter.
Do your best."
He kissed her and went
out.
I glanced at the girl as we stepped
into the elevator together. Her pretty mouth wore the suggestion of a
feared that she wouldn't
I
pout.
profit much by her father's words.
Well, at any rate, his advice would
not be wasted. It wasn't meant for
me, and maybe it was a bit preachy;
but it seemed to fit my case so well
that I determined to take it to heart.
and
I kept thinking over his words
repeating them to myself as we shot
Somehow they sent a warm
aloft.
glow all through me. So that, as I
approached the registration desk,
&
*^^3Sud/ned^(^/u^i/^
knees no longer quaked and my
heart no longer thumped.
Gracious! If I'm to get up in time
to be in the class-room at nine
o'clock tomorrow, I must stop writing this very minute. Were all the
entries in my diary to be as long as
this first one, I fear the chronicle
my
would run
many
to
volumes.
Grain of Dust
and Useless
W.
C.
COPE,
Newark, N.
J.,
Drake
College.
How-
now that I've done my retrospecting, I'm sure I shall not need
to be so garrulous in the future.
ever,
EFFICIENCY
{Continued fro?n page
25.)
good citizenship
It is by
co-operation between master and inferior mind that raises the level of
intellect and society.
It may be misunderstood that this
method of classroom operation is for
the sole purpose of lightening the
teacher's burden, whereas it will
make her more efficient with the
same amount of labor, because a
co-operation
maintains
that
its
standards.
great deal of time now spent in struggling with deficient pupils may be
put to other purposes.
This time
maybe given to the helping of pupils
who have been absent and lost actual
class time; also to caring for those
who have
fallen
behind on account of
laziness.
Nor
in his
own
classes, particularly in
Commercial Arithmetic.
For many
branches of mathe-
matics,
bookkeeping,
language
translation, or wherever class work
of a problematic nature is assigned.
Care must be taken that no student
actually depends upon this help in
order to get his work done. This
feature can be easily ascertained by
the results of occasional written lessons, which of course are strictly individual. As has been before stated,
only a small number need be treated
in this way, only those getting help
27
growing so wild.
"Grain of Dust" had no beautiful
home only a cabin, as it were, and
pretty badly dilapidated at that.
"Grain of Dust" was growing very
fast, becoming tall and slim as many
youths do. "Useless" called him
"Pipe-Stems" on account of his long
legs; "Skinny" since he was so thin;
"Blue Jay" because he could only
afford blue overalls; "Long Jim" because his father, James, was tall, and
many other unkind names, so unbecoming to a young man of gentility,
culture and refinement.
"Useless" used to tell him he was
as poor as "Job's turkey" and that
the boots he wore looked like "canal
Prairies.
boats."
Indian.
His
to dust, his
traits are
had
for his
NEWS ITEMS
Maude Starretl, now of Lancaster, Wis., has
been elected to teach next year in the Link Business College, Portland, Oregon, where she
will have charge of the shorthand department.
Annie
Hall, of
T. F. Juergens, of Sullivan,
the
managership
College, Aurora,
111.,
has accepted
George H. Rossmann is employed as principal of the Bookkeeping and Banking Departmens of the Piedmont Business College,
Lynchburg, Va.
coming
year.
a tree or the school house, crying because he had been struck, beaten or
thrown without mercy at the hands
of his jealous school-fellow, and I
ing year.
>yjiM/itjj C<//ua/</
(F
NEWS ITEMS
-J
The Taylor
K. \V.
Alexander,
of
Warrensbnrg,
individuality.
The
Mo.
Sherman Perry,
ment
of the East
111.
Cora B. Clever, of Tonkawa, Okla., has accepted a position in the Commercial Department of the McKeesport, Pa., High School.
won new
John W. Miller, of Oakdale, 111., has been appointed head of the Commercial Department in
High School, Alexandria, La.
cial
Department
Miss Gertrude Falk, of Mendota, 111., has accepted a position as commercial teacher in the
High School of Pekin. 111.
Klingesmith, of Minersville, PennJ. J.
sylvania, has accepted a position in the Commercial Department of the Springfield, 111.,
High School.
Miss Minnie C. Koopman,
of Pittsburg, Kan.,
has been elected to a position in the commercial
department of the High School at Boone, la.
Carrie A.Travis, of Westerly, R. I., has accepted a position as teacher in the Haverhill
Business College, Haverhill, Mass.
J. S. Purcell, Douglas, Ga is acting as Secretary of the Chandler Business College, Chandler,
Okla.
The
High
commercial course.
School.
J.(i.
J.,
is
always
attractively illustrated,
ten.
Commer-
Kalamazoo,
Trenton, N.
of
friends.
the
accepted
Bulletin,
Mr. H. O. Keesling. President of the Louisville Bryant & Stratton and New Albany Busi
ness Colleges, illustrates and describes his
schools and work in a twenty-four page, cream
colored, coated paper catalog.
er in
Boonviile.
College
Mis- Lillian Kite, of Keota, Iowa, has accepted a position as commercial teacher in the High
School at Oshkosh, Wis.
Baldwin-Wallace
Freeman
Miss Helen Knott, of Columbus, Ohio, has accepted a position as commercial teacher id the
High School at Steubenville, O.
School, Philadelphia,
M issonri,
has acceptetl a position as assistant in the Commercial Department, State Preparatory School,
Boulder, Colo.
cepted a position
Advertising Literature
Don. Gilbert
June 19, 1915
College
Journal,
artistically printed,
and interestingly
writ-
Mississippi
Miss., has a
sided over by Mr. C. B. Boland, indicating upto-date courses of study and practice in all of its
departments.
city,
commencing
trated heading,
lustrations relative to starting out in life, seeking success, pursuing it, and achieving it. This
piece of advertising bespeaks new enthusiasm
and blood in this well-known institution. Our
congratulations are hereby extended for the
most attractive 16-page journal we have ever
had an opportunity to examine and review.
tS^&u^/utiy&s&itu&r
those who have
NEWS NOTES
AND NOTICES
3C
Mr. A. R.Martin, formerly of Ohio and recently of Providence, R. I., will have the management of the Sharon, Pa., College of Commerce the coming year, Mr. J. P. Amspofcer,
proprietor.
school.
man
in a
good
Mr. A. P. Meuh, who has been teaching penin the Santa Ana, Calif., High School,
now teaching in the Pasadena, Cal., High
school, Mr. Meub is a very fine penman, as
well as an excellent teacher.
manship
is
Tillie
is
th^
new
Mr.
C. Smeltzer,
Mr. W. A. Conner, Principal of the Commercial Dept. of the Ohio Business College, Cleveland, has accepted a position with the High
School of Commerce, Cleveland.
He
Brown University,
to a jury.
Mr. C. E. Hudson, of
DC
DCZIDIZZIC
bringing to
it
He
is
its
one hundred
as a
head
new
summer
consequence
resort.
man.
Our
best wishes.
concerned.
forty-
this State."
Pa., is
partment
manship.
As
R. L. Miller, of Indianola, la., has been elected to the position as commercial teacher in the
High School at Marshalltown. Iowa.
teach
W.
H.
Nancrede, of
will
Ann Arbor, as a
department, next
year.
Emma Poland,
life
recent-
to all parties
at
$>
ville,
the
Mass.,
is
High School
year.
Business College,
in
Bridgeport,
Conn.
The
its
Quincy,
III.
teaching
at
Lee Newton, of Alpena, Mich., has contracted to teach bookkeeping next year in the South
High School at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Ralph W. Legg, who has been teaching during the past year in the High School at Rocky
Ford. Colo., will teach next year in the Centennial High School. Pueblo, Colo. Mr. Legg will
be followed at Rocky Ford by a Miss Peiffer.
A. R. King, of Lindsborg, Kansas, will act as
head of the Commercial Department of the
Hutchinson High School, Hutchinson, Kansas,
next year.
III.
coming
year.
J.W. Selfe, of Millbury, Ohio, has been ento teach in the Davis Business College,
Toledo, Ohio. He has charge of the Benn
Pitman shorthand in that school.
gaged
School
charge
at
of
teach-
Ind.
Rose P.
commercial
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account;" in
It is a "mixed
(5)
other words, it belongs both to the
21.)
group of accounts
and Liability group,
show
The account
(6)
illustrated in the
8365.000 00
1,200 00
4,000 00
32,000 00
Merchandise
An
The
credit
to
Merchandise
an amount
the account.
such
as
will
for
is
balance
:
NEWS ITEMS
Miss Marie Burchell, of Haverhill, Mass., is to
teach next year in the Waterville, Me., High
School, in the commercial department.
A. A. Fulton goes from the Northampton,
Mass., Commercial College, to the Wakefield,
Mass., High School, where he is to have charge
of the commercial department next year.
Y., High School will
of teachers next year
of Port Chester, N. Y. Miss
assistant in the commercial de-
The Mamaroneck, N.
have added to its
Miss Gladys Snag,
Snag
will be an
staff
partment.
York
City.
institution of bis
own.
Mr. T. S. Knowles has been reelected principal of the commercial department of the PottsHigh School, with the Misses Marian
ville. Pa
E. Betz and Helen A. Hoffmaster as assistants.
,
The building
in
lege, Philadelphia, Pa., was located was entirely destroyed by fire. Within a week after, the
school was again in session in temporary quar-
In other
ters,
of
with the Institute for the coming year, evidencing the fact that he has made good, as is his
custom, for the reorganization meant that the
positions of the entire faculty from the president down were declared vacant aEd that the
newly elected faculty would have to be considered solely upon the basis of the
ments.
new
require-
L.
its
Portnor,
High School,
Eleanor Martha
and
Idaho,
Jf
V,
50.00
80.00
3,200 00
240.00
110.00
Purchase Returns
Discounts on Purchases
sic;
8 4O.000 00
358. 520.00
Inventory
Purchases
Freight Out
Discounts on Sales
Sales Returns
Sales Allowances
Freight In
Corvallis,
At
Oregon
Home
A ugust
6238 Kimbark Avenue
Chicago
School.
K. W. Wildt of Newaygo, Mich., is to be employed next year in the Epwoith, la., Seminary.
Burt M. Thompson, recently with Wood's
Business School, New York City, is now teaching in the Bridgeport, Conn., Business College, having charge of the commercial depart-
ment
there.
Lena
Fifield
to
^e3Bu^Une4^^/iu^fr
tonishing product of
people the output
TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS.
T.
School.
DOC
DCZ1C
3CZ3C
was living
in Chica-
gothe
big, sprawling,
and
in
my
the city,
all
dumped
together
faced
demons knock
is
the American
of
melting pots,
bit at
its
saving that they would no longer pay allegiance to the British crown. They did this after
much deliberation, and with great hesitation,
and only after respectful requests for representation, if they were to be taxed, had been scornfully rejected by the pig-headed fool, already
half crazy, who then occupied the throne of
England, George III, the mad King of England, who threw away her most magnificentcolonies, backed up as he was by his ministry, who
believed in the divine right of kings. These
three million people, who through their representatives at Philadelphia, declared their independence, were nearly all of English descent.
away from
in
we don't, we
Men who signed
gether;
if
formidable army
free,
World.
hills,
here
and
if
31
the
Thompson's Business
history
of
THE INGREDIENTS
Let us look
CRAG1N.
Holyoke. Mass
all
Humanity.
fertile valleys,
BRITISH, ORE
And the
was not
COSMOPOLIS INDEED.
Verily we area cosmopolitan people, and no
wonder we have all kinds of queer notions buzzing in the heads of our mixed populace. Only
in the South does the old race remain somewhat as it was a hundred years ago. The NeThe white man remains
gro does the work
as he was though the great war swept away
many of his aristocratic notions, and set the
generation
to
doing work with the
younger
hands and more especially, work with the brain.
THE QUESTION OF ASSIMILATION.
Now. it is something of a question whether in
admitting this enormous influx of foreign elements, the result has bsen entirely satisfactory.
One looks with pride on the immensity of this
country. One hundred million of citizens is
something to be proud of, but three thousand
immigrants adiy, about the average before he
war put a stop to the incoming tide, is a pretty
formidable increase to take care of, and it has
taxed our big cities to the utmost to look out
t
The gallant
undesirable elements.
Carabineers hunted down the Brigands of
the mountains, and the Italian police made it
very warm in the cities for the Mafia, and the
result was that a perfect avalanche of this undesirable material came into the melting pot of
American citizenship, and it made it seethe and
bubble some, too.
after these
little
They couldn't do
sized section of an army.
anything, for the Sullivan Act had not then become a law, but they added the weapons to the
collection which was afterwards dumped into
the harbor, and it explained very well why assassinations were common enough, and why
Italian Bankers and fruitdealers, and barbers
and boot-blacks, and even the day laborer on
the street, contributed at least, a part of the
profits of their business to a collector who came
around every week to get it. These gentlemen
had brought to America the pleasing customs
of the Mafia, and the brigands of Sicily.
this
more
and
&
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32
restaurants,
on the police
force,
and even
in
politics.
far, the
greatest flood of
immigration that
has swept into New York, has been the persecuted Jew from Russia, Poland, and the Austrian-Hungarian cities. The life of the Jew in
Far more
Russia has been made a very hell.
intelligent than the Russian Moujik, he has
been able to make money which he does not
spend in vodka, and the result has been that the
Jew dressed well, educated his children, and
minded his own business, and soon excited the
they were
interest.
He
New York
fairly
swarms with
Jews.
It is interesting to watch the progress of this
remarkable people. According to the Old
Testament's Theology, they were the chosen
people of God. and there is no doubt that they
were by far the most spiritual race of ancient
times, and it was this spiritual power that held
the Jewish race together through all the bloody
centuries of oppression that have deprived it of
a Nation, or a home. But in poetry, in music,
in art, in the drama, and in many walks of science, and especially in trade, and the develop-
We
more
the Jews.
The
any
difficulty.
He
hasn't
any nationality
to
and
a political-boss.
MADE
IN
GERMANY
prairies
home, became
army as did
of our foremost
Every American is proud of
business men.
Carl Schurz, and there are many millions more
We have
of industrious and frugal Germans.
never dreamed that they might trouble the output of the melting pot with flaws. I don't believe they ever will, but I wish they didn't use
the hyphen so much, and that their papers did
not show themselves far more loyal to the Emperor of Germany, and far more reflective of
his views than they are loyal to the President
of the United States.
MIXED METAL
might go on with more examples: The
I
French-Canadian, who comes down to us from
the
the North, and makes an excellent citizen
Mexican who comes up from the South, not so
good a citizen, but on the whole we absorb
what few we get without danger. We have
been obliged to stop the too willing horde of
Asiatic immigration. We are not ready to take
the Indian Sepoy, the Chinese Coolie or the
;
Japanese, enterprising as
men
those
little
brown
are.
them, but they have done wonderfully well unIt was a mistake, I
der the circumstances.
think, to give them so quickly the full rights of
citizenship. There was too much politics in the
it worked badly for the African
one has only to study statistics to see
well as a whole, they have risen in the
sunlight. There are nearly ten million of them
now against four million, when Mr. Lincoln
gave them freedom, but the South needs the
negro, in spite of Tom Dixon. And that other
tragic race, fast vanishing, the North American
Indian, the real American, and at his best that
measure, and
race, but
how
character.
^^3Bu<^i^d^^iua^r
of these various elements of the melting pot.
In the many years that I have been teaching in
the business schools of such cities as Chicago.
York, Manchester, anil last of
Rochester,
New
all this
city of Holyoke, with almost every naI have met representatives of all these
tionality,
races,
where
and
circulates,
REPORT OF THE
Association.
and July
and
WEDNESDAY
2,
11U5.
A. M.
We
He advises that we
structor in the Zanerian.
acquire a good business hand before attempting
ornamental. The masters of the art may nut
have any more natural ability than the average
but they possess a strong love for the work, to
No
which they couple intense application.
man will find the best way of doing a thing unTo become a
less he loves to do that thing.
fine penman requires right living, right thinkIntoxiing, right action, and plenty of work.
cating beverages and narcotics have no place
on a penman's bill of fare. It is a good plan to
more and write less; and never blame
criticise
30
Our next subject was, "Technic of Ornate Penmanship" and who is more capable of discussing this phase of writing than E. A. Lupfer, in-
arts.
Alwilda M. Lutz, Noblesville. Ind. read a paper: "Incentives to the Amateur Arm Movement Pupil." She places on each pupil's desk,
a picture card showing the correct position for
health and efficiency and allows it to remain
there as long as the pupil maintains this position. She has oval con tests for the lower grades
and movement design contests for the upper
grades: and encourages different rooms to exchange specimens.
Erma Hyland, Salem, O., then discussed,
"The Regular Teacher and the Supervisor."
Most supervisors do not recognize the amount
of work the teacher has to do in other subjects
and that the teacher may not understand the
:
principles of penmanship well enough to beinterested in it, and if the teacher is not
interested how can interest be expected in the
pupil. Make the teacher feel that her assistance
come
be stopped.
Olive A. Mellon, Manor, Pa., "Writing in the
Primary and Intermediate Grades." The preliminary training for penmanship should aim at
the development of the muscles of the arm,
hand,'and|fingers. Secure rhythm as it regulates
movement and conservesenergy. After children
have mastered position and have a fair movement, I appoint pupil teachers. The one making the most improvement in each row. being
given this privilege. In the latter part of the
year, we should have less movement practice
pupils.
Her
story
managers
this journal is
why
and
know what
is
make the purchase or recommend. Practice economy in the use of paper and pens.
Save the school money. Teachers should be
taught to write well upon the board.
The supervisor should know the quality of writing the
either
system.
Irwin S. Light, Hartford, Conn., chose the
important subject: "Teaching Figures in the
Grades." Many good writers make poor figures, but persons who make good figures are invariably good writers. Figures never lie but
liars do figures. Train the child in right precepts from the beginning.
Figures should be
made small, and practiced in squares and columns. Forms should be simple. Loops may
be omitted, but not a stroke that makes a figure
distinctive. Mr. Light then stepped to the
board and demonstrated the styles he teaches.
A paper on "Adapting the System Taught to
the Individuality of the Child," was read by
Elizabeth Whipple. Painesville. O. She made
it clear that the child is more than the system,
no matter what system is used. The teacher
should be flexible in adapting it to the needs of
each child.
In his usually live, snappy manner, Fred
Berkman. Pittsburgh, Pa., explained how he
taught "Longhand and Shorthand Penmanship," together. Practice in one should help
in the other. He illustrated his method for advanced students, of combining the two on the
same page, using exercises to develop shorthand character as well as the longhand letter,
thus combining speed and accuracy.
No program would be complete without a paper devoted exclusively to Primary Work.
This was prepared by Emily W. Gettins, of
Youngstown. O. She secures correct position
by getting children to place pegs in desired relation to each other, illustrating position, then
have them imitate this. She uses unruled paper, and introduces ink after the fifth month.
Correct speed is emphasized and the bright
child inspired to help the backward.
As one
means of creating interest a ladder is used and
the increased percentage of pupils in a room
reach a certain standard, in position, movement, etc., the room nears the top round. Much
enthusiasm is created by this scheme. She believes each teacher should have a chart for grading.
J.
L. Elicker,
hobby
to cause
of a
Marion, O.
Don't allow
you
to
ters, etc. j
After
yAt^u^/n&A&duixi&r
"The New
Arrival in the
High School," by
much
as possible.
A.
Q.
A.
Use
men
prefer.
FRIDAY
A. M.
We
vizualize correct form. The aim of this vizuaii/.ation and practice is to make writing automatic As soon as perception is clear, the use
of slips is abandoned.
Students should get
felt that a
loose on us,
gave
When
Essentials That Lead to Good Writing," was the timely subject of W. G. Wiseley,
Benton Harbor, Mich. He stated that the writ-
"The
the
fb
criticise.
Executive Committe:
May
J.
Lynch, Cov-
McDonough and
part in creating
RESOLUTIONS OF APPRECIATION
Whereas : The members of the Zanerian
Penmanship Teachers' Association have heard
much interest and pleasure the excellent
with
ciation
bers.
E Doner.
A. Koush.
H. E. Carrier,
Committee on Resolutions.
fS^rSBu&n&A&duaifir
Ornamental
Penmanship
BY
E. A.
LUPFER.
&
35
the simple ornamental and if you have followed inyou are ready for the more elaborate style. Unless
you have mastered it fairly well, it will pay you to review, for this style is the foundation of ornamental penmanship. Nearly all fine penmen have mastered this style.
In this lesson let us pay particular attention to the small t's, d's and p's. They should be retouched very carefully and should never be disjointed. Avoid real heavy shading and extremely
tall letters. Watch the slant and look at the copy frequently to see what is wrong with your letter.
Remember there is beauty in simplicity and that work can very easily be spoiled by too many
structions carefully
and mastered
etc., in
this style,
flourishes.
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space below the top of the letbest to keep this preliminary
part fully as high as shown in this lesson. When
it is made much lower it seems to produce a
drag ,in the letter. The main stroke begins
with a hair line, swells gradually and finishes
with a hair line. This main stroke should curve
slightly, but I think it is easy to overdue the
curve. The finishing stroke can either go above
the three spaces, or it may finish three spaces
high with a dot. The first part of the
is the
same as the V. The second down stroke in the
II 'should be a little further from the first, at the
base line than it is at the top, otherwise the letter will have the appearance of falling over. I
make the first stroke of the A downward, some
make it upward with as good resu'ts, so 1 would
advise you to try both ways, and then adopt the
one by which you obtain the best results. This
first stroke should be quite slanting, in order
height about
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BUSINESS COLLEGE,
long established,
MRS.
Care Business Bdncator
of proprietor
L.
Colnmbns,
0.
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LEHMAN.
St.
Louis, Mo.
ETTERS EVERYBODY
USINESS EDUCATION
B USINESS EDUCATOR
IN
ONE DAY
his
memory
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are
is
humming
have more
8.
with emergency
The wires
calls.
Must
first-class teachers.
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fur
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procure a Whole or Part interest in a growing commercial school. Prefer to sell a working interest. If you have some cash write me
at once and I will give you information. I
have the estate to settle. Need teacher in field
right away. School in East. A Good Opening.
to
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IND.
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BOISE, IDAHO
An old, established school, doing: a profitable business. Low rent and expense. Center of 300,000 population.
Central States.
Only $500.00 down, balance on long time.
Address A. B. C, care Business Educator, Colnmbns, Ohio.
Last month we announced the appointment of our teachers in the high schools of Boston.
Louisville, and Oakland, as well as the great Iowa State Teachers' College. This month it is
the high schools of
New Bedford,
FOR SALE
A CLEAN-CUT BUSINESS COLLEGE,
An A
Two
(A SPECIALTY BY A SPECIALIST)
BUSINESS
St.
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more remunerative position through us. Phoenix now has three of our teachers. Our season
usually runs well into the latter part of September. May we help you? No enrollment fee.
St.
Address
The
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are Doming t<> us from Maine to California
good service here. Write ns for our FREE llteratnre
state qualifications.
OK,
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PROSPECT
GAYLORD, MANAGER
HILL,
BEVERLY, MASS.
Colnmbus,
COmHIEIGIBL INSTRUCTOR
Experienced and reliable, desires position in a
high grade commercial school as teacher of
Bookkeeping and other commercial branches.
Correspondence invited from those in need of
a thoroughly experienced man. Excellent references. Ten years' experience. Address
"COMMERCIAL INSTRUCTOR"
Care Business Educator
Columbus,
0.
Schenectady, N. Y.
McKeesport, Fa.
Decatur,
HIGH SCHOOLS
Illinois
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
many good
candidates.
FOR SALE
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30,000. No competition
CY
Southern city of
SOUTHERN
Care Business Educator
Columbus,
0.
diiiiimiyi
During September and October we conduct a special EMERGENSERVICE. If you want a position, or if you need a commercial
teacher, let us
country.
ROBERT
A.
aid
you.
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service extends
to
all
parts
of
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at
Specimen
of engrossing
bazaars and amusement parks. He also beinterested in designing and drawing and
did considerable work of this kind. He also
studied showjcard writingjand ihas received acat
came
New
lected an
Somerville, Mass,
of
street,
WOULD YOU
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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it
excells
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or letter to
if
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CO.,
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Horence
JONES,
Station, Ky.
ILLUSTRATING COURSE
L"ll,lLlt.ll]ilU.V
Churches, Lodge;
Our Chalk-Talk course will teach you
Not much art ability needed. Complete
$15 C. O. D. if desired. Let us teU you
talks for
friendsT
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Kalamazoo, Mich.
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and four-square countenance is the
possession of Mr. J, T. Sauntry, of Kalispell,
Mont., now one of the men m charge of the
commercial department of the County High
School. Mr. Sauntry is now about one-third of
a century old and first began his commercial
teaching career in the Nebraska Normal at
Wayne, Nebr., where he spent five years at the
head of the department. In 1908 he spent time
in the Zanerian, and in 1909 took charge of the
Kalispell Business College which he conducted
successfully and profitably until this year when
it was merged into
the County High School,
notice concerning which appeared in the June
fine
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Mr. Sauntry is much above the average commercial teacher in mental alertness, ambition,
and determination to succeed in no small way.
He recently expressed appreciation and approval of the splendid articles that Mr. Kittenhouse has contributed concerning entrance requirements into the commercial high schools
of such cities as Boston and New York.
He is
the kind of a man that extracts the good whereever it is found, be it in the far east or in the
west; he then adapts the material to his local
needs.
A specimen
fully
of the remarkable handwriting of H. W. Flickinger in 1883. Note its wonderuniformity and accuracy, and freedom as well. The signature is a marvel of grace and preNot a poor letter on the page.
cision.
G.
HALSEY
Chicago,
111.
tered penmanship by my
name will be eleg.mtl*
rdif you em-lone stamp.
F.
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Meyer Bldg
Kansas
Citv.
Mo
remarkable results.
Sample copy, postpaid,
25c.
Address,
Picture of the class in Ornamental Penmanship at the State Normal Commercial School at
Whitewater, Wisconsin. This is perhaps the only class in Ornamental Penmanship to be found
in any of the state normal schools of this country. Mr. Carl T. Wise, the instructor, is the first
on the left.
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Janowsky, Hillsboro, N. 11., will
teach commercial subjects next year in both the
North and South Dartmouth, Mass., schools.
A. Egelhoff, County Serveyor, Jerseyville,
III., will teach next year in the Township High
School of Bridgeport, 111.
J.
High School,
on, N.
J.,
to the
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next year.
Emma Beckman, of Tarkio, Mo., is now employed in a teaching position at the Gray Harbor Business College, of Aberdeen, Wash.
The principalship of the Business Department of the Fort Scott, Kansas, High School,
will be handled by Edward Doran, a graduate
of the
next season.
F'rances M. Brooks, recently of the RochesN. Y., Business Institute, has accepied a
position as teacher in the Reading, Mass., High
School for the coming year.
ter,
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The
Phoenixville,
will
teacher, Mr. J. L.
N.J.,
Trenton, N.
of
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in the
J., has
Bridgeton.
High School.
coming
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Ethel P. Martin, of New York City, has accepted a position as teacher in the Bay Path Institute, Springfield, Mass.
L. E. Terry, recently of Cincinnati, has been
chosen as commercial teacher for the coming
Mo.
George W. Uuackenbush. of Montreal, Can.,
is employed as teacher of
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City,
shorthand
Mary Prince Dodge, of York, Me., has resigned her position in the York High School, to
accept a similar engagement in the Milford, N.
H., High School for the coming year.
Nona Greer, of Kentucky, has been appointed as commercial teacher for the coming season
the
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Sarah Ellen Saxton, of Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, is to have charge of the commercial
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Ashburnham,
Roy
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year.
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Dorothy Walkerly,
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of
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Meetings
Commercial Teachers'
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Associations of
New York
Long
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W. H. Higbie, Huntington.
Jessie W. Weaver, Mineola.
Meetings: October 23, 1915, Freeport.
February 26, 11118, Freeport.
President
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Jeannette C. Hall.
New
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Meetings
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Technical
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Dumbauld, Middletown.
Rose A. Brown, Haverstraw.
Meetings October 9, 1915, Newburgh.
February 12, 1916. Newburgh.
President
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C. D.
cial
Illinois
commerWabash,
Minnie C. Koopman,
W. H. Weick, Troy.
Maud S. Richards. Glens Falls.
November 6, 1915, Albany.
President:
Secretary
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4,
New York
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Chairman:
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Secretary: Amanda
Irving High School.
Hampton,
State 1915-16
in
The High School at Putnam, Conn., has engaged Miss Bertha E. Lewis, of Holliston,
year.
Trilla
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Mass.,
school.
J.
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Secretary: Meyer E.
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Commercial
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Secretary: R. E. Davey, East High School,
Rochester.
November 23-24, 1915, Rochester.
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OCT., 1915
NUMBER
II
O.,
C. P. Zaner,
E. W. Bloser,
Editor
Business Manager
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KNOW, AND THE OLDER ONES WHO
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Editions.
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world's newest and neediest education. It purposes to inspire and instruct both pupil and
teacher, and to further the interests of those engaged in the work, in private as well as in public institutions of business education.
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of Address.
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Subscribers.
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of
mind.
behavior.
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Questions are frequently sent to people In advance
of publication so that both Question and Answer may
appear together.
Too much
haste
makes
will
and consideration of
others Is always productive of good resnlts. Liberality In this particular encourages It In others and
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writing lesson, but there never should be a radical difference. Ability to write should be estimated from the nature of the usual writing.
Pupils should be guaged by what they habitually do and not by what they do occasionally under specific directions and guidance.
care
of
quality.
application.
if there is no resulting practicable
The paving of a street can not progress very
well unless it be closed, the workmen held up at
times, or the traversers guided around it. The
majority of pupils will not improve in writing
unless the daily traffic is at times stopped; the
seeming importance of other subjects modified:
or so much regular work avoided. It is one
thing to teach good writing, but another to
have it used when burdened by intensive thinking and the requirements of other lessons. No
pupil will do this until he has reached the
stage where the correct method of execution
becomes
a habit.
When
more earnest
Do
make neatness
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work.
If
writing,
and
its
meaning
of
drill, their
convenient, and
improvement.
work
as
is
If
writing
is
them
Theteacherbeingthedirector.it is herdutyto
see that those under her. use the proper maand methods in the erection whether
they desire to or not. They do not always
know best, and the teacher must show them,
and not only show but see that they follow her
terials
directions.
Have
pupils rewrite
all
work
that
is
artificial
excellent results
some danger
centration
With these
est,
means
may
of
creating
inter-
Pittsburgh.
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useful.
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: The small exercises and letters require greater movement control than the large ones. You should endeavor at all times
the relation of the action to letter forms.
In this line note the relation of movement in the beginnii g
f the sn all oval tc the e at It.i
Line
to
i
understand
i.d ol tl
e ex-
ercise.
e's
counting
1, 2, 3, 4.
Give care
to the
s, 4. 5, 6.
This exercise
freedom
of
your action.
letter forms.
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Line
1 :
exercise in this line does not differ greatly from the straight line exercise already given.
The principal difference is in the size
Gradually reducing the size of the a in the tirst and third sections is designed to give you
the base line which are made round here.
The
at
movement
Line 2: -Count 1, 2, 3, -4, 5. Have the reaches or connecting strokes of nnifi rm length.
Line 3: -This is another excellent move me nt -control drill. Uniform spacing and a regular count should be maintained.
EXERCI-E 14
instructions ft r fcxercif-e 13 will in a general way apply to this copy.
your attention continually until correct writing habits are fcrmi tl.
The
Good
position, easy
movement and
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15
the u and w. Note that the only difference in the form of the two letters
retrace slightly at the top. Turns" at base line seould be short and round.
Compare
is
EXERCISE 16
review of the E with three small letters. See
across the page, turn the paper about and write across the lines spacing
This copy
is
merely
how
as in the
EXERCISE 17
Line
movement
-The
oval exercise
than form.
Line2:-Count
1, 2, 3, 4,
is
gradually
ratherslowly
made
in
is
Keep
moved
the letterclosed
at
the top.
more attention
The connecting
made
the
to
same
length.
on the same
is difficult.
EXEKCIsE
Line 1:-The
Tiy
to
keep both
slant.
initial
is
o.
The
letter is
18
shaped
The movement
drill will
give
ou practice on
Line 2: -You may count 1, 2, 3, 4, for four a's. Watch beginning and finishing strokes. Close the letter at top.
Line 3: The wide spacing in this word will test the freedom of your movement and at the same time give you control.
Make rather long beginning and finishing strokes.
line.
exercise
Swing
IB
In Lines 2 and 3
make
all
turns
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hat
instructions for the n will apply here. The down strokes in the
a line as given in copy.
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Count
1,
straight,
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No.
2, 3, 4, 5,
curve
1.
Practice
the direct
No. 3
pause, finish.
Count
1,
plenty of freedom.
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Count
ovals.
letter,
1,
Nos. 4 and
pause, finish.
and
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8.
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6.
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2.
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No.
6.
3.
1, 2,
No. 2. Count 1, 2, 3, 4,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
No. 4. Count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, pause, finish.
pause, finish.
No. 7. Count 1, 2.
1,
5,
6,
No.
pause, finish.
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2,
No. 7
Count
1,
Count
2.
1, 2.
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Nos. 8 and
1,
Nos.
2.
3,
9. Remember
that writing
requires
study as practice.
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Plate 40.
Nos. 1 and
2.
Follow
1,
previous instructions.
2, 3, 4, 5,
pause, finish.
No.
3 Curve
Nos. 5 and
0.
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1,
2, 3, 4, 5,
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pause, finish.
1,
No.
pause, finish.
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MUSCLE TRAINING
naturally follows Perception.
It is as natural to act as to think; even more
fundamental to a life. But writing being an
Performance
it
The
mum
manual
tivity
of eight to ten.
Movement
exercises
action.
letter
Form needs
Form needs
thought
centered upon the action, movement, or man-
ner of
writing.
Muscle needs
upwards
ability
of a quarter of a
million of pupils.
thereafter.
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Number
of the Business
Educator.
The
1904
Accounting,
Chas. F. Rittenhouse, C.
P. A., Boston.
Arithmetic,
J.
troit.
Commercial Law,
P. B. S. Peters,
Kan-
sas City.
Efficiency, Harold
S.
Cowan,
Passaic,
N.J.
smith. Philadelphia.
Federation
The
704
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Professional Edition
Devoted to the best interests of business education and dedicated to the
expression of conscientious opinions
upon
DDC
DC
Your
DC
is
attendance among
commercial
pay
for
it,
even though
it
may
This elimination is destined to continue until only the highly specialized commercial schools will remain,
but for such there is aprosperous future, as there has been in the past,
but instruction and equipment will
have
to
the past.
Marshall's
Mental
Meanderings
DOC
Who
is
to Boss
From
the
time when
the
Stamp
act
My
wondering
if it
September
My dear
1,
1915
Mr. Marshal]
The "stupidity" of the Editor of The
Business Educator is "past comprehension''
because he is the "bug house" fellow of which
you complain. As is his usual custom when in
Columbus at the proper time, he prepares a
dummy by pasting in its proper place each
column of material as finally presented in the
B. E.. after it has been proof read by two different people. The page proofs are then checked
over, and Anally the press proof is checked up.
The mistake in this instance was caused in the
pasting, and you have therefore "pasted" the
Editor good and hard for not pasting your
proofs correctly.
Fortunately your letter was the first to call
our attention to the error and we are therefore
in a position to prevent anyone from "immediately annihilating the blundering Editor."
We have decided to postpone the "hanging"
until some future date, and therefore to suspend
indefinitely the "sentence" you have approved.
So long as the trinity the Czar of Russia, the
Kaiser of Germany, and the God of War or of
Heaven or of Hell, depending upon the brand
of your theology, continues to mix things so
badlv and to sacrifice human beings so unrelentingly, we shall continue to hope that peaceloving Bryan may smoothe out some of the
wrinkles in your war-like spirit, so that when we
meet again we may be able to embrace each
other with our accustomed affection.
Humiliatingly yours,
C. P. Zaner.
ernment
officials,
Why
In
many
The
road
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is
made
harder the
going
honest school.
Concerning the
justice
in
an
the irritable grouch who is always taking offense where none is intended.
And there is
the sneering grouch, who has faith in neither
God nor man, and regards the world as an aggregation of hypocrites and rascals. Like King
David, he avers that all men are liars, but unlike
the psalmist, he does not say this "in haste".
He says it deliberately and really thinks so, because that is the way he is built.
He is the sort
of sour-hearted chap, who is always afraid somebody is going to "put one over" on him. Then
there is the whining, misanthropic grouch, who
is always pickled in the brine of self-pity. Most
of these are women, and it is a case of the female of the species being more deadly than the
male. But the worst of all the tribe, is the silent, sour-visaged grouch, who as the Scotch
is
known
as the survival of
generally loses out, be-
Do any
of
sidered,
fifth
filled
on, and
There
it
up.
The
rilling
up process
about as
will
still
Ethics and When one person pleasantCourtesy Meet ly greets another, on the
and receives no response,
oracknowledgment
Book
Do you happen
time to write."
to
and
is
The hard-upness
of their graduates
that has
a job.
LAW
go
Where
a lot of
way
more.
street or elsewhere,
or
in a
sorrowful occasions.
American procedure.
WAGER OF LAW
Another early form of trial was
that known as wager of law, in which
the accused was brought into court
and made oath that he did not owe
the debt
or
detain
the
property.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMERCIAL TEACHERS IN THE HIGH
SCHOOLS OF THE
LARGER CITIES.
Charles F. Rittenhouse, B. C. S., C. P.
A. Assistant Professor of Accounts, Simmons College,
Boston.
CHICAGO.
them
to
tablishment of fixed
Before proceeding with an outline
requirements for
of the Chicago
teachers of thecommercial branches,
it appears to the writer that it would
be worth while to call attention to
certain professional weaknesses observed by the Chicago Board of Examiners in the candidates who present themseves for examination. Mr.
W. H. Campbell of the examining
board in a letter to the writer on
this subject says: "Our applicants
commercial subjects fail befor
cause they have not had sufficient
Their experitechnical training
ence is too limited, their educational
standards are low, and they fail upon
general principles.
Many of those
who make application to take the examinations have not had even a high
school education and their experience has been erratic and unsatisfactory; of course, these applications are
rejected at the start. My opinion is
that our candidates are very generally lacking in power to give definite
statements in answering questions.
You ask a question as plainly as it
can be put in English and the candidates will write a page of theories,
not answering the question at all
which could have been done in two
or three sentences. There seems to
be a lack of power of logical arrangement and presentation and accuracy of statement."
The above criticism is quoted at
some length because it seems to
point out certain fundamental weaknesses observed by the examining
boards of the several cities, and furthermore it presents the matter from
the examiner's point of view which
too often is entirely different from
that of the candidate.
As further evidence of the unpreparedness of the candidates, Mr.
Campbell states that at the last examination given in December, 1914,
"fifty-eight candidates wrote in commercial subjects; of these, only fifteen passed; they were all candidates
for the 'Limited Certificate', which
does not require a college degree."
The conclusions to be drawn are
obvious. Commercial education has
made great strides during the last
decade and this type of instruction
Teachers
is still rapidly expanding.
are in great demand; positions are so
plentiful and salaries so good that
there is no incentive to advance professionally. Competition, the main-
es-
requirements
(c)
AGE REQUIREMENTS.
A candidate
of
miist be at least
nineteen years
fifty.
SALARY SCHEDULE.
Teachers holding General Certificates
(col-
lege graduates)
Following are the papers in Accounting Major. Theory and Practice, and Mathematics (Commercial
Arithmetic) selected from the examination given December 28 and 29,
1914:
Two
The
21
ma-
qualifications of applicants.
experience.
credentials required of candidates for the
I.
What
disbursements
Examination Subjects.
GENERAL CERTIFICATE.
II.
What
is an intangible asset?
(iive at least four illustrations.
will any increase or reduction in
(c)
the value of such assets be shown in the ledger?
(d) What abuses are apt to develop in connection'with such assets?
(a)
Major:
(a)
(b)
(c)
One
of the following:
(d) Accounting.
Minors:
(1)
(2)
(3)
Professional study.
English.
One of the following, except that taken
as a major:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Accounting.
One
(a)
(b)
(c)
Mathematics.
Civics and economics.
LIMITED CERTIFICATE.
Major:
(a)
(b)
(c)
One of
the following:
(d) Accounting.
Minors:
(1)
(2)
(3)
How
IV.
(4)
(b)
English.
A merican
Mathematics.
2.
How closed
in case
it
is
decided to carry
finally
to
What
is
V.
meant by closing one account in-
another?
Name
(b)
which
VI.
(a) In what respects is the proprietor's investment account different from the capital
stock account?
(b) Are there any good reasons why investment and capitalization should not be the
same? Give reasons for your answer.
(Continued on page
28.)
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22
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS ROSE BUHLIG,
Lake Technical High School,
CHICAGO.
Number Two
girls
who
dislike
me
which carries
selves
Let the class study grammar
or even punctuation as such, and the
attitude is, at least to some degree,
listless.
But let the class once begin to write or study business letters,
and interest is unmistakable. For
this reason I feel that it is well to
It is all too probable that in writing even a simple letter like this several in the class will run sentence into sentence, making a mistake named
the baby blunder, so called because no
one with the least degree of grown-
to give
more
advanced
waste of time.
Other letters that
same way
the
work
is
may be used
in
are.
1
it.
(One-line heading)
truly,
jects.
(One-line heading)
Very early
it
732 Washington
is
Sir:
in
we
Yours
The work
cussion of every letter.
might now be varied by introducing
into the letter dictated or put upon
the blackboard; as,
l
(Two-line heading)
Dear
York.
Sir:
Your
ami the
tilue
Yours
truly,
Yours
truly,
(Two-line heading)
Monarch Electric Works,
Buffalo, New York.
Please send me the following by Amercan Express:
10 No. 16 Vest Pocket Flash Lights
3 No. 4 Coat
New
111.
Gentlemen:
Gentlemen:
(One-line heading)
Mr. James Carter,
Rochester,
truly,
St.,
Birmingham, Ala.
Dear
"
"
12 No. F3 Large Tubular
Charge to my account.
Do you furnish extra batteries to lit these
lamps?
Yours truly,
(
Continued on page
25.)
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IDEAS OF AN
Arithmetic
Teacher
J.
C.
HOWELL.
NUMBER
II.
tance which should guide in answering all other questions relative to the
arithmetic course is, "What should
this group of pupils be given in the
line of arithmetic to prepare its members properly for the tasks ahead?"
In the first place there are a number of factors which determine the
content of our course in arithmetic
and each factor has a number of elementswhich in turn affectthe course.
The first factor to be considered,
not because it is the most important
but because it is usually pre-determined without any consideration of
the other factors, is the length of the
course.
The course ought to be made long
enough to take the pupil from the
point where he now is to where he
This may sound like a
needs to go.
platitude but as a matter of fact there
are many courses in arithmetic in our
high schools and business colleges
which do not meet this condition.
Too frequently the course begins,
not where the student is, but where
some principal or teacher thinks a
course in business arithmetic ought
to commence. The frequent result is
a wide gap between the pupil's previous preparation and the knowledge
expected of him at the beginning of
To illustrate,
his business course.
the writer can conceive of a half-year
course in business arithmetic as
meeting a definite need, but he, most
emphatically, cannot conceive of
such a course that will take an eighth
grade graduate and prepare him
properly for clerical work, except in
those cases where a separate course
in rapid calculation is maintained.
The course being discussed here
should be understood as embodying
the necessary drill to develop the
proper skill in performing operations.
In most business colleges it seems
to be the custom to devote about one-
half hour each day to rapid calculation drills in addition to the regular
work
Most commercial
high schools are unable to do this,
in arithmetic.
whole numbers, common and decimal fractions, and principles of percentage with their application in the
direct form of interest, bank and commercial discounts, and profit and
loss.
In the handling of such problems there should be no hesitancy on
the part of our graduates. However,
the well prepared applicant for an office position will not be limited to
these essentials.
He should have
more than a first-aid equipment if he
is entering a profession.
In going
beyond these essentials, we should
determine what are likely to be the
other demands made upon our students and what other applications
aid most in broadening their
knowledge of business.
In one semester course in high
school, with no extra class for drill
work, it is mis-dirocted energy to try
to put much more than these essenwill
course. It is much better to spend much of each class period in drill to acquire a commercial
degree of skill.
Then, if the ability of the class will
warrant, add indirect problems of
tials into the
measurements,
taxation,
insurance,
customs,
duties,
exchange, or savings bank accounts,
selecting those which seem most likely to be of benefit to your pupils and
presenting no indirect applications
until the direct are thoroughly understood.
If the course
is
one year
in
length,
more of the theoretic may be introduced and most of the topics in any
of our modern business arithmetics
may be
studied.
will
same prescription
for
patients
disease. In
all
<$*
it
is
necessary
We
There
work
will
be better understood
if
pre-
sented by the teacher than if the students are left to glean it from a book.
When our book has been selected
we are ready to outline the work, get
down on paper the topics we wish to
present, the order of presentation,
and the estimated number of lessons
to be devoted to each topic.
This
should be considered as merely an
estimate for the first time or two over
It will probably appear
the course.
that too much time has been allowed
in some places and not enough in
others, in which case the outline
should be corrected to agree with
After that the outline
experience.
should become more authoritative
always
be open to change
but should
of
successive
to meet the needs
always be supeIt
should
classes.
rior to snap judgment in making assignments but should give way after
mature deliberation as to the needs
of a particular class.
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BUSINESS GETTING
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A KEEFOVER
IN
ADVERTISING
TACOMA, WASH.
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A FOLLOW-UP LETTER
you have "follow up" letters to write, you may well clip the letter
IF given on this page and paste it where you
will see it often. It is a
model from which such a'letter may be developed for any business.
Not long ago I became interested in getting a duplicating machine,
and answered the ad of the Rotospeed Company. The cost of their
machine put it out of reach for personal use, so no reply was made them.
After a reasonable time, a "follow up" letter came.
It is so good
that it is well worth one's study.
It is given on this page, with figures
inserted for reference purposes.
The "Follow up" letter has four main purposes: First to keep the
"prospect" (prospective purchaser) "alive", by establishing a line of
communication. As long as the prospect can be kept writing, he is interested and there may be a sale.
Second, to learn the objection, the obstacle that checked the prospect,
so that this obstacle may be cleared from the path to a sale.
Third, to learn the prospect's exact need so that the goods may be
fitted into it specifically.
Fourth,
this so that
if
the prospect
no more money
is
may be wasted on
of a sale), to learn
him.
get a reply. In five short sentences the prospect has been placed
squarely on his feelings of courtesy,
fair play and his moral sense. These
are the real hold on him, for he
cannot be forced to reply.
This sentence makes the pros(5)
pect's
responsibility greater by
showing that the company has performed its part. It will help to
forestall a "kick" from non-receipt
of the matter to be sent.
Prepares the way for show(6)
ing how the machine will serve a
special purpose of the prospect,
which may not have been apparent
from the literature.
Presumably the prospect
(7)-(8)
has use for some kind of duplicating machine. From the literature,
he has not been able to fit the Rotospeed into his exact need. This
part of the letter seeks to develop
the exact need, so that the company may be able to fit definitely
the machine to the prospect's purpose.
It
makes an inducement
for fur-
ther correspondence.
ment
(2)
This
it
for
terest,
It
It
This
is
a tactful statement of
It
leads up to the
plain fact.
point where in business
courtesy
The
prospect
has
been
(9)
of
finish
good.
Dear Sir
(
1)
Throughout, there
Some
time since
we
received an
in-
est, briefest
of
at the
start-
or
MJ^uimei^/um^r
Interest caused you to listen to the
instruction, but Curiosity prompted
you to investigate.
Investigation lays the foundation
for analysis. And in the word analysis, we have the ;key to the practicability of education. Granting the
child's Curiosity the way to utilize it
is to satisfy it and teach him how to
DCDC
EFFICIENCY
HAROLD
E.
COWEN,
Dep:
Curiosity
This
is
If one is
vention and discovery.
zealous of assisting mankind, one
troubles,
and one
know
its
must
cannot remove its troubles, without
Curiosity furnishing the impulse to
search for the causes.
Consistently then, the duty of education is to arouse a good wholesome
action of this inherent virtue, the irrestible desire to know why this or
that is done, or is so.
We teach our pupils how to do
things and how to do them well. We
endeavor to arouse their pride in
turning out well done tasks.
We try
to broaden their minds so they will
be able to grasp the larger issues of
life.
But do we realize that in our
systematic circumscription of our
young people's education we may
neglect to reach after his "bump of
curiosity?" We say the attention he
gives us is significant of Interest, we
do not call it Curiosity.
Wholesome curiosity is not sordid.
It is the magneto for ambition.
It is
stronger than ordinary interest; it
may be called intense Interest. Ordinary Interest reclines and listens
gratefully. Curiosity is impatient to
find out.
There
is
a pretty little
song the
We do not have to drag young people into being curious, all we need to
do is direct the force. Do you remember when you were first told that
the tiny snowrlakes came down in
countless numbers of shapes? Yes,
and you were interested. Then you
took particular notice of them the
very next time you saw the tiny
chrystals nestle on the window sill.
thography and history, we have exercised the student's power of apperception, and we have aroused his Curiosity. After he has learned that
"boycott" comes from the name of
Capt. Boycott, the Irish landowner
and first victim of this practice, and
that "barter" comes from a French
The pupil to whom is assigned reference reading takes it as an imposition. Convince him that a surprise
awaits him and he brightens. Bread
alone is sustenance; add butter and
it becomes also a delight to the palUnfortunate is the child who is
ate.
banished for asking questions. The
person that said little children should
be seen and not heard was.not an educator.
We are told that there is a reason
Let's
for everything under the sun.
train the boys and girls of today to
find the reason.
ENGLISH
(Conli?iued from page 22)
remember
punctuation
in
connection
with
grammar.
know
upon it.
Now, in dealing with simple sentences, I should deal exclusively with
subjects and predicates, disregarding
modifiers. It maybe that an occasional class will be able to comprehend the prepositional phrase when it
is'given at this time, but I think that
the study of the participial phrase
for
ex-
&
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26
P
3znc
PHILADELPHIA.
:nc
ing.
I
never dreamed before that the
making of a stenographer entailed
the labor and the patience that it
does. When now I see a woman unconcernedly clicking the keys of a
typewriter I have a feeling of profound respect for her that was unknown to me in former days. I can
click the keys a bit myself, but I cannot do it unconcernedly. It requires
my earnest concentration. And even
when I concentrate I'm very, very
slow and often make mistakes.
An enormous amount of patience
is required for this training of the
fingers.
We are given numerous
commence
employer
I see that I shall have to take especial pains to develop some virtues
that I sadly lack. Well, at any rate,
although I can't yet claim that my
patience has grown to be a dominant
characteristic, I'm sure at least of
one thing, because I can see it happening. My fingers are growing surer of their ground and quicker in
their movements. So I'm not at all
discouraged.
I can write shorthand, too, and that
to me seems a greater marvel than
the ability to typewrite. After all,
where
paper
know
of
the book
was a column
of ordi-
You
may mean
words, regulated by
plaining, that
Today I was promoted from the elementary class to the dictation class.
I
did the elementary work in less
time than is usual, but I take no particular credit' to myself for my progress. I'm so immensely interested
that it would be queer if I didn't get
along well. The pleasure of feeling
myself acquiring a brand new accomplishment, one that holds such
only time I seemed to make any impression on Polly was today when I
walked into the dictation class and
left her still struggling with wordsigns.
It is a difficult study, I'll admit, and
for weeks it seems unlikely that it
will enable you to write more quickly
customed
to.
groundless.
my
fears.
know
they're
MZ&trttiteAV&tumfir
ucnc
ddc
Commercial
Law
P. B. S.
Day
in
Is
PETERS.
|_
School,
KANSAS
^C
Every Man
ON
SIDE LIGHTS
CITY
DDE
3CDC
Entitled to
Have His
of the
that
is
it
of
or
it
truth.
fifth
chapter
woman
ac-
was required
the Almighty
Trial by torture
in the
Middle Ages
sion or as a
means
of
to extort confesof securing evi-
punishment.
The
a
rack,
method
fire,
of
boots,
red hot pincers, scourge, and manacles are but a few of the fiendish
and ingenious contrivances employed
by different peoples and at different
times in administeringtorture. This
method has been condemned not
only on humanitarian grounds but
for its unreliabilty in discovering the
truth, for frequently innocent persons plead guilty or wrongfully accused others in order to escape the
The last recorded
pains inflicted.
case of torture in England was in the
reign of Charles I in the year 1640.
If reports are to be believed trial
by torture is still in existence in
many well regulated police departments of some enlightened communities where the victim is administered what is popularly known as
the "third degree" in order to induce
a confession or to furnish evidence
This is
for his further prosecution.
in violation of the established principle that no one should be compelled to testify against himself.
TRIAL BY BATTLE
Another method of trial was that
by battle, sometimes called the
"wager of battle" or single combat.
Victory was supposed to decide the
and condemned.
offenses.
ordeal by
The
fire
cused to take
original
was
in his
custom
in the
decision between
when
it
first
came
into existence or
27
by combat.
by combat
Fisher.
Whithron was a thief, but in accordance with the custom of the time he
per-
and
this is
take of his
fight.
life,
clad in
proved foresworn.
last case of trial by combat in
England was that of Ashford vs.
Thornton in the year 1818. In this
case the Court of King's Bench solemnly decided that the defendant
was entitled "to his lawful mode of
trial" the chief justice, Lord Ellenborough saying: "The general law
of the land is in favor of the wager of
battle, and it is our duty to proContinued on page 20.
to be
The
28
UJ//**JJ<
OPPORTUNITIES IN CHICAGO
VII.
differ
from
VIII.
IX.
First-year high school pupils are conceded to
What would be
be immature and inaccurate.
your plan of keeping a check upon their work
with a view to getting the best possible results
from the standpoint of neatness and accuracy?
X.
(a)
What, in your judgment, is the proper
appointment of time between the recitation and
work?
this
in
ifications of applicants.
and an-
II.
The old-fashioned method of handling a merchandise account was this: The account was
debited with the original inventory and the
subsequent purchases. It was credited with the
sales. Criticise this method of handling the account and outline abetter one.
Illustrate by
means of ledger forms.
HI.
Furnish your own data and work out a shipment'account and the corresponding consignment account of the commission merchant.
IV.
A, B and C are partners in a general merchandise business. Their assets are as follows:
Cash, $5,440.86; merchandise. $20,000; real estate, $6,000; fixtures, 82,000; accounts receivable, $1,000. The balance sheet shows that A's
interest is $12,B60. 2K;
B's,
$10,460.95; C's
$11,428 03. They have decided to incorporate
the business
for
$50,000 00, each taking
810,000 worth of stock in the new enterprise
and withdrawing the balance of his interest in
cash. D, E, F and G have subscribed for the remaining $20,000.00 of stock, each agreeing to
take 85,000 worth, and to pay for it in cash.
Make the entries required for closing up the
partnership books, and the opening entries for
the corporation.
V.
Make out a balance sheet from the information furnished by the following trial balance
and statement of conditions:
J. W. Brown, Partner-. .$
100.00 8 5,089.28
E. B Smith, Partner
150.00
5,728 59
Merchandise. ...
21,568 92
1U.668 39
Expense
569.81
15.25
Fixtures
750.00
Notes Receivable
885.90
315.28
Interest
28.65
48.50
Notes Payable
100 00
450.00
530 00
Real Estate
Ca9h
850.00
3,585.39
ex-
School Limited.
A
A
volumes compare?
their
vestment
broker
in
at
950 00
for 3 years 5
V.
5% and
the
intended for
Illinois.
C. S. Springer of Henager's Business College, Salt Lake City, Utah, has accepted a position in the Commercial Department, Salt Lake
Miss Essie Neal, of Chicago, is the new commercial teacher in the High School, Mendota,
VI.
The
amount
find the
due
a general
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
1.851.62
United States Bonds
2,000.00
S'pm't to D.A.Ford &Co. 875.00
$6,289.38;
agree.
practice
Inventories Merchandise,
pense debit inventory, $75.60; credit inventory, 811 59; credit inventory, 815.82; United
States Bonds, $2,050.75; real estate, $900.
lbs.?
VIII
A packing box manufacturer gives an estimate of $424.20 for 300 boxes made of inch
lumber, each box being 2% ft. by 3 ft. by 3 ft.
The boxes cost 20 cents each to make, and the
lumber is worth 818 per M. Allowing $6^00 for
incidental expenses, what is his profit on the
job. Reckon full surface measure.
IX.
whose
Indiana.
Washington.
A.R.Reelhorn, of North Manchester, Indiana, accepted a position in the commercial department, High School, La Junta, Colorado.
Miss Lottie Savage, Lincoln, Nebraska, has
accepted a position in the commercial department of the High School, Wichita, Kansas.
tyrt't$ea,c/c^
Mr. J. E. Page, of Lawhon, Louisiana, has accepted a position in the shorthand department,
Vocational Grammar and High School, Memphis,
Mr. A.R.Reelhorn
on Thursday, August the nineteenth
Nineteen hundred and fifteen
Chicago Heights, Illinois
after
At Home
September
sixth
LaJunta, Colorado
the grades.
Tenn.
has accepted a position in the commercial department of the Fort Scott, Kansas, High
School.
&
itffi^&uA/n^A&dttaiZfr
is that Mr. Kuhl is one of the best teachers of writing in our profession. He not only
writes a good hand himself, but he inspires a
lage number of pupils to write well themselves,
by the enthusiastic and efficient instruction that
he gives. This Institution is making gratifying
and substantial strides in the educational work
of Georgia and the South.
tions
show
modernly equipped
Institution, as
orange predominating.
Tampa, Fla
We
merits.
'
Few men
in
our
profession
have
Newark,
number
new commercial
is
the
High
Miss Dora M. Mitchell, of Chicago, has accepted a position as assistant in the commercial
Flo. formerly of Albany College. Albany, Oregon, has accepted a position as head
of the commercial department, Pocatello High
School, Pocatello, Idaho.
Okla., Business College is represented before us by a well-printed catalog, indicating a prosperous and progressive school.
Mr. P. G. Simon is Principal of the commercial
department and the penman of the institution.
ford,
Hans
W.
Ohio.
Jerseyites Organize
On December
of
New
business
Jersey,
5th, a
colleges
met
at
number
of
the
the
of principles
State of
Newark
Business
New
is
Jersey
Association.
the advance-
much
achieved as
versity.
The Enid
The
which
The Lima, Ohio, Business College is a prosperous Institution not wirlely known outside of
the state of Ohio, because it dedicates its efforts
to giving: the best possible instruction to those
who come to it trom the city and surrounding
territory. This school has been established for
many years and is known for its thoroughness
and excellence of instruction. The catalog before us is of excellent quality, appropriately illustrated and splendidly written. The illustra-
29
NEWS NOTES
I.
E.
Fish,
recently
of
Wood's
Business
ly,
C. C. Martin, of Columbus, Ohio, has accepted a position with the Jamestown, N. Y.,
Business College.
John R. Bell, of New Brighton, N. Y., is appointed teacher of Commerce in the Weston,
W.Va., High School.
Mr. Arthur Stuckenbruck, of Westminster
College. Salt Lake City, Utah, will be followed
by Mr. R. E. White, of Cherokee, Iowa.
to a
cific
gaged
which
we have known
for
many
years,
Minn.
is
St.
30
On Aug.
H
NEWS NOTES
AND NOTICES
DC
DCZJDCZ1C
school.
Fa.,
is
the
new
N.
him
in his
new field.
for
her succees.
A.
Gmeiner, formerly
Busand I. H. Yohe,
formerly of Pennsylvania, opened the Massachusetts Commercial Institute in Holyoke, on
September 1st. We know Mr. Yohe personally
and we have had dealings with Mr. Gmeiner for
a good many years. We have every reason to
believe that these gentlemen are well qualified
J.
of Huntsinger's
to
make
J.
a re-
penman, and
a cartoonist
by nature.
C C. Jones, who has been director of commercial work and writing in the Dunkirk, N. Y.,
High School, is now connected with the Connecticut State-Normal Training School at WilThis means a mighty fine man in a
most excellent Institution, and we bespeak for
limantic.
exceptionally
in
July
"The Journal
Commerce," Philadelphia,
May 1, 1015, contains nearly a column devoted
to the highly specialized Copper Plate Engrossing Script artist, Charton V. Howe, whom
of
S.
street
On August
ment.
weeks
I.C. Fisher, of Howell, Mich., is the new supervisor of writing in the Glassport, Pa.. Public
Schools, teaching Mathematics in the High
School in the afternoon and supervising writing
in the forenoon in the grades. Mr. Fisher is a
splendidly equipped young man for the service
he has been employed to render.
better future.
J.,
as
&
<3%e*3@u<tfn&V<<&uMfrr'
Dak., sent us
S.
some
in
skill
cards
displaying
penmanship and
card carving.
wholesome
in
We
wish him
The
teacher's classes
Gregg Shorthand
year at the New York
in
covered.
I., is
one
We
We
One of the best specimens of advertising recently received, came from the LeMaster InstiOrange, N. J.,C. A. LeMaster, Pres. It is
a booklet of 32 pages, containing specimens of
penmanship by pupils before and after receiving instruction in that Institute, at the hands of
the exceptionally efficient instruction of Miss
tute,
Nina
P.
Hudson. This
little
document alone
mighty
fine fellow
is
he.
The Oklahoma
proprietor.
modern means.
A very excellent arrangement has been effected in Lincoln, Nebr., between the High
School and the Lincoln Business College,
whereby the pupils of the commercial course
in the High School will receive three years of
instruction, to be followed by one year in the
The Rider-Moore & Stewart Schools of Trenton, N. J., are issuing a series of booklets quite
out of the common run. One of the latest is entitled "A School Where Students are Happy,
Contented, Learning to Become Efficient."
to
tical course.
3^&ttu/i&W&tfu&iUr
mi
ii
whose
m~*~
TALES OF A
MELTING POT
dence
1
'
CHAS.
T.
CRAGIN.
Holyoke, Mass.,
Thompson's Business
School.
1
ii
nil
white sea
of
drifted
II
of all,
and many
liras
Tomasso
Palermo.
II
Italy
bay. It had
where through the tleecy clouds could be heard
the jingling of bells, and the hoarse toot of sirens, as steamers and ferry-boats cautiously
felt their way through the dangerous envelope.
The great steamer, Italia, from Palermo, was
nosing her way cautiously up through the Ambrose Channel, her greal siren at intervals sending out its warning peal, to clear the .way. The
health officers had boarded the great liner at
Fire Island, given her a clean bill of health, and
now she was coming up through the great
blanket of fog to make her landing. The lower
deck swarmed with a seething mass of humanity.
Eight hundred immigrants, in every picturesque color of Italian costume, swarmed out
through the steerage, and were gazing eagerly
through the cloud-bank, to catch a glimpse of
Metropolis of New York. And keenly watching were the eyes of two boys of sixteen, who
out at the uttermost point of the lower deck,
strained eager
gaze
upon the
opening
far
panorama.
the red blood flow in many a sharp contest between the bandits and Carabineers. His eye
was as keen as the eye of the mountain-eagle,
and he was strong and quick of foot, and agile
as a wild-cat.
Down on the plain, far below the mountain
fastnesses, where the brigands lay hidden, was
the thriving city of Palermo, where dwelt the
banker, Tomasso Falconi, father of the boy,
TROUBLOUS DAYS
But troublous davs had come. Alas! the
picturesque brigand of the Sicilian Mountains
no longer exists, except in novels. The go between of the city tins also been routed out. The
Italian government under \ ictor Emmanuel,
became tired of the exploits of these mountain
dwellers which drove away ihe profitable
American tourist, and the wealthy Englishman,
and so the Carabineers were given instruction
to root out the evil, and they did it. Gallant
little
fighters,
those
Caraibneers.
Some
of
at all,
who
lived in
ington Square,
McDougal
31
Street, just off
New
Wash-
York.
THE INCOMING
Two
puffing
swung
at that
popular resort.
AN HONEST PADRONE
Caesar Brescia had been in America for a good
years, and a law abiding man was Caesar.
got a little money from the railroads, and
the city for furnishing these men, and he got a
little money from men
for furnishing them
jobs, and on the whole, he was very well-to-do.
Matteo h alconi had a good ileal more money
than Guiseppe Santiera, for the brigand's
treasure, if he ever had any, was buried somewhere in the caves of the Sicilian Mountains,
and there had been a little money saved out of
the wreck of the fortune of Tomasso Falconi,
and this the boy had with him, sewed up in a
draft on a New Y< rk bank.
A sly. businesslike boy, was Matteo Falconi,
and the first thing he did was to get his money
safely deposited, and not in an Italian bank
either. It went into the old Bowery Savings
Bank, for Mattie knew full well that sometimes
those private bankers departed suddenly, and
left mourning depositors.
Caesar Brescia had
many
He
told
him
this.
dnnntd
<3^38uA*nedA&rfuartfr
don't have lo drink that wine. They give you a
pint botHe of it, and you can drink it or let it
alone. And here, Guiseppe Santiera made the
acquaintance of my old friend. David Hollister,
Piukerton detective.
Thompson
Washington
Square and
Hollister, a
friend,
Business College.
They run night schools all during the summer in New York, and very faithfully did the
boy work, and great was his progress. Of
course, he
house.
THE
WOMAN
IN
THE CASE
pany
into action.
happy one.
The
girl,
Matteo
In
fact,
his ten-
Dave
to the
Hollister,
left
the
se-
New
York.
plain
clothes man was Dave Hollister; no big flatfooted, bull-headed policeman, he, but a slim,
slab-sided New Hampshire Yankee, not one to
attract attention, but with a keen eye, a sure
hand and a brave heart, and Dave Hollister was
a frequent visitor to the Harlem flat of (iuiseppe
and Margaret Santiera where he liked to play
with the babies. And then, the firm that employed Guiseppe went into Bankruptcy, and he
was out of a job, and Dave Hollister suggested
that he try for a position on the New York Police Force where they needed more Italian ofIt was
ficers, especially, in the secret service.
at all for Guiseppe to pass the physexamination. He was as lithe and active as
mountain wild-cat, strong, too, for from childhood, he had been one who liked exercise, and
had kept it up even in his city life, and bo, he
and was given a rebecame Policeman No.
volver and a club, and assigned to a Harlem
beat, where Italians were beginning to make a
colony, the same as thev had in the lower part
of the city around McDougal and Thompson
Streets, and Greenwich Village.
no trouble
ical
MATTEO FALCONI.
We
enough
pen.
king
was murdered, shot down by an anarchwho was captured redhanded, and it did not
of Italy
ist
from
It
the part
You
is
They
if
moment,
New
Paterson
gone the
<!ffle&uA/n^V<&rfiuxi&r
assassin of Victor
supposed
dangerous path.
ganization,
York.
PROSPEROUS DAYS.
For four years, the name of Guiseppe Santiera,
Chief of the Italian Squad, was a terror to evil
doers frim the land of Italy, for he knew the
language. He knew them from the soles of
He had
their feet to the crowns of their heads.
been born amid scenes of danger. He had never known fear, and while not reckless, there was
no limit to the bravery of this young Italian Police Lieutenant, and he surrounded himself
with a staff of men as fearless, and as incorruptible as himself, for it seemed as if this son of a
bandit had gone back to first principles, as
sometimes happens, and become a lover of law,
as strong in that love as his father had been in
his hate of law. His salary was now a liberal
one, and many an opportunity had Guiseppe
to add to that salary, for the police officer in a
lawless precinct, or as Santiera was, free to
come and go anywhere in the great city, has
many an opportunity to take graft. To his
credit, be it said, no suspicion of such action
ever lay on this young Italian.
Dave Hollister
said of him:
"Why, that boy has got an absolutely pure
white soul. There isn't a crooked streak in him.
He is one of the squarest men I ever saw, and
I'd trust him with my life."
though he admitted
it
We
Paterson Reds, at any rate, and find out, whetherthere is any connection between the outlaws
of the old world, and the Italians of the new."
And,
of course, the
Santiera.
man
to
soil."
&
Hundreds of
There was a great funeral.
massed policemen mounted and unmounted,
followed to his grave this man of brave heart
and strong mind. The widow, with dry eyes
and proud heart, her four children by her side,
gazed calmly into the face of the man she had
loved so well, and said:
"He did his duty. He died a brave man."
And his children may well be proud of their
father." He had left her well provided for, and
she draws a liberal pension from the city he had
served so well, and the four strong, beautiful
children his contribution to the melting pot of
American citizenship, will make the output
stronger and better.
His cousin, Matteo Falconi, wears a nice suit
of striped clothing presented him by the state
of New York, (or rather, he did wear it
Mr. Osborne abolished those rather
until
showy garments at Sing Sing Prison,) for a
particular atrocious murder in Paul Kelly's
joint on Great Jones Street deprived that eminent citizen of his political pull, and in a raid
on a counterfeiter's den up in the Bronx, the
police found Matteo Falconi well stocked with
the output of the band, and the judge gave hirr
ten years up the river, where he still resides.
That is the kind of mixed metal some good,
some bad that comes from sunny Italy.
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This remarkable specimen of engrossing script is from the pen of Mr. W. A. Baird, of the firm of Dennis & Baird, of Brooklyn, It was not
intended for reproduction as some of the lines are faint. Mr. Baird writes it quite freelymuch faster than the accuracy of the product would
indicate. The spacing is wonderfully rhythmical and pleasing.
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of the essentials of a good signature are legibility, simplicity, grace, harmony, contrast
light lines and shade, freedom and natural joinings.
The one which is the easiest to read is usually the
all, a signature should be legible.
best. Because one can "swing" a pen should be no excuse for weaving and winding a signature
together so that it cannot be read. Work of that kind is easily imitated by the forger.
A plain simple signature well written possesses much beauty and legibility. The plainer a signature is, the more difficult it is to execute. For that reason do not make the mistake of trying to
Some
between
Above
Ornamental
Penmanship
BY
E. A.
LUPFER.
cover up
weak
letter
Every line should have a purpose and if it does not add to the signature it should be left off.
Anyone can join three letters
Letters should be joined only when they fall together naturally.
much trouble, but to produce a gem requires much thought and care.
Without accurate forms signatures are inclined towards the freakish, which is to be avoided.
than
is
generally
supposed.
All lines should cross at aB
There is more system about a signature
nearly right angles as is possible, and when possible lines should run parallel to each other,
shades and hairlines should be evenly distributed, the signature as a whole should balance and
many other things must be considered.
Study the work of fine penmen and notice some of these little things in particular and it will
not be long until you will notice a great improvement in your own work.
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NEW IDEAS
All the
Commercial Education
in
Of
bis In
CONTRIBUTORS:
hi
Lnlversltv: R. H. Montgomery. I'
F R.Beynrao, Columbia UnlT.; K. P.
Teachers'
Ho
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of
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of the Students'
of
number for June, 1915, ten consecutive copies making one volume. While these back numbers are valuable and ought to be
sold for more than the regular price, we are willing to let them go
They contain very valuable
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'
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JOURNAL
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Post
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Professional
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scription price rate of 75c for the former and $1.00 for the latter,
The first number is for September, 1914, and the last
postpaid.
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I'M
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School Emma K Hearl.orn Keilhank
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meroial College, and others
Conn. I'
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Cost Accounting. Penmanship Short
Itlli"
hand business Letter-Writing. Hull. ling dp
812 Evening
1914-1915.
We have on hand
manship Edition, and an equal number
about ten
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he business I. mrnai does tills lor you us
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mmercial teachers in nigh
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and women who are gradnates from a four year high school or academy course, very good
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century ago.
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ornamental, and an enthusiastic teacher of the
art.
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everlasting friendship, and one who never
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student.
<
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J'
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of thje that follow.
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grace,
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equal this script, except perhaps H.
how darn
oh,
1U hat
to
delicate;
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lost in
tin-
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to
Mrs. Post.
oil'.
E. State St.,
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ORNAMENTAL PENMANSHIP?
CERTAINLY
GET
GET
GET
Get
skill to
yonr
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the lessons are
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and you
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improve
cause of
com-
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KY.
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upon him. So far as church was concerned, he
was a heathen. He drifted about from bad to
worse, like a puppet without a home.
Eventually be landed in a small town, where
he found many comrades of his Btripe. Here he
met a young lady, about fifteen years of age.
She was motherless and her father was so miserly that he used to lock the bread up in his workshop. She was like a sailor dropped into the
sea at mid-ocean, glad to grasp at a straw, and
Grain of Dust
and Useless
w.
c.
COPE,
Newark, N.
J.,
Drake
just
College.
Part
man
of "1'seless's" habits.
Two
Time
rolled on, just as hurriedly as it does today, lor these two young fellows, and in the
early 90's "Useless" left school and hired out
with a neighbor to farm, at Slfi per month, He
was becoming a wreck, a drunkard and a menace to young men. No lady of character or re-
home
One day "Useless" bade his
I last saw
him, a young man
of about thirty-five, he was careworn and gray,
for a bare living and leading a life full
working
of sorrow
and dissapointment.
life.
Way
to Failure."
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Is the
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DESIGNING
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ENGROSSING
<?U
By
BROWN.
E. L.
Rockland. Me.
GERMAN TEXT
A very useful style of lettering for tilling diplomas and for general engrossing.
The alphabet shown herewith was written
with a No. 1 Soennecken pen and received
very little retouching with a tine pointed pen.
First, pencil lines for height of letters, making
those for the double curve free hand and others
with the aid of a ruler. The initial "A" was
first carefully pencilled and afterward traced in
ink. Stipple face of letter and notice the gradation of tones from d;irk to light.
Study form and proportions of each letter
critically. The five letters beginning with "L"
show the letters in the unfinished state. In
fact the entire alphabet is presented as a rapid
practical style with no attempt for geometrical
exactness or artistic finish.
The flourished strokes were executed with a
Use
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City.
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fBOOK REVIEWS
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Unity of Bodily and Mental Life; The Functions of the Brain; The Neurons; The Physical
Basis of Human Behavior; The
Practical
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=0
"BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY," by
Hugo
companion book to the one reviewed last month from the same University,
entitled "Personal Efficiency," by Irving R.
Allen. Dr. Munsterberg, in this volume has
leather.
It is
given
psychology.
Psychological Study; The Individual's Consciousness; Consciousness Revealed by Behavior; The Perceptions; Will-Actions; The
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P.
W. COSTELLO
LESSONS IN ENGROSSING
BY MAIL
natural talent for lettering, and
them In the necessary alphabetn from hand made pen and Ink
copies, rounding out the coarse
with a finished net of resolutions.
For terms, address.
The
Address C.
A.
HIGH GRADE
Diplomas^
ART ENGROSSERS
DIPLOMAS A SPEI ALTY
in a style Artistic
and
SS?SB1S2
Lp-to-iiate.
CEOTiriCATES.
you
If
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St.,
Chicago,
III.
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Put the Finishing Touches
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Look beneath
the surface;
not the several qualities
of a thing escape thee.
let
Marcus
Letters of -a Schoolmaster,
Book of Business Ethics.
Many
Better than
learn; or
You have
of the thing.
trip
so
it is
superficial
simple; or
abroad for
practical business purposes.
a
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more
in the
"kills
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stone,"
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of these in
Educator, but
the
consideration.
seems to be easy to
apparently very
some
read
Aurelius.
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W. H. McCarthy,
formerly of Springfield,
Mass., is teaching in the business department
of Banks Business College, Philadelphia, Pa.,
this year.
Mary
engaged
Land,
Mr. Paul Gladney, Chillicothe, Mo., iB manager of the Williams Business College at Beaver Dam. Wisconsin. Miss Grace Boose, a recent graduate of the Gregg School, Chicago,
has charge of the shorthand, and Mr. Ivy Clarke,
of Portage, Wis., has charge of the English subjects. Chas. E. Woodward, of South Bend, Ind.,
has been appointed to fill the position as manager at Waukesha. Mr. O. K. Evenson, of
Chippewa, Wisconsin, is principal of the Racine school. J. H. Treece, of Anna, 111., is his
assistant.
J.
S. F. Hood, Hinsdale,
Commercial Department
Oshkosh, Wis.
111.,
is
of the
head
of the
High School,
Miss Stella Sebran.of Vinton, Iowa, has accepted a position as commercial teacher. High
School, Goldfield, Iowa.
Miss
Anna
the
High School.
C. E. Wellner, ofl Oshkosh, Wis., has accepted a position with Hursts' Private School
Buffalo, New York.
Miss Adele Ash, of East St. Louis, 111., has accepted a position as penmanship instructor in
the High School of East St. Louis.
News ".Items
School, Pierre, S. D.
ialists'
teach
W.
S. Britton, of
year in the
this
McClure, Ohio,
Merrill
College,
teaching
Stamford,
is
Conn.
C. A. Townsend, of Stockbridge, Mich., is
teaching commercial subjects in the Bridgeton,
N. J., Commercial School.
(i.
engaged
the
Brown
A.
College, at Peoria,
W. Diesman
is
111.
St.
Thomas,
St.
For twenty-nine years we have known personally and professionally, S. T. Greir. of Barnsville, Ohio. Twenty-nine years ago he was the
finest pen-artist we had seen, and his work today is finer than it was then. Although never
robust in health, he has maintained a uniform
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Dallas, Texas.
S.
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New
H. R. Sykes, of Rochester, New York, has accepted a position in the Commercial Department of Campbell Commercial School, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Albert Lott, of Normal, 111., is the new commercial teacher in the High School, Anadarko,
new commercial
Oklahoma.
Waukesha, Wisconsin.
M. H. Hutchison, Vancouver. Wash,, has accepted the position as head of the Commercial
Department in the High School at Eugene,
C. E. Chamberlin, of Gays, Illinois, has accepted a position in the Commercial Department of the High School. Chattanooga, Ten-
Oregon.
Miss Mabel Kisir, of University Place. Nebraska, has accepted a position as a commercial
teacher in the High School, Sapulpa, Okla.
O.
J.
commercial teacher
Louisville, Ky.
A. C. Wilber, of
nessee.
of
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of Mr.
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Gill, President of the Eastern
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In the days of the high stool and the quill pen, the big
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it
light stroke.
Add to this the fact that if the stroke is not made quite heavy
enough, its meaning may be entirely changed, and you must admit that a
system which is not burdened by the necessity for shading possesses a
distinct advantage over one whose faulty construction compels the adoption of this makeshift.
The fact that
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WHO DO NOT
WHO
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name work
for a
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in
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PRESENTATION!
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The
ANTHONY.
essential in presenting a writing lesthoroughly familiar with the subHave it well digested, so it seems to emject.
anate from your very soul. Second, have a lesson plan, and work that plan. Third, have the
lesson at an opportune time: that is, when pupils are calm, when they are not disturbed by
exercise or the anticipation of recess.
No teacher, no matter how capable, can present an interesting and piofitable lesson without being thoroughly intimate with the subject.
son
is
first
to be
er
and tolerator
of horribly
eased penmanship.
She
is
mangled and
dis-
tions.
When
remedy.
ment should not be lost. But it should be exenough to produce good results.
With all the ways to interest, teachers must
Some
use eternal vigilance and firmness.
things must be required, for the average boy
acting
from ten to
is
necessary in order to
Beginners
will find
it
good plan
to rule a
then indicate
lines,
&
Style and Method.
Another plan is to put the pencil marks suggesting the spacing on the blotter and not on
the paper. The name on the blotter can be
centered and placed up close to the line upon
which you intend to work. In this way you can
see how much space will be required and avoid
getting pencil marks on the paper. This saves
erasing and insures good spacing. The pencil
marks do not have to be put in carefully, except
for space values.
E. A. Lupfer.
umlrlrr
focf or &orr&?
right
perceive that only to the extent that one
is
is
in
They do not
it
is
possible to be right.
The Stylists or Systemists or Form-
sequence than stereotyped perform"I want to know" 1b the Instinct which leads to
wisdom. The Inquiring mind discovers the need
and source of truth, and extracts It from
i
would
letter
l>e
the
impression of the
same as when
encourages
own
Help
make
it
in others
and
questions.
writ-
parties concerned.
H.
Yoa are
this
question.
1.
J.
You
cial.
Flexibility is necessary, else conand the ten commandin vain; method is im-
Raymond Buel,
Grade 4-A Clayton School, Pitts
burgh, Pa.
sideration
ments were
HUBBARD
The above wa9 contributed by the Director of
Commercial Education, Elmer G. Miller, and
indicates that they
are
teaching
language expression as well as penmanship,
and that poetry is a Pittsburgh product as well
as smoke holy smoke at that and not mere pot
clearly
ance.
If
do
in
business.
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WRITING
By
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PITTSBURGH,
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21
This copy is given as a movement exercise, and in writing it you should give practically all your attention to using correct action ratber than to
the formation of the letters. Note the easy swings in the finishing strokes. Your work should show just as free movement.
EXERCISE 22
the
The beginning stroke for the c is like that of the a. Make a short hook at
same as in n. Make eighty letters per minute The word "ice" should be
the top of the letter, retrace and swing around on the finishing stroke
written at the rate of 25 or 30 words per minute.
EXERCISE 23
Practice the straight line exercise one-half space high.
cross stroke which is usually made upward.
The
first
part of the x
is
made
Note the
slant of the
sT7/Z/l<^7S
EXERCISE 24
The curved
Write about
line
fifteen
movement
exercise here
is
to
very valuable.
show good
Turns
free action
The
finishing stroke
is
w.
.Jte.jbu<H,H**&**t&r
&
EXERCISE 5
The beginning
should be made a little longer than the hrst slr< ke in tie i, then w ilh a slight pause at the top and a short swing
to the right and downward, and another slight pause and change of direction, the letier is finished precisely like the i.
The two pauses at tbe top
Study the large form.
river,
of the r may give you trouble. At first malse these pauses quite decidi d.
Some other go< d words fcr practice are
stroke for tbe
EXERCISE 26
Begin
ing tbe pen
like
make
making initial stroke same length as in r. Swing downward aDd to[left connecting with the begi
the usual finishing stroke with an easy swing to the right. Make four letters without lifting im.
r,
EXERCISE
lift-
27
(Review.)
These words may be practiced as a spelling lesson and furnish a most valuable review of all the small letters practiced thus far. While mo9
attention should be given to free action, sorre care should be given to the slant, spacing and forms of letters.
The complete list of words should be
written in from lVa to 2 minutes.
EXERCISE 28
(Review.)
By this time it should be quite easy for you to maintain the correct position of the hand and body. It is easy to forget, however, so I wish to
remind you that the best writing is done while the writer is in a good positkn. Think of the position, movement, etc., always tefoie beginning
practice on a new copy.
This copy is a review of the Capitals and small letters and gives you good practice in joining capitals to small letters.
EXERCISE 29
These sentences should extend half way across the page. The words
and freedom. Note the spacing between words.
able smoothness
are short
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EXERCISE 30
You will observe that the sentences in this copy contain only capitals and small letters which have been given in previous lessons.
movement will be given a good test on these sentences. Ease of action and graceful lines should be your aim. Watch your beginning and
Your
finish-
BUSINESS
win
to
B.
The
WRITING
By
E.
I.
Z.
HACKMAN,
cate
is
B. E. Certifi-
evidence that
Elizebethtown, Pa.
Certificate
postage for
free criticism.
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Plate 41.
stroke and
is
'
No.
make
1.
Follow previous
the "s"
'
instructions.
Nos. 2 and
3.
Count
1, 2, 3, 4,
Do
5,
Count
pause, finish.
1, 2,
Nos. 4 and
pause, finish.
Nos.
5.
6. 7,
9.
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Plate 42.
curve.
Count
No.
1, 2.
1.
Use a gliding
Nos.
3,
and
5.
movement.
Count 11,2,
A^A^A/
stroke above.
T^7
16
finish.
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Count 1, 2, pause, 3, finish. No. 2 Make this capital rapidly, countfirst part is similar to the figure 7.
Execute rapidly.
No. 4. Count 1, 2, finish.
Nos. 5 and 6. Keep all
No.3. Count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
7, 8, 9, 10. 11, 12.
The finsame height. Space accurately, and make smooth lines. No. 7. Count 1, 2. No. S. Count 1, 2, pause, finish.
ishing stroke
(5,
is
on the
line.
Nos.
7,
8 and
No. 1. Count
Plate 44.
cross carefully.
9.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, finish.
5.
Count
1,
cross.
No. 4. Count 1,
No. C. Count 1,
2, 3,
2,
and
finish,
See
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Plate 45.
No.
and make
line and count 1,
2.
1,
Nos. <> and
freely,
it
2,
7.
1.
Observe the compound curve in the upstroke and the downstroke. Ke"p each opening the same size.
two spaces high. Count 1 for each loop. No. 2. Follow previous instructions. No. 3. Place the loop
No. 4. Start with a compound curve, placing loops horizontally. Count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. No.
4, 5, >.
Follow previous instructions.
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Practice
flat
5.
on the
Count
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This remarkable specimen of penmanship was written with no thought of being: engraved and published, tut it was so unusual that we could not
resist the temptation to reproduce it and pass it on to inspire thousands. It has greatly depreciated in the engraving process, as the original is exceptionally light in line, free in movement, graceful and accurate. We have never seen such good writing by any one else as old. It is still more
wonderful when one considers that Mr. Flickinger's thumb has been afflicted with writers cramp for some years. Here's hoping he may continue
to enjoy life among us and to continue to inspire us to higher and nobler endeaver. Only those who know how extremely modest he is, will be
able to appreciate his embarrassment upon seeing his letter in the B. E.
^3t>u<u/uu<>6</um/<r
it
is questionable whether the
training is correct.
After the more basic or cruder
phases of form and movement are developed, a refinement of both is in
cal,
EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum
for the expression of convictions relating to methods of teaching and the art of writing
of writing to
ages, involves
emphasis upon the various essentials
of good writing to the age, need and
condition of the pupil.
The child needs to be handled
somewhat differently than the adult.
The daily need of writing on the part
of the pupil has a modifying influence upon the instruction.
And the
habits of the writer and condition of
his writing should be carefully noted
and met.
Thus eye training is important;
the first essential. At a later stage
of growth, muscle training is of first
pupils of
different
announce the
Robert Emerson,
Newark. N.J.
PARTIAL CONTENTS
spacing between words, and uniform quality or color of lines are all
phases of technic which need atten-
birth
fourth,
on September the
if
this
The
Number
of
of the Business
Educator.
ter.
la.
in slant; to
importance.
If the pupil has writing to do daily,
then the training needs to be of the
kind that will improve, while using,
the vehicle of expression. If form is
better than movement, then the latter
needs emphasis and vice versa.
After the essentials of legibility
have been stressed in the matter of
form, and after arm movement has
been established, a finer quality of
form as well as of movement needs
attention.
This we can call the
technical stage, and naturally comes
in the grammar grades, when
eye
and muscle training have preceded
in the primary grades.
By "technic," we mean those elements of form, such as size or alignment, of slant or inclination, and
But
improvement
examined,
TECHNICAL TRAINING
The proper teaching
to be
DDC
3C
Form needs
order.
of either is
If
it
is
bound
to
not recipro-
An
handwriting.
think clearly is the prelude to
acting skillfully.
Care is the secret
of excellence, backed by good judgment and training in writing as in
most worth while things.
in
To
Accounting,
.
Chas. F. Rittenhouse, C.
P. A., Boston.
Arithmetic,
J.
troit.
Commercial Law,
*?&rrf
P. B. S. Peters,
Efficiency, Harold
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. (). Behne
announce the marriage of their daughter
Alice
to
Emma
to
Westtield, Massachusetts
penmanship suited
Passaic,
Timely Material.
Cowan
Cowan,
smith, Philadelphia.
S.
N.J.
Ka
sas City.
to correspondence.
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DDE
have been out of the way in three or four minutes, but there were a half dozen pedestrians,
wait. They "took a chance" and
climbed over the bumpers between the cars.
Suddenly the train started up, and one fine
young fellow was thrown down, and had both
He will have
legs cut off just below the knee.
fewer chances to take hereafter, poor fellow. A
bank in our town had in its employ a young
and promising assistant cashier, who was trusted completely. The boy (he was hardly more)
had a young wife and baby, also an aged mother to support. He earned SI, 500 a year, but he
wanted more. So he got to speculating in land.
He bonghton narrow margins, and the interest
demands began to come in. He had the gambler's confidence that his holdings would make
him big money, but he had to pay the interest
So he "took a
or sacrifice his investment.
chance" and "borrowed" $10,000 from the
bank funds in his care. Facing exposure in his
desperation, he staged a take "hold up" story,
which was quickly riddled by the detectives,
and now he faces a five-year sentence for embezzlement, and his life is ruined and hisfam-
Marshall's
Mental
Meanderings
unc
Regarding the
Axe Grinders
DC
There
to discuss
"sections,"
tem
of
presented
some book,
vice,
is
tising
was also so
realized,
and
aboutone
want
that
is
to offer
often
Why can't
not
this
the
stick pin. When you visit his ofhe is cordiality personified, and his winning smile and bluff heartiness might fool the
most experienced cynic. But lift the skirts of
this masculine [sis, and the illusion vanishes. At
heart he is as cold as a fish, and as relentless and
selfish as a wolf. He is a good school manager,
on the material side, a good judge of teaching, a
good advertiser, and has sense enough to know
fice,
young fellow
visits the
and diamond
in determining the methods of their government. They have a parliament and the trappings of a constitutional monarchy, but practically speaking everything is up to the Kaiser.
And the Kaiser is making good as the supreme
boss of his people, and, no doubt, Germany is
today a million times as efficient as though she
governed herself on the town-meeting principle. To prove this, we only need to compare
the way things are done in Germany, with our
own methods, as worked out by our spoils politicians, and our pork-barrelcongresses, and legislatures, and boss-ridden city councils. For
instance, the budgets show that during the last
twenty years, we have spent about as much money on our army and navy as Germany has, but
with what different results Contrast, also the efficiency of Germany, with the administrative
disorganization in her two great democratic adversaries, England and France.
Of course,
Russia is inefficient too, and Russia is also a
despotism, but what would she have been under the rule of her Duma? Undoubtedly, she
would have seen her finish, in the first campaign In Germany, the despotism has been
able, in Russia weak, that is all,
But granting the efficiency of strong despotisms, and the inefficiency of democracies, does
this prove the desirability of despotisms? Far
from it. Men are on the earth for something
greater and higher than to form powerful tribal
units. Human life is something more than a
bee hive or an ant hill. The creational idea is
the uplift of the individual man, the devel-
left
all
if
men may
it is
that
who wonldn't
wearing."
His motive
in all this is
both
justifi-
'
in giving them a personal setting forth, than are the things of silk, linen,
lace, and leather. This is the apparel of the
mind, which comes from their mouths in the
more important
them
&
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Pres.
of Applied Salesmanship,
O., 1426 Illuminating BIdg.
From
this
commercial leadership,
need.
Superintendent
we
tically
New York
is
men
of
of the
CLEVELAND,
$30,000,000.
COMMERCIAL LEADERSHIP.
structive,
KNOX,
S.
Knox School
and legislators.
Dr.
Claxton's
office
went
it
Congress.
true that two-thirds of our national legislators are lawyers.
It is
true that lawyers are professional
men.
It
is
true that they did
not learn
anything
about business efficiency in
school.
It
is
true that they do not realize that
It is
commercial education
He
have
is
said, "I
am."
said,
"Then why
the $10,000."
A newspaper recently stated that
the government could easily appropriate a billion dollars for a war with
Germany because our present war
tax is very little.
But our government does not see its way clear to appropriate the little sum of ten thousand dollars to help solve one of the
greatest problems in America. This
is not only a commercial problem but
a civilization problem.
is
From
47
the
towns
in
Chautauqua platform
in
not
cial conditions.
to this
the matter
lution.
mercial situation.
TRIBUTE TO LEADERSHIP
Special Diploma of Honor Awarded by
the Panama Pacific Exposition to
the Remington Typewriter
Company
ership.
I asked you who read this articleto
take the matter up at once with your
senators and congressmen.
See to
it that you get what
you want.
If
enough of us do this, we will triumph
soon. If we do not, it may be decades before congress recognizes this
problem.
The big city represents the dregs
of our civilization, while the smaller
city and community represents the
heart and center of our civilization.
Sixteen
of
the
61
OR
a Special
DIPLOMA OF HON-
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ir
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ACCOUNTING
CHAS. F. RITTENHOUSE. C. P. A.,
Accounts,
*.,jy
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ii
ii
BUSINESS
Assistant Professor of
'
SIMMONS COLLEGE,
BOSTON.
nil
II
II
STATEMENTS
The
It
is
absolutely
however, to bear
in
necessary,
mind
that suc-
*&
2i
debits;
liabil-
in
ness
and arrangement of
ments that are used
cussed
intelligently
and
fully ex-
whom
in
actual prac-
tice the
who
particularly interested in
is
it.
mt,%tim<Mrtixdfr*
22
which
ot
ment
common
MODEL
use:
31,
sale
126.50
431.50
MODEL
II
Total
039
1026
1665
Dr.
1565.40
Mdse. Cr.
Inv.
Kxpense
19-
4200
3042
[dae.
31,
99.60
50
Dr.
Net Gain
of the business
49.60
99 60
MODEL
Sill
til)
III
90
43.50
46.50
90.00
MODEL
&
IX
Gains, Jan.
31,
Sales
1217.50
338.25
Kxpense
27.25
12.50
why
that
90.00
will
will
Mert-haDcltse
Tost
Inventory
Net Gain
clear to a class
sold.
of the
1908
Gains
Purchases
Inventory
Cost oi roods Sold
Gain
make
be submitted which it is
answer certain objections
raised to the models in common use,
and certain fundamental principles
governing the construction of such
"
Gain
Expense Outlay
Net Gain
Statement of Losses
to
felt
720
370
1090
1000
Cost
model
Statement of Affairs
Merchandise Sales
Inventory
Proceeds
14.75
150.47
troversy.
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business writer and in the handling
of figures. Neither has it made the
most of its opportunities for advertising itself if it neglects these most
noticeable features of the students'
preparation.
Now, obviously, skill in arithmetic
is not merely having knowledge of
IDEAS OF AN
Arithmetic
Teacher
J.
C.
HOWELL,
how
prove
themselves
of
definite
is
this
proper preparation to
make
in
whole
will
make
in
23
made both
as
First
reading:
(pronounce
12.
sub-totals)
7, 16, 23,
the
(pronounce the
$b
>jfiuj//ujjV//uati/
No comma- We use
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS ROSE BUHLIG,
Lake Technical High School,
(One-line heading)
No
Dubuque, Iowa.
Dear Madam:
Do you need a new dress,
No
suit, or waist?
3DC
NUMBER
III
woman.
PUNCTUATION
Next, present the structure and the
punctuation of the series still in
simple sentences. That is, this next
step is for the teaching of series and
nothing else.
If
series are presented in sentences containing other
complexities, the students' minds
will be confused. A new subject demands their concentrated attention,
and concentration implies but one
point of attack.
It may be that most of the students
in the class will understand the correct punctuation of the series, having learned it in the grades. But I
have usually found that the only
kind of series that they know is
series of words.
However, if they
are shown the grammatical structure
of the series, they will understand the
Word You
will
be interested in our
Mr. M.
P.
(Two-line heading)
Donnelly,
and
as possible.
CHICAGO.
Indiana
Yours truly,
fortunate
and therefore
with
our
semi-annual
ing dresses.
good
the student
knows the
To show
No comma Is
that
to
Second St.,
Milwaukee, Wis.
367
Dear
Sir:
We
difference in price?
Yours
truly,
&
Messrs. Jonathan
656
Mills,
Harrison
St.,
Elkhart, Ind.
Gentlemen:
We
by dealing with
us.
Yours
truly,
Mrs. W. R. Clark,
452 Wilson Ave.,
Peoria,
111.
Dear Madam:
Your letter of the 14th instant
was received yesterday, and we wired
once as follows:
"Mrs. Gregory available February
Terms one hundred dollars."
The terms quoted include all of
Mrs. Adams' expenses, but it must
be understood that you will furnish
the lantern and the operator to proat
first.
ject
the
stereopticor.
slides.
We
Yours
a speller or a
stenography book?
price has
comma
struc-
the
gone up.
acquainted
When
Continued on page
truly,
29.
y/u-3Vju^ </<fir3tZ3C
memories.
The
story
is
told of the
Welchman,
EFFICIENCY
litical
HAROLD
E.
COWAN,
Department,
"Wot's
NUMBER THREE
LEARNING TO LEARN
The aim
of education is not
merely
a present one, but largely an ultimate one. It is to supply the future
need of citizenship. There must be
developed men and women of lofty
standards whose brains are active,
who think. The methods and principals of commercial education are
being widely renovated. The class
room is being related to the office,
boys and girls are being treated more
as
young
about to undertake their responsibilWe are ceasing to teach bookkeeping and stenography as ends in
themselves, but considering them as
means whereby we enter the business
world with advanced standing.
Until the student knows, or at least
senses that the great need in the office is for young people who can
ities.
who know
it all,
Recollection
is
In the past,
the memory was trained to hold
things in their completeness. The
old Greek legends are fine examples
tations or
But
all
25
"To take
&
cess.
Thus
to their suc-
the student
is inspired
to earn money, into hard
study, for high marks, and he sees
by a desire
pad
?^uOMu^&&uxifir
26
ography.
PHILADELPHIA.
i\
whom
II
NUMBER
II
III.
can't see
them progressing far either in the
way of earning good salaries or of
winning respect from their employers
or themselves.
Fortunately, there are students
The school is
with higher aims.
really a miniature world; it contains
Some are not worth noall types.
ticing; some are worth studying; and
some are worth imitating. A few of
them, too, sadly enough, are worth
pitying. A woman past forty enterIf ever a pered the day after I did.
little effort
as possible.
English
with
noticeable accent,
knew
But
in
the
the
wh
v,
merce.
$>
It seemed to
impression upon me.
come irom a place remote, yet it
must have been audible in every
classroom. It went on almost unceasingly a deep, harsh monotone.
It sounded more like a growl than
anything human I had ever heard,
and when I asked the girl behind me
what it was, heranswer seemed most
fitting.
in
of
fearful of
attending a place in one of his classes than his voice had done. And the
tales of some of the older students
They called
filled me with dread.
him an inhuman sort of tyrant, withkindness.
out pity and without
On the day I was admitted to his
had
I
room, I was really troubled.
become accustomed to his voice by
that time, but the man himself filled
My enjoyment
work under Miss
been
one
of the main
had
Turner
causes of my satisfactory progress.
If my new surroundincs were to be
as unpleasant as I had been told they
me
with foreboding.
of the preliminary
M^^Bu^n^A^u^a^r
DOC
3UZJC
SIDE LIGHTS
let
ON
Commercial
Law
P. B. S.
kill
her.
But under
Roman
PETERS.
CITV.
DOC
hindrance.
Even more, he
he desired, chastise, sell, or
School,
3C=1C
if
KANSAS
or
might
even
DCDC
COMMON LAW
tracts.
rights of the
Roman law
common law
of England in effect unthe year 1870 when the first important change and enlargement of the
rights of married women was introduced into the English law under the
til
woman had
a married
The present
privileges.
However, their
le-
gal
may now
common
Acts of Parliament.
In the United States legislation
was enacted much earlier than in
England granting the wife privileges
and rights not enjoyed under thecommon law brought to this country and
established as part of our jurisprudence by the early colonies. Notwithstanding this enlightened age there
are privileges not yet accorded married
women
in
many
of the
states
27
husband.
If, during marriage she
took in washing to get some ready
money,
it
belonged
to the
husband.
PUNISHMENT
The husband had the further
right
to give his wife reasonable chastisement for correction in the same moderation that a father is allowed to
correct his children, and for the purpose of restoring that concord and
harmony which
marital
unity
re-
ment
cause
intentions.
Continued on page
29.)
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BUSINESS GETTING
F.
A KEEFOVER
INSTRUCTOR
TACOMA, WASH.
DC
If
DC
is,
"The 'Con'
|
mind-
but never
in
Conceit."
But, no matter,
Flamed out
in
To do
And
Big
That way.
It is adapted
the
To
Woman
Round
on
Dollar
flirts.
Wink, even
Illuminating Scintillations
Of a Brain that was
So Nearly Pure Genius
That it was
Hardly Human
That's what
Bank
It
of
it.
The
Which means
a big
mop
of the
It is
It is
you
Next month
to
for a
Better Meal,
made
This Page
around
business
At the Old Stand
But the chances are
The writer
as explained
that
So, inviting
stick-
stick
And do
Guy
is
Plain.
Maybe you'd
The
it
for this
Ad Writer
To stop, now
the Janitor
With
that in
Self protection,
At you
Guy
freak ad
Time
Wentthrough the
German Bayonet drill
Waldo."
any
sell
And
doesn't
Teller balanced
amuse
Folks by turning
Flip-flops, but
of
Corvallis, we may
Learn that we may
To think
And-
The Receiving
thought.
In
mighty
with
Never
day
Expression
That he thought was Funny.
He thought the expressions were
Cute and the
He
is
has
it
this style of
easy, for it is
Foolish, and folks
Say so many of us are built
Is
Money,
Spots
In the ads.
He used to put at the
Bottom of the Ad each
Some foolish, freakish
He
Serious, for
Even
Because Business
and
so,
He is Gone,
He belonged in Vaudeville
And not in Business.
there.
was
Freak
Advertising is all
Right for advertising
Freaks and Funny Things
Like John Bunny
And a Side Show. But
John is dead (rest his ashes)
And Business is the
Main Show-
DC
DC
it
ADVERTISING
IN
All over
clutch your weekly
Salary of $3.45, to see
And
"We thank
Good
you,
people.
We thank you."
is
adapted
to a
few subjects
The writer
of
these articles will take pleasure in giving suggestions and criticisms to students
for that
purpose.
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LAW
change
at
solutely settled
all,
my
fears.
only
etc.
I
are on the
my
27.)
to deal justly
there were oc-
gation
which
was
imposed upon
woman beauty
countenance and
sweet words, to make the man obey
her again for love. Thus each obeyeth and commandeth the other; and
they two together rule the house as
long as they remain one."
fair
==^
NEWS ITEMS
==
up with me."
Montana.
ENGLISH
26.)
JJ
"Rhode
Island Commercial School," Providence, publishes a 56-page catalog of exceptional quality. It is covered in light buff or
cream card, embossed in gold, and printed on
paper to match with a specially designed
border. The balf-tone illustrations of students
and schoolroom scenes, are attractively presented, and the text is superb.
lina,
is
deservedly
College," Saprosperous if we
took
September
1st.
ing:
Dear
Sir:
The No.
livery until the 25th. We are enclosing a duplicate factory order slip
showing the items and marked "Im-
you
truly,
shall present
the
Dixon Crucible Co., Jersey City, N. J., is before us and we find it to be a most interesting
and attractive booklet designed to further the
use and sale of their products, which are pencils
and graphite.
The
work
of this Institution.
Mr.
W. L
Jarvis,
Tippecanoe, Ohio,
is
now
one
is
an assistant commer-
The Swain Free School, of Design, New Bedford. Mass., issues an appealing booklet of
thirty-two pages, attractively illustrated by students' work, of special interest to those who
have
art inclinations.
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MARSHALL
The
19.)
Brief
One might
el as to
hold
Meanderings
under a bushblown out.
so high that
it
gets
in classic lore,
A church congregation
has dismissed
in a
pastor and
Nebraska town
now
rf
NEWS ITEMS
"A
Little
Gregg School,
exterior
and
interior,
Gregg Shorthand,
National
Typewriting;
The Gregg
Writer Magazine.
Awards.
On August
Board of Education,
of Los Angeles, upon the recommendation of
the Superintendent and indorsed by the Committee of Teachers and Schools, unanimously
adopted Gregg Shorthand for use in the public
16, 1915, the
and
and
its
city.
Some
pages by Mr.
Karl McGinnis
has
commercial teacher
Dallas, Texas.
in
accepted a position
the Dallas
as
High Schools,
in the
Hartford Public
work on Sept.
8.
Mr, Chas. T. Cragin, of Thompson's Holyoke, Mass., Business School, reports a good
school attendance considering the times.
He
states that not much war material is being manufactured there. Of course, the war business is
but temporary at best, and tberifore tl e communities making good without that business
will feel the after effects less than those receiving a good share of it now.
Mr. J.J. Hornback, a recent student of the
Grace L. Woodward, of Natick, Mass., has secured a position as teacher in the Weymouth,
Mass.. High School.
Louise A. Heron, of Wooster, Ohio, has accepted election to a position as teacher in rhe
of the High School, at
commercial department
Middleport, Ohio.
the
Charles N. Ponton has charge of the commercial department in the High School, at Madison,
Nebraska, this year.
W. Alexander,
of Laddonia, Mo., is enas an assistant teacher in the State Preparatory School, at Boulder. Colo., for the current year.
has an additional
its staff.
May M.
Austin, of
Belchertown,
Mass.,
is
ment
Ruth
School, Schenec-
E.
a position
DeKalb,
department.
established
ing handled by
lege, Worcester,
opened.
this season.
gaged
perity.
as the
ment
"Spencerian," is the title of a little, wideawake, school paper which reaches our desk,
weekly, from the Spencerian Commercial
gaged
Harriet M. Bigelow
classes.
%=
III.
(jraae, of
Perth
Amboy, N.
J., is assist-
High
Mo.
Charles C. Olson, Revere, Mass., has accepted
the position as commercial teacher in the
Madison, N. J., High School.
Roy
V. Coffey, for
many
High School
Mo.
J.Ogden Gandy, recently with Banks Business College, Philadelphia, Pa., is a new Supervisor of Penmanship, in the Waterbury,
Conn., Schools, this year.
Edna E. Elder, of Rochester, N. Y., has been
in Sherman's Business School, at Mt.
Vernon, N. Y.
employed
L.
W. Greathouse. Superintendent
of
Schools,
1st.
In
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f^^^ud/n^d^i^/iu^i/^
TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS.
T.
CRAGIN,
Holyoke. Mass..
Thompson's Business
School.
DARKEST RUSSIA
In the early days of the twentieth century
there were great labor troubles all over the vast
empire of Russia, and great discontent was
every where among the Russian peasants, the
Moujiks. and they said the Jews were to blame
for it all. There are in the empire of Russia
something like six million Jews and the condition of this great Jewish multitude nearly half
of all the Jewish population of the world, was
at that period as it istoday, very wretched. "The
Pale." is a certain section of Russian territory
money
lenders.
steeped
in
the
"Vodka."
ish
was days
population
the terror of
and weeks
of Kishinev
that
night of
recovered from
murder
and
wind blew
to
and
fro at
intervals.
Down
narrow
from
women
haste!"
THE EXODUS
It
THE NIHILISTS
Night had
&
<5ffiJ>33u4//itJSi/iuafcr
of before he could leave Russia with enough
means to start him in a new country. He took
the chances. A .swift team of horses was encaged to take him from the city as soon as he
from Russia. Anna Levinsky, of Kishinev, a fatherless Jewess with few friends, and
little money, and Olga Rosanoff well to do, with
girls
tering the
same
classes
city.
Anna but not nearly so reliable. Olga always got a thing quickly but there were rather
more than even chances that it wasn't right, aftershe did get it, and as a matter of fact she
ess
turned out to be
her study
her.
of errors.
The
left in
was
swung over
was as cold
SUDDEN FAME.
The next morning
pers and a highly
leap for life from
The Jewish
girl
had some
difficulty in getting
an awkward
in their Savings
GRAGINS
STORIES
ARE ALL
BASED ON
FACTS.
&/fe>38uJ//u4&dui*ifrr
good,
33
certificate winners of the 7th and 8th grades of the Massillon, O., public schools, Miss Esther Tacker, supervisor (portrait
group). Thirty-three percent of the total enrollment won certificates. Massillon is in the forefront of American cities as concerns
writing. The writing from the first grade up averages exceptionally well alBo.
movement
NESS,
Morocco,
Zaner
&
Cloth, $2.00;
$5.00.
Bloser, Publishers,
Columbus, O.
34
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DCZ1C
ENGRAVER'S
OR
ENGROSSER'S
SCRIPT
By W. A. BAIRD
357
Fulton
St.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
nunc
ini
INSTRUCTIONS
In this month's lesson we have the first of the
capital stems. This stroke is a very important
one, as it is to be found more or less modified
in fully one-half the capital letters. You had it
to a certain extent in the "V" and
of last
month's lesson. In those letters the stroke
"W"
ends as soon as
W"
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Ornamental
Penmanship
BY
E. A. LUPFER.
Columbus, O., Zaner
College.
Send specimens with
retti
DC
DDC
Many
greatly strengthen
all
the small
letters.
Dash
them
this
dressed to
/ /
me
/ /
'his
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HALL S
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PERFECTED SHORTHAND
A
5ub$criln?
fur the
Be
oriftflrt
tube
Inquiries solicited.
Hall Publishing
Company
Fremont, Ohio
Another Issue of Remington Notes. Sand Mr. Homer S. Pace, of New York
City, who is our principal morning
Volume 3, No. 11 of Remington Notes has Ispeaker, will talk on "Commercial
reached our hands. Our impression as we look
fTraining for Modern Business."
over the latest issue of this Remington publica2
I shall be
glad if you will mention
tion, is that another good name for the paper
would be 'Practical Points for Typists." {through your news columns the time
This department of Remington Notes has ex- land place of our meeting.
panded until now it is the most important in the
Yours very truly,
publication. Many thousands of operators send 1
Hastings Hawkes, Pres.
their suggestions to this department and the
cream
copies.
are some other excellent features in
the latest issue of Remington Notes; among
There
to
RemingtoD Employment Department at Baltimore and an article entitled, "Miss Remington of 1876 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition."
This last article traces in a most entertaining
manner, the development of the industry during the past forty years.
If your name is not on the Remington Notes
mailing list better write now to the Remington
NEWS NOTES
C. E. Lucas, last year a teacher in the commercial department of the Martins Ferry, Ohio,
High School, is to have charge of the commerifcial work of the Sauk Centre, Minn., High
I' School, this year.
William Matthews, of Becker's Business College, Worcester, Mass., has been elected to
teach commercial branches in the Clinton,
[(Mass.. High School.
Columbus, Ohio.
Gentlemen The next
meeting of our Federation
:
held in
the
annual
be
will
October 30. Mayor Curley, of Boston, will give the address of welcome,
Lettering
tert',1 3f,<\
Vi ,-anls
elegentlv
Challenge Sperln
:J
FOR SALE
is
employed this year in Can.pbell's
Commercial School, at Cincinnati, Ohio.
Miss Mary Phillipy, a graduate of Drexel In?
stitute, Philadelphia, Pa., is teaching cemmercial branches in the Darby High School, Phila-
stitute,
No
Alphus L. Drury, of Rochester, N. Y., has accepted a position in the Auburn Business College, Auburn, N. Y.
J. H. Seckler is the new commercial teacher in
Spencer's Business School, Patterson, N. J.
We wish him much success in his new position.
11, 1915.
f!
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delphia.
New
TYPEHAND
The New Scientific Shorthand. Easily learned in one lesson.
Simple.
Practical.
Inexpensive.
One or two strokes usually
make a word. Complete, cloth-bound, $1.
Description Free.
TYPEHAND, Dept. B, Box
1040, Washington, D. C.
A. B. ZuTavern, Boise, Idaho, is able to interest his students in good penmanship. From
time to time we not only receive large lists of
subscriptions from him, but fine specimens of
students' work as well.
Mr. ZuTavern writes a
very practical hand himself, which in a measure
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published in the Universal Penman by G, Sickham in 1738, the work itself being the product of N. Dove.
The DuBois
College, of
E]R
Business, DuBois,
LESSONS IN ENGROSSING
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The noderslgned has decided to
take a few pupils, possessing the
natural talent for lettering, and
drill them In the necessary alpha
hets from hand made pen and Ink
copies, ronnding out the course
with a finished set of resolutions.
For terms, address,
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in the home town was too strong and in the
winter of 1914 he sold the school and purchased
the Kewanee Business College.
Mr. Swanson is therefore one of the youngest
school owners we know of in our profession.
By the
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The original of this piece of work was executed on a sheet of gray bristol board, size
22x28 inches. This work is lithographic in
style and effect and is used a great deal by Elmer E. Marlott, of Newark, N. J., one of our
best engrossers. It will not permit of a hasty
layout as the accuracy of the lettering is its
chief charm. The entire design must be accurately penciled and then gone over with a pen
dipped in a light wash color obtained by mixing lamp black and Payne's gray. The pencil
marks or what may remain of them, may then
be removed, using art gum, instead of rubber,
asthe latter has a tendency to dig up the fibre
of the bristol board. AH of the shading is done
in the various gray wash tints and after the lettering has been executed in waterproof ink.
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white.
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Settlement of losses and gains made with
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thrift.
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A splendid list of subscriptions has been received from Supervisor R.B.Stewart, who has
charge of the penmanship in the Houghton,
Mich., Public Schools. Mr. Stewart, promises
to have a large number of his teachers up to the
Certificate standard by spring. He is a hustler,
and we have reason to believe that he will succeed in all that he attempts.
E. H. Fearon, who has been supervising
writing in the Spokane, Wash., schools the past
year, has been promoted to the head of the
commercial department of the North Side High
School. F. H. Arnold, who has been one of the
commercial teachers of the Lewis and Clark
High School, succeeds Mr. Fearon as supervisor. We wish both the maximum of success
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COMMERCIAL
ADVANCED
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FOR
that the beginning classes are well under way, you must turn your attention to the intermediate and advanced subjects. We recommend
Now
Who lesale
Accounting
an intermediate
for
speed
drills in
an advanced
set,
very popular.
shorthand.
drill.
This House publishes a complete list of commercial texts a good text for every subject taught
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The
International Novice
Championship Typewriter
Contest
Annual Business Show at the Sixty-ninth
Regiment Armory, New York, October 25, 1915,
At
the
WAS WON BY
Miss Hortense
S.
Stollnitz
Operating a Model 10
Remington Typewriter
Miss Stollnitz wrote 114 words per
minute net for fifteen minutes, a
world's record for novices in Inter-
is
open only
to those
who
September, 19 14.
It is therefore the one event that gives a
the machine's part in the development of speed in typewriting.
to
The
question
of typewriter merit
is
real indication
operator of exceptional training can do, but by what the average operator can
And
must
for the
novice stage
is
Jo.
what
which aV operators
of
is,
pass.
By
the machine
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Price $1.00.
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and also enables the teacher to correct the notes in a moment's time. Special pui.ctuation feature.
for information.
Write
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ROCATE
The biggest event
in
made up
of teachers
engaged
in all
phases of work incident to the broader and more adequate courses designed to meet the requirements of
national and internationalcommerce,
rather than to the federation of individuals in any particular phase of
commercial training.
Our strength and prestige are increased just in proportion to the increase of our numbers and the broadening of our scope, and your loyalty
to this broader purpose can be made
apparentthrough yourmembership in
the National Commercial Teachers'
Federation and your full cooperation
of
diately
to
next. Representation of the Federation is by appointment of two delegates and one alternate. Acceptance
of Mr. J. E. Fuller, Ex-President of
the Eastern Commercial Teachers'
Association, Wilmington, Del., and
Mr. C. P. Zaner, Ex-President of the
ranged.
Anticipating the pleasure of meeting all former co-workers and extending a most cordial welcome to
every one engaged in commercial
teaching, I am
Yours for the greatest good to the
eration,
National Commercial Teachers' FedColumbus, Ohio, each to devote one week in attendance at the
Congress, and Mr. Chas. M. Miller,
Ex-President o the National Commercial Teachers' Federation, New
York City, as alternate, have been re-
greatest number.
J. F. Fish, President, Chicago.
ceived.
Pan American
participate
in
Scientific Congress, to
the deliberations of
will
tute Free Library Building, where it now occupies all available space on three floors, and enrolls annually upwards of 850 students.
Messrs. Douglas. Fuller and Phillips are infusing new life into the work, and with the new
equipment still larger numbers will be cared for.
It is in the front ranks in penmanship work which
is under the direction of W. B. Mahaffey. Since
September
first
affords,
time to come.
So come aloDg to the meeting bring your
problems with you, but leave your troubles at
home. We need your enthusiasm. If you
haven't any, you should come and embibe.
Enthusiasm is a contagious commodity, and is
wonderfully effective in a business organizaWithout enthusiasm, life sobers down to
tion.
a dull ecru. Running a business without the
urge of enthusiasm is like groping around in
the dark. Without enthusiasm for your Profession and its best interests, you cannot obtain
the good things which should be yours, neither
urged
it
intermixed.
We want your opinions, and notions, and
thoughts, and ideas, and counsel, and every
good word that you can bring. A personal
touch with the Association Officers and Members will give you an insight into business conditions that will enliven your work for some
The importance
application to the work of the respective sections, and the general Federation programs will be participated
in by men of national and international repute as educators and leaders of commercial industries. There
will not be a dull moment during the
four days of the Convention and entertainment is being provided for
visiting members after hours, and
for those not interested in our programs, excursions to the big stores,
art institute, stock yards and other
points of interests are being ar-
in
who
You
stay at
Why not
home
of the
day
A complete
be published next month. These
If you are
notices should move you to action.
not thoroughly aware of the scope of the National Shorthand Teachers' Association and
what it is accomplishing, then a line from you
will bring fuller particulars and a stronger appeal. Business fertility is the business of the
are being prepared for discussion.
program
will
Association.
If
'
get busy.
little
ciation.
Typewriting.
Typewriting Contest
the Annual Business Show, New York
Miss Hortense S.
City, October 25, 1915,
Stollnitz, a student in the Bay Ridge High
School, Brooklyn, N. Y., broke all previous records in the Novice Class by sixteen words per
minute, making a record of 114 words per minute net. for fifteen minutes writing from copy.
The second on the list, Mr. William D Miller,
made a record of 108 words per minute net, and
the third, Mr. Oeorge Zeihl made a record of
107 words per minute net. All three of these
writers learned touch ty pewriti ng from Charles
E. Smith's "Practical Course in Touch Typewriting" published by Isaac Pitman & Sons, 2
West 45th Street, New York. As such records
for one-year students were never dreamed ofa
few years ago, the results are a noteworthy triumph for the Balanced Hand Method of Touch
At the International
held
at
Typewriting.
ing condition.
'JtfuiU/i&MGduiufrr
The New
The
Jersey Meeting.
Plainfield, N. J.. Nov. 1, 1915.
Business Educator, Columbus. C).
Gentlemen:
The New Jersey High School Commercial
Teachers held an organization meeting in
Newark, October 23. This meeting was attended by about eighty of the two hundred and fifty
commercial teachers in the state. The program
(a copy of which is inclosed) was especially
strong, presenting the view points of the school
superintendent, the high school principal, the
State Department of Education, the University
School of Commerce, the private school and
the employer.
The papers were of especial merit, and set
forth certain definite problems, for
PROGRAM AFTERNOON.
Obstacles Met in the Advancement of ComP.iH. Smith, Principal
mercial Education,
High School, BayortBe, N. J.
Things Most Essential in Commercial Training From an Employer's Standpoint, Willard
I. Hamilton, Secretary Prudential Ins. Co,,
Newark, N.
J.
Uncommer-
Name of
Editor, C. P. Zaner,
Editor,
C. P. Zaner
Managing
Business Managers,
Zaner & Bloser,
High
Newark.
V. Pres., Mr. E. E.Strobeck, Dickenson High.
Jersey City.
Sec. Mr. J. C. Evans, High School, Plainfield.
Treas., Mr.
W.
erson, N. J.
EXECUTIVE committee.
Mr. E.J. Goddard, Hammonton, N. J.
Miss Cora Jaggard. Camden, N. J.
Mrs. Cummins, Dover.
Yours very truly,
J.
C.
Evans,
program morning.
Address of Welcome, Dr. A. B. Corson,
First Asst. Supt. of Schools, Newark. N. J.
Response, A. B. Meredith, Asst. Commissioner of Education, Trenton, N. J.
Relation of Secondary Schools to the University in the Teaching of Commercial Sub-
Schools, Trenton, N.
Publishers, Zaner
Bloser.
Post-office address
Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio.
Columbus, Ohio.
&
Columbus, Ohio.
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(Notary Public, in and for Franklin Co., Ohio.)
Mr. J. E. Huchingson, the popular supervisor
of writing of the Denver schools was recently
elected Secretary of the Colorado State Teachcongratulate all parties
ers' Association.
concerned. Hutchingson is a hustler in more
things than writing.
We
in
arm move-
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thus allowing pupils and teachers to compare
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at
Macomb,
Illinois.
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says,
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stick
to
stones always roll downof perspiration and enin directing them upward. I have known a few persons who
got started rolling and did not stop until
We
they got pretty well down the hill.
"You know
Marcus
Many
It looks
learn; or
so
is
superficial consideration.
it seems to be easy to
apparently very brief. And
chosen.
to all the qualities
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The Phonographic Magazine, June, 1915, tries paindefend Pitmanic four-way wriiing against
shorthand less jagged and, begging the question,
shifts to an argument on behalf of finger movement
fully to
different fjr
with the hand properly pivoted, as described above, it becomes
not only possible, but perfectly convenient and easy, to employ
strokes not merely of the right slant, but also of the left."
;
mush
outlines.
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GREGG SHORTHAND
On August
16,
1915,
the
Board
of
Education of Los
Angeles, California, on the recommendation of the Superintendent, endorsed by the Committee on Teachers and Schools,
unanimously adopted Gregg Shorthand for use in the public
schools of that city for a period of four years.
The unanimous and official approval of Gregg Shorthand in Los Angeles was
hased on the following facts:
Classes in Gregg Shorthand were conducted for one year prior to adoption in
direct and daily competition with long organized classes of geometric shorthand.
The Gregg classes were uniformly successful.
A committee of nine teachers having had experience in teaching all three systems
under consideration was appointed by the Superintendent to pass upon the selection
of a shorthand system best adapted for the highest cultural and utilitarian work.
The committee reported:
nanimous experience in teaching the three systems
itman that we have had greater success in obtaining
lem in a shorter time and from a larger percentage of
pupils with Gregg Sir thand than with Pitman.
We believe that the adoption
of a Pitmanic system fc
for the schools would make the successful teaching of
shorthand extremely dim ult to pupils of intermediate school age."
"Basing our decision < l our knowledge of shorthand and our experience in
teaching the Wagner, Pi man and Gregg, your committee unanimously recommends the Gregg system .f shorthand."
has
"It
been
our
have secured
GREGG SHORTHAND
The
adoption of a system, however, may be one thing and the teaching of it quite
Los Angeles has adopted and teaches Gregg Shorthand. Since October 1st
received reports stating that Gregg Shorthand has been introduced into and
is being taught exclusively to beginners in all of the nine intermediate high schools,
and in all but one of the seven high schools of Los Angeles.
another.
we have
T rat
her (Committee
of the
free.
Chicago
San Francisco
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ment Armory,
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"
the outside keyi toward the center. It is the natural method of learning the
keyboard, and prevents the beginner from being inaccurate, I recommend Mr.
Charles E. Smith's 'Practical Course in Touch Typewriting' as the best typewriting text-book for those who wish to become rapid, accurate touch typists."
--Margaret
B.
who succeeded
Owen.
S.
Stollnitz,
Miss Rose L. Fritz won the One Minute Championship, writing 151 net words
the minute and breaking the former World's One Minute Record by 11 words.
The following Balanced Hand Typists wrote OVER ONE HUNDRED NET
for
WORDS A MINUTE
B. Owen
L. Fritz
Margaret
Rose
Bessie
Thos.
136
129
129
124
Friedman
.1.
Enrich
Novice Class
Rose Bloom
Martha Dunn
128
126
126
116
103
Bessie I.insitz
G. h. Hossfeld
D. E Stubing
G. Pfrommer
Among
Amateur Class
Professional Class
Hortense S. Stollnitz
William D. Miller
George Zeihl
114
108
107
101
who learned
The reason of the phenomenal success of "A Practical Course " rests mainly in the scientific and pedagogical
way in which the student advances while mastering the keyboard The strong fingers are not strengthened
at the expense of the weak fingers; neither are the weak fingers wearied with drills in advance of their more
nimble brothers. All the fingers are trained all the time, with due consideration for the strength and suppleness of each. The student goes from the known to the unknown, the line of least resistance being followed
throughout, so that he acquires the ability to write by touch almost before he knows it. This method has
been one of the fundamental factors in producing the majority of the most rapid and most accurate typists
of the day
.
Practical
By
Stiff
CHARLFS
Cloth, 75c.
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COLUMBUS,
VOLUME XXI
O.,
DEC,
1915
NUMBER
IV
C. P. Zaner,
E. W. Bloser,
Editor
Business Manager
Publishers and
Owners
WHO DO NOT
KNOW, AND THE OLDER ONES WHO
SOMETIMES FORGET.
or
Stamps accepted.
Two
Editions.
The Teachers' Professional
Edition contains 48 pages, twelve pages of
which are devoted to Accounting, Finance,
Mathematics, English, Law, Typewriting, Advertising, Conventions, etc., and Departments
specially suited to the needs of teachers, principals and proprietors.
The Students' Penmanship Edition contains 36
pages and is the same as the Professional Edition, less the twelve pages devoted to commercial subjects.
This edition is specially suited to
students in Commercial, Public and Private
schools, and contains all of the Penmanship, Engrossing, Pen Art, and Lesson features of the
Professional Edition.
The Business Educator is devoted to the progressive and practical interest of Business Education and Penmanship. A journal whose mission is to dignify, popularize, and improve the
world's newest and neediest education. It purposes to inspire and instruct both pupil and
teacher, and to further the interests of those engaged in the work, in private as well as in public institutions of business education.
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being the highest
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by the most intelligent and well-to-do among
those interested in business education and penmanship in the United States, Canada, England,
and nearly every country on the globe. It circulates, not alone among business college proprietors, teachers and pupils, but also among
principals of commercial departments of High
Schools, Colleges and Religious Schools, as well
as among office workers, home students, etc.
you
By
N. Y.
Conversation about things not connected with the business should not
be indulged in on "company time."
The house can stand it, but you can't.
The most precious possession in
life is good health.
Eat moderately,
breathe deeply, exercise out of doors
Do
not try to
make
scale
money
profitable
fresh air.
in
recreation.
Get the
&
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It is
fundasimilar
transitional stages
clear to see
that the
various
is
ment
penmanship
In advance
Answer may
appear together.
Is
the
Writer's
GEO. E. SEIFBRT
CrampWe have been unable to secure satisfactory information from specialists as to the exact cause of penman's
paralysis or writer's cramp. Some
claim it is more a matter of depleted
nerves than muscles, while others
consider the muscles the cause of the
osteopathy
Sometimes
trouble.
cures. Mental suggestion has been
writing
aids.
Less
known to help.
Some cases get relief by changing
the method of holding the pen. Others secure relief by changing from
finger to
tics
The cause of
much
ally too
of doing
The
it, or depleted vitality.
cure or remedy therefore would be
less
method
health. Editor.
tion on the desk. This is true provided the arm is used at the desk instead of the fingers.
The larger co-ordinations should
be made before the smaller or finer
ones, in the process of learning to
write well as a habit. Acquisition of
definite habitual motor impulses or
responses for service in script expression and record is properly funcfrom the
tioned by development
fundamental to the accessory movements.
Blackboard writing is only a means
to the end: combined movement. It
is the safest and most pedagogical
place for the little folks to take initial
Child
steps in learning to write.
limitation and immaturity can best
be met at the blackboard, because
the writing thereon is larger and
easier, less exacting in qualitative
effort than pencil or pen writing.
Knowledge of letter construction,
proportion, etc., is as necessary at
Logically
the board as the desk.
and practically the blackboard,
therefore, becomes the best means to
promote and facilitate perception at
the beginning. As well does it actuate and develop facility, confidence,
and power for permanent automatic
activity.
ty of slant, size
performance
in like
for early
skill
manner upon
pa-
per.
of-
such
most
efficient
manner
and time-conserving
form and demon-
illustrate
The conscientious,
strate motion.
thorough-going and mindful teacher
appreciates the reflective power and
systematic and
influence of neat,
graceful board writing for reading
purposes.
As soon as the pedagogic relativity of board to paper writing is established and all teachers of writing are
awake to the practical possibilities
of the blackboard as concerns its
schoolroom value and importance,
more efficient teaching will prevail,
and better writing than ever before
will
be the result
in
R.
"enough
is
as
good as a feast."
Editor.
diminution
first
grade, to a
in size of little
letters to
one-half inch and to oneinch for capitals in the eighth grade, is about
the
right for general writing on
blackboard by pupils.
During the formal writing lesson,
the progressive teacher can in the
public
size
our
Tom Sawyier.
schools.
Mr. J. W. Westervelt, Principal of the YVestand Shorthand, London. Canada, has charge of the penmanship
work in the Normal School of that city, and as a
consequence, recently favored us with a list of
eighty-six subscriptions, bespeaking unusual
enthusiasm and interest in the subject of writing. Mr. Westervelt himself writes well and
ervelt School of Business
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NOTICE
Penmen and Teachers
of Penmanship
profession.
Perhaps it is true that in a few
cases penmanship teachers have had a very
meager education as compared with teachers of
other branches of education, and, this has
been
the cause of the great avalanche of criticism
that has had to rest on the shoulders of the
penmanship teacher. Penmanship teachers are, as
a rule, very methodical.
They are generally
very slow in the matter of correspondence but
are considered beautiful writers by those who
write a poor hand. The poor scribe answers
his
mail as soon as he receives it. while the good
writer waits until he has plenty of time to take
care of his correspondence, so that he
may
please the reader with his beautiful penmanship.
The demands
tion
The
degree, and I
am informed by
writing, better
methods
of teaching
penman-
Sherman, Chicago.
W.
C. Brownfield.
"Efficiency in the Writing Class" by V. M.
Kubert.
in
Teaching Penman-
first
considered
of
degree on
donkey's neck
By
is
the
way pu-
pils write
The
arm movement.
The grade
card should
~ce of all written work as on the writing done,
during the writing period.
The following are essentials of a good handwriting to be considered in rating writing
a.
It must be neat.
It should be carefully arranged.
b.
Margins
should be even and straight. Spacing in letters
between letters in a word, between words in a
sentence, and between sentences should be
uniform. Paragraphs should be properly indented. (Spacing between letters should be
wider than in letters, and between words wider
than between letters.)
Letter forms should be good. They may
c.
vary all the way from illegibility or mere readability to a good or almost perfect letter.
d. Lines should be light and smooth, and
free from shade.
This is th= result of a light
touch.
e.
The movement should be good. Arm
movement will produce strong, smooth, firm
of the writing.
HANDWRITING EXTREMES
To
forms
write.
To
drill
exercises,
the child
upon movement
and words
letter forms,
To train in manual
more important than
efficiency is no
telligence, even
in
devices
hedge them
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Certain large business firms who employ many clerks lose thousands of dollars because of illegible or careless figure writing. The styles of figures given here are standard. The 2 may be new to you, but it is generally used in
Study the large figures and try to
rapid writing and is a good form. In practicing figures make two rows between two blue lines on your paper.
form correct mental pictures of each one. This will aid the hand greatly in making them as they should be. The 7 and 9 drop below the base line a
little. The 6 and 8 are sometimes made a little higher than the other figures.
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is
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large and small oval drills for ten minutes before beginning practice on the capital stem exercise in Line 1. Study the large form o'
This stroke is used in many capitals and is very important. The loop at top is made small. Count 1, 2, in making the stem in Line 3.
Review the
apital stem.
EXERCISE 34
Compare the
capital
In both letters note the three round turns at top and the three
with that of A.
exercise. Compare the finishing stroke of
and small m.
down
strokes.
Count
1, 2, 3, 4,
for
Line
1.
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Hereafter with each capital, will be given word and sentence copies.
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more
words.
attention.
presumed
letter will
note the easy reaches from one letter to another. Spacing, slant and form, from
you have developed easy movement and can apply it creditably by this time.
now
little
that
EXERCISE 36
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12.
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tendency
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shaped like a large figure 2. The movement
loop on the base line. This loop lies flat on the base line.
Note the double curve in the finishing stroke.
The
capital
is
2/
drill in
Line
will be foun.l valuable for getting the correct action for the small
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Q to small
letters
without lifting.
Make
light lines.
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two
letters.
Count
1, 2, 3, in
making U.
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to the right.
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words a minute legibly.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum
of writing
but conditioning things favorable
possess
hand-writing.
A compliment
in your-
to good writing.
Ordinarily, matters are not arranged advantageously for writing, and therefore teaching has to do with ordering circumstances so that good writing will become the rule rather than the excep-
sentials.
tion."
In the first place, the mental condition of the teacher needs to be optomistic, enthusiastic and confident.
In the second place, physical conditions, such as position, light, materials, and clothing need to be suitable in kind and quality.
In the third place, the lesson and
practice in writing need to be planned
as carefully and skillfully as in any
other subject.
In the fourth place, skill is more
important than wisdom in interesting children, and more inspiring as
well. Therefore the need of showing
of the arms;
wrong angle
thumb ahead of
the
and improves
details.
Conditions obtaining
in
other
written work are vital to good writing. What is taught in the writing
lesson must be practiced in all written work or emphasized until it is,
else partial success is sure to follow.
How the teacher sits, holds her
pen, and moves when writing not
during the writing period, is either a
convincing argument in favor of
what she teaches or a discouraging
confirmation that what she teaches is
not worth bothering about. Pupils
are either unconsciously inspired or
discouraged by the practice of the
teacher. If you would inspire good
writing, practice and not merely
MR.
would
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of
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troit.
for those
who
advertise in
its
Commercial Law,
P. B. S. Peters,
Kan-
sas City.
Efficiency, Harold
S.
Cowan,
Passaic,
N.J.
col-
umns."
First make sure that you have
something of value and then win success by advertising.
This means
that one must be persistent in advertising for, as a rule, a little advertis-
smith, Philadelphia.
sired results.
teach.
We
any things we do
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Marshall's
Professional Edition
Devoted to the best interests of business education and dedicated to the
expression of conscientious opinions
upon
DC
Mental
Your
DDC
Meanderings
DC
APPROPRIATION
hoc
is
about to appropriate
war
needs to be
made on inand upon slipshod and an-
efficiency
tiquated education.
To
that
end,
thought and effort needs to be focused upon the most needful in education in order that
it
may
increase
so that
educational institutions to
probably close to a million pupils.
And yet there is not a penny spent
special
excellent
but not a
what
his
department
is
doing for
merce.
and Morals
DC
Christian
Association in a certain western city has a bulletin board, which is used, when not otherwise
occupied, for placarding important religious
truths and suggestions. One of its recent
"scare heads" reads as follows "If you were to
tonight, how would you stand with
I am moved to ask what motive impels these would-be evangelists to make such
concessions to this vile and vulgar thieves' patWill this coarse vocabulary of the slums,
ter.
tend to turn any sinner toward the ways of gentleness and reverence? Aside from the question of good taste in scrawling this intimate,
soul-searching question before the public gaze,
is it not possible to put the query in a form that
Slant;
Congress
19
CROAK
GOD?"
is at
least
were
Billy
and vulgar
well as stupid.
Those who cannot discriminate between legitimate slang, and the coarse mouthing of human
gutter rats, would do better to keep to the plain
terms of everyday speech. The man who has
no respect for his mother tongue is on the way
to having very little respect for himself.
is
brutal
as
many
has in
all
the
way from
states a lender
from loan sharks, or pawn brokers, or even private banks, but from our national banks that are
under the protecting care of our kindly Uncle
Samuel.
Mr. Williams roasts these greedy
banking sharks to a rich brown. Among other
things he tells them they are doing more to
make anarchists than all the I. W. W's put together. As a remedy, Mr. Williams suggests
that the Government might loan money at just
rates to such needy persons as may have the collateral. The trouble with this idea is, that peo-
When
Neglected
Faculty
in the
were no books
to
word
of
quired to
own
It
H. H. Hamill, could draw big audiences anywhere, and nearly every city had its well patAlso, the study
sounds was taught in nearly
every school and "Phonics" was a standard
a?
Jkito^ 6<tu*A,
topic for lectures and work in teacher's institutes, normal schools, etc. Does anybody know
of a public school today where this fundamental matter gets due attention? I do not.
As a result, we have very few good readers in
our schools or colleges. In fact, artistic oral
reading is rapidly becoming a lost art, and clear
enunciation coupled with effective voice modulation, is becoming more and more a rare quality in our public speakers.
Even our actors,
oftentimes the best of them, are hard to understand, as every theatre-goer knows to bis sorrow. Not long ago I paid two hard-earned dollars to hear Mrs. Fiske in Hedda Gaber, but I
could not hear more than half she said, and
most of the other half, I had to guess at.
Attend a public meeting most anywhere in
this
&
Dixon's Line,
Down
South.
was
last
down
And
his corn
common sense.
Of course, he
is
mor of
is the deOne
fense of pure English against the assaults of
iconoclasts and faddists, as well as from the
more insidious inroads of hack-writers, and
other pen-wielding dabsters.
"Goes under the knife" becomes monotonous and, moreover, it suggests the guillotine.
al?
One
bow."
"One who
"The
How
would be
of our
contemporaries
tells
fact."
real fact
of or
Saxon
pon-
der over the words of Bailey, "The most important thing about the sun is not its spots, but
light
its
and heat."
impatient contemplating
the erratic ways of that young person of twenty
throw
or less,
yourself back in memory and ask
"Well, what was I at that age; how much did I
know; what books had I read? "
IN
TUS PARKER
Side by side with our rejoicing oypr the bonorsconferred upon certain of our number, there
lies in our heart a great grief. George Augustus Parker, a teacher of this school, died at his
And
as well as I do, you will plan to have the Westtern School Journal on your desk every month.
Here's wishing continued strength to his el-
Theodore
C.
Mitchell.
when we formed
tor
him
for
Spohn
terest in his
we
pre-
classes
school
is
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21
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
department last month the
importance of proper instruction and
In this
ACCOUNTING
frequent
preparation of
financial statements was discussed,
and certain models selected from
standard text books were submitted
as a basis for criticism of forms and
methods commonly used in this important branch of the subject.
Assistant Professor of
Accounts,
SIMMONS COLLEGE.
BOSTON.
in the
Comments.
297.40
7,030.30
7,200.00
1,210.00
1,920.00
Salaries
Traveling Expenses
Advertising
550.00
525.73
(ieneral Expense
Office Supplies
1.524.17
300.00
49,813.15
192.00
Purchases
31,592 60
157.25
153.00
Merchandise Discount
76.00
Interest
873,860.72
The inventory
of
December
31
is
$23,720.48; office
on hand,
$100.
$73,860.72
A Profit and Loss Statement covering the period from July 1 to December 31, a Balance Sheet as of December 31, and closing entries are to be
prepared.
DEC. 31.
1915
$31,592.60
Goods Returned
Net Sales
Deduct
Cost of Goods Sold
192.00
31,400.00
Purchases
Less
Inventory, December 31
Gross Profit on Sales
49,813.15
Add
23,720.48
26,092.67
5,307.93
157.25
77.00
Merchandise Discount
Interest (net)
234.25
Total Profit
5.542.18
Deduct
Operating Expenses
:
and loss in a logical manner and arrives at the proper conclusions entirely free from all bookkeeping technicalities.
2.
The title indicates the period
is always an essential
point; another way of expressing the
length of the period would be "Profit
and Loss Statement, Six Months
Ending December 31, 1915." No special advantage is claimed for the
term "Profit and Loss Statement,"
over such titles as "Loss and Gain
covered, which
Salaries
1.920.00
Traveling Expenses
Advertising (cost)
Less Supplies on Hand
General Expense
Office Supplies (cost)
Less: Supplies (on hand)
560.00
525.73
100.00
Net
31, 1915
S 2.040.00
1,181.97
Notes Receivable
Accounts Receivable
Real Estate
Furniture and Fixtures
Note9 Payable
Accounts Payable
Sales
drill
425.73
1,524.17
300.00
250.00
50.00
Profit
4.669.90
872.28
31, 1915.
Profit,
ASSETS
a profit
coming
first,
follow-
Profit.
Curient Assets
Cash
Notes Receivable
Accounts Receivable
Merchandise Inventory
Fixed Assets
Keal Estate
Furniture and Fixtures
Expense Items Paid in Advance:
Advertising Supplies on Hand
Office Supplies on Hand
$ 1,181.97
297.40
7,030.30
23.720 48
32,230.15
7,200.00
1,210.00
8,410.00
Total Assets
100.00
50.00
Net Worth
John Doe Investment
Less : Drawings
Net Investment
WORTH
11,047.20
Add
28,870.67
S7'J.2H
$ 2.400.75
8,646.45
30,910.67
2,040.00
All
officers of a business.
Total Liabilities
29,742.95
40,790.15
work.
3fe&u<tini^Muixi&r
surance, rent paid in advance,
BALANCE SHEET.
In the elementary work, many
teachers will probably prefer to use
the title, "Statement of Assets and
Liabilities," or "Statement of Re1.
sources and
Liabilities"
on
the
"Balance
the term
Sheet" is more technical and does
not suggest so well the nature of the
statement; this is entirely a matter
of opinion. In the later work, how"Balance Sheet"
title
ever, the
should be adopted, as it is the standard title forthis statement used alike
ground
that
money
advanced
permanent in character,
customary to classify a long
term mortgage or a bond issue as a
fixed liability on the ground that no
provision need be made from day to
day for meeting such liabilities.
It might be stated here that the
However,
ship," is more apparent.
if the statement is to be short, the
statement form makes a better appearance and is easily understood.
In the elementary work, many
3.
teachers would not deem it advisable
to teach the classification of assets
Those who favor
and liabilities.
teaching this even during the early
part of the work would experience
little difficulty in explaining the distinction between the different classes
in which assets and liabilities are
commonly grouped.
ty is fixed or
it is
be used
money
value.
if
preferred.
CLOSING ENTRIES.
most
od
text books.
is
made
in the
The ledger is
standpoint as well.
the book of accounts and all items
appearing therein should have been
posted there from some book of original entry; in other words, nothing
should originate in the ledger and
automatically balance off certain
items, transferring the balance to
the Profit and Loss Account, and the
the ledger
od.
No attempt
will
be
made
to
meet
mechanical and
is
based upon
is
proposed
The
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Arithmetic
Teacher
J.
C.
HOWELL,
AICH.
II
IC
No. IV.
practical measurements.
great diversity of opinion
among teachers and authors as to
emphasis,
if any, to be placed upthe
on the treatment of practical measurements in the commercial arithmetic class. This is another place
where local conditions must determine, but the writer does believe that
there is a need among all students for
There
is
measurement.
For the measurement of distances,
surfaces and solids the linear, square
and cubic measures will be needed;
for weights, Avoirdupois (only in the
retail drug business is the Apothecaries' weight used, and in the jewweight); for
elry business, Troy
measures of capacity, the ordinary
These taliquid and dry measures.
bles will meet the every-day needs of
most of our students. Few, if any,
in any given class will ever have use
for Surveyors' measure or Apothecaries' fluid measure.
Either immediately after or along
bles of
Except
ties there is
in
in figuring
wood
IDEAS OF AN
re-
more
and
one
The
latter will
exact.
In cities
ing
is
will
usually
relating to building
prove interesting and of value to the
student.
With the exit of carpets from the
home, problems in carpeting lose
their
wide practical application.
Problems in papering, except as an
approximation, are of little value. In
approximating a result the simplest
method should be used. We find in
some good books a rule which runs
"Take twosomething like this:
thirds of the perimeter of the room,
less the width of openings; the result is the number of strips needed.
Divide the length of the roll of paper
by the length of a strip; the result is
the number ot strips that can be cut
Divide the number of
from a roll.
strips needed by the number in a roll;
the result is the number of rolls required." When you finish you may
have too much or too little. In other
words
an approximation.
Contrast that rule with this from a
wall paper house: "Divide the number of square feet in the area of the
surface to be papered by 30 to find
the approximate number of rolls reThis also is an approxiquired."
mation, just as likely as the other to
be correct and very much simpler.
practical
measureIn teaching
ments, if we secure problems that
appeal to the student's experience as
being practical, his interest will be
it is
only
PAPER
The denominations
=
=
Reams =
Bundles =
Quires
1
1
Ream,
Bundle,
1
Bale.
A little further over in the book appears the following problem, based
upon the above
How
table:
large an edition of
a
2
12
mo.
bales, 2
H. C.
WALKER
and love.
ltwas in St. Louis in 1895 that the writer first
met Mr. Ritner. At that time he conducted a
commercial school known as the St Louis Business College. In 1900 he moved to Oregon
and later to California, still continuing his activities in school work. Mr. Ritner was a successful commercial educator and his life was
devoted to his chosen profession. Hundreds of
his graduates will remember him as "President"
of the institution, but they will remember him
more especially as a true, loyal friend and advisor
Mr. Ritner took especial delight in aid-
knew him. To
we extend
our sympathy.
"
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24
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS ROSE BUHLIG.
Lake Technical High School,
CHICAGO.
ini
No.
.1
ir
4.
Mrs. FrankGarrett,
Salem, Oregon.
Dear Madam
When we move
:
Dear Sir:
When we investigated your complaint of the 5th instant, we found
that the furniture which you ordered
on the 10th of last month left our factory on the 15th. If all had gone well,
you would have received the articles
As you suron or about the 20th.
mised, the delay in the arrival of the
goods has been due to a mistake
made by the railway company. Although the goods were properly bill-
Yours truly.
from you again.
I am firmly convinced that haste in
teaching punctuation makes for confusion. Therefore I would urge that
the teacher be careful not to take for
granted a student's knowledge on
any of the steps that we have thus far
Only actual tests and
considered.
examination of individual work can
decide
to
when
all.
come up
exceptions.
One reason, I
the lack of effectiveness that
most honest English teachers deplore in their work is that they are
not content to let a rule stand as a
rule, but they must scrape up every
exception that they ever heard of or
can imagine and mull over it in class.
citing
feel, for
2.
PUNCTUATION.
vance.
Gentlemen:
Complying with your requests, we
are today expressing you nine sample dresses of the lot that were on
Tacoma, Wash,
Dear
Sir:
Confirming our telephone conversation of this morning, we are enclosing for your signature a jobbing
contract for changing the location of
the gas meter at 435 S. Olive Street
If
from the bedroom to the pantry.
you will sign this form in the lower
right-hand corner on the line marked
"Seal" and return it to us at your
earliest convenience, we shall then
give the matter our further attention.
Should the expense (if the expense)
incurred in doing the work prove to
be less than the estimated amount,
you will receive the benefit.
Yours
truly,
of the
Dear
Sir:
By this morning's mail we are sending you the catalogue, the special
(Continued on page 29.)
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EFFICIENCY
HAROLD
E.
COWAN,
f
p
Department,
worked
spare
office
book?
While a high
possibility of
John only
96
standard
in too
many
classical department.
Any effort,
then, to better the system of grading
is a step in raising the standard.
Let us first consider the three fundamentals in determining a student's rating.
Briefly
expressed
they are, time, quality, and quantity.
We require the student to do a fixed
amount of work of a certain standard
in a specified time.
Is this practical?
Apparently it is. It surely is for the
student who is working simply for
graduation and a diploma. Compare
this with the employer's standard.
Briefly expressed, it is the same,
time, quality and quantity.
The employee must get his work done quickly and must do a sufficient quantity,
but does the employer specify a cer-
tain quality to which all of his assistants must qualify? No! He demands the best of which each particu-
workman is capable.
The boy or girl who does only
passable work in school gets steadily promoted; in business the same
person will never rise much above
his or her initial position without applying to the job the best that is in
him or her. Passable work will take
a student from the freshman to the
senior year and graduation. It will
keep the office clerk in the freshman
state .forever, while his more conscientious contemporaries are advancing. Think of the senior who takes
lar
serviceable
letter
NUMBER FOUR.
PUTTING THE BUSINESS COURSE
ON A BUSINESS BASIS
25
school student, I
in a printing office outside of
school hours. I worked a hand press
and the type should have been inked
once for each impression.
I conceived a plan for saving an hour each
night by making two light prints
from one inking. My economical
idea resulted in two copies from one
inking, but instead of being a rich
black, they were a mottled dark
gray. When reproved for the poor
L
argument on him.
The second
it in."
Disregard
entirely his unsuccessful effort, give
him a chance to make it up either by
repeating it or taking another.
The mark a student receives
should depend upon two things, first
his ability, second, his effort, and
should be determined by striking an
average between the two. If the pupil is conscientious, his
mark in
effort will be 100 V, if not he should
getzero. Thepupil's effort can be decided from his class application and
deportment, and the consistency and
appearance of his outside work. His
ability can be judged from the grade
of his class and outside work.
It
will be seen that pupils who make a
course
ic.
The cry of too many of our workers is "less work for what we get."
And yet who are the men whose
names have gone down
history
in
and in the hearts of their fellowmen; the ones who have been most
successful in gathering wealth with
little work, of those who have eagerly greeted the chance of
to do for the sake of doing
something
something
worth while? The blessings to humanity are those who have asked, in
the words of Van Dyke:
"Strength for the daily task,
Courage
Good cheer
/f
NEWS ITEMS
^
"Banke College News" is the title of a fortyeight page publication published semi-annually by and in the interests of that institution. In
October this institution moved in one of the
handsomest buildings occupied by a commercial school.
"New York
University Bulletin"
is
the
title
Booklets, leaflets, etc., are hereby acknowledged from C. A. Faust. 1024 N. Kobey St.,
Chicago. 111., giving information concerning
the Faust Method of Writing, especially ruled
writing papers, pens, etc., all of which are of
good quality and reliable.
when
PHILADELP
DCZIC
March
25, 1914.
a full-fledged stenographer.
row I
them
Tomor-
dustry.
make
the attempt.
succeeded in jotting
of every letter Mr.
was aquiver with
clutched my book,
sound of the bell, I
my
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26
typewriter.
Some
of
my
class-
quickly
whispered jerkily, and
brought my eyes back to my work.
"So it is, silly !" she called to me.
Then the rumble of chairs became
general and there were the usual
sounds that accompanied the changing of classes. Not until I looked at
my watch in a dazed sort of way, did
I realize that what I had vaguely considered to be about twenty minutes,
had actually been a full hour. I have
no recollection of any other hour of my
life that whizzed past me with the
speed of that one.
Then and there I abandoned the
thought of making a record. 1 decided, too, that I had better reduce my
self-esteem and come down to a true
appreciation of my limitations.
For days after that I struggled. It
wasn't the stenography that worried
me. After that one time that I had
been successful in getting all of the
quick dictation, I could almost invariably do it. And reading my notes
never has been difficult for me. Some
of the students make such large,
sprawly characters that they have
desperate struggles in deciphering
them. But I have formed the habit
of making mine small and with a very
pointed pencil, and' I can read them
with almost no effort or hesitation.
This concentrated writing saves
time, too. When a great many characters are written on a line, there are
fewer sweeps of the hand to be made
from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, and there are
also fewer pages to be turned. Six
months ago I wouldn't have believed
that trifles like these could have any
consequence. But now I know that
when one is writing a hundred and
twenty-five words to the minutemore than two words a second every
tiny motion of the hand or arm has
its significance.
But to return to my particular difIt was
ficultyrapid typewriting.
that that almost made me despair.
The letters always seemed so long
and the time to typewrite them so
short. I thought we had been set an
impossible task. I seemed to work
as quickly as it was possible for any
human being to do. But always the
For days I would
bell rang too soon.
have three or four letters still unwritten at the close of the period, and
I finished all the letters in the given time. I couldn't believe that I had really done it.
1
demands. But it is splendid training for the nerves as well as for the
eyes and fingers, and now that my
struggles are over and the precious
document in my possession, I'm
mighty glad that I didn't give up the
fight about a 'month ago, as I weakly
contemplated doing.
to
me:
diploma,
and
made me
it
a bit uncertain as to
knew
Besides,
valuable
that
goal.
was
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DOC
SIDE LIGHTS
ON
Commercial
Law
P. B. S.
PETERS,
NSAS CITV.
DDE
is
Day
Entitled to
in
Have His
Court."
HAMMURABI
Within the past decade one of the
most interesting and valuable discoveries relating to ancient laws and
the finding of a large and irregular stone in Elam an ancient country North of the Persian gulf upon
which was written a code by a ruler
known as Hammurabi, who, it is now
believed, was a contemporary of Abraham and refered to in the fourteenth chapter of Genesis as Amraphel.
Hammurabi was King of Babylonia
and reigned about 2285 years before
the beginning of the Christian era
or just 4000 years ago. It is known
that he conquered the Kingdoms of
Sumer and Akkad, being the northern and southern divisions of ancient
Babylonia.
He was evidently the
veritable Alexander of his time, for
in addition to subduing these people
he unified the administration of the
CODE OF HAMMURABI
The Code of Hammurabi; contains
a prologue, followed by two hundred
and eighty-two sections of law covering almost every phase of life.
false report.
2.
Do not enter into a conspiracy
with a wicked man to be an uprighteous witness.
Thou shalt not follow the ma3.
iority in doing what is wrong.
4.
Thou shalt not bear testimony
in a case so as to pervert justice.
5.
Thou shalt not show partiality
to a poor man in his case.
6.
Thou shalt not prevent justice
being done to thy poor in his cause.
7.
Keep aloof from every false
matter.
8.
Do not condemn the innocent
nor him who hath a just cause.
9.
Do not vindicate the wicked.
10.
Thou shalt take no bribe, for a
bribe blindeth the eyes of those who
see and perverteth the cause of right-
eous.
It is written in this code that the
surgeon who was unsuccessful in
performing an operation was to suffer the loss of his hands; that the
down.
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2*7
LAW OF PERJURY
In the Hammurabian code we read
that "If a man bring an accusation
against a man and charge him with a
capital crime, but can not prove it,
he, the accuser, shall be put to
death." And also, "If a man in a
case pending judgment bear false
witness, or do not establish the testimony he has given, if that case be
one involving life, that man shall be
put to death."
This was considered
a just, although severe, punishment
for committing perjury when a man's
life was at stake.
Compare the'foregoing with a similar statute taken from the code of
one of the American states which is
practically the same and in effect in
all the states of the Union which recites that "Every person who shall
be convicted of willful and corrupt
perjury committed on the trial of an
indictment for a capital offense with
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who
is
guided
is
in
his
work by
result-
tion
compelli?ig
ity.
some
line.
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who
of
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Sales
Purchases
To
goods sold
15, leaving a balance to the Purchases account equal to the inventory of 12-31-15.
Sales
and Loss
Profit
self
and
fiscal period,
22.)
Merchandise Discount
Interest
Profit and Loss
To close into the Profit
all
profit.
and Loss
81,920.00
550.00
425 73
Salaries
Traveling Expenses
Advertising
General Expense
Office Supplies
To
all
1,524.17
250.00
and Loss
John Doe
Profit
To
ended 12-31-15
count.
tory
of
bringing
Purchase
This
of
the
method,
Traveling Expenses
Advertising
General Expense
Office Supplies
John Doe
$1,920.00
550.00
425.73
1.524.17
250 00
872.28
$5,542.18
$5,307.93
167 25
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$5,542.18
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mistake
in
me."
to me.
on,
must
de-
LAW
(Continued from page
27.)
the balance.
THE EGYPTIANS
The ancient Egyptians were also a
people who had high ideals concerning the promotion of the public welfare and common good. Being a nation of grave and serious ideas, they
readily perceived that the true end of
government was to render life comfortable and communities happy,
therefore, each individual was nurtured in the strictest abservance of
the laws under which he was control-
Consequently, it is doubtful if
any nation ever preserved its laws or
customs longer than the Egyptians.
led.
primitive
times among
the
becoming immortal.
"Olson's
Commercial
Colleges,
Parsons,
Kane., issues a sixty-four page catalog profusely illustrated, printed on plate paper and covered in yellow. It bespeaks a prosperous institution.
ENGLISH
(Continued from page
booklet, and the price
24.)
that you
asked for in your letter of the third.
If you do not receive them within a
reasonable time, please notify us,
and we shall immediately send othlist
ers to you.
success.
If you should wish any additional
information concerning the brake,
please feel free to address your inquiries to the Publicity department.
Yours
truly.
We
The Metropolitan Business College, Cleveland, Ohio, recently issued an especially attractive and profusely illustrated paper entitled
"Concerning a Business Education" with the
title
was
as follows:
tive
women.
education in general.
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NEWS NOTES
AND NOTICES
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K. W.
Fla., is
Department.
The Kentucky State Normal School of Richmond, Ky., has added W. F. Gentry to its staff
this year.
Dieterich
is
Ethel M. Juhr, of Urichsville. Ohio, has accepted a position as commercial teacher in the
Dennison High School, Dennison, Ohio.
Nell M. Johnston, of Toledo, Ohio, is teaching penmanship and drawing in the Houlton,
Maine, public Schools, this year.
J.
is
employed
in
Frederick J. Long, recently of the BloomN. J., High School, is leachingcommerbranches this year in the Arlington, Mass.,
High School. Mr. Long is followed at Bloomfield by Mr. William L. Foley, who last year
had charge of the commercial branches in the
field,
High School
Souba.
at Goldfield,
Nevada.
High School.
is
teaching
of the
Commercial Department
Schenectady, N. Y.
now employed
as a teacher in the
shalltown,
this year.
W.
la.
present year.
C. A. Callan, recently of Waukesha, Wis., has
been appointed a teacher for this year in the
St.
teaching
in the
Reno
Kathleen Joyce, who has recently been teaching in the Office Training School, Columbus,
Ohio, has accepted an appointment as commercial teacher in one of the St. Louis, Mo, High
Schools.
F. E. Oneth, of Salt Lake City, Utah, is
teaching commercial branches in the High
School of that
city.
Dawnine Darrenougue,
Long
Modern College,
is
em-
Boise,
A. C. Willbee, of Ann Arbor, Mich., is teaching commercial branches and athletics in the
of Reedsburg, Wis.,
Book
RosslK. Fortney.of the Albuquerque Business College has accepted a position as commercial teacher in the Hign School, Bisbee,
Arizona.
Flora B. Page, of Olney, Illinois, is the new
shorthand teacher in the Camden Business
College, Camden, Arkansas.
the
my
brother
same
effect,
me
written
stamp
to the
if
is
When you
answer a letter in which postage is enclosed you have something that don't
belong to you. Postage amounts to a considerable sum in a year. Now answer Ihe letters
you receive and do to others as you would be
done by.
Leslie E. Jones,
Elbridge, N. Y.
Oct. 22. 1915
fail lo
"Human
Efficiency"
is
the title of a
new
deserves.
111.
Louis.
a position in the
Ruth C. Sheppard
Amsterdam,
Guy Goddard,
penman have
ot
The
cial
for its
teacher.
E. A.
J.O. Gordon of the High School of Commerce, Cleveland, Ohio, is made Supervisor of
Evening High Schools of that city. Mr.
of the school.
some
similar process.
It
is
model.
like
the
school
it
represents,
is
TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS. T. CRAGIN,
Holyoke, Mass.*
Thompson's Business
part of
School.
July,
fear
REJECTED METAL
The dead heavy
British
of foreigners.
The
mob
poured a
Boxers known by
head dresses, and outlaws
of soldiers,
KILL
great rectangular enclosure of the British legaThe Japanese, the Austrians. the French,
the Russians, and finally the Americans and
Italians had been driven out of their own quarters, and had taken refuge in the great enclosure
over which floated the I'nion Jack of England.
tion.
men and
hundred.
the
It was the
year nineteen
last night.
August
in the
settled
down
thick
Sailor,
and
Italian
THE RESCUE
Then,
broken through!
It is
the relief!
are saved!"
We
to get
lief.
Many thousand
in
camelinto Pekin, with nobody really in command of the allied forces, there was confusion
worse confounded.
Soldiers commandered
little donkeys, and ponies, and carts, and they
plundered the stores and vacant houses of
Chinese of the wealthy class. Priceless porcelains, Satsuma vases, gold and silver tapestries,
rich silks and satins, that would stand alone,
ornamented as they were with gold and silver
braid, and much of treasure in jewels with some
gold and silver. There was a month of plunder
and a good deal worse than plunder, for from
every well of the city they hauled out drowned
Chinese women and girls who had chosen suicide rather than the fate they knew awaited
them from the mob of lawless soldiers. Everybody was out for plunder, and our own Amer-
to
ceived
in
dollars
which
it
had
re-
relief,
money
quite a
an education.
number
of
young Chinese
for
3fa<E%uA/ned^itiiuxi&r
heroic rolling over a barrel brought her to her
senses. It is needless to say that Albert Chi
was the hero of the day, and that the girls in our
school, who already looked with a good deal of
favor on the tall good looking Asiatic, were
more than ever inclined to go into raptures and
imagine vain things.
Among
spoke
in
A DIFFICULT SITUATION.
com-
from an
Only the
Chinese
slant eyes of the Asiatic showed his
Massorigin, lie came here and entered the
Agricultural College, at Amherst,
a year or two, taking up the
study of farming, and then he came
A very nice
to us to get a year of business.
fellow Albert Chi. Polite always, well dressed,
and of
appearance
scrupulously neat in his
gentle manner. Not greatly inclined to over
work, his scholarship was not above the average. He had a sense of humor and said:
"Your language of the English is very puzzling
have
to one of us who come from the east. You
many words which look alike and which do no (
I go t
how;
you
show
To
same.
the
sound
at all
cough
a cold and at my boarding house and I did
and they spelled it c-o-u-gh, and then I said to
my mistress: 'I shall soon be throf with my
achusetts
where he remained
scientific
perplexed."
ous
my
the
very next Monday after the rescue from the
treacherous currents of the river into our school
came the last girl of the three, the one Albert
Chi had dived for, and after desperate endeavShe was a slender,
or brought back to life.
rather good looking New England girl, with
just a bit of the fragile form and the hectic flush
inthelcheeks, notdueto cosmetics, which indi.
cated the danger of our white scourge of New
And now
England, Consumption.
life, for
Chinese laundryman
a
rescued.
Indeed
it
would have
been strange
Chi,
if
coming from
woman
in bed, get up in
and do a lot of
fire
&
and chrysanthemums.
She found
that
to
herself re-
all
the respect
yellow dog,
REJECTED METAL.
this
coun-
We
get started.
soft
an inch long. On the whole, I am not disposed to say that we had better welcome Asiatic metal to the "Melting Pot," which already
contains some queer ore.
nail
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the pen of E.
W.
Loaned
to the Business
Educator by
J.
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By
F.
W.
itAU/i&M&duta/tr
&
Cupper, Inc.
Bingen, Ga.
E.
Acct.,
Young feiends have you ever stopped to think of the direction in which
you are going? Have you ever seriously thought that the FUTURE
day you fixed in your mind as the one
at which you would ARRIVE or the
one which you have set as the crowning day of some great purpose, some
materialized dream, or some worthwhile achievement, will be a PRESENT day some time; and have you
ever thought what would be necessary, or what it would require on
your part, during the intervening
years between the young and tender
bud of that hope, wish or expectation, and the real satisfying realiza-
By
A. A. Mcfihee. Rider-Moore
&
J.
This, at times,
may seem
omlesstoo broad
average young mind to grasp in its
full and true meaning, it is one of
those weighty questions of a lifetime; It may seem too remote, too
far removed from TODAY for serious
thought or consideration, but, nevertheless, it is one of the determining
questions which must be answered
at least, in part, because circumstances will necessarily arise
conditions will have to be met and
allowances must be made; therefore,
there must be a beginning some-where
and some-time, and during the comparatively brief period of time which
spans the years of activity of the average business career, there is practically no time to throw away on arguments and theories, no time to
lose along the line of procession, else
the ARRIVING day will never come,
and the cherished bud of sweet anticipation must wither day by day,
and, at last, vanish like a dream.
Now, Right Now, is the logical
time to clearly and distinctly outline
the plan of procedure, and the PRESENT is the time to begin building
along that line. Get right down to
mathematical exactness as to the
necessary requirements on your part
to safely make the landing, and then
without perceptible- deviation, steer
toward the harbor of that goal.
Don't understand the task to be
an easy one, nor on the other hand,
regard it not as an impossible undertaking, for both would be erroneous and misleading But it does
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NOW
require a right start in the right direction and at the right time, and
that time is the PRESENT.
Ease
and procrastination will not aid in
winning out, and these may rightfully be regarded as the trap-doors to
failure; Indifference and neglected
efforts can only result in disappointment and regret, but those who make
,
Eighth grade writing, Masslllon, O., Esther Packer, supervisor of writing. Note the strength
of line and freedom as well as the uniformity of the letter forms.
on
scheduled
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taking orders
time.
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This month we have a promissory note containing a good variety of letters. These forms
are as nearly standard as I could make them.
is not desired.
What we want is snappy, free,
graceful writing which is attractive. The speed
in ornamental writing, especially in small letter writing, need not be as great as in business
writing; yet unless you use enough freedom
your writing will look stiff labored and unat,
tractive.
Know
then make
flat
or
stiff
it
fast
places.
S. J. Steiner, Instructor.
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IN
CLOTH
Published by
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AGENTS WANTED.
CO.
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ST., N. Y.
STEWART, OF HOUGHTON
PENMANSHIP TEACHERS TO
CHICAGO
Dale
PERFECTED SHORTHAND
!!!
gram
all
theirs.
Come
sive manner.
A Nonfragmentary,
it
endorsement.
FRANCIS
BOX
G.
492
B.
COURTNEY,
10. 26.
ny
and specimens
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Circulars free
Light-line,
Con-
highly recommended
apondence school of penmanship it
Has a national reputation, pati mage
The
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solicited.
Hall Publishing
Hull.
Company
Fremont, Ohio
DETROIT, MICH.
For producing
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
FOR COMMERCIAL TEACHERS
Our
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To buy
for
Address K.
Business Educator,
T., care
Colombo-, Ohio.
FOR SALE
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11
nois
TEACHAMUSE
If yon are seeking a position as teacher of Bookkeeping, Penmanship, or Shorthand, write for
out free literature. If you want to huy a business
college, write for free information in regard to
several money making schools we have for sale
at bargain prices.
It teaches and amuses. Played with cards representing Cash, Property, Debts, and Expenses.
Settlement of losses and gains made with
pasteboard coins. Gives practice in adding
and making change. Teaches business terms
and encourages
old.
marion. Indiana
flss'n.
37
The Instructors'
rnainental
fresh fr
l'late - un<
thrift.
Remit now
to
St..
Chicago,
III.
te the
Kewanee,
KELLOGG'S AGENCY
WM.
O.
PRATT, MANAGER
HOME OFFICE,
BOISE, IDAHO.
FOR SALE
Business school in Ohio city of Ki.000.
excellent
Doing a paying business
quarters
low rent. Good reason for
selling.
If
for
commercial teaching
in
commercial teaching
teachers' bulletin
tell
in high school at
you how
to
Address
One experienced
iiE
[Id
in
Springfield.
Mass.:
New
Boone. low
L. R. SWANSnS.
Kewanee Business College.
your bank.
SUMMING
UP
Kewanee,
III.
mgha
J.; __
I>eeeml,er nsnallv brings calls for January
cities;
Phoenix
Faribault. Minn..
and Kebrc
help yon.
Enrollment
GAYLORD. Men.
(a
specialty by a specialist)
N. Y.
son.N.
E. E.
prepare
Prospect
Hill,
free.
BEVERLY, MASS
FOR SALE
Addrest. SPLENDID
Care Business Educator
OPPORTUNITY.
COLUMBUS. OHIO
A BIG INCREASE
Our October business shows 50% increase over corresponding month
Emergency calls still coming in and the outlook for 1916
last year.
is
FOR SALE
SALES BUREAU,
COLUMBUS. OHIO
want
to
most excellent.
We
that
TEACHERS' AGENCY
CONTINENTALINCORPORATED
BOWLING GREEN,
FREE REGISTRATION
KY.
New
York.
Address V.
Care Business Educator. Columbus, Ohio
GOOD
BUSINESS GETTER
best-known commerwants an experienced
is worth at least
Address B. G. t
largest and
who
Columbus, Ohio
KY..
COMMERCIAL
teachers
Specialty
Bisbee, Arizona;
Okla.
111.;
all
A.
GRANT, Manager
WEBSTER GROVES, ST
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given.
One of the
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DENNIS
.&BAIRD
Away up
in the
HlHtminafors
of the
Washington public
school
tenmen.efc.
The
that
at countless
conventions the country over.
strong,
seventy
Thecommercial section, about
met in two sessions. Only a few of the characmentioned.
teristic points in the papers, may be
Mr. W. H. Miller, of Seattle, opened with a pa-
In Seperiod
attle
of typewriting.
Making no direct effort forspeed will be an new
idea to many, perhaps, but Mr. Miller's fellow
teacherB say that the results being secured
fcBOTJS
ticutcb onfiarchment.Uclluvn
ot the finest hanb mabc JQapcc ant.
^.endoscb tn.ScaloriBptocco couets
y8
v* represent the
Bvftcv< to 6* ths-
of
OrnanKntaf )E>cnworfc ic
TWD
FL1CHTS UP
DIPLOMAS
MADE AND
FILLED.
more than
ling figures.
any
of
Processes that
*._*
it.
The second session was opened by Mr. Keefwho had a paper on "Teaching AdvertisThe question of
ing in the High School."
over
,,j
He believed that such a course should prepare students for doing practical work In adverproficitising with about the same standard of
ency as is found in the case of bookkeeping;
train
but, the course should give other valuable
ing'to students who later do not do active pubvalues of the course
licity work. The principal
.
inTacoma
are:
An example
of engrossing
by Dennis
&
2.
Baird,
ata job
Brooklyn, N. Y.
ing of
School.
other lines
is
appreciated in Denver.
FOR.
SALE
still
more promising.
4.
cise English.
C. S. Dakan
and Mr. M. W. Cassmore, both of Seattle. Mr.
Dakan feared that emphasis on sales would
have a wrong tendency with :the student, causing him to "shade the truth" for the sake of a
sale. Mr. Cassmore, emphasized a rule of St.
Elmo Lewis, in whose office he worked. It is,
"Anyone who comes in thinking he has written
clever advertising copy, may consider his position vacant." Clever copy attracts the reader's attention to the ad writer and away from
but-
Mr. Rowe reviewed briefly the recent revoludemands in record keeping, and the
consequent necessity for changing, the woik in
bookkeeping to work in accounting that will
He argued ably for the
fit these demands.
things he believes and represents, and his
speech in print would be the best advertising
literature to come from the well-known Baltition in the
more
office.
"A
excellent
will
tion, but Eastern members of the profession
be interested in learning that present were
FOR
SAt-BI
Address
selling.
W.
F.
Care Business Educator,
C.
Columbus, Ohio
OSKALOOSA COLLEGE.
Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Depart
al
and Preparat
and In residence,
of Interest to those
.11
ady tteKun.
Credits
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Lomeland
teachers.
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Get
Fora good many years we have received letfrom Mr. B. M. Lomeland, Egersund, Norway, but not until the present have we had the
privilege of a glimpse at the gentleman.
Mr.
ters
free Literature
its
informed as
in
The College
whom
is
to argue
one's self
normal
col
lege in Kansas.
W. Cassmore, known
Melvin
nationally,
a familiar feature of
professional journals for years, while in Indiana.
Duke S. Hill, the former scribe at Lockyear's,
Evansville, Ind., now of Chehalis, Wash.
Robert E. Leaf, of Lockyear's now doing
great work in penmanship in Seattle.
C. S. Dakan, transplanted from Birmingham,
Ala.,
department head
in Seattle.
young man
W.
No
Let
I
Send
New
You
Penmanship by mail.
E. T.
Don't
fail
BANTA,
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MISSOURI.
LESSONS IN ENGROSSING
BY MAIL
The undersigned has decided to
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W. Costello
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tions included.
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WALWORTH,
Tell
to write to-day.
IT IS
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"200
postpaid.
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Me
my courses in Penmanship.
teach both Plain and Ornamental
about
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keys In ordinary type, and bound in cloth. *1.50.
at this time after all school expenses are paid. Fine territory, central
states; city of 29,000.
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month
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published in the Universal PeDman in Dondon, England, about 1840. This design and specimen of engrossing is of interest alike to designers, engrossers, and commercial teachers, for the
content reveals some very old customs, for if the article speaks truly, soap in those days was
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the stem is about 2'i spaces high. Study the
shape of the stem carefully for if the stem is not
made fairly good the letter will not have a good
appearance no matter how well the rest of the
letter may be made. In making the top of the
'T" and "F" the oval which is formed should
slant more than the general slant of the letter,
just how much more is a matter of personal
preference. The crossing which distinguishes
the "F" from the "T" should not require much
In the "P".
practice as it is a simple stroke.
"B" and "R" the capital stem is three spaces
high.
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AFTERNOON SESSION,
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"Methods
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phabet," H. C. Spencer,
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to
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ing.
The High
enthusiastically.
Ohio
The penman
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Dayton, on Friday and Saturday, Nov.
The Central
service.
met at
12 and IS.
There was no departmental meeting
in
pen-
manship, but the schools were visited on FriMrs. Belle Wilcox, Supr. of Penmanship
gave exhibitions of actual classroom practice.
The presentation was good and results were
It is certain that
systematic, plain and free.
those who observed caught much inspiration in
seeing teacher, supervisor and pupil all working
day.
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penmanship. Mr. Easley for he last year has
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Mr.
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Primary.
WEDNESDAY, PERIOD
"Eye Writing."
What are the physical and
1.
health essentials of primary writing? Harriet Cook.
2.
Hattie Abbott.
extent should primary writing function with future
of writing?
To what
3.
Gussie Henkleman.
Can primary writing function
with language and at the same time
2.
What are the advantages of
grouping letters over the alphabetic
arrangement? Edna Pealer.
Is Repetition an essential, and
3.
is counting a help or a hindrance?
Jackson
how?
which? when?
Rhoades.
We should like to receive and to
consider for publication other outlines and plans and topics and questions.
effort?
"I want to know" Is the Instinct which leads to
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and Bource of troth, and extracts It from countless
Yoa
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are cordially Invited to ask
and
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answer
eneh questions as yon desire. The Business Educator will act as a Clearing House for Penmanship
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brings answers to our own questions.
Help to make this department so valuable that It
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The
others
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Is
penmanship
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AN INSTITUTE OUTLINE
FOR
PENMANSHIP DISCUSSION.
4.
bins.
High School.
TUESDAY, PERIOD
"Reconstructive Writing."
Revolution, the Business Col1.
Its advantages and drawbacks. P. A. Kelley.
Reconstruction, the individual
2.
way, its advantages and limitations.
Flora L. Fritz.
S.
The following
November.
The general topics were given and
thereto were
relating
the questions
at
Bloomsburg, Pa.,
in
Bowman.
TUESDAY, PERIOD 3.
"Muscle Training."
Why emphasize movement
1.
this period? John H. Shuman.
What
part of writing
portion is manual?
What
Hummel.
What
3.
this time?
at
School.
WEDNESDAY, PERIOD
"Technical and
1.
What
of
Writ-
writing is acquired;
Eva Yeager.
Leonora Ash.
Mixed and Intermediate.
WEDNESDAY, PERIOD 3.
"The Physical and Mechanical."
What of writing is machine like?
1.
Mabel Kessler.
Why do some acquire skill more
2.
in the discussions.
Teachers.
penmanship
topics, as follows:
tion?
Mamie
Why
it
is
perfect;
it
omits nothing
that
is
it.
The
Neptune Township
Public
Kessler.
emphasize movement
this time? Cora Beaver.
High School.
THURSDAY, PERIOD 1.
3.
tail
weakness and
2.
Individual
ing."
what natural?
The ideal supervisor of penmanship never loses sight of the possibilities locked up in each individual.
He regards the individual not as he
is, but as he will be after years of
training. The plan which the supervisor adopts is a large one, yet in de-
knowledge of
mental?
Daisy E.
is
2.
lege way.
2.
The presentation of writing at institutes so as to be helpful and interesting and so as to dovetail with the
other institute machinery without
at
Initial
"K"
for
Good
Position
&
'J^^ute/i&W&dtuxi/sr
Elyria, Ohio, Nov.
ideal
What
A newspaper
curved, muscles
cramped and eyes strained, row he is sitting in
an efficient posture where his muscles have free
play to form the letters correctly and to form
them at a commercial rate of speed."
"Any instruction which teaches the child to
assume healthful positions while at work and
play should be encouraged from an academic
standpoint, for it inevitably leads to quicker,
Gymnasium work,
clearer mental processes.
singing anil oral English do this, but the coordination between mind and body is not clear.'
"There could be no better demonstration of
the fact that good school work aVpenda on
bodily efficiency than the one afforded us by
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the penmanship exhibition
up. luDgs contracted,
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Question Department,
BUSINESS EDUCATOR.
Columbus,
which
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
4, 1915.
O.
Why
it
cise
tion.
"You
reading.
teen
minimum
tion
stake-and-rider-fence effect.
If the page looks open in spots and
crowded in other places, spacing between letters and words is irregular.
Spacing not only affects the appear-
ance,
as
well.
Some fine specimens of business and ornamental writing have been received from H.J.
Ennis, Portland, Ore.
Respectfully.
W. H. P
Light may cause it. Height of desk
may favor it. Angle of paper, with
lines running from the body, encourages it. Method of holding the pen
may incline the head leftward to see
more clearly.
It is more natural to
lean the head to the left than to the
right. A trifle turning is not bad and
evidently slightly advantageous.
By
sition, is it?
Editor.
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BUSINESS
WRITING
By
S.
E.
OP-
LESLIE.
ATTRACTIVELY
EXERCISE 41
at
to small letters.
the
ie slant.
written
EXERCISE 42
Spend some time on
The second
part of
is
is
t.
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7- 7r
TTfr
EXERCISE 43
This style of
is not joined to small letters.
Note the freedom and ease and lack of accuracy with which the copy
you study the copy carefully before beginning practice.
is
written.
It is
very import-
ant that
EXERCISE 44
The movement
Line 1 is one of the most difficult given thus far. Turns at top and base line are made round. Count I, 2,
having the exercise extend half-way across the page. The first part of the V is made a third higher than the last part. Do not get the
drill in
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<7y
^y
J-^ sLs
3, 4,
5, 6, 7,
letter too
wide.
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EXERCISE 45
The
is
letters.
Smooth,
EXERCISE 46
For ten minutes practice the
lines to meet.
is
as given
in
Line
1.
seldom used.
EXERCISE 47
Frequently compare your work with the copy. It is only through earnest, thoughtful practice that you can hope to irrprove. Thousands of
young people succeed because they use care and thought in their practice, others fail because they work carelessly and are actually indifferent to
their
own
success.
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t/^
EXERCISE 48
(Review)
Here
another excellent review. Practically all the capitals and small letters you have practiced are contained in these names.
riting neatly on the page. Be careful with the spelling. Observe that most of the capitals are joined to the small letters.
is
Arrangethe
EXERCISE 48
Review
straightline exercise.
strokes should be on
same
slant.
The
is
its
length.
Down
EXERCISE 50
Review a. A short straight line at top of a forms d. Compare the two letters. The long down stroke is twice as high as first
Whether you have the vertical ruled lines dividing your paper into quarter sections or not, you should arrange work neatly on a page.
part of letter.
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in finishing certain
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consider this very
of the Newport, Ohio, public schools. Mrs. Mima Yeatts, teacher.
line work for a 3rd grade pupil in a small village school.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum
DOC
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EXTREMES REACT
Bach decade, on an average, experiences some change in method or
practice or both in the teaching of
nearly all subjects in school and out.
And
necessary
this is
else,
progress
revolution
The
than
evolution.
action than
never makes seri-
latter is slower in
it
ous mistakes.
Vertical writing for instance, was
not an improvement upon the Spencerian, but, instead, a radical depart-
ure from
it.
It
fea-
it
Today
essential
as
movement
Arm movement,
rationally rather
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition
this
Number
of
of the Business
Educator.
la.
Advertising, Thos.
E.
Cupper, Inc.
Accounting,
Chas. F. Kittenhouse, C.
P. A., Boston.
Commercial Law,
P. B. S. Peters,
Kan-
sas City.
Efficiency, Harold
S.
Cowan,
Passaii
N.J.
smith, Philadelphia.
^^^u<un^U^Uua^fr
ucation,
EDITOR'S PAGE
Professional Edition
Devoted to the best interests of business education and dedicated to the
expression of conscientious opinions
upon
topics
related
Your
thereto.
DDC
DC
DC
servants
of
the
larger
more
jealously.
Too
Never before have public and private school men worked more in harmony and more zealously. The war
is on slipshod commercial training,
be it in the private or the public commercial school, Let the war be on
selfish interests as well.
all.
well.
of
Methods
3DC
Marshall's
Mental
Meanderings
ddc
The Open
DC
to be
a "Tale of a Traveler." Just for a
to deal with things visible rather
than abstractions, and with persons and places
instead of philosophies.
It was late in October, the calendar's most deThe fluffy, golden
licious month in Iowa.
leaves of the sycamores and cottonwoods had
is
Road
change,
am
ation.
fre-
CLIQUES
tion's,
it
19
a terrible
shame
it
is
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how
over, and everybody felt that the good-byes followed the greetings all too soon.
Then it was that Brother Elston E. Gaylord
real
who does
not?) do not
need
to be told
pleasant he makes it for everybody. The proreplete with good things. Homer
Pace, of New York, was therewith one of his
clear visioned common-sense talks, and other
notable bright people gave us good things
worth carrying away. I wish I could spare space
gram was
for
more
details.
It
all
was
my
and
women
whom
of
my
ago.
baby
at a fire.
It is
charac-
Later in the week I was honored by an invitation to make an over-night visit to the elegant
home of Mr. C. A. Burdette in Woburn, an atIn the evening there
tractive Boston suburb.
was a family dinner at which Mr. F. H. Burdett
and the charming wives of both brothers were
present. It is hard to think of these clever
brothers except as twins, since they are so alike
in geniality, in culture and in temperament
generally. The illusion is further borne out by
their having adjoining homes on the same street,
and the fact that in managing their great school,
they work together as smoothly and efficiently
Both of them
as the blades of a pair of shears
are rather frail in health, but by right and careful
living, and a wise conservation of their energies,
they have been enabled to achieve a business
success that would have been too much for men
of twice their physical vigor but with less cleverness. This glimpse into the charming domestic lives of these interesting men was to me a
delightful episode.
Mr. C. A. Burdett placed me under obligations for another courtesy hardly less welcome
than the hospitality of his beautiful home.
This consisted in my being present as his guest
at a meeting of the "Puddingstone Club," one
of the most select as well as most interesting institutions of Boston. My experience here was
so unique and piquant that I shall reserve an account of it for a future "Meandering."
space in my deI can only regret that lack of
partment of the Educator prevents a more
extended account of the many interesting persons and places of this wonderfully interesting
&
Shorthand Association."
Let me remark at the outset that anyone who
regards this and similar meetings of the Gregg
enthusiasts as mere schemes for advertising Mr.
Gregg's shorthand publications, is making a
fundamental and absurd mistake. However, I
am not going to waste valuable time in debating
this proposition. A hundred years from now John
Robert Gregg will be known to our descendants
as the father and perfecter of script stenography.
His thousands of followers and friends in the
shorthand world thoroughly realize this, and in
their loyalty to and high regard for this re markable man and his work, insist on paying their
tribute to him now while he is among them,
rather than to deck with immortelles his cold
effigy in marble or bronze after he has passed
away. For one, I confess to a sympathy with
this idea of giving a man his flowers while he is
still alive, and I am glad to have seen the glow
and felt the warmth of the spontaneous personal tribute to Mr. Gregg, that was evinced by the
enthusiastic meeting in
New
York on Thanks-
giving week.
The gathering, however, was very much more
than a mere manifestation of favor for Gregg
shorthand and its popular author. Many subjects other than shorthand were broadly treated
by able people. Thus the topics, "The Teaching of English in a Commercial Course," by
Dr. Heydick, Chairman of the Department of
English in the New York High School of Commerce, and "Shorthand from the Viewpoint of a
Business Man," by Hon. George M. LaMonte,
Insurance and Banking Commissioner of New
Jersey, would alone give dignity to the proceedings of any convention. "Inspirational
Talks to Students," by Horace G. Healey, was
another address of a high order. Mr. Healey,
always a tluenl and forceful speaker, fairly outdid himself and sounded a lofty keynote for
higher ideals in all education. Participating in
the discussions, also, were men like Dr. Forbes,
common to acknowledged
leaders, but rather as an elder brother or comrade. Most successful exponents of a greatidea
are either fanatical, vain, egotistical or dogmatMr. Gregg is neither.
ic, and often all four.
condescension, so
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ACCOUNTING
CHAS. F. RITTENHOUSE, C. P. A.,
Assistant Professor of
er value to the
price,
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Percentages of Profit and Expenses
No
much more
From an
arithmetical
made on
of profit
standpoint
the sale of
"percentage,"
being found by dividing the percentage" by the "base." While
absolutely sound
to the reason as
the only correct method of figuring a
rate of profit, yet in actual practice
as a result of business expediency
and convenience, many merchants
and business houses reckon their
rate of profit on the sales instead of
on the cost of those sales; in other
words, the selling price is used as
the base instead of the cost.
In
many lines of business this practice
is so general that the arithmetical
basis of such calculations is almost
entirely disregarded and the selling
price is regarded as the only correct
basis fot figuring profits.
A booklet published by a well
known company engaged in the manufacture of addingmachines, entitled
principle
is
to Figure Profits,"
nounce
the sales for the period and it therefore behooves us to be familiar with
the arguments pro and con. Furthermore, because of this difference in
practice, misunderstandings may result from a failure to express in an
actual problem the basis of the calculations.
bookkeeping
ant
arithmetical
and
bookkeeping
TO
OF NET PROFIT
FROM OPERATIONS
:
easily made.
certain
this
&
the
taught in our
arithmetical
method
schools as unsound
and impractical.
The author of the booklet summarizes his arguments for using the
selling price as the base in the following manner
:
on cost
SEVENTH
is not.
Because allowances
in percentage to customers are always from the Selling Price.
EIGHTH Because no profit is
made
until Sale
is
actually effected.
TENTH Because,
if
you figure on
ey
is profit.
Anyone who
is
sufficiently interest-
sound
arithmetical
basis;
most
met
cost is to be used as the base, divide the net profit from operations
by the cost of goods sold.
If selling price is to be used, the
divisor will be the net sales.
If
IF
ARE
account.
If a partnership, divide each man's
share of the net profit by his capital
account.
If a corporation,
divide the net
profit by the capital slock outstanding plus the surplus.
In case a separate Drawing account
is kept with each partner, if drawings have been made in excess of
salary allowance or of anticipated
profits, resultings in an impairment
of capital, such drawings should be
taken into account in stating the
capital on which the rate of profit is
reckoned.
If
such drawings are
made at regular intervals and in even
amounts, it is an easy matter to ascertain the average capital employed
22
mining the average capital for the
year, such earnings as remain in the
business should be considered.
To
illustrate:
estaba
cash investment of $50,000, the net
As$5,000.
being
year
for
the
profit
suming that the earnings were allowed to remain in the business, thus
becoming an addition to capital, the
average capital for the year would be
$50,000 plus one-half of the year's
profits, or $52,500 and the rate of
profit should accordingly be reckoned on that amount. However, this
element is rarely taken into account.
The following problem illustrates
the application of the principle given
is
makes
above
The trading operations for the six months
Inventory,
ending June 30 are as follows
January 1, $204,727; net purchases. $725,229;
inventory, June 30,8277,784; net sales, 8801.:
134; selling expenses, $31,385; general administrative expenses, $34,712; invested capital. 8512,600.
Compute the following
Rate of gross profit on cost of sales.
(1)
Rate of gross profit on sales.
(2)
(3) Percent of selling expenses.
(4) Per cent, of general administrative ex:
penses.
remaining; also
How many
(6)
riod.
Profit
Average of the two inventories, which represents the average stock carried. 8241,255.50.
$652,172 divided by 8241,255.50 gives a result of 2.7, the number of times the stock was
turned during the six months' period.
CORRESPONDENCE
As has been stated in a former
ar-
always
is
this department
pleased to receive letters from readers offering suggestions for making
the department more helpful, expressing opinions on the topics disticle,
A number
received,
all
the readers this month, but space remains for extracts from only a few
of them.
One
article, inquires
30, 1915
Sales
Deduct
Add
8204,727
Net Purchases
725,229
$929,956
277,784
sales)
Gross Profit on Sales (22.84 per cent, of cost; 18.59 per cent, of
6<
Net
uTOnw IHI
by $652,172 equals
(1) 8148,962 divided
22.84% rate of gross profit on cost of sales.
$801,134 equals
(2) $148,962 divided by
18.59%, rate of gross profit on sales.
by $158,962 equals
(3) 831,385 divided
20.07%, per cent, of selling expense to gross
profit.
TURNOVER
Another important fact regarding the volume
done in which a merchant is always
of business
interested,
is
the "turnover."
work
is
monthly receipts and payments, making it very easy to prepare comparative data covering any period.
The Cash account in the ledger
total receipts
item folioed.
In a recent letter, Mr. William R.
Foster, of the East High School,
Rochester, N. Y., gives expression to
what in the writer's opinion is a vital
(
Continued on page
28.
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IDEAS OF AN
Arithmetic
Teacher
J.
C.
HOWELL,
V.
mon
ness.
have considerable'fdifficulty
Again,
if
absolute accuracy
is
de-
when reduced
to decimal form produce circulating decimals'can be divided into four classes, viz:
(a) All proper fractions having for
denominators prime numbers other
than two or five, will make circulating decimals.
(b)
All proper fractions, having for
five, will
make
(c)
All prime fractions having for
denominators multiples of prime
numbers other than two or five, will
make
circulating decimals.
in solv-
where most of the difficulty originates, viz: the failure to grasp the
idea that in the same problem may
occur fractions of entirely different
things.
The following problem taken from
Moore's New Commercial Arithmetic
illustrates very well this trouble in
connection with common fractions
"A tree 84 feet high was so broken in
a storm that the part standing was
3-7 of the length of the part broken.
:
How many
feet
writer has
seen pupil
come
problem and
after pupil
try to solve
it by taking 3 7 of 84 ft.
Give this
problem to your arithmetic class
to this
is
proper that they should form
opinions as to which is the better
course of procedure.
Many good arguments may be brought forth on
both sides. As most teachers of business arithmetic are interested in accountancy, they will be interested in
i-hese arguments from the standpoint
of accountancy, but as a teacher or an
arithmetician he need not take sides
in the argument. Neither is there
any reason for authors of arithmetic
text-books to take sides. For generations the authors have taken the
only side they thought existed, viz
basing profits on costs. Within the
:
last
to the publicity
number
teacher should do is to hammer eternally upon the importance of knowing what is the basis of computation
before trying to compute.
In giving
problems it should be the exceptional case in which the base is understood rather than expressed. The
following representative of a very
common type of problem is poorly
stated: "A dealer buys hats at $40.00
per dozen and sells them at a profit
of 20%. Find the selling price per
hat." It is equally right to give as
the answer either $4.00, basing the
profit on cost, or $4.17, basing the
profit on selling price.
It is a good
plan to insist that, in explaining
percentage problems, students shall
name the base in connection with
every mention of a rate percent.
Mr. Frank H. Arnold, supervisor of writing in
the Spokane, Wash., schools, has been made
Principal of the Evening Schools held in the
Lewis and Clark High School of that city.
Many nationalities are represented amongthe
pupils, as well as many industries, vocations,
and professions. From a newspaper clipping
we notice that a large number of saloon and
wholesale liquor house employees have enrolled for work in the vocational courses in order to fit themselves for other positions which
error.
The same
Curtis
McCombs
is
and
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waste that you may discover.
Yours truly,
For independent elements
to
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS
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ii
of
Explanatory
pressions.
Ex-
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
The appositive.
The parenthetical expression.
The independent element.
The non-restrictive clause.
The terminal adverbial clause
or participial phrase.
The appositive I shall not stop to
consider at this time, as most grade
schools teach this use of the comma
and therefore most of the students
who come to us Know it at least they
have heard of it before. A teacher
should give considerable practice in
this use, however, as the other ex-
Dear
Sir:
Your
will
The
understand,
delay,
is
we know
V.
Punctuation
CHICAGO.
31
like
Dear Madam:
ROSE BUHLIG.
the
tention.
than have the customer pay the postage due or cause him delay in receiving a letter that may be important.
I have nevertheless
cautioned the
boys, taking the Roberts letter as a
case in point, against using too much
postage. I should also be glad, inasmuch as the mailing desk now
comes under my direct supervision,
ment.
We
Dear
We
have ordered one gross, but carry instead the XL brand, which we recto
Dear
Dear
Sir:
Your attention
is called to the enclosed circular describing the "Monitor" overcoats, although they are so
well-known that they need almost no
description.
They are of decided
present interest in thematter of style,
as they are exact copies of coats worn
by army officers abroad. Still more
remarkable
is
their
durability,
for
We
For review
Dear
Sir:
name on
you
buying or putting in a heating outfitWe ask you to answer the questions on the enclosed postal card,
trusting that your replies will help
us to serve you further.
Yours truly,
For terminal adverbial clauses
Sir:
We thank
Sir:
Several days ago we wrote you, explaining to you the heating advantages of Foster boilers and radiators.
We also wrote our Sales Branch in
your district, suggesting that they
put you in touch with a reliable heating contractor, hoping that you might
thus receive more detailed information regarding your specific require-
ments.
We write this letter to ask whether
you have secured estimates and sperenewing at the
cific information
same time our offer to send you our
valuable treatises on modern heating
methods, feeling sure that you will
be interested in the detailed explanations they contain of the important
points to be considered when one is
trial, and
it fail to
you are
in the
market
for invest-
Yours
truly,
needless for me to say, I suppose, that the uses may not successfully be given to a class in the rapid
succession in which I have here outEspecially the nonlined them.
restrictive clause requires carefulexBut I
planation and long practice.
{Continued on page 29.)
It is
>j6uM*t*^&4UU*U<7"
arrangethe idea
that
the man with the college diploma can
do anything. There is still prevalent
in the minds of some a belief that the
requirements for commercial teachThis is fosing are insignificant.
tered by publishers who advertise to
The falsell "self-teaching" texts.
lacy is that;their texts donot "teach,"
but
those
who
know
tell,
only
they
little about the subject are persuaded
that given a text book the student
can by himself acquire a desirable
and typewriting.
ment came from
amount of knowledge
in a year.
is being severely
that the commercial
is
the place to dump those pupils who fail in other subjects. We
believe fully that different courses
require different types of mind, but
we strongly assert that if the standards for commercial work are set as
high as the standards for other
courses, the commercial would be the
damaged
course
is
most difficult of
Advanced as
all.
course
is
still
Course's
in
for
in-
advertising
made
paying one.
Realizing this fact, late afternoon,
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facts, founded upon the
solid rock of knowledge, while all
that I have is a hope fostered by a
Moreover, I
feeling of confidence.
realized that very likely they were
right and I was wrong. Yet I couldn't
be satisfied until I had tested my
own
theory.
then
They have
PHILADELPHIA.
the
is
May
The people
9th, 1914.
in
whom
is
remarkable that
my
friends
felt
And
that
it
was
for
something better.
the lack of
Always
suppose
way
act
upon
DOC
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proved unsound,
theirs. This
reasoned. There were
If it
would
me possessor
polite,
kind
fashioned
and
"Sincerely yours,
ment.
little talk.
"Sincerely yours,
er note
"If
it
convenient to
my coming
uncertain and
then would be
tioned.
Street,
The number
is
"I'm
He
let
office.
wooden
floor as
He
line.
dropped him a
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LAW OF INFANCY
There are persons whom the law,
for their protection on the ground of
public policy, regard as incapable
to a greater or less degree of binding themselves by an enforceable obligation. This is in order to protect the inexperienced, as far as
possible,
from
impositions that
WHO ARE
In law,
INFANTS?
all
the
common
law, a person is
is
the law.
EMANCIPATION
Under the statutes of some
juris-
Nor
NECESSARIES
minor
him.
is
According
to
Lord
Coke,
27
dren.
If the minor is living with his parents or guardian who supplies his
wants, his own contracts are not then
binding for necessaries.
In fact, if
is supplied no matter from what
source with necessaries suitable to
his station in life, then a tradesman
cannot recover for any additional
supplies he may have furnished to
the minor.
In
law, a tradesman
he
RATIFICATION
may be
ratified
of an infant
by him upon reaching
An
infant
is
Or,
if
minor hires a
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Advertising
THOS.
E.
CUPPER,
became acquainted
23,
Inc. Acct.,
November
TALK NO.
One
of the
main objects
of
any ad-
some
one of the
WHERE
HOW, WHEN
advertise for
time.
The following
S.D.
M. (i. Roberts, Granger Business School, Aberdeen, S. D.
F, H. Metzler, Northern Normal and Industrial School, Aberdeen, S. D.
Walfrid V. Elson, Granger Business School,
Aberdeen, S. D.
G. H.Dean, Sioux Falls High School, Sioux
Falls, S. D.
D.
Ella Starr,
nary,
Wessington Springs,
S.
D.
to
It
was
SOUTH DAKOTA
not be for the town in which the school is located, but rather for the profession.
There was some discussion as to the best
method of teaching touch typewriting. Some
favored the shield method of teaching, while
The
First
Aberdeen,
S. Dak: General Secretary. Miss Hazel G. Wall, Sioux Falls. S. Dak.; Corresponding Sec'y, Miss Catherine Luchsinger, Aberdeen, S. D.; Treasurer. Mr. Geo. L. Crisp,
Yankton, S. Dak.
It was unanimously voted to extend a vote of
thanks to those concerned in effecting the
South Dakota Commercial Teachers' Associa-
tion.
Amotion was made and carried that all expenses incurred in perfecting this organization
be paid out of the treasury.
It was moved that a committee consisting of
three members of the Executive Board, with
President Jay W. Miller as chairman, draft a C.
P. A. bill, and present it at the next meetiDg of
this association and to take any steps necessary
to stir up sentiment favoring such a bill. Motion carried.
Committee appointed
Jay W.Miller,
Kemper. Geo. L. Crisp.
:
Geo..
L.
Following the business session several typewriter men were given an opportunity to demonstrate their various machines. The following
makes were demonstrated LInderwood, L. C.
Smith, Royal, and Remington.
In the afternoon an informal meeting was
held at which Mr. P. A. Cooley. of the Mitchell
:
seemed
the
The following
Wesleyan Uni
BINGEN, GA.
Kemper,
Secretary.
ACCOUNTING
(
simon-pure
bookkeeping
is
really
needed; in other words, to see if something else might not be better for most
of the pupils than so much technical
mercantile bookkeeping. One of the
Eastman
teachers
in
that
their office during a
summer
men
upon?"
The
S/u*j<ju<j*/t*4Jt,4/ua//
DIARY SNAP SHOTS
(Continued from page 20)
swung
in
copying one of
other day.
It
was
tell
find out
so.
mischief.
CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
Before the age of seven a child is held
incapable of harboring a criminal intent and therefore of committing
a crime.
Between the ages of seven
and fourteen, in most of the states of
the Union, his capability to commit a
crime must be clearly proved. After
fourteen years of age the infant
stands on the same footing as an
adult with regard to the commission
of a crime and will be held accountable unless he can prove his incapability.
In this connection an inquiring mind might ask, whether, if a
child is incapable of making a contract for want of knowledge and discretion, he can have the knowledge of
what constitutes a legal crime, so as
to justify a court in labeling him a
criminal before he attains his majority.
later.
"Sincerely yours,
is
High School.
that."
LAW
27)
W.
Anna
Carlisle
if
the
uses
are
comma
E.
Read
in
is
Commercial College,
Carlisle, Pa.
Among
Omaha, Neb.,
in the
is
new commercial
High School
now connected
N.Y.
the
From
staff
given as
Pa.,
Anna Van Dyke, a recent graduate of the Albany Business College, Albany, N. Y., is now
teaching bookkeeping and penmanship in the
saw you.
ENGLISH
(
DC
NEWS NOTES
AND NOTICES
since
dcddcdc
DC
me one
dfc
at Bristol,
teach-
Me.
the Herald,
Nov.
STENOGRAPHY
IN
New
9,
York
City,
1915
own
notes. The fact shows that the chief executive of the land finds his knowledge of shorthand so valuable that he makes constant use of
correctly.
Many of the
in
the
country have built up their career on a knowledge of stenography. The value of this knowledge in all walks of life could not have better
illustration than is furnished by the experience
of the President of the United States." (President Wilson is a Pitmanic writer.)
&
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BUSINESS EDUCATION IN
THE
MIDDLE WEST.
is holding its own, and
in the Middle West, as has recentbeen evidenced by therousing meetings of
the commercial sections of several of the
Business education
much more,
ly
may
"My hobby
in
"Some
ing of
Another symposium,
"My Hobby
in
Teach-
mously conceded.
In a talk. "The Future of Commercial Education" Mr. Karl F. Adams, of Omaha, declared
that long courses, interspersed with such cultural subjects as languages, sciences and mathematics will eventually become universal. He
said that the schools should not become mere
"clerk factories" but should qualify for something higher in life. The Rev. Daniel Jenkins
elaborated upon this thought in his talk, "The
Teacher, His Moral and Mental Qualifications."
A very enthusiastic body of teachers, nearly
150 of them, gave rapt attention to the entire
program.
"Modern Tendencies
in
We
School Prepare
ly discussed
Lebanon,
Ills.
its
reproduction in
fall.
in
The High
done!"
It is a magnificent work all of these state sections are doing, and a bigger, better and brainier set of commercial teachers, than those in the
&
<^Me&u4/n^A&duai&r
warfare against their Spanish oppressors.
The
It was a savage warfare on both sides.
Native Cuban, often with much Negro blood,
and African ferocity in his veins, was poorly
armed. His particular weapon, being a long
heavy knife called a machete, was used for cutting the thick stalks of the sugar cane. It was a
bad weapon, too. at dose quarters, and sliced a
man's head off as easily as it did a stalk of sugar
in guerrilla
TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS.
T.
CRAGIN.
Holyoke, Mass.,
Thompson's Business
School.
Clear Havana.
The Antilles lie like a cluster ot gems in the
blue setting of the Caribbean Sea, clothed in
emerald are these islands of the Cuban
group.
It was there that Christopher Columbus discovered what he thought was the East Coast of
Asia, but Christopher didn't have any idea the
world was so large as it really was, and he
richest
EASY LIVING.
The
tobacco of Kings.
The islands of the Antilles, were for fourhundred and six years, subject to the ancient Kingdom of Spain, for it was the yellow flag of
Spain of Ferdinand, and Isabella, that Columbus, the Italian navigator, planted on
the island of San Salvador, when he look it for
Spain was then the
the Spanish king, in 1492.
richest and most powerful nation of Europe;
foremost in war, and perhaps in such arts as
there were in the fifteenth century.
But the
Spaniard has never been a good discoverer.
His object has always been the finding of gold
and jewels, and treasure, not the settlement of
new lands, or the civilization of new peoples.
So, wherever Spain has gone, with her venturous Captains of discovery, Pizarro, Cortez,
De Soto, Balboa, and all the rest there has been
a record of Savage cruelty, and oppression over
the simple natives.
It is not surprising then, that the history of
Spanish rule in the island of Cuba, was one of
continued oppression, to the poor inhabitants,
for the benefit of the Spanish rulers, and the
native nobility of Spain.
fifty
cane.
They simply
with the machete in his hand.
stood him up against the wall and gave him
If that
half a dozen bullets at close range.
didn't finish him, the officer in charge of the
firing squad, blew out his brains with his revolver.
MAN BETWEEK.TVVO
FIRES.
later of
Weyler.
said,
had lain concealed all day and night two disheveled mud rats, the boys, and an old faithful
negro servant. He had managed to drag them
out of the slaughter of the Spanish attack and
save them from massacre the night before.
The old fellow himself had been badly shot, but
he managed to escape covered with blood and
keep the boys safely hidden from the searchers
who would have made short work of them.
A TRIP WITH DYNAMITE JOHN
my
legs.
doggy looking
Riaz.
too.
Manuel was
as polite as our
ing master
on shoe
&
ROI'ES
is
We
newcomers
to the
We
CADET PRANK
The
wreathed in smoke, and my nostrils were almost closed by the stench of powder. It was a
queer sight that met my view, when the smoke
into the
bullets,
books slashed through and through, cut to flinders. The big armchair was sliced from top to
bottom, the bed clothes and mattresses ripped
and slashed savagely from pillow to foot and on
the floor lay the weapons which had done such
deadly execution. Two sixteen-shot Winchester rifls, a couple of regulation muskets and a
pair of big razor-blade Spanish-Cuban machetes.
I did
not know what to think, but just then,
the music across the way in the ballroom
stopped. There was a short intermission and
the cadets came pouring out on the parade
ground to get a breath of air, and across the
walk came the occupants of cottage No. 2.
The Commandant Lieutenant Parnell also
strolled out and I met him and hurried him with
me into the wrecked dormitory. Dead silence
in
street, four of
room
that followed
amazement
at
me
know who
solved."
did
And
it,
it
was.
weakened
leader of
THE SPANISH
WAR
It was in the
autumn of 1897 that we
took the boys down to New York to see
he big Spanish cruiser, "Viscaya," which was
we heard
young
Cuban. He was at Siboney and with the regiment that climbed San Juan Hill and when the
war was over he came back to New York, wearing a Sergeant's Chevrons and looking thin but
hale and hearty, for he was acclimated and did
not get the poisonous tropic fever that drove so
many American boys insane after the little war
was over. The poor Viscaya which we thought
so formidable as she lay in New York Harbor,
was smashed into scrap iron by the 8 inch guns
American ships in Santiago Bay. The
Cubans did not shine very resplendently in
of the
that little
it
showed no
MANUEL AT HARVARD
The
far
"be-
in
one
of his letters
from
Boston, "Harvard University was pleasantly located in the bar room of Mr. Parker's tavern on
School St."
Just before commencement Doctor Tilton
went and got Manuel and put him in a rest cure
the coast near Newbury port and the war
being over his father came back to Cuba, now an
independent nation under the protection of lean
and powerful Uncle Sam, and resumed the cultivation of his fine tobacco fields and great
sugar plantations. Manuel, under a liberal al-
down on
<!3^&uA/nitfy&du&ifir
lowance from his father is today, so far as I
know, one of the ornaments of the best hotels
and other less reputable resorts of the ancient
city of Havana.
He never tried to become
metal for the melting pot and it is just as well
that he didn't.
among groups
ANTONIO AS A CITIZEN
Antonio Riaz, short, swarthy, slow of speech,
but quick enough in action, was quite a different proposition.
He was "Clear Havana."
He fought gallantly for his native island but he
saw his limitations and he had learned to love
the splendid ensign of the United States so
when he came back to America after the surrender of Havana he took out naturalization papers just as quickly as he could get them and became in due course of time a citizen of the
United States and the United States has no better citizen than this young Cuban.
He began business for himself in New York
as an agent of Cuban tobacco planters and for
many years, now a full dozen, he has been a
solid,
man
of that
He belongs to one of the militia regiments and every year he goes up to Peekskill,
or some of the military camps, and takes command of a company for he won his stripes as a
city.
sergeant for gallantry in action in the brief, inglorious Spanish American War of '98 and has
smelled gun powder and heard the whine of
bullets as they passed close to his head and has
seen men fall in action around him and even
himself has felt the red blood now for he got a
scratch at the battle of San Juan Hill. Eleven
months of the year finds him strictly on the job,
American, without any reservation whatever.
He imports some fine cigars from Havana and I
occasionally.'get a box of them.
I don't believe in smoking.
When I get a
box of poor cigars from a friend I give them to
people that I don't like very well. When 1 get a
box of good cigars I burn them up and through
the blue smoke of one of Antonio's Clear Havanas I see in vision of the past the two frightened Cuban boys and hear the slam of the shutters on that wild November night at the old
Academy and hear Manuel talking about shedding his hearts blood for Cuba Libre and see
Antonio really shedding a little blood, and tak-
New York
State
was suggested, but opinion, experience, heredity and race developments must determine advisability of use of the left hand.
discussion
which was initiated by Prin.Mackay.of Buffalo,
a full-Hedged left-hander, who took the defensive.
A strong
plea was made for individual attention by the teacher in the case of the left-handed, and failure to give specific instructions was
the reason advanced for the prevailing awkardnessand inability of the left-handed to write
with plainness and facility.
He said there was some ray of hope for the
user of the "south paw" as some of the greatest
base-ball players were left-handed.
Harry Houston, E. C. Mills, Tom Sawyier,
and others contributed to the discussion. Mr.
Harry Houston, of New Haven, Conn., gave a
practical presentation of the proverbial Road to
Good Penmanship. He believes in common
sense plans and methods. Application is secured, first, through definite, concrete instructions during the formal lesson, and then by encouragement through good environment, exaction of position and movement from the outset,
and by refusal to accept careless, illegible writing.
Keeping a record of pupils' progress,
combining the writing lesson with other subjects, having contests, discriminate issuing of
certificates, etc., was suggested. The test of efficiency in writing is based on habitual effort.
In the afternoon a paper was read by Miss Ada
Webb, of Buffalo, on "Methods for the Exceptional Children." She treated the psychology
of the writing act giving emphasis to sensory
motortraining. The discussion was scientific
and in the main, was a modification and adaptation of the Montessori idea, and Froebel's
kindergarten.
Miss Mary A. Everts, of Cozenovia, N. Y..
told how to secure and maintain interest in
writing. Miss Everts is an enthusiasticthorough
going and progressive teacher, possessing the
essentials to interest and inspire to better ef.
forts.
met
in
some
&
33
of learning.
A fixed alphabet
disregards personality.
Script forms should be
simple, consistent and made with least friction
advancement
greater uniformity should be manifested. Harry Houston and all who spoke held similar
views on the subject of standardization.
Prin. R.K. Savage, of Rochester, read a paper on "Penmanship from the Principal's Point
of View." He said it was the the duty of every
Prin. to co-operate in securing free, plain writing. The Supervisor should point out the weak
spots for the Prin. to stengthen by judicious
praise and intelligent criticism.
C. C. Lister, of Brooklyn Training School for
Teachers, presented a well-rounded classification of progressive ideas on "Figures and How
to Teach Them." He made figures interesting
by talking about them and giving reasons for
their construction
Figures should be
and with
made unmistakably
a sharp, clear-cut
drill
Wallace, Secretary.
The next meeting place will be
Convention.
The Penmanship
penman.
Miss Clara R. Emens, Supr. of Writing,
was chairman, and Miss Frances M.
Wallace, of Rochester, was secretary.
Heading the program was a demonstrationdiscussion on the Practical Possibilities of the
Blackboard by Tom Sawyier. Emphasis was
placed on good blackboard writing as an essential qualification on the part of the teacher, and
Buffalo,
board to
From
left to right:
ry
plain
line indicative of
at
Buffalo.
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The subject of this brief narrative, J. O. Gordon, first saw lightsome two score and more
years ago in Ashland county of the famed
"Buckeye"
at
is
M. Huntsinger, who was for many years loThis penmanship clearly indicates that L. W. has been a follower
penman indeed, as the quality
Hartford, Connecticut.
Mr. L. W. Huntsinger
is
state.
to a successful career.
( )ur friend Gordon was a son of the soil, a privilege of no mean worth, that enabled him to
learn lessons of inestimable value, and helped
him to develop a rugged constitution necessary
to withstand the strain of this busy, active
American
"
"i
"
i'
life.
Upon
many a
quitting the
public schools, unlike
youth, he was not content to idle or enter the business world illy prepared, but continued to seek further knowledge in higher institutions of learning.
and Lakewood.
yaJSytf/M^J^y,
'iiffl&tfi/sda
By the above we mean that the lessons in roundhand appearing in the B. E. by Mr. Baird are
the finest to be found anywhere and are well worth being studied carefully ty all who wish to master this beautiful and practical art. There is more of a demand for this style of writing today than
ever before. Besides being used in diplomas and resolutions, it is used in many ways for commercial and artistic purposes. Excepting lettering, roundhand probably produces more money for the
engrosser than any other style. The above was written by E. A. Lupfer, instructor in the Zanerian,
Columbus, O.
twice chosen/ to
know Gordon
last
feel that
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BUY
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BUSINESS COLLEGE
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Manager
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The above is from the pen of Mr. E. M. Hunteinger, now of Hegins, Schuylkill Co., Ha.,
for many years located at Hartford, Conn., where he conducted the Huntsinger BusiMr. Huntsinger's health for the past few years has not been good and he
therefore dropped ou of the professional harness, but is now slowly gaining in health by
living largely out of doors.
and
ness School.
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bccorainj
is
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A novel idea in commercial school advertising. Look at the cash! Mr. D. L. Hunt sends out
photograph on a postcard. The Business Kducator occasionally reproduces school adStudents
vertising ideas for the benefit of other schools. If you have a good one send it along.
in Hunt's, Kau Claire, Wis., Business College thus use cold cash in their transactions.
this
Questioned Handwriting
Examined.
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF BANKING, 429
Display engrossing by Dennis
Brooklyn, N. Y.
&
E. State St.,
COLUMBUS,
O.
Baird,
ORDARWINS
BIflDD
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pace
larsfree. T. H. Mll.i
Charleston. .Mo.
Kl(.
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Inn
EASY
TYPEHAND
It teaches and amuses. Played with cards representing Cash. Property. Debts, and Expenses.
Settlement of losses and gains made with
pasteboard coins. (Jives practice in adding
and making change. Teaches business terms
TBACHAMUSB
and encourages
old.
thrift.
Remit now
to
Fun
for
voung and
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PROGRAM
MORNING
New York
City.
Park, N.J.
Habit Formation, J. A. Kirby, Bushwick
High School, Brooklyn. N. Y.
Penmanship in Business Schools, B. H.Spencer, Principal Spencer College, Paterson, N.J.
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Ornamental
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College.
Kpei-hneiiB with return
poBtase for free criticism.
Writing, Pittsburgh,
Vice President.
C. A. Robertson, Principal, Westchester Commercial School, New
Rochelle, N. Y., Secretary.
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have sent in clubs during the past month. We
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work will do wonders. If you are really determined to become a fine ornamental writer,
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LESLIE, Pittsburgh.
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the teaching of a practical style of penmanship.
Over eighty of his pupils received special writing certificates last year. He emphasized the
importance of giving most practice to those
letters occurring most frequently.
Mr. P. L. Greenwood, Minneapolis, limited
his discussion on "How I Secure Results in
Penmanship," to writing in the High School.
Penmanship is introduced in the first year in
PENMANSHIP SECTION
Tuesday Afternoon, December
27, 1915
of the
South High School, Minneapolis. Mr. Greenwood aims to discipline without friction. He
has an original and effective plan of maintaining interest and securing order.
He finds that
regular monthly contests are a great aid in creating enthusiasm and securing results.
Mr. Whiteside. Tyler, Texas, in discussing
Mr. Greenwood's paper gave some valuable
suggestions as to the method of securing control of the hand in writing.
Mr. Savage stated
that he had discovered through one of his
teachers, an excellent method of counting for
neither.
words.
Mr.
V. E.
Madray,
Tuesday A. M.,
rapidly
they cannot
(fanatics) will understand that
spend their whole time in acquiring skill and
neglecting other things. He also stated that
the time would soon be here when a writing
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Mr. G. A. Race,
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Mr. O. L. Rogers.
Secretary, 1915. Ft. Wayne, Ind.
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Mr. H. A. Roush,
Lafayette, Ind.
&
Mr. V. M. Rubert,
McKeesport, Pa.
Evansville, Ind.
a talk
man.
ner.
Wednesday A.
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He emphasizes
the
read
School writing.
eration report.
cal application
of all things
taught in other
to do Mr.
.Zaner's paper justice without quoting it ver
batim. It was discussed by Messrs. C. C. Curtis and C. W. Ransom.
grades.
It
would be impossible
Miss
Wednesday P. M.
Emma Dearborn, Red Bank,
N.
J.
A.
Stryker,
Kearney, Nebr.
gave
on the Victrola.
"The Nature of the Writing Problem," by H.
A. Roush, McKeesport, Pa., proved to be a paper brimming over with valuable suggestions
to the teacher.
Mr. Roush said that writing
should be a promotional subject in the grades
Mr.
J.,
Mr.
J.
A. Snyder,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
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interesting
manner the
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difficulties
Dear
H. BachtenJ.
Member of the GenerExecutive Board.
A special vote of thanks was extended to the
officers and members of the executive committee for the splendid program.
al
them
Exhibit
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will
be
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Early in January. The Newark Business College and the Drake Business College, of Newark, N. J were consolidated, the pupils, proprietors and faculty of the former being tranferred
to the Drake School, 671) Broad St., Newark.
The capacity has been enlarged to meet the
increased enrollment which is now about 5U0.
consolidation, means increased efficiency
through cooperation. Mr. W. C. Cope willcontinue as principal; Mr. R. C. Scholz will con.
tinue as secretary and manager; and Mrs.
Winner and Mr. Ira L. Calvert will be associBoth institutions
ated with the office staff.
were founded in 1881. We wish the institution the success and prosperity it deserves.
OUR FEDERATION
By
Mrs.
skilled
hand
re-
St.
Augustina.
of the season,
are
Yours
truly,
Editor.!
coming
done;
For we will work and we
j'ist
from dawn
to setting sun.
CHORUS
We are
for the
Penman,
it
chiefly interest-
begun,
to the
whom lam
Giorytothe Federation,
era of
the one in
CHORUS
Our duty
As we go marching on.
start,
do their part;
High School, Shorthand, Stenotype
in a
long,
As we go marching on.
Fish
song,
Sing it with a willing heart and sing it good
and strong
Sing it for the Federation, shout both loud and
compliments
The
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Sirs:
We
It was the result of the enthusiasm and unseland untiring efforts of Mr. S. E. Leslie, of
Pittsburgh, ably supported by his co-worker,
Mr. V. E. Madray.
A double-size room was filled with specimens upon the walls and tables, and scrapbooks,
all of which were contributed by members of
our profession.
The collection included original writing and
penwork from such as Piatt R. Spencer, the
author of Spencerian Penmanship; his son's;
Klickinger; Madarasz; Taylor; and nearly all
of their contemporaries, together with the
work of practically all present day penmen.
A collection of about 40 pen portraits were exhibited from P. W. Costello; E. L. Brown was
well represented; Dennis & Baird displayed
considerable of their skill; Martin, of Boston;
and others added to the Engrossing collection.
C. A. Barnett, of Cleveland, was the only one
to exhibit students' specimens of which he h?.d
a large and attractive display.
A movement was set on foot in Chicago to
have this feature continued another year. It is
therefore hoped that another feast may be in
store for all who attend.
15, 1915.
Bloser,
The Penmanship
&
Columbus, Ohio.
with
all
A
will
work
their heart,
of the
As we go marching on.
CHORUS
The
and bright.
For we are striving honestly
light
And
to
win
to lead
men
to the
As we go marching
on.
ness Educator
Wilklnsburg, Pa., High School. Mr. Spanabel favored us with a list of subscriptions under
date of Decembers, numbering twenty-seven.
He states that there is nothing that pleases him
more than to be able to send a list of this kind
to The Business Educator, since it is a
great factor in developing pupils in penmanship. Mr. Spanabel is doing good work in
Wilkinsburg, and, of course, we are glad to
know that he is finding The Business Educator of much assistance to him in securing
results in
penmanship.
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"Plain as Print"
That
is
Some systems
is it
are legible
like.
true?
when
Others are always a matter of guesswork, for there are many different words for which an
carefully drawn.
outline
may
stand.
Shorthand writing which is not instantly legible even under the stress
of rapid note-taking has no commercial or practical value.
which promote
legibility.
That Gregg Shorthand does not come under this category is amply
proved by the fact that in the Fifth International Shorthand Speed Contest, all the Gregg writers qualified, while five-sevenths of the Pitmanic
writers failed.
is
Invariable Outlines
Natural Order of Sounds
Vowels
in
Simplicity
Outline
Uniform Slope
Girem-.Shorthand
the System
that gets results
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The correspondent then asks if Pitman Shorthand has not " been
ease and accuracy in transcribing? "
proven equal to the most rapid speaker or reader or to the extreme necessities of court work, where
is
more than one may be speaking at the same time, or, in other words equal to the most difficult reportsafer for such
ing," and winds up his very pertinent query by further inquiring if it is not, therefore,
work" than the Gregg ? We cannot take space in this advertisement to quote the entire article but must
here reproduce what is really the very pith and essence of the inquiry, by quoting his closing remarks
" Gregg shorthand having been taught and written in this country since 1893, or for twenty-three years
(which is more than the active life of the average reporter), why IS it that ninety ^er cent, of the COUrt
"
stenographers in America are still Pitmanic writers?
:
N. Miner,
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The many public competitive tests of recent years have amply demonstrated practically what was already
clear theoretically, that Pitman's Shorthand is not only the most legible, but the most rapid system in the
world. All the highest records for speed in shorthand writing have been made with this system, as will be
seen from the remarkable figures given below which demonstrate most conclusively the superiority of the
Isaac Pitman Shorthand over
lig-ht-line
systems.
YEAR
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SYSTEM
Net
SPKKIi
YEAR
Per
WINNER
SYSTEM
Mini ik
1906
1907
1908
1910
98.25
95.8
95.8
150
123
242
173
o.i
,.i Silver
Cup
The bagan International
96
Isaac Pitman
Nellie M.Wood
Isaac Pitman
98.4
Nellie M.Wood
Isaac Pitman
95 3
Nellie M. Wood
253
264
Sidney H. Godfrey
Sidney H. Godfrey
Isaac Pitman
Isaac Pitman
C.H.Marshall
F.H.Gurtler
Pitmanic
_.
1907
1908
1909
Gregg
98.1
'
163
*Pkk"
a"y""
Mini
ti
W.B. Bottome
Pitmanic
94.3
262
C.H.Marshall
Pitmanic
268
8B.B8
1911
Nathan Behrin
Isaac Pitman
95.71
268
1912 Nathan Behrin
Isaac Pitman
98.8
278
1913 Nathan Behrin
Isaac Pitman
96.86
272
'By winning the "Shorthand Writer" Cup three years
in succession, Mr. Nathan Behrin became the permanent
1909
1910
/-.
The Adams
International
Trophy
Nellie M. Wood
Isaac Pitman
99.5
(There were four contests, ranging from 150 to 210 words
per minute. Mr. Behrin was second with a percentage of 99.3.)
1911
SYSTEM
ACCURA '.'
v.
Sl-EEn
Per
Minute
Pitman
98.6
277
In the three contests of 280, 210. and 200 words, Mr. Behrin's
average of accuracy was 98 per cent.; a world's record which has
never been approached. It is interesting to note that none but Pitmanic writers were able to qualify in this contest.)
Nathan Behrin
1914
Isaac
It
will
thus be seen that all the trophies in the above Speed Contests, with but one exception, have been
won by writers of Isaac Pitman Shorthand or a modification of that system.
Send
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VOLUME XXI
0.,
FEB., 1916
NUMBER
VI
O.,
C. P. Zaner,
E. W. Bloser,
Editor
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hand will revolve or pivot on the fingerwhich should slide less freely on the pulling motions in writing, but which should glide
easily and quickly on the connective strokes
between letters and in the act of spacing the
the
rest
The
and consideration of
always productive of good results. Liberencourages It In others and
spirit of helpfulness to
others
Is
brings
will
may
penmanship
question.
appear together.
Answer
Depart-
the
under
is a blotter
A blotter
TACOMA
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
hand? -A.
T.
W.
their part.
All so-called arm movement or muscular
movement writers do use a slight, sympathetic
In
finger action in the upward loop letters.
some cases this action is solalight asto bealmost
imperceptible and in some cases it is quite pronounced. This is true of the professional penman as well as of pupils. The supervisor has
taken the attitude that this sympathetic action
of the fingers can scarcely be eliminated and
therefore does not need emphasis but rather
recognition on the part of the teacher. Pupils
in the grades do not need encouragement to
acquire finger movement. The less finger action pupils use in the preparation of their daily
lessons the more rapid will be their improvement and the more material will be Ihe benefits they derive from their handwriting.
The process by which the pure arm movement writers attain proficiency may differ in
duration, intensity and in order of procedure.
They may acquire the ability from the start in
the first grade or they may learn Ihe finger
movement firstand then gradually acquire arm
movement which finally displaces the finger
movement altogether. Again, they may learn
finger movement in the first few years of
school lite and then revolutionize it in an interfirst
Few
November 28,
TO PRINCIPALS
1915.
AND TEACHERS:
The
first
may be
group
fully
in any oc-
cupation where writing is not a continuous requirement. It will probably be fully as legible
and may be even more speedy for a brief period.
notrequire
It also has the advantage that itdoes
an absolutely fixed position ot the writing arm.
Its disadvantages lie in the fact that it does not
stand up well under a long strain, and being
written with two sets of muscles working in
combination, it requires more nervous energy.
The hand writing of the third group receives
little or no consideration in the application for
a
modern
office position.
of the first
The handwriting
at some time having sacriamount of form in order to acfreedom. Usually this comes at the time
group without
ficed a certain
quire
R. H.
What is the best position and movement when writing on a pad held in the
first
will qualify under it. There is room for a difference of opinion as to which contains Ihe better writers. However, the point should not be
overlooked that the first group of pupils usually have the ability to write in the same manIn a
ner as the second when they so desire.
limited way the reverse of thiB may be true, but
for the second group to write as do the first
group would at first require greater effort on
4.
write legibly?
J. V.
which
spirational teacher.
we
that
both the
am
to
If
is
ment:
able
extinct.
Tom Sawyier.
tigureB.
Of what advantage
&
^Mt^tiuMn&M&diuulvr
lo
writing systems.
It is
to
become "combined-movement"
writers.
For such pupils to become pure arm movement writer a surer and quicker way is to abandon all efforts to use the fingers, sacrifice for
the moment some of the accuracy of letter
formation; and, striking out boldly apply the
movement in all written work. Progress under
From the
this plan will be much more rapid.
moment the pupils adopt this plan all conflictWhat they gain in
ing efforts are eliminated.
their writing lessons is an aid in their composition.
Writing compositions
is
so
much
clear
own.
his
princi-
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BUSINESS
WRITING
E. A.
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LUPFER.
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College.
pnstage for free
OBJECT
The object of this course of lessons is to teach
a rapid, practical style of writing a style that
can be written as rapidly as is demanded by the
business world and also be easily read. No one
in the business world will succeed by writing a
very slow, labored, though exact hard, nor will
a business man tolerate illegible scribbling
written at any rate of speed.
To
Your success
is
the
best.
Avoid
use,
<
I"'
is
PRACTICAL
By
hard surface
results
you
No
one sees
out.
tice
the Student
good
writer.
Materials
Unless you have good supplies you cannot
expect to progress. Do not buy the cheapest
nor the most expensive supplies.
Penholder Get a medium sized all-wood
holder or one with a cork tip. Avoid metal or
Illustration
2.
penholder point between the elbow and shoulder and the band glide upon the nails of the
third and fourth fingers, or first joint of the little
ringer. (See illustration two.)
find where
a student turns the hand over on the side and
lets the whole hand glide on the little finger
and side of the hand and uses the arm in place
of finger movement, good writing can be done;
but, this position is dangerous for the average
student.
When a student is doing good work in an
easy way, but not holding the hand or arm in
exactly the way you instruct, be careful and go
slow in changing his position, for not every one
can do a thing in the same way. Remember,
good penmen do not all write alike. Bend the
joints of the first finger outward, not inward.
When the joint is bent inward the student is inclined to grip the penholder.
The position
which looks the easiest usually is the best, and
a position which looks cramped usually will
produce cramped writing, although not always.
(See illustration three.)
The holder Bhould be pointed between the
elbow and the shoulder and should be held at
an angle of about forty-five degrees to produce
a smooth line and prevent scratching.
(See illustration four.) Both points or nibs of the pen
should touch the paper evenly. The holder
should not be gripped but held only tight
enough to hold the pen. It is not good to hold
the muscles rigid or tense all the time, nor is it
We
If
4.
secure, so be sure that every student gets started correctly, that he does not get discouraged,
that he continues in the right direction and
that he studies and practices intelligently.
To
Illustration
'
Position
No
Teacher
measured by the
Illustration
1.
the best work. Before going ahead, the teacher should see that every student in the class is
sitting in the right position and holding the
pen correctly.
The Body should be erect and inclined forward, not backward. Where possible keep the
chair back from the desk. Keep the feet flat on
the floor or drawn back under the chair. The
headshould beheld up straight not sideways.
empty.
ng
good to let them hang flabby and limp or practically relaxed all the time. Of course, no one
can write with total relaxation, for there must
be a little tension to hold the pen and move the
arm. To do any physical act the muscles must
be tensioned according to the act.
Lifting a
heavy weight' requires much tension, while
writing requires only a little. The most skillpenman is the one who can tension and relax his muscles easily and also tensioD his mental force, or concentrate. In making capitals,
we use a free, unrestricted movement which
ful
Illustration
3.
t^S^&ud/neM&du&i&r
small letters we
use a restricted movement which probably reSo in
quires a little more tension and care.
requires
little
tension,
and
in
Movement
The function of the fingers is mainly to hold
the pen and the large muscles of the arm propel or furnish the power. In arm movement
&
writing the
Illustration
5.
Copy /.This is the direct, compact oval, two spaces high. The arrow indicates the direction of movement. Let the arm roll freely and do not allow the joints of the thumb or first finger to move -the fingers are only to hold the pen in this exercise. Count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-1-2-3-4-5 6-78-9-20 and so on by 10's to 100, then repeat. Do not pause after 10, 20, etc., but go on regularly at about three counts per second. Each student
should try to make one revolution for each count. The count may be varied by repeating the words, "one," "round," "down," "light," etc. Study
Copy 2. The push-and-pull exercise is a valuable one. Notice that the whole arm slides, except the skin on the arm below the elbow. This
Count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 910-1-2-8-4Is your sleeve tight?
serves as a control it helps to bring the large movement down within a usuable size.
5-6-7-8-9-20 etc., up to 100. Start thejmotion in the air before placing the pen on the paper.
Copy 3. The indirect compact oval is exactly opposite the direct compact oval, copy 1. The count is the same as for No. 1. Avoid spots and
white places. The main purpose of these exercises is to develop mo>ement so see to it that each pupil has the correct position and is using a free
arm and not finger movement.
Copy 4. -Retrace the oval eight times, making sure that it is two-thirds as wide as long and that it is curved evenly on both sides Study the
copy carefully and compare your work with it frequently. See wherein your work can be improved. Count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 81-2 3-4 5 6-7 8.
Notice the slant. Each one should cultivate the habit of studying each letter carefully and noting the goco and bao tbn. gsand soon you will be
able to criticise your own work intelligently.
Copy .5. Notice the arrow. Count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 change, 1-2-3-4-5-6 7-8. Or repeat the word, "round," "round," "round,' "round, " "round,"
"round," "round," "round" and "down," "down," "down," "down," "down," "down," "down," "down." Change the count to meet conditions.
Try to retrace the first line and do not spread the work too much.
Copy 0. Notice this copy is just half the size of the two space copies you have been working on. The count is the same as for copy 1. The
Be sure not to make exercises any faster than you
class should work together. Every pupil should begin and end the copy with the count.
should make letters. By making both exercises and letters at a fairly rapid rate of speed you get the full benefit of exercises.
whole
etc.
Copy 7. One space high. Keep it compact, but avoid blots or dark places. See how easily you can make it. All together 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10Now look at your work carefully, then the copy Try it again.
Copy 8. See how uniform in size you can make this copy. Put life into the movement. Count the same as for No. 1.
Copy 9.U you have mastered No. 4, this copy should be easy for you. Count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. Make 21 ovals to the line.
Copy 10. This isthe same as copy 9 except that it is finished with a loop like 'O'. Count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-finish, 1-2-8-4-5-6-7-8-finish.
Copy 11. The 'O' is closed at the top and consists of a slanting oval, curved equally on both sides, and a loop finished upwards. For the
cise
capital 'O'.
'O', 1-2-finish.
exer-
'O', 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
Copy J2-,-Make
Count
<:lose-the-0.
on this line do not touch the headline. Count 1-2- loop. Make them about % of a space high.
compact oval one-half aspace high. The rate of speed and count should be the sameasNo.l. See howunifoim
the direct
it.
Copy 15. Get a strong, free movement, one-half space high. For count
Copy 16. This is the direct oval leading up to the under turn exercise.
cise.
-2 3
see No.
Start
4-5-6-7-8-9-30.
2.
bottom rounding.
Copy 17. Start with push-and-pull exercise and finish with 'i' exercise. Countasfor No 16.
Copy 18. Retrace the oval six times, then swing to V exercise. Keep angles at top sharp and turns
round," "round," "round," "round," "round," 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 9-10-1-2-3, etc.
Copy 19. Watch the height. Count "down," "down" "down," "down." "down." "down," 1-2-3-4. etc.
at bottorr
Keep
rounding,
Count "round,"
'
Copy 20. This consists of angles and turns. Count 12-3-4- 1-2-3-4. About twelve down strokes to the exercise.
the turns sharp, count "glide," "round," "round, "''round." Watch the beginning and final strokes.
Copy
.V 1
as for
No.
3.
Be
If
making
easy movement.
a
"Qraao&aoao' aaaoaaa
-"The
better
you
master this
of Nos. la and 17. (Jet the tops rou inline and the bottoms angular.
22 and 23. See how uniform you can make them.
The turns should be rounding and the angles
copy and also No. 20 the easier the small letters will e.
I
sharp.
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specimen
of practical writing
Ha.
Many
writers as
good
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BUSINESS
WRITING
By
S.
E.
LESLIE,
PITTSBURGH,
..-r<^7^e^C^T^^^^-- :-^^l^l^<i^<^7^^^EXERCISE 52
The Iodp letters which are taken up beginning with this copy are among the most difficult small letters. Notice how the lis made by gradually
making the loops in the oval narrower. The down strokes are kept quite straight. The turn at the base line should be short and round. The 1 is
made about a third higher than the t as you will observe in Line 3. The count for is 1, 2.
1
exercise 53
Review the small movement exercise
of h
is
made
first
in
part.
Line 1. The 1 loop is joined with a sharp angle to the last part of the n in forming the
Give special attention to the and h in writing the word in Line 3. Count 1, 2, 3.
h.
The
last part
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EXERCISE
The
Write
is
b.
54
last part of b
is
same
as v.
The
is
made round
fifteen to
EXEKCISE 55
Study the
last part of k.
You may
find
it
difficult.
Swing them
off
Watch your
position.
Count 1,2.
8.
in b.
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y/n?*3tffM/i*jjCd/uaU/
16
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EXERCISE 5H
These sentences are given as
them until you feel good control
letters
Do
and
If
keep
difficult
at
^^/^
EXERCISE 57
Beginning with
like
i.
Keep
the long
down
is
made
j's
EXERCISE 5K
Spend ten minutes on the movement
j.
Count
1, 2,
drill in
Line
1.
The p begins
like
j.
but the
first
part
is
made
higher.
The loop
is
3 for the p.
^y-^7- ^7^y^~~
^-7-
-y-Ty~~r~
EXERCISE 5
movement
Review
this
The g
new
and the
EXERCISE HO
is
and
j.
Review both
Keep down
strokes in loops on
same
slant.
the
j.
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17
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'
EXERCISE 61
Give ten minutes
lower loop
letters.
The down
is
same
as in other
exercise 62
As you probably have already observed the
direction of that in the
).
It
is
The
1, 2, 3.
-^TKlTJf
EXERCISE 63
The
same
f is
composed
of
in
and
q.
Because of
its
unusual length
it is
difficult to
make.
slant.
A good
Pa,
straight
and on the
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An
EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum
DC
DDC
DC
TRUTH
The simple monosyllable word
Truth
is
But do they ?
Truth is the only safe and'lasting
companion. Believe in your product
or don't attempt to unload it yourself
ers.
Mr. Seeger is a very skillful penman and a strong teacher of penmanship and other subjects. The service
he performed is exceptional in view
of the fact that universities have
heretofore disregarded the essentials
of efficiency in
penmanship.
community's
truthful man
greatest asset.
is
the
Young
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In
Martin, Chico, Calif., writes as follows: "I do nut know that it will
help me in a business sense, as I am
nearing my four score in years, but I
would not be without it for ten times
the cost."
It is a pleasure to know that our
efforts are appreciated by a man so
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Undoubtedly one can retain his
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some
Number
of the Business
Educator.
Advertising, Thos.
E.
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line of
than
Arithmetic,
J.
troit.
Commercial Law.
P. B. S. Peters.
Kan-
sas City.
Efficiency, Harold
S.
Cowan,
Passaic,
N.J.
smith, Philadelphia.
Aim
Many
fine
tions are
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f-
REPORT OF THE
^=
THE PRELUDE
Hotel Sherman, the ideal convenheadquarters, began to show
tangible evidences of the Commercial Teachers' Convention clan spir-
rooms; convention
halls; exhibit
quarters; registration headquarters,
etc., etc., were all generously provided by the hotel company and
properly apportioned by the committees in charge.
tion
show
Monday Morning
Monday forenoon provided oppor-
and esteem.
At these foregatherings, a psyclohevidences of the
yet subtle and
substantial nature regarding the social and fraternal or clan instincts of
the human machine which throbs
with emotion, moves from impulse,
acts automatically, and thinks conventionally as well as originally.
Here it is that heart strings are relaxed for new associations and then
tightened in the embrace of congenial reactions.
Old wheel horses renew their youth and literally turn
back Time's clock-hand by coming in
contact with young and vigorous enthusiasm; and on the other hand,
young people gain years of experiogist
could find
grc
headquarters to
greet
Mrs. J. F. Fish,
who worked unceasingly for the
luncheon, some
some
President
who
presided at
Fish.
the Chicago convention.
J. F.
ence and receive inspiration by communing with those who have survived the stress of years and radiate
good will, both fraternal and personal.
Events soon disclosed a most commendable co-operation and a superior service rendered by the Officers of
the Federation, the Board of Directors, the General Executive Board
and the Committee of Arrangements.
President 1916,
its
Monday Afternoon
The National
affiliated
Association
Business Teachers.
Shorthand Teachers.
Penmanship Teachers;
High School Teachers.
Stenotype Teachers.
Mr.
E. E.
General Secretary,
Jones,
who worked
worked.
as never
man
20
Mr. James
C.
Mr.
Reed,
merce
of
Chicago,
Com-
extended
P. S.
spangi.er,
of Directors.
patriotic
and
will
many present.
These two grand old men remind
never be forgotten by
ers.
New
Pittsburgh,
with
3^>38udMu4A&dtuMfrr
the present generation that the generation to which they belonged was
one of big men of intellect and heart
who worked for the good of the
cause and in so doing perpetuated
themselves and their cause,
Walter Dill Scott, Ph. D., Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.,
gave an exceptionally interesting address on "The Modern Business
Man." At least a page of this size
would be necessary to epitomize his
pithy,
meaty remarks.
Mr. C. A. Faust,
Chicago, the efficient and everlasti:
Treasurer
Miss E. M. Johnston,
Klyria, O., First Vice-President. 1016.
fort;
System harmony
of activity;
responsibility;
superior service. Worry affects digestion, blood, and muscle injuriously. Losses are depressing; gains are
stimulating. Worry exhausts more
than work. Fear is the old incentive.
Hope is the new. The new must inspire, not drive; stimulate, not terrorize; co-operate, not antagonize.
As commercial teachers, optimism
not pessimism must be our pedagogy,
and service, our practice. All in all,
the address was thoughtful rather
than eloquent, but withal witty and
convincing.
S'i
tlffie&u^i^As&duasifcr
Monday Evening
The convention
tivities
Uncle
know.
But new weapons of commerce are
order and with them new types of
activities which call forth new powers which modern men and women,
to
in
less large in
are wielding
physical proportions,
successfully.
This
for service
mote.
"Business Men
suggestive
presented by Mr.
vertising expert
the
of
Tomorrow" was
topic convincingly
M. E. Douglas, Adof the Curtis Pub-
and opportunities
gorgeously
but beautifully decorated to typify
the season and occasion, cleared of
its convention furnishings and prepared for reception and dancing, provided an opportunity for informal social contact, entertainment, and enjoyment participated in by several
hundred.
Music, vocal, instrumental, and
mechanical, dancing and friendly
conferences enabled each to pass a
most enjoyable evening free from
anxious worry or restraint, alike
restful and helpful.
An evening's intercourse such as
this provides the opportunity to exhall,
21
Mb.
Peoria,
111.,
G.
W. Brown,
The
Accredited Commercial
Schools people got together and enjoyed a banquet, many other smaller
groups went to theatres or met
Tuesday Morning
The various associations held
their
Our Activities.
Our Future.
Under the first
topic he clearly indicated the need of oneness of purpose, no matter how diversified our
individual interests maybe.
Under the second topic he explained thejmany new and important ac-
Miss
Emma
B.
Dearborn, Red
Bank, N.
J.
commendation
Tuesday Afternoon
of all.
the
rendered:
following
program was
Mr.
F. E.
Lakey. Ph.
D.. Boston.
*Z
Sfa^uMnw^GMiuxifr/
&
Banquet of the Members of the National Commercial Teachers' Federation, Hotel Sbeiman, Chicago, Tuesday evenirg, Dec. 28 1915.
A large number are not included in the photo, having been beyond the range of the camera. Here are to be seen the "wheel horses" of the professioncongenial spirits, and progressive as well. These banquets are veritable "feasts for the soul" and do much to encourageco-operation.
Kach person paid the regulation price of $1.50 a plate and if he did not get adequate returns it was because his stomach was out ol trim from
Christmas indulgence, but we discovered none such.
Spoke."
"Our Schools."
H. E. Read, "Our Colors."
W. L. Read. "The Federation."
Miss Lena Vogt, "The West."
Win. Bachrach, "Our Chicago."
Miss E. M. Johnston,'3 "Our VisitB. F. Williams,
ors."
An
the
sic
affairs.
Tuesday Evening
In the evening the annual family
dinner was held, each paying the
regulation price and enjoying to the
full the feast of food and fun.
Banquet Speakers
Mr. Gerritt Masselink, guest of the
Evening Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Mich.
H. E. V. Porter, "Commercial Usefulness."
J. C. Read, "Business Training."
J. F. Fish, "The President."
O. L. Trenary, "The Secretary."
Sheiwin Cody, "English as She's
Mr. H.
E. V.
Porter, Jamestown, N.
J.
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Wednesday Morning
The various Associations held
In(i.
the Federation
their
Mr. Walter
L.
Head, Chicago,
which we hope
be perpetuated in
Herald, free to all
will
members.
Election of Officers.
Nominations
years, P. S. Spangler,
as
place.
Mr.
B. F.
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Thursday Morning.
The one event which dominated
all
others on the very excellent Federation program was the appearance and
and
thrill of
his
dynamic
ora-
Mr. H.
E.
Read,
St.
Louis.
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Mr. R. H. Peck,
Federation Rooter, St. Louis.
The
for graduation,
Thursday Afternoon.
cific
Mrs.
Frances
Effinger-Raymond,
She dwelt specifically with the commercial school demonstration at the Pan-American In-
San Francisco.
ternational Exposition.
Close.
and harmonizing misunderstandings so that all went their several ways feeling that the cause had
been advanced by the discussions
and associations of earnest spirits,
and honest intentions, and liberal
minds.
terests
Mr. Almon
Mr.
()tis L.
F.
cause.
CHICAGO
1916 IS
THE CALL!
Gates,
111.
luatrua* &dtu*U#r
Munson, Waukegan Business College, Waukegan, 111.; Sec'y. Treas., P. S. Spangler, Duff's
College, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Member Executive
Board, W. H. Gilbert, Central Iowa Business
College, Marshalltown; Executive Committee,
Chairman, S. B. Price, Brown's Business College, Peoria, 111.
Special Meetings.
of
Methods con-
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meetings,
BUSINESS SECTION.
SHORTHAND SECTION.
;
good.
Mr. G.
Exhibitors.
Yawman &
S.
Michi-
B. C. Kassel, Chicago.
The Burrows Brothers Co.. Cleveland, O.
C. A.Faust, Chicago.
The Tablet & Ticket Co., Chicago.
Horlick's Mailed Milk Co., Racine, Wis.
LaSalle Extension University, Chicago.
A. B. Dick Mimeograph Co., Chicago.
L. E. Waterman Pen Co., New York.
The Bryne Publishing Co., Tyler, Tex.
The Underwood Typewriter Co.
The Bowling Green, Ky., Business Uni-
>
Jones
Jones will mean more
most of us than in the past, for
E.,
through his exceptionally
In the future
to the
E.
C.
efficient, able,
ReignER,
Pittsburgh.
retary, Editor,
PENMANSHIP SECTION.
President, G. A. Race, Public School Writing
Supervisor, Bay City, Mich.; Vice President,
J. A. Stryker, Slate Normal School, Kearney,
Nebr Secretary, S. E. Leslie, CeDtral High
School, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Member Executive
Board, J. H. Bachtenkircher, Public Schools,
Lafayette, Ind.; Executive Committee, Chairman, J. A. Savage, Public Schools, Omaha,
Nebr.; P. S. Greenwood, South High School,
:
FEDERATION OFFICERS
President, Clay D. Slinker, Public Schools,
versity.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
year Wm. Bacbrach, Public Schools, Chicago, 111.; 2 years M. H. Lockyear, Lockyear's
Business College, Evansville, Ind.; 3 years
B. F. Williams, Capital City Com'l College,
Des Moines, Iowa; 4 years P. S. Spangler,
Duff's College, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Chairman,
Clay D. Slinker, Public Schools, Des Moines.
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President.
Vice President.
Secretary.
Member Executive
Board,
STENOTYPE SECTION.
President, C. F. Walker, Internationa] Business College, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Vice President,
;
Mary
Richmond Business
.,
of
Iowa.
EXECUTIVEIBOARD
Managers H. M. Owen, Brown's Business
College, Decatur, 111.; W. H. Gilbert, Central
Iowa Business Colltge, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Business H. Frank MacCallister, Englewood Business College, Chicago, 111.; A. L,
Gustafson, Brown's Business College, Peoria,
111.
High School
Stenotype Chas. F. Walker, International
Business College, Ft. Wayne, Ind.
MANAGERS' SECTION.
Governor W.
N. Ferris, of Michigan.
MR. O. H. WHITE,
St.
Louis.
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ACCOUNTING
$1500;
$2745.50.
Assistant Professor of
Accounts,
An attempt has been made so far in this series of articles to present certain modern ideas concerning- the
teaching of bookkeeping in its earlier stages which it is
believed would result in establishing the subject on a
sounder pedagogical basis and at the same lime make
the teacher the leading factor in such work rather than
the text book.
A teacher whose point of view is no
broader than that of any one text and whose knowledge
of the subject must be continually reinforced b\ the
never failing "key" is not likely to develop any particular constructive ability on the part of the pupil, nor any
more than a limited amount of skill in doing strictly
routine things. This all too common failing on the part
of so many teachers must be remedied before bookkeeping takes the place in the course of study which it
should, and before the work of our commercial schools
secures the respect of the business world to which it is
entitled.
Discount
Interest
Rills Receivable
Accounts Receivable
Bills Payable
Accounts Payable
Shipment No. 1
Shipment No. 2
Shipment No. 3 (cost)
Cash
30, 1014
810452.74
10340.24
83342.80
5 tfl.62
133.77
207. 90
7125.00
217.21
32.11
2.04
81.77
25,34
$100
Make adjusting entry necessary to close the Merchandise account and open accounts with the following:
Purchases; Sales; Freight and Cartage In; Fire Loss.
Also open separate accounts for Discounts on Purchases, Discounts on Sales, Interest on Notes Receivable and Interest on Notes Payable.
From the accounts thus adjusted a Profit and Loss
Statement
showing
is to be
fire loss.
ADJUSTING ENTRIES
Adjusting entries are entries made
at the close of a
fiscal period to correct some error made in recording the
current transactions or to adjust those accounts which
do not at that time show their true condition.
Frequently such entries are quite numerous, involving
interest accrued on rates receivable and payable, income
accrued on investments, insurance prepaid, rent accrued
or prepaid, wages accrued, taxes accrued, etc. No such
adjustments are required in this exercise, the adjustments having to do only with the separation of the Merchandise, Interest and Merchandise Discount accounts
into their component parts or, in other words, to set up
a proper classification of these items instead of the
"mixed" accounts shown in the trial balance.
No stronger argument against the Merchandise Account could be found than that furnished by a study of
what the account has been debited and credited for as
shown by the above analysis. In a mercantile business
the chief interest in the accounts hinges around the
trading activities as shown by the purchases and sales
and by conditions which affect these activities favorably
or otherwise. In the above accounts, all facts of interest to the owners of the business have been completely
buried as a result of dumping together in one account a
series of unrelated items. Sales to the time of the fire
made under normal conditions are merged with the
goods charged to commission merchants at cost, with
the clearance sale of damaged goods, and with the
amount received from the insurance company in settlement of the loss.
In order to present these normal and abnormal events
in an intelligible manner, the following adjusting entries
are made
:
1317 72
2559.91
302.50
518.60
1055.00
11320.21
29867.31
2742.27
4686.37
336.87
484,50
829367.21
$17,524 B4
Purchases
Merchandise
To open a Purchases account including in the same account the
inventory of poods on hand as
of June 1.
377 32
Freight and Cartaee
Merchandise
To open Freight and Cartage acct.
10 059 46
Merchandise
377 32
10,059,46
Sales
To open an account
There
$17,524.94
the time of
the
with sales to
including
fire
made
later.
Fire Loss
8,920.38
8,920.38
Purchases
To charge to Fire Loss account
the cost of goods destroyed by
fire,
crediting
the
same
to
the
Purchases account
Merchandise
F"ire Loss
the saleof
with the
amount received from the insurance company, thus closing the
merchandise account.
4,500.00
4,500.00
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2,745.50
Sales
Purchases
Stiipments of goods to commission merchants at cost price should
be a credit to Purchase instead of
2.745.5U
Less:
Value of land
Insurance recei
(total loss)
2.04
23. 'Jo
25.24
PROFIT
Exhibit
133 77
83.44
217.21
of text
books
charge be true,
Adams &
Co.
Exhibit B-Schedule
l.
damaged goods
Loss on merchandise
Real Kstate (cost)
$8920 38
$3000 00
1500
it,
June
1,
1914.
$7313 96
1914
833722 55
Net Purchases:
Purchases
Freight and Cartage In
$4500 00
$4420 38
SI
H52
39
377 32
Less:
on Sales
to
$27-15 5o
fire,
June
25,
8020 38
11605 88
2863 83
1914
$336 87
Less:
Cost
302 50
$34 37
Shipment No.
1,
Cost
8518 60
Le:-s:
Net Proceeds
484 50
34 10
Expeu
Net
Profit
from Operations
to
June
Add:
25,
1914
Discounts
49 66
Less:
Discounts on Sales
Interests on Bills Payable
Net
June 25
Fire Loss (See Schedule
$133 77
2 04
Profit to
1)
6236 38
$1077 58
A. 1.1:
with
30, 1914.
fire
1,
le
Co.
B,
Add:
H. F.
Inventory, June
Adam 5 &
H. F.
To open
IN CHICAGO, DECEMBER,
1916
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the course in Biology, and all of the courses in
the Towne Scientific school.
Economics, only, is credited in the course in Arts and Science. By the I'niversity of Chicago, commercial arithmetic is accepted if preceded by al-
Bookkeeping is
gebra and plane geometry.
accepted at one-half the rate for academic subjects. Stenography, commercial law, and economics are fully credited. The I'niversity of
Michigan is similar. Limiting total credits
commercial subjects to two units, points
are given for advanced arithmetic only when
preceded by algebra, and for double entry
bookkeeping, commercial geography, elementary economics, and industrial history.
But this last course is required to be more than
most high schools would attempt. Columbia
for
Commercial Work
as College Prepara-
tion.
attack,
want
to talk.
"Value Received
tors
training of the professional man who is hindered by ignorance of the commercial, the secondary, yet not unimportant phase of his labors.
Is this the fault of the college! The college has
It is conits aims and necessary curriculum.
stantly broadening its field, yet narrowing the
professions into highly efficient specializations. To this end the college has its educational hands full in providing the most and best
for its scholars without entering the field of
commercial education. Of course, the classical college, only, is considered herein. Yet
upon
dent whose goal is a profession invariably overlooks the worth of an insight into business
methods and system.
As has been said, many colleges do give a
little
credit for
not so generous.
can improve
quirements.
The means
If
DEMAND
ucation.
3LZDC
DDE
DCZIC
PHILADELPHIA.
My
willing to
come
this
advertisement,
largely out of curiosity, and in a rather humorous vein, I answered it. Anil in reply I received a very courteous letter from a real estate
man. Judging by the ability shown in my letter, he said, he feared that I would not be satisfied with the salary he paid. He named it it
was pitifully small. At any rate, this incident
occurred when I was still very hopeful over the
outcome of my efforts toward a literary position. So I wrote and thanked the particular
gentleman, and told him I was seeking for a
different kind of position from the one he had
for,
to offer.
came
stenographer who
is
It
a lady at
But
a knowledge of literature."
I went to investigate, but investigated no further than the door of the office which bore the
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SIDE LIGHTS ON
Commercial
Law
P. B. S.
CITV.
DDC=IC
Day
Entitled to
in
Have
His
Court."
Law
is
in
much
the
posed laws.
hath well been said that "No man liveth to
hirr.self." It may also be said that no state or
nation i sufficient unto itself. Nations, like
human beings, must have friendly and business
intercourse with other people, and countries.
Out of the experience of this relationship there
has grown up in the most enlightened of the
civilized nations a code of rules and obligations
which prescribe the rights and duties of states
in their relation to each other, and to each othIt
er's subjects.
This code
is
known
of all peo-
ple.
INTERNATIONAL LAW.
is
They
School,
"Every Man
of
as
Inter-
must practice and endure. The rules and requirements embraced in the obligations of International Law embody a variety of different
matters, the most important part of which pertains to the rights of belligerents and neutrals
in time of war.
ENFORCEMENT.
International law differs from national or municipal law in that it has states instead of persons for its subjects; it does not proceed from
any superior law making power; nor is there a
function
to
the
strictest accountability.
NEUTRALITY.
Neutrality
is
the condition
of
those states
CONTRABAND OF WAR.
justifiable
The
and
PETERS,
3d
and without
reason,
ignores the accepted practice of civilized people is in danger of being treated as an outlaw,
persistently,
Contraband of war consist of those commodiwhich are necessary or useful in the prosecution of hostilities. lust what constitutes contraband has been the subject of many treaty
stipulationsand controversies, between nations.
Articles manufactured and primarily or ordinarily designed for military purposes in time
of war, such as arms and ammunition, are defined as absolute contraband.
Conditional
contraband consists of articles which may be or
may become needful for the prosecution of hostilities, such as provisions, horses, harness, vehicles, and coal. Articles exclusively used for
peaceful pursuits may be liable to seizure for a
violation of a blockade or siege.
ties
are illegal;
The
tions.
affairs.
And
here
was,
when
a possibility pre-
it
my
ringers
may
icjj
What
C.
6%?
at
solution no.
1
J.
15.
with interest
Arithmetic
Teac her
interest should
rowed June
IDEAS OF AN
HOWELL.
Advertising
1
"
3000
"
81 "
INTEREST
Int.
"
"
is
" i}%
vestor.
of charging interest on money
a very, very old one indeed. It had
become recognized as a serious social evil
among the Hebrews as far back as the time of
the Exodus and was forbidden by their authori-
The custom
loaned
ties.
It
is
probably prevailed
in
Egypt
at a
much
earlier date. And yet, in spite of its great antiquity and its continued and growing importance there is very wide range in the customs
surrounding
it.
at
scnc
6%
= 39
50
15 to Aug. 15 is 2 months
Aug. 15 to Sept. 4 is 20 days
June 15 to Sept. 4 is 2 mo. 20 da.
Int. on 83000 for 2 mo. at H% =
830 00
" "
3000 " 20 da. " 6%
10 00
"
"
3000
"
2 mo. 20 da. at 6%
SOLUTION NO.
From June
15 to Sept.
81
83000 x Jj_x
100
= 40.00
is 81 days
830.05, Exact Int.
365
specified.
DDC
DCDC
An
From June
"
BINGEN. GA.
40.50
4 da.
15 da.
yr.
yr.
SOLUTION NO.
2 mo.
19 da.
on 83000 for 2 mo. at 6%
830.00
" 30O0 for 18 da. at 0%
9.00
" 3000 "
1
.50
1%
'
Inc. Acct.,
SOLUTION NO.
1915
1015
THOS. E CUPPER,
KNOW
Now,
there are certain other things the advertiser should not lose sight of, and which may be
mentioned, in part as follows:
That
to wiite result-getting
advertisements, it is necessary to be familiar with the
subject in its various phases.
That sound
ment plays
business
a
judg-
conspicuous
part.
REMEMBER
weaken
the ad.
is
To
New York
Is
Headquarters of Gregg
Shorthand
All the offices have street fronting, thus having all the advantages of natural light. They
are equipped with the indirect lighting system.
The general offices have been fitted throughout with the most modern oak furniture, while
the executive office is furnished exclusively in
mahogany.
The Company's New York
office
was opened
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TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS. T. CRAGIN,
Holyoke, Mass..
Thompson's Business
School.
nnc
uczir
of his
murdered
wife, his
suicidal
was
final
FRESH METAL
It
was
ber, 1864.
Old New York, down
town, was then a very different New
York from the almighty skyline of today. A slender boy of 17, delicate of
feature, yet athletic and strenuous in
action, leaned nervously, his elbows
on his knees and his thin face between his hands, and stared out on
the hurrying throng. Then, to the
thunder of drums and blare of trum
pets and clang of cymbals and martial music of a band, moved a cheering throng down Broadway in the
gathering dusk. The flare of torches
lit up the brass barrels of cannon and
shone on the steel bayonets and red
of
boys scurrying to and fro and passing out papers. For the bloody battles in front of Richmond, the mine
at Petersburg, the deadly death angle at Cold Harbor had just taken
place. It was the last days of the rebellion and this boy 17 years old had
come over in the steerage of a steamship from Genoa in Italy whence he
had taken passage from Austria
Hungary. He shivered in the chill
of the late October night, for his
clothes were thin and there was
scanty money in his pocket but his
heart thrilled at the sound of the
bugles and the blare of the trumpets
and the rattle of the artillery wheels
as the cannon rolled down Broadway
and the very next morning he went
and enlisted a private in the 179th
regiment of New York volunteer cavalry, for this boy was a superb horseman. He had ridden from boyhood
almost like the Cossacks of Russia
on his native plains of Austria.
IN WAR TIME
The experience of my young hero
in war time was limited for it was
less than six months after the day he
put his name upon the signal roll of
the United States army that General
Lee,
menu but
I tell you
these Southern
Johnnies had been living for some
time on just a few grains of parched
They
al-
He was a
gallant soldier, Grant, not so stately
as Lee, but simple and kind of heart,
deadly in battle; he fought to win
and nothing could stop the tremendous advance of his army, but when
the foe surrendered no kinder man
lived than Grant and when he died, a
few years later, his poor throat all
eaten up by the deadly cancer that
killed him, the whole South remembered these words, "Let us have
remembered
too,
whole
$14,000,000, the
valley to our president,
Mississippi
Mr. Jefferson.
well
came
to this country. It
in the ill-fated
revolution of 1860.
Carl Schurz, United States Senator
from Missouri, Ex. General of the
United States army, refugee from
Germany, was the editor of "The
Wesliche Post," and the young man
began writing articles for that paper.
Interesting little bits of war gossip
they were, but they were well written
and soon he found himself one of the
reporters of that paper, running
about St. Louis picking up here and
there an item of news and earning a
scanty living out of it, and a little
more, for he saved some money. He
was a brilliant newspaper man from
the start. He had what they call, "a
nose for news." If there was anything going on, young Joe, as they
called him, was sure to smell it out.
Once he had it he knew how to present it to the public and it was not
long; until he was the star reporter of
" The Wesliche Post" but the Post
did not meet his views of a newspaper. It was too conservative, too slow,
too much the slave of its advertisers.
It did not have independence enough
to suit young Hungarian Joe and a
few years later we find him putting the
last penny he had into a newspaper
of his own which he called " The St.
Louis Post Dispatch." It costs a lot
of
money now
to
start a
newspaper,
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politics. It
was
fearless,
it
became
struck
wherever it saw abuse. It feared nobody, it had all the news there was
and some that there was not, and especially were its editorials brilliant,
forceful and never lacking in power
and so the " St. Louis Dispatch" became one of the big newspapers of
the West, as it is today.
EASTWARD THE STAR OF EDITORS
Manton
they chose Mr.
paper;
Marble, an able literary man, for its
editor and during the war period, it
became what is known as a "Copper
head newspaper."
There were many people in the
North who sympathized with the
South all through the war, and they
called them "Copper heads." A copper head is a dangerous, little, poison snake. You will find him on the
ledges along the West shore of the
Hudson river, and if he bites you, you
want to get to the doctor just as quick
as you can, for his bite will kill you.
very small
I remember when I was a
boy, being one of a procession that
marched when General McClellan
was running for president against
Mr. Lincoln the second time, and I
know we carried a banner which
read, Rally for Little Mack, young
Our fathers were
copper heads."
Democrats and I was one of the
string of small boys who trotted
along after that banner and cheered
for "Little Mack."
Mr. Marble surrounded himself
with able writers, but his paper was
not a success and in 1876, he sold it
to a crowd of men headed by Thomas
Scott, president of the Pennsylvania
then known as
It was
railroad.
"The World," the same title it now
holds, and William Henry Hurlburt,
'
a brilliant writer,
became
editor.
his estate
its
it
"The World."
things about it I ,'don't like but nobody has ever accused it of coward-
and this man at once sent its circulation bounding upward until it
was soon the foremost New York
newspaper in point of circulation.
The editor got close to the people;
ice
If he
he found what they wanted.
saw abuse he struck hard and fearprobably he
Sometimes
lessly.
struck too hard at things that did
not really need it, but on the whole
the paper was and is a great power
for good.
would rather go without my
I
breakfast in the morning than go
without my "New York World" for I
can get another breakfast later on.
Success in a business way seemed
right with the man and then, all of a
sudden, there came a blow out of the
blue sky, for this man had been burning the candle on both ends. A tireless worker. There was no day, no
night to him, it was work, work, work
at high pressure all the time and suddenly something snapped and the
active brain lost its balance wheel
and was struck down by nervous
He retired for a few
prostration.
weeks and his brain power came
back, but to his consternation he saw
that the optic nerves had been injured and he was fast becoming
blind. He soon lost entirely the
power of reading or to see anything
except in a blurred hazy way. He
could tell light from darkness, he
could see that a person was standing
beside him but he could not see the
features and from 1887 until 1912,
when he died, at the early age of 55,
in the cabin of his yacht in Charleston Harbor, he lived under the
shadow of blindness.
Milton was blind, the greatest
English epic poet. The man who invented the postage stamp and first
terrible
used
was
it,
Greek,
York World."
For more than 20 years this blind
man, in his richly appointed private
yacht, went from place to place, the
wide world over, he was in London;
in Paris;
in the
Mediterranean, here
ant
weather.
much about
The World.
He
the
did
news
not bother
features of
He had
secured as
workers about him "The best nose for
obtained.
could
be
that
news" men
They were paid liberal salaries.
There were special correspondents
at every news center of the world,
whose business it was to keep the
news column of that paper filled with
everything of interest. Its literary
and dramatic critics had their work
never
cut out for them and he
bothered himself about those features of the newspaper which had
rapidly come to the front as the foremost publication of the great city.
Every editorial of The World was
written by a staff of experts, of men
who knew what they were talking
about, was carefully studied word for
word, sentence for sentence, line by
line, by the blind Deus Ex Machina
who shaped the policy of the paper
regardless of what others might
think. It was soon found that " The
New York World" was no respecter
of persons, no party organ, for it attacked Tammany as fearlessly as it
did the old Republican machine of
a mere fighter.
music and art and
especially a lover of youth and by
and by from the wealth of the great
newspaper, there came a fund which
gave to a certain number of young
men every year what was known
tration
He was
a lover of
It
as "The Pulitzer Scholarship."
enabled a youth without means, but
college
course
with brains, to take a
in Columbia or the College in the
City of New York. It was " The New
York World" that furnished the pedestal for The Great Statue of Liberty,
presented by the republic of France
She
to the republic of America,
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towers more than a hundred feet in
the air on Bedlow's island holding
her great torch np to the eyes of
every incoming immigrant, flying
It was
from oppression at home.
" The New York World" that gave
magnificent free concerts by leading
artists at different schools of New
York, and finally when the shadow
of death fell heavily upon the frail
figure, he provided a great fund to
maintain a School for Journalists at
Columbia and endowed with a large
sum of money the magnificent Philanthropic Orchestra of New York.
Mr. Stransky has brought that splendid orchestra to Holyoke every year
We have a
for the past three years.
Municipal Course of musical entertainments here and this great orches-
hundred pieces, made possible by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, always draws a crowded house.
A strange man, this from AustriaHungary, dying in middle life, yet
living more in the 55 years of his existence than most men would live in
500.
He built up a newspaper which
many don't like. Most people that
are crooked have no earthly use for
v TheNew York World." It hits hard
tra, of a
and
time it is American.
I take two great newspapers, " The
ffew York World" and " The Springfield Republican"
The one has acirculation of more than 300,000 copies
every day and the other has only
about 15,000 copies.
Both are tre-
mendous features
in
this
born
1847,
"
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Combination
Business Letter
Set Business
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Address, C. W. JONES,
Brockton Business College
Bldg.
il l. l
BROCKTON, MASS.
in getting
so,
use the
pencil.
vel) at the recent Commercial Teachers' Federation Meeting, convinced all who saw, the exhibition, that our claims are not exaggerated Try them in your classes.
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Address
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It must be located in a well lighted and
sanitary building suitable for business college
NEBRASKA
purposes.
There
is
growing
demand
for
com-
credits.
of the
shall be used.
5.
The
and
ac-
curate.
6.
The requirements
for
graduation must be
as follows:
on the theory of
Dictation speed of 100 words per
shorthand.
minute, new matter from magazine articles or
business letters 200 to 300 words in length. 98
per cent accuracy.
(b) A minimum typewriter speed of fifty
words per minute, plain copy for ten minutes.
Typewriter speed of fifty words per minute
plain copy for ten minutes. Typewriter speed
of thirty words per minute from notes forten
minutes. Grade for above at least 95 percent
accuracy.
3. Complete course in bookkeeping with a
grade of 90 percent. Complete business practice course with a grade of 90 per cent.
4. Complete the following subjects with a
grade of BO per cent: Arithmetic, penmanship,
English and correspondence. A grade of 90
per cent in commercial law and a grade of 95
(a)
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percent
of 90 per cent
in spelling.
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commercial
geography,
political
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knowledge
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The rules relating to the issuance of certificates to those wishing to teach music, either
vocal or instrumental, drawirg, physical education, domestic science, manual training and
commercial subjects are fixed by the state department on practically a uniform basis. The
business college conferences approved of the
high standard required for teachers desiring to
teach commercial subjects.
For a second grade supervisor's certificate for
commercial subjects, the applicant must be a
graduate of a four-year high school or the
equivalent, and must have a full year with full
program of special instruction with special
methods and applied psychology.
For
a first
grade certificate good for three years, the candidate must be the holder of a second grade
certificate and earn grade in psychology, commercial geography and political economy and
must have three years' of experience as a teacher. In order to secure a professional commercial certificate, the candidate must be the holder
of a first grade city state certificate and in addition must present credits showing the completion of higher accounting, auditing, and
money, banking and finance, in an approved
school, or must be the holder of a second grade
asacrifice.
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ART ENGROSSERS
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contemplate having a new Diploma, and
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us for particulars. We can
engraved and printed at aj-easonable cost.
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Certain standards were given by the conference and the credits from these schools which
meet these requirement will be approved. The
business college
representatives
present
re-
tion.
DEFINITION ADOPTED
The conference adopted the following
operates.
statutes
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ca
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received was as spontaneous as it
was sincere. They had fought
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years, but they had worked together
many more pleasant years, the one
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other in the north.
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WANTED
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mean business. Address A. L. C, care
Business Educator, Columbus, Ohio.
ADDRESS.
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$5,000) with ex-
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THURSTON,
and schools.
The agency receives many calls for commercial teachers from public and private schools,
and business colleges
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TEACHERS
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AGENCY
PRATT. MANAGER
Free booklet
position. S2
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r.
111.
TAYLOR,
SIDNEY, OHIO
SBS&JKS
NOW
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contract in July. Salary $2,500 per year. Get
in touch with me and I will prove my worth.
Address,
have a tine class of prospective commercial teachers now completing their preparation of
the commercial texts so as to be ready for the summer courses in methods given in July. Other
prepare, recommend and place a large class of commercial
teachers entering every month.
teachers every year. Send for ourcatalogue and teachers' bulletin.
We
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OBKALOOSA COLLEGE.
Oikaloosa, Iowa.
Departments: Graduate, College. Normal. Commercial and Preparatory hy mail and In resilience.
Degrees conferred. Especially of interest to those
wishing to complete work already begun. Credits
accepted
other
reasonable.
from
institutions.
Pay by Installments. Catalog.
Prices
January starts oft' with calls fram Detroit, Louisville, Des Moines,
Richmond, Boston, Birmingham, Lowell and many smaller places. We
to the Detroit High School" of Commerce and a
to the Lowell High School, besides tilling some
DETROIT
=:AND
now
LOWELL
E. E.
GAYLORD.
Mgr.
a Specialist.)
Prospect
Hill,
BEVERLY, MASS.
pages of
New
Building,
TIN
York, N. Y.
GKEEN, KENTUCKY.
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are among the great commercial agencies which, though their system of
giving information to the business world, have become a modern necessity.
No sane business man questions the value of their service. In
like manner, the Specialists' Educational Bureau is equally important to
the school seeking a teacher and to the teacher seeking a position.
That
is why we have been able to place our members in half of the State
Thai is why we have filled positions
Universites of the United States.
in leading schools in Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Omaha, Spokane, San Francisco, and
other good cities. May we not assist you ?
ROBERT
A.
GRANT,
Manager,
NICHOLAS BUILDING.
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NEWS NOTES
R. E. Fortney, of the Albuquerque. N. M
Business College, is teaching business and
commercial branches in the Bisbee, Arizona,
High School.
a
at
S. E.
ics
Commerce
teaching in the
W.
tute,
to teach in the
High School.
Edith L. Ramsdell, formerly
teacher in the
Martha M.Clements,
Ind
of Springport,
Kokomo,
is
lege.
W.
of the
School
is
Commercial Department
at Ford City, Pa.
in
charge
of the
High
Amy Dorsett, of Peabody, Mass., has accepta position as teacher of commercial branchesin the Gardner, Mass., High School.
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Cora E. Sprague, of Dighton, Mass., is teaching in the Booth and Bayliss Commercial
School at Bridgeport, Conn.
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A good sized list of subscriptions has been received from Mr. A. R. Cox, Wheeling. W. Va.
who
CLUBS RECEIVED
The following
Sirs:
I
am
very
much
refer to the
the
wish
it
done?
do and how they
The business man has in his possession a
to
ing agents and salesmen. What does this signify ? Let the heads of the commercial departments in high schools and private commercial
schools answer this question themselves.
Another very excellent reason why school
men should keep in close touch with business
conditions and business men, is that improvements in business methods are continually being made and in order ro meet the requirements of such changes our courses of study
must necessarily undergo constant remodelFor this reason alone many text-books
ing.
are now antiquated which, a few years ago were
well adapted to the work in our commercial
schools. This is especially true with reference
to texts on bookkeeping and accounting.
As to the exact methods of re adjustment 1
have little to offer at this time. I am anxious to
read the article promised by your correspondent in the near future. II may be of interest,
however, to say that we are trying out the plan
of putting our candidates for graduation into
the business offices or wherever the business
men want them, giving due credit for the work
done under the practical supervision of trustworthy men and women. In other words, we
are sharing with the business men the responsibility of training our boys and girls so that
they may best serve the business world and thus
multiply their own opportunities for responsibility
We
very
appreciate
getting
real
food
partial
list
of friends
D. S. Business College.
Sail Lake City, Utah.
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will
its
influence for
still
greater good.
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This lesson is a very excellent one to strengthen your movement and give force to your
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An attractive folder featuring in an attractive
way their various commercial text books is
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It is one of the
Text Book Co., Chicago, 111.
best examples
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Busi-
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The background of the corner and side ornamental pieces as well as the center one at the
top are in burnished gold. The interlacing
portions of these same pieces are in two shades
of red, green, purple and blue.
The bar portion of the border connecting the
corner and center ornaments is in gold and the
narrower bar in the center in two shades of
green.
The face of the trailing acanthus ornament is
in two shades of purple and the reverse side in
two shades of red. The dots on the face of the
acanthus are in gold, indented with an agate
pointed tool made for this purpose.
The portrait is made by hand from a photograph with a brush and water colors, and the
oval border encircling the portrait is in two
shades of purple.
All of the colors in the border have been utilized in shading the display lines of the texl.
The outer band of the circle enclosing the seal
is burnished gold and two strips of purple ribbon are fastened under the seal with a little glue
and the seal is then molded over them.
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If
pupils.
Miss Hade is a blonde with pleasing personplenty ot enthusiasm, good health and
high ideals whom we are sure will make good
in any'hing that she undertakes. She writes an
excellent hand, and teaches penmanship with a
combination of enthusiasm and pedagogy that
brings results.
ality,
your time
worth anything
so,
save
crease
it.
your
SAUNA, KANS.
Am
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SHORTHAND
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VICTORY
IN
NEW YORK
STUDENTS
WIN
SWEEPING
IN THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPEN SHORTHAND CONTEST HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SHORTHAND SOCIETY
(INCORPORATED) ON JANUARY 29th, 1916, THE ISAAC PITMAN SHORTHAND WON A SWEEPING VICTORY IN COMPETITION WITH THE
GREGG LIGHT LINE SYSTEM.
In the 1914 contest 11 contestants qualified, or about 65 per cent, of those who entered;
in 1915, 26 or 60 per cent.; but in this year's contest 28 pupils, or 80 per cent, of those
entered, succeeded in qualifying with 95 per cent, or higher. Schools and contestants
entered in these contests failing to qualify at 95 per cent, or higher are not mentioned.
AMATEUR CONTEST
SYSTEM
SYSTEM
Albert. E.
EmilK.
Ellis,
Commercial
Isaac
Pitman
Commerce
Thomas Kurts.
116.8
Woods Bklyn
Joseph V. Gelder,
114.4
Harlem Even
Rose Feldman,
Lillian Doris,
Bay Ridge
Violet
- -
Carabba,
Bay Ridge
William S Rosenberg,
Commerce
Hector
.1.
Isaac
Battaglia,
Commercial
John
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95.6
Gregg
78.8
Phillips,
LaSalle Academy,
Charles J. Johnson,
LaSalle Academy,
Percy J. Manning,
Benn Pitman
78.4
78.2
Commerce
Gregg
78.2
Harold Heningson,
Excelsior Bus. School...
Daniel Friedman,
Isaac
Pitman
80
xo
77.8
Pitman
80
77.8
Benn Pitman
80
Isaac
Pitt
David Gottlieb,
Harlem Evening High
Abraham Broadwin,
Harlem Evening High
In
J.
POINTS
S.
Rosenburg
118.6
Saul Denofsky
Percy J. Manning
136.6
Harold Heningson
Daniel Friedman
96.
77.8
77.77
for a
98.5
78 8
78 2
78.0
77.8
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"As the total of net speeds of the Commercial High School exceeds the total for the High School of Commerce team by over
ninety-four points, the Metropolitan Shorthand Contest Committee
awarded the trophy, a 30x60 banner suitablv inscribed, to the
Commercial High School of Brooklyn, thus publicly declaring that
that school in 1916 in open competition has remonstrated it is, in
shorthand, the ban ner school of the New York metropolitan district"
ISAAC PITMAN
WEST
98.5
98.5
97 75
97.60
97.35
97.8
964
Send
Battaglia
Wm.
Emanuel Newman.
N. Y. Evening High...
Moses Rubenstein,
N. Y. Evening High
Moe Goldberg,
X. V. Evening High
18.8
98.4
97.2
96.0
95.6
CHOOL CONTEST
Solomon Powsner,
Harlem Evening High
Emanuel Morris,
Harlem Evening High
Eugene Rosenstrstu
Hector
Gregg
Excelsior
Buiness School, Bklyn..
James I. Fox,
LaSalle Academy, N. Y.
POINTS
Emil Ellis
Samuel J Abelow
Jack Ellis
Edna Kuhn,
Commerce
Anna Oechelin,
RESULTS BY TEAMS
Pitman
Saul Denofrky,
Commerce
NET WORDS
...
Eastern District
Gregg
Samuel J. Abelow,
Commercial
Jack Ellis,
Commercial ..
Eugene Rosenstrauch,
Commercial
CROSSWORDS
Marks,
118.8
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COLUMBUS,
VOLUME XXI
O.,
MARCH,
NUMBER
1916
VII
O.,
C. P. Zaner,
E. W. Bloser,
Zanep &
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Editor
Business Manager
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Publish.
WHO DO NOT
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SOMETIMES FORGET.
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Stamps accepted.
Two
Editions.
The Teachers'
Professional
The Business Educator is devoted to the progressive and practical interest of Business Education and Penmanship. A journal whose mission is to dignify, popularize, and improve the
world's newest and neediest education. It purposes to inspire and instruct both pupil and
teacher, and to further the interests of those engaged in the work, in private as well as in public institutions of business education.
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possible), and be careful to give the old as
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lose many journals each issue through negligence on the part
of subscribers.
Back numbers cannot, as a rule, be supplied.
Postmasters are not allowed to forward journals unless postage is sent to them for that purpose.
dress,
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and source of truth, and extracts
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tor
Penmanship
penmanship
how
were a
writing, and
arrested the attention of everyone. His illuminated pieces are' just as masterly and as chaste
as his black and white work. His skill bespeaks
the character of the man.
Three or four sheets aax28 were submitted
by Mr. H. C. Spencer, and his two-color as well
as his illuminated pieces received well deserv-
ed praise.
An unusually large exhibit came from Zaner
N.J.
full
unusual interest.
For originality and intricacy of skillthe scrapbooks of cardwriting sent by Mr. S. E. Leslie,
of Pittsburg, met the most exacting anticipations of the critics. Much of work was by
Madarasz and Courtney, and that is saying
enough.
The old order of dashing off birds and swimmers was excellently represented by the skill'
penmanship of Burdett
College. Faretra bids fair to stand in the class
with Hinman, Davis, Brown and Courtney.
There was only one collection of letters of famous penmen, as a display exhibit, furnishedl
by E. M. Huntsinger, founder of the Huntsinger Business School of Hartorfd, Connecticut, but now of Hegins, Pennsylvania,
Owing to its accessibility, every page of the 8-t
sheets were exhibited on the wall. These specimens were examined by more people than any
other collection. This contribution contained!
a representative specimen of every great penman from P. R. Spencer and John D. Williams)
down to the penmen of yesterday. Mr. Huntsinger has saved all good penmanship for years
and has stacked away over twenty solid filled
filing caBes of tine work; besides these cases
of specimens the size of letter sheets, he has a
lot of larger specimens covering a wide range
of skill in offhand flourishing, lettering, illuminating, drawing, etc.
Much unusually fine work from the public
schools was exhibited and proved of much inspiration to the visitors.
of L. Faretra, teacher of
E. M. Huntsinger,
W. H. Patrick,
Committee for Exhibit.
manship
classes.
^r/CeyyckX^vcd^.
to begin.
Why
are the
minimum
and
<>>
in tlie
third he height:
i
letters inyour
for tlie First and
profit-
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This beautiful, reduced program title page is
from the peD of Mr. C. A Burden, who has the
true artists instmc and touch.
t
formed.
High School
U nion
Upwards
Building.
people attended,
over 200 joining the association, making it probably the largest gathering
of the pen clan ever held.
The President, C. A. Burdett, of
Burdett College proved an ideal officer, and it was largely through his
unselfish enthusiasm that the meeting was so large and successful.
Shortly after ten o'clock Saturday
morning the welcoming address was
given by Mr. .lames P. Munroe, a
prominent business man of Boston.
Pres. Burdett then delivered an intouching upon
structive address,
penmanship history and progress,
growth of the association, etc.
of 300
The last named gentlemen epitomized much pedagogy when he said that
what was needed most was "Calligraphic Consciousness."
A noonday luncheon was generously provided and bountifully served in
the Burdett College, by Mr. Burdett,
to about 75 invited guests, including
Supt. Dyer, Asst. Supt., Rafter, and
other people of prominence.
Mr. Wm. C. Crawford, head Master
Boys' Trade School, Boston, started
the afternoon program, emphasizing
many important things among which
were that styles in writing were
nearly as varied and changeable as
bonnets; that but thirty or forty
pel cent of letters are written on the
typewriter; and that the signature is
for teachers,
bury, Boston.
All in all the convention was a
great success.
An exhibit of fine pen work from
masters past and present, and of
specimens from pupils in public,
normal and commercial schools was
a valuable and interesting part of
the program.
A separate report of
that will be given if received in time
to print.
S.
Bloomfield,
Boston
C. A.
Burdett,
President, 1915
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PRACTICAL
BUSINESS
TOR CERTIFICATE
WRITING
By
E. A.
a beautiful
LUPFER,
9b
BUSINESS EDUCA-
fer's
the year.
SYSTEM
systematic your instructions the more uniform aDd systematic will be the results from your pupils. See that each pupil leaves a nice,
even margin of about one-half an inch. It is a good plan to have each pupil write his name and the date on the first line of every sheet.
We should plan every lesson carefully, but if in following that plan students give more thought to arrange n tut than to the penrrarship itself,
there is something wrong with the plan. Either it is not planned carefully enough or else it is too complex. Simplicity is a good quality ito cultivate and use.
If we ask for sixteen letters to each line, we should suggest that the pupil divide the page into fourths, eitterlylire? or dots, and place four leters in each section or one fourth of the line. Some request a certain number of letters to each line and then without any further explanation coun*
rapidly so that the student either does not have time to plan the work on the line or does not know how, and will wonder if he is going to get the ex"
act number of letters on the line in place of thinking about the writing itself. It is probably better to ask for about a certain number of letters to each
The more
line.
if we ask for an exact number of lines of each letter or exercise, we may find that half the class will complete the work befrre the other
and be ready for mischief. It is best to keep the entire class busy at all times even though our outlines may have to be modified or discarded.
In beginning each lesson, it is well to work on movement exercises before taking up any letters. By Ihrs time all who have followed the lesson
in the February B. E. should have a good, free movement. All who have not mastered movement or position should review the February lesson.
Again,
half
27 Retrace the direct oval and the straight line exercise about six times. Raise the pen when one-third of the way across the page, or
for each line. Count: around-1-2-3-4-5-6 down-1-2 3-4-5-6, etc. The oval should be rather narrow like the A.
students have trouble in making the body part of the A, therefore, this exercise is important. Rettace Ihe oval six times. Count:
1-2-3-4-5-6-finish. Do not count too much. Count only enough to get the pupils to work at correct speed, and not so much that they depend upon it.
Copy 29 This is especially good for pupilB who have trouble with the retrace. Count Oval-l-2-3-4-5-0-finish. After making a line, stop and
compare your work with the copy. See if you make the oval too big; then try to correct it, or any other mistakes you may notice. Always have some
Copy
two times
Copy 28 Many
Copy 30 The A
most closed
at top,
when you
practice.
of a narrow oval, an angle or retrace
and a finishing stroke curved to the right below the base line. It should be al1-2-1-2 or Capital- A-Capital-A.
it will resemble O.
Count
This copy is only three-fourths of a space high. Watch the body part. Curve the finishing stroke
is composed
and never should be looped or
practicing.
to the right.
Copy 32 If you
anglessharp.
and
20.
Get
all
legibility has is lack of distinction between turns and angles. When the turns and angles in n and u are all made
is frequently no way of distinguishing one from the other.
In the copies from 33 to 41, strive for rounding turns and sharp angles
1-2-3-4 5-6-1-2-3-4-5-6. Get life into the count.
Copy 34- Use a rolling motion. Be careful with the dots. They should be on a line with the main slant, not too close to the letters, nor too far
from them. For single i's count 1-2, dot, and for groups, 1-2-3-4-5 6-1-2-3-4-5-6, etc.
Copy 35 Count 1-2-3 for single u's, and for groups count two for each letter or l-u-2-u-3-u-4-u-5-u.
Copy 36 The w is the same as u except the finish which is a blind loop or retrace. Do not drop too low with the finish. Get the first and
second parts evenly spaced or it may resemble o or c o. Count 1-2-3, 4 or 1-2-3, finish.
Bharp, there
Count:
for
each
1-3-3-4-5-6-1-2-3-4 5 6 tinish
1-2-3, 1-2 3, etc., or over-over-under for n, and for groups, l-n-2-n-3-4-n-5-n, or
letter.
COPY 39 The m is the same as n, except that it has an extra turn. Count 1-2-3-4 for m, and for groups 1 2-3-12-3, etc.
Copy 40The plainness of these letters will depend upon yourturns and angles. By this time the class should be using a uniform
and no counting on words should be necessary, but you can give one count for each letter, or 1-2-1-2, etc.
COPY 41 Your success on this copy will depend upon how well you have mastered previous copies.
:
Copy 42 Count 1-2-3-4-5-6. Watch the tinish. For the second exercise count 1-2-3-4-5-capital-C.
Copies 43 and 44 -The C contains a loop with a large oval around it. Curve the beginning stroke. Get a good,
Copy 45--See how well you can join the C and u's. Count 1-2-1-2-1-3, etc.
rate of
speed
free motion.
Count: 1-2,
1-2, etc.
it
it
too much.
Kor
first
exercise count
Capital-E-l-E-2 E-
3-E-4-E-5-E-6-E.
is
much
like
and alignment
except that
affect the
it
beauty of writing.
Watch
It
Count:
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COPY 50 This
exercise
is
v,
it
&
Count: 1-2-8-4-5-6- 1-2-8-4-6-
0, finish.
COPY 61The
two turns and is finished like w. (See copy 36). For legibility it is very important to get the turns rounding. Count
1-2, iimsh, etc., for single letters and 1-V-2-V-8-V-4-V-5-V, etc., for the groups.
COPY' 52 Many like this style of x, but while beautiful when well made, it takes more time than the x in copy 53. Keep the turns rounding ard
make
v contains
Forxcount:
2, cro68.
COPY' 53 The first part of x is much like the first part of n. See that both parts touch and that the second part c( ires clear down to the base line.
Count: 1-2, 1-2, etc for single x, and for the x joined: 1 x 2-x-3 x-4-x, etc.
COPY 51 -The principal things to watch in this letter are the retrace and the finish. If the finishing stroke dror s too low it resembles x. Watch
the last part of r and the last part of x. For r count 1-2, finish or watch- the, finish- By your counting you can frequently call attention to weak
.
places.
COPY
COPY
is
run.
Be careful
or
it
i,
Use
part
line.
Count:
let
thumb work.
xun.
at the
bottom.
1-2-3, or down-loop-finish.
in size
more
movement. Don't
COPY 69 Count: 1-2-3-4-5-6-capital-D. etc., for the first exercise, and for
Copy* 60 The D starts with a slight compound curve and finishes like O.
body
a free
in v.
and
Count:
slant.
interesting
It
1-2
3,
capital O, etc.
always doeswhenoneseesthatheisacccmpliehirgscnelhirg.
Copy 63 Better review the capitals before attempting the words. Watch the spacing,
COPY 64 Don't forget your position. Heads up, shoulders even and back, feet fiat on
size
and
floor,
'MalcbtleirsKpcf
slant.
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EXERCISE 64
(Review)
Criticise your work.
Look for mistakes. You can only correct errors that you
five sentences should be given very diligent practice.
exist.
Remember it may not be a mistake in forming letters but of movement, position, etc. Make short loops. The writing on one line
These
know
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"-fa -/o y.
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'A.
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A A
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EXERCISE 65
Here are a few signs that are used in business and with which you should be familiar. Study each large form carefully. They should all be
Get the same
quite small. In the fourth section of Line 4 is some small figure writing. You are frequently called upon to make small figures.
ber in a quarter section as given in copy.
3*/--CZ^on-^?^-L~e^yL^/
J^/-^^L^^7^^^>i^e^ Ly J^-^c^^^t^i^t^t^^^/
'
\
'
made
num-
J&/-^ZZ^}^n~^ryL--e^^~
EXERCISE 66
Practice
movement
yo
Count
I, 2.
1.
of the
curve in the
down
The smal
3 4.
EXERCISE 67
where
it is
possible to do so.
Increase
&
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'.XX
X XXX XX XX XX XX
yL-^o^x>o~-^L^
EXERCISE BK
Give careful practice
to the
movement
exercise In Line
1.
first part.
In Line 2,
EXERCISE 60
is
very
difficult but
if
all
.X^7--v~xi^o--ZZ^IJ
EXERCISE 70
The
not
let
capital
a small loop
on the base
EXERCISE
The
line.
is
same
as in small z.
The count
is 1, 2, 3.
Do
the letters
z joins easily to
small letters.
cXp-^t^zzXi^lX
In lines
and 2
are given
two
difficult
71
words.
Watch
slant,
cX<?--7^^zzLe^L-X
EXERCISE 72
Above
each
letter.
is
In small
y.
Keep
the long
down
stroke straight.
Count 1.2,3,
for
EXERCISE 73
The capitals above
space.
the base line are only about twice as high as the small letters.
This makes
it
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-Js^-J?^
EXERCISE 74
The G begins
ishing stroke.
This form of
final stroke
makes the
G easy to
letter.
exercise
slight pause at x will help you get the sharp angle on the finbe used on several more capitals. Count 1. 2, 8, 4.
It will
7.1
Y)u probably realize by this time that good writing comes by diligent practice, but it is worth all it co6ts. No young person can afford to write
poorly. He will be handicapped in almost every undertaking. You use your writing practically every day throughout a lifetime. It she uld not be
necessary for you to apologize for
it
is
seen by another.
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z&/ ^e^^^z^^^L^-
w^4^^^^>^%^-'
first
method
written
drilled with a lead pencil
in
^Oz^^^^^ty
By F.
S.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum for the expression of convlcHoni relating to methods of teach-
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PENMANSHIP AS AN ESSENTIAL
Under the above heading, Professor
H. Paul, of the University of Utah,
writes most entertainingly and instructively in the November number
of the Utah Educational Review, the
official organ of the Utah Educational Association.
Professor Paul for
many years was the foremost penman of that part of America, and is
still a leader, but dedicates most of
his time to the department of Nature
etc., in the University.
Following
are a few of the many to-the-point
things found in his contribution:
As an aid in making more easy and certain
J.
the acquisition of
known
knowledge,
no
other
att
man
knowledge.
Of rapid handwriting
of
"penman's paralysis."
That writing is the most difficult of
that time as
human
IN
arts
Though
of real
MASSACHUSETTS.
movement
writing.
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition of
this
Number
of the Business
Educator.
penmanship.
Who's He?
A man
Educator
The
Bus-
iness
is
Who
mines
either
he and
is he and where
or receipts.
did he relieve at a dollar a head?
whom
Mental Meanderinus,
shall,
at
Carl C. Mar-
far
New
York
Advertising, Thou.
E.
Cupper, Inc.
State.
Arithmetic.
and movement.
J.
troit.
At Utica we spent
all
COM-
Commercial Law.
P. B. S. Peters,
Kan-
sas City.
Efficiency, Harold
S.
Cowan,
Passaii
N.J.
smith, Philadelphia.
HOME SOMETIME''
William Jennings Bryan,
speech on "Cooperation"
before the Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, D. C Jan. 3, 1910, in anticipation
of the all too frequent criticism of public men that the suggestions for betterment and closer
relations are forselfish purposes and to win popular approval.
The point was well taken and put. And so it is, good is sometimes proposed in spite of and
in face of the fact that indirect benefit is sometimes derived therefrom, thereby providing basis for unjust suspicion of motives. Editor.
Reports.
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Marshall's
Professional Edition
Devoted to the best interests of business education and dedicated to the
Mental
Your
FEDERATION INTERESTS
Number One
Exhibits
The National Commercial TeachFederation Convention at Chicago again demonstrated its democracy and nation-wide influence by being
alert to the needs of its membership,
and by being represented by membership from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Canadian border
ers'
to the Gulf.
the Convention.
It is this spirit of "give and take"
that makes the organization truly
representative, and it is this same
spirit which will continue to make of
the organization a power for progress in commercial education and
prosperity.
The Chicago Convention demonstrated the wisdom and need of closing all exhibits during the meetings,
both general and sectional. The
small attendance at some of the
meetings and the slowness to open
the meetings were due to the exhibits continuing open after the meetings should have been in full swing.
This is offered neither as a criticism of the past administration nor
as a slap at the people who provided
the attractive exhibits, but as an experience as to what actually existed
and as a suggestion to the administration for action the coming year.
By all means let us continue and
enlarge the exhibit opportunities, for
they offer concrete illustrations of
growth and progress, but let us see
that tney do not defeat the object
which brings them into being.
Co-operate by closing the exhibits
during regular meetings and then
close the regular meetings as
promptly to enable members to attend exhibits.
It is a poor rule that
will not work both ways.
Our
Critic
sharply concerning
so than if be had
meeting more
We
him
Meanderings
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DC
fair; for
spiced with fellowship and kinship and fraternal regard. It's only the other fellow's point of
view that'B oftenest wrong, not his heart; not
even his head, iust his livercrowding close to
his spleen.
who
EDITOR'S PAGE
upon
17
DC
looks over a
modern accident
insur-
it.
How
other.
many of
written.
them
will
have
to
be
re-
The promised rehabilitation of Mexico, which now seems assured, is alto be accompanied by a
great revival of trade, and American
most sure
It
is
noticeable that a
18
great
ward.
It will be a necessary and valuable
the thousands of young
American trading men, who will soon
asset to
plank.
ing in a
J/u*36u<u/tt4jCdui*iUr
trees,
loyal
and development
important
human
affairs,
but was
was
looking
fast friends.
If
am
Our Language
Needs
being aided
&
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ACCOUNTING
Assistant Professor of
Accounts,
One of the practice sets usually included in the advanced course in bookkeeping of most of the standard
texts is a Manufacturing Set. The nature of the business
varies according to the ideas of the particular author,
but an attempt is made in every case to present the general principles underlying the accounts kept by a representative manufacturing business, to illustrate the functions of the books of record which go to make up the
system, and to teach the routine of the work of the accounting department by means of a series of transactions covering one or more months, ending with the
preparation of the necessary financial statements and
the closing of the ledger.
It is too often the case that this phaseof bookkeeping is approached by author and instructor alike with a
lack of appreciation of the highly technical character of
the work and with a failure to present in sufficient detail such a knowledge of the theory of manufacturing
accounts as is necessary to insure intelligent and profitable work on the part of the pupil.
Too often the pupil
in writing
pleted.
manufactured
product: viz:
(1)
(2)
Cost of material.
Productive labor, or the cost of labor directly engaged
in
manu-
facturing processes.
Manufacturing Expenses; often spoken of as "factory expenses," "burden," or "overhead." The most common of these expenses are:
(a) Taxes, insurance, depreciation of factory, repairs and other
maintenance charges in case the company owns its plant.
(b) Rent of factory in case company does not own its plant.
(c)
Upkeep and maintenance expenses and depreciation of machinery and factory equipment.
(d) Power, heat and light.
Superintendence and other direct or unproductive labor, includ(e)
ing wages of time keepers, storekeepers, cost clerks, cleaners, machine
(3)
tenders, etc.
(f)
oil,
etc.
ing accounts:
Dr.
Dr.
The balance
at
the time.
Tools.
Dr.
Cr.
With the cost of tools of this character lost, worn out or destroyed
during a fiscal period. This is determined by taking a physical lnventory of such tools on hand, the
Manufacturing Expenses.
No
re-
yAtrJ&tM/uujCautu/*/
The balance is a fixed asset representing the cost of tools on hand.
An account might also be kept with Machine Tools. A machine tool
machine which performs the actual work for whichthe
machine as a whole was designed; in other words the machine proper
may furnish the power or the momentum while the machine tool attached to the machine performsrthe process of drilling, cutting, grindis
*&
Raw
Materials.
Dr.
With
With
terial
ing, or dressing.
chased.
freight
in a
separate account.
Dr.
Patents.
Dr.
Cr.
With the proportion of the costto
bringing out
be written off over each fiscal peservices of draughtsmen, models, riod, it being a rather general polilegal fees, fees for registering, etc. cy to write off the cost over the life
With cost of purchasing patent of the patent which is seventeen
rights from the inventor or former years, or over the remaining life of
owner.
the patent following the acquisition
of the rights.
The corresponding
debit would be to Manufacturing
of developing and
patents, including
With
all
pay
representing
roll
money
checks issued
disbursed for
direct labor.
The amount of the pay-roll is charged monthly if profits are determined monthly, or in any case at the close of the fiscal period to the Manufacturing account, the amount of wages accrued but not due being taken
into account at such a time.
The above is on the assumption that the factory payroll is kept sepa
If desired a general Pay-roll account
rate from the general pay-roll.
could be kept, it being debited with all money disbursed for wages and
salaries and credited monthly or at the close of the fiscal pericd with tie
cost of services actually rendered to date by all c flicers and emp'ojees
of the company. The corresponding debit would be to the different
classes of expenses chargeable with the services rendered.
Manufacturing Expenses.
Kxpenses.
Cr.
be shown
A theory
With
expenses directly
With rent received from any por
chargeable to the manufacturing tion of the factory which is sub-let;
processes; these include indirect with
er: with aDy other
or non-productive labor, mainte- adjust
i
nance
taxes on
Trade Marks.
patents.
A trade-mark
any sign,
label,
legal action.
The cost of originating
The
balance of this account represents the cost of manufacturing exis closed into the Manufacturing account at the close of the
monthly, if a perpetual inventory is kept.
I'sed as above outjined, the Manufacturing Expenses account is in a
sense a controlling account and should be supported by a comparative
monthly analysis of the account showing the amount of each separate
If desired separate general ledger acitem charged to the account.
counts could be kept with the several items of manufacturing expense.
penses and
fiscal period, or
it
Factory Supplies.
value.
off'.
Copyrights.
copyright
Goodwill.
Franchises.
Monthly or at the close of the fisWith cost of factory supplies purchased, including oil, waste and cal period, depending upon whethgrease, coal, coke, oils, repair er a perpetual inventory is kept,
brooms, crates, and with with the cost of supplies used. The
parts,
small tools and implements of too corresponding monthly or periodtemporary a character and of too ical charge may be either to Manusmall a money value to charge to facturing Expenses ortothe Manufacturing account.
Small Tools account.
matter of franchises, the valuation thereof and accounting methods pertaining thereto arise only in Public Service Accounting and are
largely regulated by Public Service Commissions of the different states.
While the subject of franchises naturally suggests itself in connection
with the three preceding accounts, it is not distinctly a manufacturing
account and will not be discussed at this time.
Cr.
The
Cr.
Dr.
amount
is
J/u^Jiu/u^jjCi/u^i/fr
Goods
Process.
in
Dr.
21
Finished Goods.
Cr.
At tbe time
with
process at that time. This account
is a separate inventory account and
remains open on the books during
a fiscal period at which time the
old inventory is removed from the
account and replaced by the new
one.
The balance is an asset.
At the close of a
fiscal
period
with the old inventory which is rethe account, the correspending debit being to the Mannfacturing account,
moved from
Dr.
The balance
VII
May
31, 1914.
don't understand
why
Mr.
And
my
my
On
is
an
asset.
a day.
Cr.
Goods
bid
&
my
weeks to come.
That first salary was an interesting event in
my life. The mere acceptance of it seemed to
make a different being of me. For some odd
twenty years to have received no money except from the family source, and during this
last year to have accepted even that with reluctance and apologies, then of a sudden to
have a strangtr present me with eight crisp
dollars -well, really, I was vastly disturbed. I had
a feeling that I ought humbly to take one of
the eight and say
"No more, really. It's very good of you; but
for
this is plenty."
I took the whole amount, however, but the feeling lasted until I was out on the street, homeward
Next month
followed by
cluding comments which have a bearing upon the solution given.
No; not for the entire eight. A small fracit. at least, I would spend in a way that
would bring me no tangible return. Every day
of that week, while walking home, I had been
tion of
women
my
money should go
ten old women that I came upon who sold papers or pencils or begged on the streets. I suppose it was to be expected that the moment I
had those dimes in readiness, the needy-looking women would keep out of my way. It took
me more than two weeks to dispose of the ten,
and then 1 fear I did some duplicating.
I have been with Mr. Williams now for three
weeks, and have grown somewhat accustomed
to accepting the salary. There are other feawork, though, that are harder to
tures of
when someone
steady occupation. It is mainly typewritingcopying and recopying pencilled sheets of uninteresting insurance data compiled by Mr.
Williams. There is but little opportunity to
apply my knowledge of stenography, or, in
fact, to apply any knowledge at all.
1 am practically a typist, and I see small chance of broadening opportunities. So lam on the lookout
constantly for something that will be more
to my taste, something that will demand of me
a higher class of service, something that will
offer a possibility of advancement.
In tbe meantime, however, my days are bringing their return. 1 don't mean merely in a
monetary way. I'm learning to adjust myself
to a wholly different plane of life from that I've
known. One of the lessons I must learn for any
my
grow accustomed
One
to.
tempted
to board a
crowded
trolley.
But
have
who
Wilmington.
the confinement.
We
recently had the pleasure of visiting Wilmington, Del, and of looking into the work
being done in writing and other things in the
public schools, as well as in Goldey College.
In the public schools we were pleased to find
tbe superintendent and his assistant quite
abreast with the times upon matters pertaiDing
to penmanship, securing in some of tbe grades
as fine work as we have ever found anywhere
be that they desire to give the impression that their customers are too
far beneath their consideration to
merit full and courteous attention?
Yet many such men do a big volume
of business, but surely not because
of the quality of the letters that they
write. One is forced to the conclusion that, other things being equal,
if they would improve their letters,
they would increase their business.
There is in Chicago (and his
brothers are in almost every town, I
suppose) an apparently successful
it
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS ROSE BUHI.K.
Lake Technical High School,
CHICAGO.
I
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fir
VI
Business Letters
At least, his
estate dealer.
looks prosperous, and he
drives an expensive automobile. Rereal
office
Anyone who
struck
and not
literally
tion
peated efforts by letter and by telephone on the part of one of his clients to get him to render an account
work resulted
of his
Dear
in the following:
Sir:
matter
in
same.
Our office .finding that this property is too far away and not favorable
to handling, would kindly beg to
suggest and ask of you to release our
agency to handling this real estate
same being too far away from our
location to properly and continually
look after same.
Awaiting your kind favor in reply
hereto this suggestion, and very
greatly obliging.
Yours
truly,
in
of English) in the
in
his
letters.
of
MeSBuvheiAffitaaaer'
of
culture.
cial curricula.
Wrong:
say
Right:
In reply to your
letter
will say
truly,
after
and
oblige.
use abbreviations
sent a
in
the
no. of
large orders.
Don't
abbreviate
the
courteous
close.
Wrong:
Yours
etc.
Yours resp'y.
Don't use a phrase as a sentence.
we are
mean your
letter.
&
following
debt original
debt=In-
using
by
interest,
formula:
Amt.
of
terest.
Interest
l-6=Rate.
Int.
s-
on Original debt
at
will
illus-
trate:
M.
I.
$60.00 from A.
Shark giving the following note:
Hardup borrowed
Providence, R.
pound
interest.
tom
of
it
to se-
make
ed dates
ter maturity.
ago.
It is
largely
among
the
so-called
tendency to
make
inquiry
really
behind
but a
what rate of
interest the debtor is really paying
upon the amount of money of which
he had the actual use. If settlement
made
in
Jan.
to
providing against
I.,
VII.
L.
15, 1916.
I
promise
Shark
L.
$75.00
Seventy-five and
Dollars
T n
Value received.
I. M. Hardup.
arrive at interest being
without interest.
Solution to
paid:
$75- $60=
$15.00 interest on'$60 for 3 months.
Int. on $60 for 3 mo.
1% =$.15.
-15.00-:- $.15 =100.
If the total interest is 100 times the
interest at 1%, the rate must be 100
xl%
or
This
is
100",,.
rate,
legal in
On
Many
absurd as
Rhode
contract purports
would seem
where the
be made, any
it
Island,
to
ler of Mitchell,
South Dakota.
The
it
is
problem presented
new
The
situation.
first
to
the dis-
handed down
made
it
of interest is
such problems.
MARSHALL'S MEANDERINGS
(Continued from page
IS)
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EFFICIENCY
HAROLD
E.
COWAN,
Hinli School
cial
:]
cue
What
There
in
is
the
a
my room
Commer-
Department,
Employer Wants.
this truth:
"Our duty
upon
his employer.
have
were
very fair penmen, but who upon entering business life overlooked neatness and legibility in the attempt for
speed. Do the firm's work well and
it bespeaks courtesy, to slightit is an
insult, and an employer is a sensitive person in this respect.
The
tragedy of neglecting one's three R's
is'averted by a healthy exercise of inflexion
in
school
itiative.
subtraction, multiplication and division, so that he can soon learn to apply these principles to his new position. The fellow starting in the advertising department of a concern
will not last long if he does not speak
week
at the outset.
The student
does not know this, and it is doubt'
command
respect for
it.
should
tue,
more by
possess any crowning viroptimism. There is no intention to imply that the conditions
above stated exist in wholesale quantity, for this would be magnifying
matters. What is meant is that even
if a small number of our pupils suffer
because of these faults, the number
it is
is just 100",,
too large.
It is
the fail-
must get
what we give,
and
The law
give for what we get.
of supply and demand under ordinary circumstances determines the
for
tellers.
There are offices
which limit the maxim for any em-
"A Little Journey through the Spokane Expert School" is the title of catalogue 6xs inches
in size, bound in board covers, and printed on
The text is in the form of a
rag-like paper.
conversation between a prospective student
and the manager, Mr. Raymond P. Kelly,
widely known in the commercial teaching pro
It is one of the most modern pieo s of
advertising literature received at this office.
It was printed by the students of the school
who are taught typesetting and printing in
connection with multigraphing, etc. The latest office appliances are illustrated and targht,
giving the school a realistic atmosphere,
fession.
jtoe-J&ua&uM&tu&t&r
TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS. T. CRAGIN,
Holyoke, Mass.,
Thompson's Business
School.
SPAIN IN THE
Now we get very limited quantity of immigration from old Spain and I don't really see
why.
A great flood of immigration comes
from Italy, the neighboring Latin nation. They
come, because Italy is so poor, but Spain is
even poorer, yet few Spanish people land at
Castle Garden and are absorbed into the Melting Pot of American citizenship. Possibly, it
is because the Spaniard does not understand the
art of agriculture so well as the Italian, or perhaps he is lazier. It must be remembered that
the Spanish explorers who were the first to come
here after Christopher Columbus, the Italian
discovered the new world, were none of those
people who meant to improve the country.
They were all treasure seekers, after gold and
jewels and so they made South America with its
silver mines and diamonds, their abiding place
and Mexico too, with its rich mineral wealth of
gold and silver. At any rate, very few come
here. But occasionally one does drift in and it
is the story of Pedro Arragon, a Spanish boy of
Cadiz, that
ber of The
this
num-
$b
26
unpaid, the ghost refused to walk, and the company disbanded but the girl had been seen by
New York vaudeville manager, and he
brought Nina and her brother East and gave her
an engagement at Proctor's or Keith's, one of
the big vaudeville houses of New Y'ork where
she won a more or less emphatic success, for she
live
New World, but the girl was a beaupossessed of a fine mezzo soprano
She became one of the chorus of the
Italian Opera Company which gave frequent
performances at the (irand Opera House of
Havana. It was a good company, too, and Nina
Arragon was soon playing small parts in the
Italian, French and Spanish operas that were
very popular with the inhabitants .of Havana.
Her earnings were sufficient to keep her and
her young brother who was a student in the
University of Havana. The boy was a natural
He already spoke Spanish and
student.
Italian fluently and had a smattering of French
and English. But the Spanish Warwas coming
on and the native Cubans were in insurrection
against the Spanish Government and Maxixmo
Gomez, Calixto Garcio, and the negro rebel,
Antonio Maceo, pressed so close upon the
him
to the
tiful singer,
voice.
it
badly
in-
BAD LUCK
But in an evil moment the manager of the
Company decided to take the troupe to New
Orleans in the LT nited States ot America, New
Orleans contains a considerable Spanish population, for you know that old state was originally a Spanish settlement before it came under
of France, and afterwards was sold
Louis
by the great Napoleon to our Mr. Jefferson.
The Creoles are of Spanish descent and the
manager was sure he would have a highly prosOrleans.
perous season in
And so he
might but Yellow Jack was just making his
farewell round of performances in the Gulf
Orleans was his headquarters.
States and
Ghastly Yellow Jack, who came out of the Mosquito infested swamps and water tanks of
Orleans, and stabbed, swift and fatal, everybody
that got in his path. I remember that year
well, for I had some friends in Florida and they
had the time of their lives to get out of the Gulf
States inio the northland, for they held up
trains and wouldn't let the passengers go
XLV
New
New
was young, beautiful and graceful, and possessed a sweet and attractive singing voice. The
two had rooms on the East side and the boy
pursued his 6tudies in one of the New York
High Schools, though it fretted him sorely to
upon
tried
New
through
It
was
in
strife.
y/u>jbiAH/i*4jedu*xiler
26
till
for
last
my
made the
gilt
A REFUGE AT LAST
Boys are queer. Ever notice how they will
If the leader of the boys
treat a stray dog?
happens to be a heartless little devil, as a good
many boy gang leaders are, that luckless cur is
likely to have a tin kettle hitched to his tail
with a bunch of fire crackers in it, if they can
be obtained, and urged on a mad career by a
the other hand, if the
shower of stones.
gang leader happens to be a fellow that likes
dogs, that dog will become the favorite mascot
On
small dis-used room upstairs and have his meals at the table with the
rest and come into the classes.
He had no
clothes, but the entire battalion from Grover
Cleveland so called, who was six feet high and
weighed about 80 lbs. up to big Fatty Simpson
who kicked the beam at 200, contributed.
There were shirts and socks and underwear and
overwear and all kinds of wear, enough to have
tit out a
second hand clothing shop on the
bowery, and there was no difficulty in rigging
up Pedro Arragon with a uniform that would
pass muster well enough ami with plenty of the
accessories necessary to dress a boy, as boys
need to be dressed. The boy was half starved
and it took a week to fill out his sunken face
and haggard eyes and get his form so he could
stand without trembling, but it did not take
him that time to get into his books. He was a
"wolf" for books and while he could not speak
Knglish very well he soon led the class in
he might sleep
in
class of Professor
that department.
NEW
LIFE
new and
came
HAPPY DAYS
Four joyous years passed by, and for the last
two years of the course Pedro Arragon, Spanish
exile, but American through and through in his
love for the country that gave him shelter, and
the flag that floated over our parade ground and
from the peak every sunset to
the dying notes of Pedro's bugle. Pedro Arragon wore the splendid 850 gold head boys'
medal. The head boys' medal of the school
was given to the boy who had absolutely no
marks against his name and whose scholarship
Pedro's scholarship mark
ranked above 90.
was 98 the last year, and his deportment and attention to duty was always flawless. 1 never
saw a boy that had the instinct of gratitude so
strongly developed. He would have died for
the Doctor who had given him shelter, food and
education in his hour of need though he paid
for all of it by his splendid service to the battalion, and I never had a man so devoted as this
Spanish boy, and all I had done for him was to
give him occasional encouragement when he
was having a hard tussle with the Knglish
language. It was my custom to take him over
to the house and read an hour or so with him,
nearly every day, and correct his mistakes of
pronunciation. He spoke English at graduation as well as anybody, better than most of our
native born Americans, and now he was going
out to seek a fortune in the great world of busiHe tnoroughly underness, well equipped.
stood bookkeeping, could take shorthand in
Spanish, French, English or German, and was
One of
rapid and very accurate with figures.
softly fluttered
our cadets was Joe
house
Mocha, and so. soon after graduation Pedro Arragon entered the employ of the great house of
Arbuckle, Many of the office employees, connected with the foreign trade, were Cubans or
natives of South America, and these Cubans
and South Americans are not noted for any extravagant desire to do more work than the law
requires.
Pedro Airagon was a "bear" for
work, and it didn't take long for Mortimer, the
office manager, to find out that the rara avis
in this native of old Spain. He was put to work
first on the books.
One Saturday right he carre up to me on a
late train from Xew York with trouble upon his
brow. Said he
"Major." I bore tue rank of
Major then, all our instructors were Majors.
"Major," said Pedro. "I have discovered someon
thing wrong
the boobs of the Company. The
young man who keeps those books is doing
work that is crooked, and hiding it so they do
not see it. but I have seen it. ami I know that he
is doing things that are against the rules of the
house. He is taking bribe money from people
who are doing what is wrong. Yet he has been
kind to me and I do not like to inform Mr. Mortimer, for it will mean his discharge and perhaps prison."
The boy was greatly troubled but there is only
one thing to do in a case of that kind, and 1
went to New York with him and saw Mr. Mortimer the very next day at his house. I told him
how the boy felt. His duty demanded that he
should inform the house of Arbuckle.
His
friendship made it a sorry duty for him toperform. Fortunately Mortimer was a big hearted.
:
By Don
E.
Bennett, of Philadelphia
Mr. R. J. Bennett, C. P. A., of Philadelphia, in
addition to his correspondence work and accounting practice, has charge of a three-year
evening accountancy course in the Y. M. C. A.,
assisting in other courses such as Scientific
Management,
achievement.
C. J. Hanson, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., is a good supporter of The Business Educator. He is using the copies in
the B. E. quite extensively in his classes this
year. The names of 204 of his pupils are on
our subscription list.
Va.,
27
issue
etc.
contains an
His advertisement
interesting
in
human
this
story
Mr. Tamblyn
Mountain State
Business College.
BYRNE PUBLISHING
58 E.
Washington
CO.,
Street
CHICAGO
Send
full
particulars.
Name
Address
OccupationBy H.
B,
St.
Louis
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&
M^3Btttin*W<i&u*i&r
THE COST OF EXPERIENCE.
i,
COOKS
on,
HV THOS.
E.
CUPPER,
INC. ACCT.
been elected
REAL
COST
importance.
It would be
is
of vast
indeed, to sum up in
dollars and cents, the exact cost and value of
experience, but the really successful man or
woman is the one who does not pay for the
same experience twice. There is no fixed rate
in the school of experience, it may cost little or
it may C09t much, but whatever the price, will
be time and money well invested which will
prove a Dividend Payer in the years that
No one can reasonably hope to
follow.
land safely into the Port of Success without
first having Graduated from the school of Experience. Experience is a far-reaching Resultgetter, and the one who has been through the
MILL and mastered the "ins and outs" of any
business in all its phases, will be worth more to
that business than he who has yet a start to
make, for whenever he makes a move, it counts
in favor of the house he represents. With Modern methods your chances will be better than
his
was
to
difficult,
a priceless
start to face
the
enough
you
the
hliir-elf.
..
It
M,
ih,
arm and
An arrangement
fingers.
is
-'-Me Br
'
of the
jan12_
etc.
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NEWS NOTES
special teacher of
Edward Scanlon, of the Commercial Department of Williamsport, Pa., High School, is now
employed in the Commercial! Department of
the Meriden, Conn., High School.
Ruth M. Rainey, of Garysburg, N. C, has ac-
Schools.
of
Foraale wholesale
metic,
has for
Fred H. Harvey,
atnl
jP
thinking
to
ime>i-tfrces."
penmanship
in
the
High
Kathryn Godfrey,
of
MissZoa
J.,
High School.
is
Lee, Mass.
Toledo. Ohio.
E. L. Christeson, of Evansville, Ind., is finishing the current year as a teacher in the Mankato Commercial College, Mankato, Minn.
W. C. Cunningham, recently manager of the
Tri State Commercial College, Keokuk, Iowa,
has been employed as teacher in the Detroit
Commercial College, Detroit, Mich.
3 R Rosen
<n<jrossc^\ ~
By
J.
R. Rosen, Boston,
who
is
doing very
fine engrossing.
&
<3^&uA/neM^/iuMfrr*
Ornamental
given
Penmanship
BY
E. A. LUPFER.
Columbus, O., Zanerian
Colleee.
postaeefor frae criticism.
DDC
DC
penman.
that
many
persons
J.
who have
J. A. Ruell,
C. C. Brannan,
E. C. Barnes,
and that your penmanship is legible. The following persons whose names have been selected miscellaneously from our mail during
the past month are to be complimented on the
good penmanship used in their correspond-
D. Sheaffer,
J. A. Stryker,
1.
H.
A.
G.
A.
A. Roush,
R.Reelhorn,
A. Rockwood,
Astoria.
111.
Hammond,
Ind,
Hazelton, Pa.
Kearney, Nebr.
McKeesport, Pa.
Lajunta, Colo.
J.Philipps,
Clinton S. Munn,
Pougbkeepsie, N. Y.
South Berkeley. Calif.
Sandusky, Ohio
South Lancaster, Mass.
A. W. McCuaig,
Kemmerer, Wyo.
W.
Spencer, N. C.
E.
Rodman,
S.
D. Kizziah,
S. B.
C.P.
I.
Z.
Johnson,
Hill,
Hackman,
G.Christ,
Skillful.
ence:
W. H. Wherley,
0. M. Stiffney,
New
York City, N. Y.
Newark, N. J.
Philadelphia, Pa.
C.B. Boland,
W.
E. Blosser,
M. A. Albin,
W. H.Rotbe.
A. S. Johannesmever,
A.F. Stern,
M.E. Keller,
H. W. West,
F. T. Weaver,
J. E. Thornton,
C. I. Van Petten,
A. P. Mueb,
E.G.Miller,
Ella M. Kring,
S. H. Kallenbach,
James
Kouba,
lor
which few
are qualified.
you wish
If
most money
penmanship
ucation.
LEARN TO
WRITE
spare time.
Praette.
;teil
makes you
tion
quire a pla
rapid Bn
.
by
Style
my
pen eopi<
Wh
at h.ime dnrlnB
typewritten
fresh from-theI
lllr
A.I.HICKMAN,
H. C.
Bottle
Sauna, Kans.
LECTURE CIRCUITS
For next school year are being planned nov
Join a permanent circuit and nave our material
sent you at reeular intervals. This plan gives better service and greatly reduces express charges.
Requests to join circuits should come in at once.
Address Educational Department. International
Harvester Company of New Jersey ilnc
Hari
Harrisburg, Pa.
Trenton, N.J.
East Liverpool, Ohio.
NOW
Carrollton, Ga.
BEGIN
Lincoln, Nebr.
Pasadena, Calif.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Hazelton, Pa.
Evansville, Ind.
and Ornamental Penmanship are unexcelled. Write for prices and lei me convince
L. W. Huntsinger,
D. L. Hunt,
H.S. Hutzell,
E. E. Hippensteel,
C.S. Gilbert,
Hutchinson, Minn.
Cleveland. Ohio.
Eau Claire, Wis.
Keedysville, Md.
Scranton, Pa.
Orleans, Nebr.
E.F. Ede),
DeKalb,
Jesse J. Douglass,
C. A. Dentler,
C. E. Doner,
C. E. Chamberlin,
C.E. Baten,
N.J. Aikin,
Amy L. Applegate,
Stephenville, Texas.
Williamsport, Pa.
Beverly, Mass.
B.
possible progress.
you.
D.
California, Pa.
if
make
the greatest
courses in Business
ZANERIAN GRADUATE.
B JONES, Paducah, Ky
ROUTE 3.
111.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Spokane, Wash.
St Louis, Mo.
il
My
ney Method
to
Write
FRANCIS
Box G 492
MEmmsMmmmamESEEssmsmmmsMsa
B.
COURTNEY,
DETROIT, MICH
f^ie&ud/n&iA&duai/fr
30
*fe
FOR SALE
Mr. Spillman
Only school
pencils
of providing the
on which
in use
movable rest"
it
slides while
The
construction
of the pen
is
nature that
it
of such
invites one
movement
in the sliding
used.
in position
to the hand.
The
The
F.
tor,
especially
its
is
care Business
Educ
Columbus, Ohio.
touch with
Address
(let in
1st, 1916.
mv worth.
me and
"AMBITION"
Columbus, Ohio
man
WANTED
to
Must be
30,000.
SUNNY KANSAS,
Address,
Columbus. Ohio
for
New
sale:
GEORGE
<i
weeks. Write
to
W. HUNT.
GHANVILLE.
ILL.
Till A
WU
|tl|C\]
splendidly equipped
commer-
FOR SALE
cial school
q its
"
MONEY MAKER,"
KELLOGG'S AGENCY
is
downward
simply
until
Columbus, Ohio.
pressed
Ph. D.,
111.
use desirable,
learning to write.
In
THOMAS,
automatic
of
features
make
Correspondence
E. E.
YOUNG MAN,
SCHOOL WANTED
Have the cash
Address
Jl'CHHOFK,
Chicago,
minutes.
position.
foot
giving control.
rious
five
foot supports
tin
"Concrete and abstract personality," "Povand artistry of language." are two phases
of the stenographer so entertainingly discussed
by him in the article.
erty
eh
lie
ticle
Two
Fine territory,
Splendid quarters,
The following
city of 28,000.
in
If
to $5,0001
Est. 1889.
to
you need a teacher for any desirable place or know where a teacher
in
when
Teachers Agency
B. F. Clark
motion
spokl
S. Patent ISIS
CHARLES
100
E.
HIGBEE
CHURCH STREET
TORONTO,
CANADA
-^
COMMERCIAL TEACHERS
During twenty
Your share of 1 1,250,000.00.
consecutive working days, 191 4-15, employers asked us for teachers whose salaries aggregated a Million and a Quarter Dollars. Our Fourth Year of recommending only when asked
This is why employers have taken 12.000 men and women as recommended. No
to do so.
registration fee necessary. The Western Reference & Bond Ass'n,637ScarrlttBldg..KsnsasClty,Mo.
!
immMMMmmmMMstEEammEssmmii
dfa^tij/ft&4y<2^&i/fr
Successful School Man &8SSS2IPSlege in a good city. Send fall particulars in first letter.
Offer mast bear careful Investigation. All correspond
ence confidential.
*' re The Business Educator. Columbus, Ohio.
NOW
COMMERCIAL TEACHERS
t
Price.
E'ln.-ator.
Whenseek-
for the entire West and Alaska. Commercial teachers wanted now for emergency vacancies.
Write immediately for free circular.
Colo.
R4. 000. 00
cash.
IDAHO
BOISE
ADDRESS. PIERCE,
Care The Business
3.000
0<">'
offices.
DEMAND
IN
TFAPHFRS' AfiFNCY
RISK
Other
Columbus. Ohio.
WANTED
A good
mean
Must
Address A. L. C,
Business Educator, Columbus, Ohio.
business.
FOE,
care
R.
B.
I.
TRAINING
SCHOOL
FOR
ffiMMFRflAI TFAPHFR^
ILHOIILnO
rim UUHIIHLIXUIHL
SALE
We
We
ROCHESTER BUSINESS
INSTITUTE, Rochester, N. Y.
WM.
Indications point to an unusually strong demand for high class commercial teachers for September engagement. Many of the large city
high schools and private commercial institutions are now on the 'still
hunt'' for teachers and have enlisted our co-operation in the search.
have openings for the very BEST
IN
PROFESSION. We need you. You may need us. Co-operation is our Motto.
PRATT. MANAGER
O.
FOR SALE
r ree
booklet
how to apply
JANUARY
year. E.K.Nichols
Mgr. Railway Ex-
We
PRIZE
FREE
If
FOR SALE
8000.
miles.
towns.
(A Specialty by
GAYLORD,
E. E.
Mgr.
a Specialist.)
Prospect
Hill,
BEVERLY, MASS.
Marion, Indiana.
Building.
Businees College.
WINNERS
436 Cole
To day is Feb- 1. Since Jan. 1, with our aid, these men not to
mention the others not quite so fortunate have begun teaching in these
new positions: O. E. Beach, shorthand instructor, Lowell, Mass., High
School; F. S. Robinson, special penmanship teacher, High School of
Commerce, Detroit
V. L. Reynolds, Head Shorthand Dept., Massey
Business College, Richmond, Va.
L. A. Newgard, Head Shorthand
Dept., of th great Rider -Moore and Stewart School, Trenton, N. J.;
F. F. Wells, shorthand instructor, Duluth Business University,
Also we
placed J. G. Wootton, at a handsome salary, with the splendid new million-dollar High School of Commerce, Springfield, Mass.; and Delivon
Parks with the Fort Wayne, Indiana, High School.
Better get a
Enrollment free.
sample of our service early.
;
briefly.
KY.
for our
BOWLING GREEN,
FREE REGISTRATION
opposition. 2oth
AGENCY
THE
CONTINENTAL TEACHERS'
AGENCY
WORPORATED
THURSTON, JSSn
TEACHERS)
tells
TEACHERS
We
Western
city
WHEN
of
SAINT LOUIS
IN
VISIT
316,
PEHSTCIPAL
Columbus, Ohio
When
318
317,
NICHOLAS BUILDING
in
KOCKrMr-7ACHRS'
EMPIRE BLD
DENVER,
AC/WCY.
0.
ROBERT
COLC
vln^lti^lllfl^l i^.^lltirlH^^lllWl^ll N
l
ll
|^^| l || l
A.
QRANT, Manager
^^^^!Tl^ffml'^^m^
Nicholas BIdg.,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
32
B. E.
4*
>0//^//<W Ct/iUU/ty
IN
We
< mL
they have grown and that is why they will survive long after less worthy institutions are
crowded to the wall by the high school.
Mr. Fisher then generously volunteered to
take me around a couple of corners to call upon
our quarter -century old Hoosier - Buckeye
friend, Mr. R. (i. Laird, principal of the Roxbury High School and the Boston Clerical
School, the latter being a public business
school, while the former is a regular girls' high
Twelve hundred girls are in attendat the high school, pursuing one of the
four courses provided as follows Normal, commercial, College, or General. Seven hundred
of the twelve pursue the commercial course.
The Clerical School has an attendance of one
hundred and fifty, the numbers of which are
now rapidly increasing because of enlarged
quarters admirably appointed forthe work.
Students are largely from the Roxbury disschool.
ance
This
1735.
men
is
the
title
and heading
The work
as
of action
and
shown herewith
The
of those days.
thorough training.
Laird's experience in both public and private
schools and his experience as an accountant
have admirably fitted him for this double task
and innovation in education. The Clerical
School is a duplicate of business quite as much
as schools can be and is providing the same
type of training given in the better sort of private business schools. Mr. <i. L. Hoffacker is
at the head of the business department and in
every
way
tit
man
Daw Me,
OSKALOOSA COLLEGE,
Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Departments. Graduate. College. Normal. Commercial aiiil Preparatory by mall ami In residence
Degrees conferred. Especially oi interest to those
wlsblne to complete work already begnn. Credits
r.T|.t.-d Iroin
Paj
other institutions.
Catalog.
I'en
work by H
Indiana.
Ind.
Prices reasonable.
Installments.
A PROFITABLE VACATION
EDUCATE YOURSELF
penmanship.
ting.
eup:i ty
better.
Besides,
We
doubt
it
if
RECEIVED
setloi'iT.
I'.Y
Hulks.
.,..... o
'
>
mP^|EmmMP
containing
t>
ets
I'-!-'
finished
|.JBW.UJl.U.l.l.liJJJilUiaNillMU.I.IUJIMI.lI..U,lll.l,ll,lfi.,IJ.ltll,Utl J |.lll.|..l
plates of
Show Cards
.yfo'^giJ/n&iA'&dtMuUr
By
There
S.
PENMANSHIP LESSONS
T^Ce^-l^
the:
in
my
printed
Name
CardB.
M. Otero Colmenero, San Juan. We have received some fine ornamental cards from him
showing
good command
of the
pen and
M
fipifej
#.
tiji IWQ
UFDF
rl J nLrSt
M nUrVlD FITC
ordinary
nilt Herve
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country.
Departed this life, at his pleasant home in Milwaukee, on Tuesday, January 11, 1916, the
man whom his many friends have for years
loved to call "Uncle Robert." He was the oldest sou of t'latt K. Spencer, author of the Speneerian style of penmanship, and was in his 87th
year.
He
attended the annual meeting of the National Federation of Commercial Teachers held
in Chicago Christn as week, and took an active
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His historical address on Wednesday, Dec. 29,
marked the high point of the meeting. This
was a remarkable talk of more than one hour
and dwelt mainly upon the early work and experiences of the private business colleges of the
L'nited States.
It truly was the voice of the veteran that we
were permitted to hear that day.
were truly
thankful, all of us, that we were favored with
the words of our own "Uncle Robert" words
that came down to us from his own experiences
through the years of the long distant past.
The story he told us was at first hand, no second-hand report was his. Out of his own life
man.
"Uncle Robert" was, indeed, the
patriarch of
business education in this country and his removal marks the severest loss that our ranks
have sustained since the death, in 1898, of
another great teacher, Mr. S. S. Packard, of
New York.
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experience he spoke, touching the very beginnings of the business college movement in this
country. He spoke mainly of the very earliest
of the associated efforts of business college
teachers, with all of which he was personally
identified. But before any of thete associated
efforts were made he was an individual actor
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Gundry, Duff, Jones, Folson, Comer, and
others. His first hand recollections came to us
out of an experience of some three score and
ten. And what a recollection it was, touching
the educational movement and interest we
represented there that day! Our hearts were
warmed and our minds were quickened by the
of
t>
own
personal experience.
It is hard for us to realize that when Mr.
Spencer first turned his life effort in the direction of teaching that no educator of recognized
position in this country had ever raised his
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Eugene Rosenstrauch
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Abraham Broadwin,
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LaSalle Academy, N.
Charles J. Johnson,
LaSalle Academy," N.
Percy J. Manning,
190.6
Pitman
98.5
Saul Denofrkv,
John
200
iaac
Eastern District
Gregg
Samuel J. Abelow,
Commercial
Jack Ellis,
Commercial
Eugene Rosenstrauch,
Hector
NETWOROS
CROSS WOROS
Albert E. Marks,
Emil K. Ellis,
Commercial
S.
Rosenburg
98.5
98.5
97.75
Saul Denofsky
Percy J. Manning
Harold Heningson
Daniel Friedman
98.5
78 8
78 2
78.0
77.8
97 50
97.35
411.3
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CITY
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COLUMBUS,
VOLUME XXI
O.,
APRIL,
1916
NUMBER
VIII
O.,
C. P. Zaner,
Editor
W. Bloser.
Zaner & Bloser,
Business Manager
E.
Publishers and
Owners
L)
Two
Editions.
The Teachers' Professional
Edition contains 48 pages, twelve pages of
which are devoted to Accounting. Finance,
Mathematics, English. Law, Typewriting, Ad-
N. Y.
vertising,
and proprietors.
Students' Penmanship Edition contains 36
pages and is the same as the Professional Edition, less the twelve pages devoted to commercial subjects.
This edition is specially suited to
students in Commercial, Public and Private
schools, and contains all of the Penmanship, Engrossing, Pen Art, and Lesson features of the
pals
'
'
3C3C
ZDC
The
Professional Edition.
cation and Penmanship. A journal whose mission is to dignify, popularize, and improve the
world's newest and neediest education. It purposes to inspire and instruct both pupil and
teacher, and to further the interests of those engaged in the work, in private as well as in public institutions of business education.
Change
of Address.
If
We
Subscribers.
If
we do
not acknowledge
among
office workers,
hom e
to
your work
in
re-
as
students, etc.
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good except that which
to some one standard, or
lack of standard, as the case may be.
It seems impossible for some people
to comprehend that there is more
than one way of doing a thing and,
that there are fundamentals which
admit of individual interpretation
and only when so interpreted arethey
highly efficient.
We have our ideals and standards,
but they are for the service of all,
rather than for anyone in particular.
Each must adapt these ideals and
standards to his particular needs,
which are governed by theconditions
surrounding him.
ing looks
conforms
"1
want
isdom.
..-i
'
parties concerned.
llts all
Yon are
answer
snch questions as yon desire. The BUSINESS EDUCATOR will act as a Clearing House for l'enmanshlp
Questions and Answers.
The
spirit of helpfulness to
others
Is
and consideration of
own
questions.
will
ma;
Help
penmanship
question.
appes
together.
a single letter or
student practice on
exercise? W.
a certain
ahead.
call
your penmanship
a plain, profes-
taken from
from a B.
teacher who
is
age
who
in
and
much above
the aver-
The man
in
made
regard to writing.
When pupils enter high school from the
grades, their habits are at best only half formed.
One cannot consider a boy or girl of fourteen
or fifteen years as having definitely fixed habits.
If, after entering high school, there is continued effort to use these partly formed habits,
the standard of efficiency rises and the habits
become fixed; but if there is no further effort to
use them, or if they come to be considered asof
less importance than the pupils have been
taught to believe, then the standard soon falls
in
the result.
In taking notes, pupils write hurriedly.
do not expect them to construct complete senis
We
tences.
E. supporter
writes a hand
Formal instruction
with the completion of the grade work but improvement in the ability to use these subjects
usually is expected to continue, especiallj on
the part of those who enter high school. In
regard to certain subjects this is commonly acknowledged; in regard to others, it is not so
freely admitted.
Misspelled words and poorly constructed
sentences are not permitted to go unchecked
in high school papers, no matter to what sub-
They
jot
down
things
which
but
those
only
fact,
their
command
of English.
becomes
habitual.
&
would seem,
It
that
when
We
The
style of writing
The prediction that longhand would soon become unnecessary on account of the universal
use of the typewriter has failed to materialize.
the amount of work done by the typewriter is tremendous, it probably does about the
same proportion of the world's written work as
it does of the written work in our high schools.
Probably one would not be far wrong in the
statement that in our high schools the greater
portion of good longhand writers will be found
among those who most frequently use the
typewriter.
Though
Certain beliefs and traditions prevail concerning the handwritiDg of high school stuThere exist the ideas that this subject
belongsentirely to the grades, that certain pu-
dents.
good
writers
and
that others
High School
^M^rEfluMn&^jUuxi&r
EXPERT DETECTION OF FORGERY.
It is a clever forger who can deceive the up-to-date expert in chirography. The expert may put a juror
to the proof that out of a dozen sig-
most significant
fact
upon which
the expert may base his investigations of possible forgery is that every
one has his "pen scope." The technical term describes the average
stretch of paper that one may cover
without lifting the hand to continue
the line. In the case of the signature
it should be one of the easiest and
least studied groups of words that
the writer should be called upon to
put on paper. In writing a letter, for
instance, the pen scope throughout
may exhibit an average stretch of
one inch for the text of the letter,
while in the signature the whole
length of the name, twice as long may
be covered. But if the writer covers
name
in this
way
same
movement
free
of the
see,
by project-
To demonstrate
this,
an experi-
BurdETT,
charge of the
B.
E.
a nap, the
portrait
man
gallerv drew
A. R. Burnette and as a
consequence had it appear over the name of
C. A. Burdett. Will you, kind reader, kindly
clip the portrait herewith and paste it above Mr.
Burden's name on page 9 of the Feb. B. E. and
thus make it Bafe at some future time for the
Editor again to enter the city of Boston and to
face his handsome and generous friend, MR. C.
A. Bl'RDKTT, whose likeness is hereby inserted just where it should have been last
month.
distinctly visible.
The handwriting
mal health does not, however, always show their pulse beats. What
one can say is that when a document
purporting to be written by a certain
person contains traces of pulse beats
and the normal handwriting of that
person does not show them, then
clearly the
proved
document is a forgery.
W. P. Steinhaeuser,
Asbury Park, N. I.
business
depreciate
education
is
up shop.
of persons in nor-
&
If
efficiency, self-restraint,
some living, we confess
Where
enough
is
to
&
tt^fe&ud/nedy&diuafrr
means
PRACTICAL
BUSINESS
WRITING
By
E. A. Ll'PFER.
Columbus.
O.. Zanerian
College.
Send sped mens wltb retnr
ln-^tase f'T free criticism.
Dene
LEGIBILITY
things, writing should be
Above
readable. Unless it can be read, it
is of no value. You have heard jokes
about prominent men writing things
which they could not read after it
"got cold," and how their assistants were often able to read their
writing when they themselves could
not read it. However it is no joke
for the one who has to try to decipher scrawley writing.
Many valuable thoughts of editors
all
because
lost
the printers could not read the writing. A great many mistakes in magazines are the direct cause of poor
writing. Much mail and shipments
do not reach their destination beIt all
cause of illegible writing.
is
which,
if
to the
and
'q,' 'p,'
's.'
5.
der of small
and
and
'k'.
6.
Irregular spacing.
7.
strokes.
Some
are
of the
causes of illegibility
3.
4.
Holding
1.
2.
first
finger straight in
A
It is
Compliment.
a pleasure to
examine some
of
the pen.
Copy U8. Thee contains a hook, two turns, and beginning and ending strokes like n. The down stroke should be almost straight. Be sure that
you get a hook at tlie top, otherwise it will look like i. Count: 1-2-3 or hookthe-c. Try to make at least fifty c's a minute. Use a free movement
on all letters. Review copies 14 to SO.
Copy 67 Thee is the same as except that it contains a loop where the contains a retrace, Always get daylight in the e; that is, alwaysavoid
For the joined e's give one count for
1-2-8. Use a free graceful, arm movement. Avoid pressure on down strokes
a closed or blind e. Count:
i
each
letter.
!Lo^y<i^o^2y^t2y^o^oy^<^
^o^
a~^tr^<>^<r->v-'
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Jju**/m* c ////*///* /
Copies 08 and 09. -Strive for
Think and study good writing.
it
legibility.
Make
the
Hook
11
the c and loop the
Use
e.
a free
movement.
Copy 70. This exercise is the same as copy 66, except the finish. Count: start-l-2-3-4"5-6, finish. Pause slightly between Hand finish. Keep
open. If you make this exercise well, the o should be easy.
Copy7l The o is a letter which is frequently illegible because students fail to close it at the top. The oval part should be curved evenly
on both sides and always closed.' Count: 1-2- finish or 1-2-3. Special care should be used in the finish.
Copy 72. This drill will aid greatly in making the body part of a. Count: swing-circle-1-2-3-4-5 -finish.
Think
of the
a,
and strive
for neat-
ness.
the letter down to (he base line, which makes it difficult at times to distinguish it from o
This exercise will help you to avoid this trouble. Count: swing -oval-1 -2-3-4- 5-fjrjith. Try not to distort the shape of the letter.
Copy 74 Study the shape carefully. It is much like o except the finish. The top is pointed and the body or oval part is a Iritle more slanting
thin o. Each a should contain a good i. Both turns should rest on the base line. Count: swing-oval-finish or 1-2-3. For the groups count
1-a2-a-etc, or one for each letter, counting slowly.
Copies 75 and 76. Close the o's and keep the finish high and in the a. close it at the top and let the last turn touch the base line.
iet all turns
the same. Watch out for the things which makes writing illegible. Review crpy 20
The more practice you do the better you will Jeatn to write.
Copy 77. The indirect oval exercise will help to develop the indirect oval in the P. If you do not know how to count for this exercise, turn back
Don't become discouraged. Keep on working and some day you will be a good penman.
to copy 4.
last turn of
<
Copy 78. Start with a push-and-pull exercise and without stopping or raising the pen, swing to the indirect oval. Count: start-1-2-3-4-5-6
round 1-2-5--4-5-6. See how regular and freely you can make them.
Copy 70. -Review copy 7. The retrace on P is easy to make if vou master the push-and-pull exercise. Count: swing- 1 -2-3-4 -5-6-circle. This
is a specially good exercise for the P.
Copies 80, SI and 82. The P contains a starting stroke, a straight line and an oval. Notice how it resembles the tj pe form of P. He careful not
Free, graceful
to make the oval too large. Always close the P. Count: 1 -2-circle at about 50 a minute. Watch >he turns ai d arglet in Penman.
writing is what the world demaeds.
Copy 83. See how neat and well-shaped you can make it. Count: swing-1-2-3 .4-5 0-capital B. Cultivate a light, even touch.
Copies 84 and 85. -The B begins like P, but has two indirect ovals joined by a loop. Retrace the straight down stroke half way or more before
swinging to the oval. Count: 1-2 3-4. Get the ovals the same in size. Compare your work with the copy. Notice the width.
Copy 80. This is an easy word to write. Strive for even spacing, size, etc. Close the o and a. Get the dow n strokes straight and let them point
towards the center of the body.
Copy 87. Remember, the better you can make exercises the betterjyou can make letters. Exercises make writing easy. Count: Btait'1-2-3-4.
circle -finish. Watch the shape of the oval.
hk anil 80. The K isthe same as P with the compound stroke which end? like A. Let the loop touch the straight down stroke. Count:
start-down-circle finish, or 1-2-3-4. The pen should not stop on the loop.
Copy 00. II you wish to succeed you must do much practicing and studying. Don't give up, but keep at it. In Ibis wool pn k out jotnwcik
points and improve them. Watch the oval on K, the loop and finish. The small e needs special attention.
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Comes
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BUSINESS
WRITING
If
you wish
to master a
"Bread and
S.
LESLIE,
and Lupfer.
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EXERCISE 70
top of Sis exactly like G. The letter is sometimes finished with the
Land is not used here, although the stroke is indicated by the dotted line in the large form.
The movement drill in Line 1 will enable you to get the curved down stroke in the S.
EXERCISE
It might be well
provemeDt.
for
you
to
compare
EXERCISE
The down
Line
In joining the
This style
is
sometimes mistaken
in
Line
3 with
some
of
your
first
specimens
in
a a a
<f
78
double curve. The loop at the base line is similar to the loop in the Q. The last part of D is the same as O. Practice
This will help you get the correct action and form for the letter at the same time. 1 he count is 1, a, 3.
EXERCISE 70
automatic for you now.
to small letters drop the connecting stroke down through the center of the letter. Easy action should be
stroke in
in
like the G.
77s
J7 <f a &
the retraced
hook
is
diligently.
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EXERCISE 80
Study the shapes of the two loops in the L. The loops on the base
good action for this loop. Count 1, 2, 3.
line
is
same
EXERCISE
The L may be joined to small
writing on the sentence.
letters.
*L_-^
...P*-^-^
You
connecting stroke
as in Q.
The movement
Line
drill in
will help
you develop
81
difficult,
however.
You should be
2?^a?=z5la?a?^f=Z?
able to get
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<=Us
<=>^i_^/
EXERCISE S2
The two
like
Count
T should
be practiced separately as indicated in Line 1. The stem is similar to the down stroke in L and S. The cap begins
but finishes with an easy double horizontal curve. The cap should not touch the stem. Try to get this cap placed just right. Study carefully
parts of the
I, 2. 3. 4.
EXERCISE 83
if
you wish
to
do
so.
It is
You
will
need
to write small or
you
will not be
^~
<^-~
EXERCISE 84
You
is
1,2, 3, 4,
is
made from
the
by simply catrying Ihe finishing stroke across the stem and making
1 he count
5.
EXERCISE 85
The K
is
slant.
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EXERCISE SO
Review movement
seventy
letters
drill In
Line
1.
This
19
an excellent style
of
Do
Make
sixty or
per minute.
EXERCISE 87
Strive for very light lines.
The down
The P
is
7^7
-P-P-PT^
-P-P~P~P
EXERCISK 88
Before beginning practice on the B review the large movement drills
ting ihe proper action for the B. Count 1, 2, 3. 4. Note the final stroke.
The
is
excellent
fc
get-
exercise 89
Observe the difference
in
letters in the
words
in lines
and
2.
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73
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This specimen of practical writing is from the pen of Mary A. Novak, seventh grade pupil in the public schools of Lorain, O., G. W. R. HeIlvane, teacher, A. S. Gregg, supervisor of writing. Much excellent writing is being developed in the Lorain schools under the direction of Mr.
Gregg, who, by the way, is one of the most modest and at the same time thoroughly qualified men in our profession. He is a master blackboard
writer, and supervises drawing quite as successfully as the writing. He is strong in pedagogy and psychology as well as in practice.
Such men
inspire because of their well rounded optimism.
By A.
P.
Calif.,
High School.
0/-T
^3 A-
dy
Students of bookkeeping will do well to study this style by Fred Berkman, Ralston H.
S.,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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WALKING AND HANDWRITING
EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum
for the. expression of conviclinns rc.latlnjs to methods of tr.ic.hInJ and the art of writing
correspondence.
"People walk but
DC
the truth.
3C
LEETHANDEDNESS
Boston school authorities recently
ruled that all children in the first six
grades who write with the left hand
be required to use the right hand,
and in the seventh and eighth grades
the teacher is to exercise her judgment in the matter.
We shall watch the result with interest. We are free to say that in
our opinion this action will prove an
injustice to many pupils.
So long as there are such wide
differences of opinion between psychologists and penmen upon the subject, a uniform ruling for or against
change is dogmatic and therefore
century in spirit.
At least we are unwilling to as-
untwentieth
sume
each case.
The
wrong.
Either course is the easiest one to
pursue, because they eliminate exceptions and make rule the law
rather than judgment based upon investigation.
Our sympathy is with
the children because our observations
incline our judgment to a
course of concession.
The lefthand question is an individual problem; a condition rather
than a theory or an opinion.
3HEH
This careful piece of work
is
And
little"
is
yet people
as near
still
walk,
Mr. Costello
excellent va-
ceptional.
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Of the Professional Edition
this
Number
of
of the Business
Educator.
Mental Meanderings,
shall,
Carl C. Mar-
Advertising, Thos.
E.
Cupper, Inc.
Accounting,
Chas. F. Rittenhouse, C.
P. A.. Boston.
today.
with
Arithmetic
J.
Clarence Howell, De
troit.
Commercial Law,
P. B. S. Peters,
Kan-
sas City.
than ever.
Are you
waiting or working?
Wishing or achieving?
Hoping or
serving?
Mr. and Mrs. Addison E. Butts
louiice the marriage of their daughter,
Efficiency, Harold
S.
Cowan,
Passaic,
N.J.
smith, Philadelphia.
Althea Elizabeth
and
i
:[
IDE
int
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Anyone who
a success.
3D!
IDC
in:
IDE
is
as careful
and works as
<ii
Hi
is
sure to
make
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17
BOSTON UNIVERSITY.
EDITOR'S PAGE
Professional Edition
Devoted
DC
DC
Z3DC
(a)
The officers of the National Commercial Teachers' Federation at Chicago, December last, acted wisely
and practically when they instituted
by
it
it.
to
How
a charge for
(Value
i.
What
DC
inc.
(Value 12)
Sales.
course,
Meanderings
Purchases.
Cost of Goods Sold.
2.
tion
Mental
termined monthly:
HC
of electing officers
Marshall's
Define the functions of the following: accounts and explain of what the balance consists.
Consider that a personal perpetual inventory is maintained and that profits are de1.
FEDERATION INTERESTS
anew method
if
8)
any, to enter-
ing cash discounts and other deductionsby customers on the disbursement side of a caah book*-'
(Value 6)
5.
You are requested to design an accounting system for a business. The management
desires to have the net amount and the amount
of deduction for cash discount posted separately to each customer's account. Submit a rough
design for a Cash Receipts Book. Value 12.
6. State briefly but clearly the most desirable method forhandling 12.000 customers' accounts. It requires three ledger clerks to handle these accounts, each clerk keeps approximately -1.000 accountsin fiveloose leaf ledgers.
Your answer must state from what source the
charges are to be made, how the remittances
are to be recorded by the cashier and thence
posted, and the amounts to be used in controlling the subsidiary ledgers.
(Value 12.)
7.
Explain how to treat a note issued lo a
creditor to apply on account, when a voucher
register is in use- Outline the entrythatshould
be made.
(Value 8)
8.
Would you, as a general proposition, advocate the practice of recording the cost of
each bill of goods sold in the sales record?
State reasons for your answer briefly but
clearly.
(Value 12)
February
2,
191H.
H. C. Bentley.
Head of the Department of Accounting.
The above letter and examination questions
speak for and explain themselves. The quesdisclose unusual excellence and thoroughness. We hope to procure more material
from this source.- [Editor.)
tions
something useful
other regions.
as to
in
scatter this
rooms
way
in
solemn
summoning
ences" and otherwise aping the dignity and exclusive importance of a Commander-in-Chief
who never goes near the firing line. They
make a mistake. I spent a day once at Big
Rapids, Michigan, in the splendid school conducted by Governor Ferris. During that day
Mr. Ferris handled personally not less than
seven or eight recitations. I heard him teach a
class in arithmetic before nine o'clock in the
morning, and he kept it up most of the day,
He
editor devotes a paragraph to spelling.
avers that only a few teachers really teach
spelling, most of them, he says, merely hear the
lessons. Now, I began to "hear spelling lessons" before the day when my editorial friend
"Boards
Spanish and
of
Education andsu-
up
the
in poli-
tics will
in
some eight
or
ten year6
ago
by
Notable
Book.
The
"an educational bullmooser." This characterization was based not alone upon his Convention addiess, but related also to several remarkable articles from his pen which were published
the year before in the Saturday Evening Post.
and
He
This means
that,
while education
is
yielding
its
play."
coming
in
mand that
the subject matter of our school curshall be revised to bring it into amml
with present concepts and aims of education."
"First of all, the elementary school must not
be made to serve chiefly as a preparatory school
forthe high school, as has been too much the
case in the past. Education has been organized from the top down, each lower school being
shaped to fitfor the next higher. But of the
children entering the elementary school, threefifths never go beyond the eighth grade."
"For some two hundred years dogma has dictated a large proportion of the subject matter of
the elementary school as well as of the high
school. Recent educational science has shown
that, even if the effects of formal discipline
cannot be wholly denied, yet a system of education resting on this foundation is relatively
barren and wasteful."
"Both from the professional and public point
of view the relatively useless subiect matter
still to be found in so large proportion in the
elementary schools of Iowa must be eliminated,
giving the time and energy formerly consumed
upon these barren subjects to fruitful and useful
material."
Thlssounds like business, and that it does
not stop with mere talk, is made perfectly clear
when one comes to consider the specific things
recommended for "elimination" by the committee. In a future article I hope to discuss
riculum
some
It
of these.
many
friends of J. E. Full-
ment.
Some readers of
Educatoh may recall, in
my own report of that meeting, some references
to the live wire Hashes in this talk, and that I
took the liberty of referring to Dr. Lewis as
opens
"Education is becoming consciously demoIt is no longer for the favored few, nor
:
thing which
cratic.
Another
"Iowa Idea"
was kindled
elephant
&
ft^fe&irt/neM&Jsuxt&r
18
if
will give
E.
by
Cupper, Inc. Acct.,
Bingen, Ga.
more
GOOD
in
keeping with
the text
of the ordi-
&
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19
ACCOUNTING
Depreciation of Machinery
Reserve for Depreciation of Machinery
To set aside 10"o of the cost of machinery as an additional reserve to
provide for depreciation
31, 1913.
5775.00
5775.00
31
Depreciation of Tools
Reserve for Depreciation of Tools
Assistant Professor of
525.90
525.90
dONS COLLEGE
Last month the elementary principles of manufacturing accounting were discussed and rules given covering the functions of certain ledger accounts peculiar
to such a business.
In the present article a study will be made of the financial statements for a manufacturing business, in order to bring out certain technical points that are necessary to an intelligent understanding of such statements.
As subject matter for this work the following problem is submitted from a recent Boston examination in
bookkeeping for commercial teachers. The reason for
its selection
for our present purpose is that while
not too lengthy or complicated, it covers the principal
points which should be brought out in an analysis of
such statements.
7052. no
7052.00
patterns
To set aside 20% of the cost of lasts
and patterns to provide additional
reserve to cover depreciation.
31
Loss from Bad Debts
Keserve for Bad Debts
To add to the present reserve for bad
debts such an amount as will make
the reserve for that purpose equal to
\"o of the accounts receivable.
261 .95
26195
Exhibition B, Schedule I.
STATEMENT SHOWING COST OF GOODS MANUFACTURED, JANUARY
1 DECEMBER 31, 1913.
Workin Process. January 1,1913
Cost of Raw Material Used:
Inventory, January 1, 1913 $ 14,378.40
23,631.50
Add:
Material purchased
Less:
Inventory, Dec. 31, 1013
$5,775.00
Machinery
525.90
Tools
Lasts and patterns 7,052.00 8 13,352.90
Expenses
Dec
1913
Fartory Supplies
Less:
Inventory, Dec.
1,592.17
18,493.12
8 898.01
37.00
55.00
(roods in process
Finished goods
Interest accrued on notes held
Interest accrued on notes outstanding.
14,280.30
Fuel Inventory,
890.20
Fuel ...
31.
1,592.17
8,817.82
12,688.13
820.20
7,997.42
31,1913
5.193.00
Indirect^Labor
81, 1913.
$ 8l.035.o0
Real estate
Machinery and equipment
Tools
Lasts and patterns
57.750.00
5,259.00
35.260 00
3 396.00
Office equipment
14.378.40
Raw materials, inventory January 1
23.031.50
Goods in process15.680.31
Finished goods
62.310.50
Accounts receivable
Bills receivable
4.388.45
29,902.03
Cash
(jood will
30,000.00
Reserve for depreciation o? lasts and patterns
Reserve for bad debts. -Accounts payable
Bills payable
Capital stock
Surplus
-Mortgages payable ...
--Sales
Discount on purchases
8,817.62
Factory supplies
- 145.481.69
Raw material purchases
110. 371. 4
Labor.
1.845.25
Freight inward
5.19300
Indirect labor
14,280.30
Manufacturing expenses.
25,792.65
Selling expenses
16.123.75
General expenses
110.60
...
Interest
552.25
Allowances to customers8,818.75
Discount on sales
34081
Collection and exchange.
1,493 58
Returned sales
--.
8 695.225.88
329.542.89
Work
in
process,
18,493.12
5.411.75
361 22
3.580.70
3.500.00
o.ooo.oo
7,329.46
1.000.00
S.752.35
7,290.40
311,049.77
Exhibit B
PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT, JANUARY 1-DECEMBER
31,
1913
8419,752.35
Gross Sales
1.493.58
Returned Sales
Net Sales
Deduct
8418,258.77
8 15,686.31
311,049.77
Add:
(see Schedule
326,736.08
I)
8,898.61
317.837.47
100,421.30
Deduct:
Operating Expenses:
25.792.65
Selling Expenses
S 695,225.88
1.
305,911.39
Less:
156,308.10
110.371.84
Depreciation
Less
5,397.24
materials
Factory supplies
* 16i,705.34
5,397.24
Labor
Manufacturing Expenses:
Miscellan's Mfg.
31, 1913.
Raw
145,481.09
1,845.25
Freight inward
16,123 75
General Expenses
Net Profit from Operations
Deduct:
Net Balance of Interest and Di count Items
8,818 75
Discount on Sales
552.25
Allowances to Customers
340.81
Collection and Exchange
201.95
Loss on Bad Debts
110. 0O
Interest
Interest
Accrued on Notes
Outstanding
Less:
Discounts on Purchases
2.
3.
4.
Interest
Held
ar-
Net
Profit
41,916.40
58,504.90
55.00
10,139.86
7.290.40
Accrued on Notes
37.00
7,327.40
2,811.90
55,692.94
dfo&<J6uteneMGduafor
Balance Sheet
I.
81,
1913
ASSETS
preferable.
The classification of assets and liabilities conforms to that prescribed by Haskins & Sells, Certified Public Accounts, New York City, for
use by manufacturing concerns.
S81.085.0U
57,750.00
85,960.00
5 259.00
$b
3.39C..00
Equipment
(iood Will
8182,700.00
30,000 00
The
Business Educator at
It is presented to the readerB of
time because Problem 1 of the examination is a fairly difficult probin manufacturing accounts, while Problem 2 is one that is quite out
of the ordinary,
Furthermore, the publication of this examination carries out the
idea which the writer had in mind in the articles contributed las-t year rn
year.
Current Assets:
22.H02 113
62,316.50
4,388.45
37 00
Cash
Accounts Receivable
Bills Receivable
Interest Accrued on Notes Held
Trading and Working Assets
this
lem
89,644.58
"OPPOR
Inventories:
Raw Materials
5,397 24
18,493 12
8,898.61
1,592.17
K20.20
Goods
in Process
Finished Goods
Fuel
Factory Supplies
Total Assets
35.201.34
337,546.92
Major Bookkeeping
January 31, 1916
high school certificates
WORTH
Fixed Liabilities:
Mortgage Payable
820,000.00
Current Liabilities:
Accounts Payable
Bills Payable
Interest Accrued on Notes
Outstanding
Reserves:
Reserve for Depreciation of
1.
The fiscal year of a manufacturing company ends December 31,
1915, and the bookkeeper presents a statement to the directors made
up in the following form
8285.000
Gross Sales
15.000
300,000
Increase of Inventory
:
")5.00
25,135.70
Cost of Sales
Operating expenses, material and supplies
Plant expense
Freight on returned goods
Sundry purchases of finished goods
Manufacturing Profit
Other Income
Miscellaneous earnings
Profit on contracts
Discount on purchases
:
Machinery
5,775.00
525.90
Reserve
for
Bad Debts
8257.000
12,000
600
280,000
20,000
10,400
Total Liabilities
Net Worth:
200,000 00
Capital Stock
7,329.46
Surplus
Add:
Net Profit (see Exhibit
Total Liabilities and Net Worth
B)_
Comments on
5,692.94
63,022.40
263,022.40
8337.545.92
the Solution
Less
1,500
6,500
500
8.500
28,500
Discounton sales
Rebates and allowances
Net Plant Profit
2,875
1.125
Less
General expenses
4,000
24,600
Adjusting Entries:
1.
2.
(b)
fcj
5,500
1.5 00
7,000
17.500
entries.
2.
British
company submitted
...
States
LIABILITIES
1913
540,000
Common
Share Capital
Preference ShareCapital
Debentures
Payable
Sundry Creditors
Debenture Reserve
Depreciation Reserve
Profit and Loss
LTD.
1,
1915
1914
1915
540,000
1,080,000
405,000
405,000
18,476
135.000
90.000
721,895
81.910,371
157.500
157, POO
788.638
$2,070,692
Bills
Direct labor
22,054
300,000
720 000
185,000
55.746
180 000
157, F00
259.753
$2,887,999
Manufacturing expenses
The statement brings out these three elements clearly and terminates
with the figure which represents "Cost of Goods Manufactured" during
the year, a highly important result.
Manufacturing costs for the current period are added to goods in
process at the beginning of the period and from this amount is deducted
the inventory value of goods in process at the close of the period.
While all the work shown in this schedule might be embodied in the
Profit and Loss Statement, as is frequently done, a separate schedule has
the advantage of emphasizing the essential steps in the statement, at the
same time avoiding a lengthy and involved statement.
The title, Exhibit B, Schedule I, while technical, is sanctioned by
good usage, and does not appear too extreme or conventional in work of
this character. The title merely brings out the fact that the statement is
tributary to Exhibit B, the Profit and Loss Statement, and assists in
properly placing each statement.
Interest
1918
ASSETS
Freehold Premises
Machinery and Fittings
Late Construction
Stock
and Receivable
Deposit
AC
AC
8412.938
555,007
354,213
588,213
1,910,371
1914
8426,198
580.021
571,251
493.21 3
2,070.692
1915
8419.953
663.757
580,766
602.957
630.566
2,887,999
Me3Bu4meu*&uu&r
DOC
DOC
SIDE LIGHTS ON
Commercial
Law
P. B. S.
EARLY HISTORY
According to legal history, corporations, like
practically every otherbranch of substantivelaw,
are of ancient origin. They are not a modern
invention of fertile minds but are the result of
the accumulated experience of the past. Blackstone reports that they were introduced into
PETERS.
CORPORATIONS
IN
GENERAL
change
of
members; and
its
property
rights.
The
CREATURE OF LAW
Corporations are purely creatures of law and
derive their right of existence from the state.
The power to create a corporation is an'incident
of sovereignty; the consent of the state is necIn the United
essary and must be secured.
States, this right is inherent in the legislature;
but the modern practice is for legislative bodies
to delegate such authority to some designated
official with full power to act.
What is a corporation? In the justly celebrated Dartmouth College case, Chief Justice
Marshall of the Supreme Court of the I'nited
States, nearly one hundred years ago, said that
a corporation is "an artificial being, invisible,
intangible, and existing only in contemplation
of law." But in 1+61. or nearly three hundred
years before, the courts said: "A corporation
aggregate of several is invisible, immortal, and
rests only in intendment and consideration of
law." And one hundred years later Lord Coke
expressed the same idea "Corporations are in
visible, immortal, and have no souls. None can
create souls but God; but the king creates them,
and therefore they have no souls." These
words evidently sound well, since they have
been so frequently repeated in varying forms.
Judge Stephen Graves of the highest court in
New York, some fifty years ago declared, "A
corporation is an artificial person with no soul
to be damned and no body to be kicked."
These expressions give emphasis to the fact
that corporations, while exercising the rights of
individuals, are not entirely amendable to some
of the restraints which hold the ordinary person
in the path of rectitude. Corporations have no
fear and apparently never did have of physior of future punishment.
cal chastisement
They can neither be thrashed, imprisoned, nor
consigned to eternal torment. As early as the
-
regulations thus made are not inconsistent with public laws. Even wise old Solon
of Athens comes in for his sbare of credit in
connection with the introduction of the institution to society. It is said that the shrewd men
who really did formulate the code as expressed
in the Twelve Tables copied much from Solon
without giving due credit. But time has partly
cured this lack of courtesy by the honorable
mention of his name in relation to so many
other notable enterprises pertaining lo the
public welfare.
The power and capacity, or incapacity of corporations under the English law are strikingly
similar to those formed under the Civil law an
It is therefore
offspring of the Roman Law.
evident that the common-law principles applied to corporations were in turn borrowed
chiefly from the Romans, regardless of how the
Romans got them. From England they were
introduced into this country under the provincial government and finally under the independent government of the states, anil the
or
CORPORATIONS CLASSIFIED
For convenience, corporations may
tions
state or empire.
vision into
formed
railroad
and are
factories:
ADVERTISING
{Conlifined from page IS)
HOW
greater
action.
I'nited States.
in
21
at
made
ENGLISH
Continued from following page)
Almost every one of the letters here
given, it is true, contains other faults
besides that of wordiness, but I have
purposely considered only the one,
for I have found in my teaching that
it is wise to explain but one fault at
a time. If a student is confronted
with a poor letter and is given only
the general direction to point out the
faults that it contains, he usually
sees no faults, because his attention
is scattered over several possibilities
of faults. But if he is told, on the
other hand, to cut out from a wordy
letter every word that is not essen(
tial to the
is
&
dfa^uA/ntW&s&uxiJfr
22
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS ROSE BUHLKi.
Luke Technical High School.
CHICAGO.
BUSINESS
LETTERS.
Condensation.
We
Then
to
begin
to a class
of the necessity of
of a letter clearly
handed
in the following:
neeil
any
we would
coal.
Yours
on hand.
truly,
like
it
much
better if
it
were
finished in
finish is
using
(ientlemen
We
thank you for your letter of the 8th instant, telling us of the good workmanship in
ting out
Or
70.
may be reduced
thus:
Gentlemen
Your letter of the 8th instant telling us of the
good workmanship in yourNo. A03 Typewriter
Desk interests us. Send us one desk finished
Yours truly,
in mahogany.
Reduced from 10'-' to 26 words, cutting out 76.
it
(ientlemen:
We don't
It
exactly,
main
it.
who
Gentlemen:
in:
(ientlemen:
We received your letter of the sth instant and
wish to thank you for it very much. We note
what you say in it about the good workmanship
of your No. A03 Typewriter Desk, and we like
it very much, but we would like it much better
The mahogif it were finished in mahogany.
any finish is more suitable for us because it
matches thelrest of the furnishings in the office
where we intend to use it. If you have such a
desk as No. A03 in stock|or can finish one for
us in mahogany, you may send us one and
Yours
oblige.
way
to
show
a class
like
it
better
Yours
44
how
if
it
were
truly,
77
to
(ientlemen
Replying to your
we
Yours
And
best
and we would
truly,
102 words.
The
light,
truly,
Let me add one more like the others, taken from pupils' work:
Dear
Sir:
Sir:
We are sorry
As
it is
Yours
(
truly.
&
<!^^&uA/ned^sliuxz/ierucnc
EFFICIENCY
HAROLD
E.
COWAN,
tion
j=
is
in
And
book
any text
any one
teacher. This does not reflect upon
the splendid text books offered us
it
is
doubtful
if
today, but
uses
but these
similar ability
an ability to study, to
assimilate knowledge from reading
it.
This in spite of the fact that perhaps the most difficult and unfortunately the least attempted duty
of the instructor is to teach the
pupil how to study by himself, how
to teach himself. There are many
boys and girls who do poorly in a
book subject but forge ahead rapidly
in the student,
ize
method
for the
combining
to pro-
good
of
work
becomes
stifled
and there
is
understand
it
23
ed the others. These ten papers presented in daily sequence will give a
connected story of the entire industry.
it; these
notes are written up in essay form in
the notebooks. By the end of the
course each student has a good collection of matter in chapter form,
practically as good as a text book.
But we also resort to the real text
book. Before commencing the study
of silk, the text is studied regarding
the history and geography of silk.
Before the series of papers on the
steel industry, a study is made from
text about the kinds of iron, location
of the mines, and methods of mining.
Seven or eight written pages will
give a good description and will not
Our aim
in this is to
edge
for himself,
ers, the economy of co-operation, and
the very best course in the subject he
is
studying.
Gregg Examination
The Board
of
20'
y/u*jtfu*u/**j*>cdu<xi/t/
The steps
follow.
mating
Rule" was followed and the rate being unknown x was assumed as the
monthly rate, making the yearly rate
12x.
Principal
= $50.00.
from June
Int.
VIII.
i7mo.>
teachers
who
yearly borrow
money
many
teachers
The
the conditions, following the business custom of discarding fractions of a cent on each amount of
interest, when the fraction is less
than five mills, and treating the largBy
er fractions as another cent.
Jan.
mo.)
(2
32.50x.
Third payment
= $16.25.
to
payments
$65
97.50x.
Therefore $50
+
=
=
+
97.50x.
350x
$65
?52.50x
$15.
-i- $252.50
5.9405940+%.
12x - 71.287128
%.
Thus it is seen that the rate by
the Merchant's Rule, is slightly more
Hence
= $15
than
71
2-7%.
made on
that to
to
);";;;
Nov.
Dec
16.25
17.50+233. 75x+200-
to
17.50x+233.75x'+200x 3
and
Payment
Dec 1,16.25
Bal. due
Dec. 1, 1.25+251. 25x 433.75x,+200x
Dec. 1 to Jan. 1 (1 mo.)
a trial
was
62)%.
:l
Int.
'
:l
Jan.
Total Amt. of
Int.
33.75X-I-200X*
33 75+233. 75x+200x 2
Amt due
to Jan.
350x.
1 (1 mo)
Amt. due Nov.
Payment Nov.
Bal. due Nov 1
+200x>=$16.25.
252.50x+685x +633 25x +200x< =$15
Find the value of x.
The writer does not maintain that
this equation cannot be solved, but
he does most seriously doubt it.
The most important lesson to get
out of this article is not the method
of arriving at the rate, important as
that may be, but rather the rate itself.
It seems impossible that any
person of the high character demanded of a teacher should find it so
difficult to borrow money that he
would have to pay such an exhorbitant rate as 62%, or that one with the
business acumen naturally to be expected of a commercial teacher would
be sufficiently reckless in his expenditure of money so that he could be
induced to pay such a rate.
When a
teacher has a good position and is
able to save even a little, he should
carry a checking and a savings account and should cultivate the ac;l
'-'
banker.
Then
a little extra money
he will not find it difficult to get it at
his bank at the current rate of inter-
quaintance of his
when he needs
est.
strates
error.
nual Accuracy Contest has shown marked advance of typists along error-proof lines.
Now there is under way a general movement
among important commercial educational institutions in the Accuracy First direction. The
most recent proof which reaches us of the
spread of this Remington error-proof idea
comes from Virginia. One of the leading business colleges of the Old Dominion has been
conducting a series of exercises and tests. The
results have been kept systematically and a table of figures prepared. This table shows that
in a comparatively short time forty-eight pupils
made error- proof records on five minute tests,
and one was able to maintain the error-proof
pace for ten minutes. Other institutions are
achieving like results.
It'goes without saying that the schools which
direct instruction along these lines will produce the operators for whom there is greatest
demand. The business world welcomes most
warmly the workers who are trained to perform
their tasks
most
efficiently.
*
TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS.
T.
CRAGIN.
Holyoke, Mass.,
Thompson's Business
School.
DCDC
DOC
HfZDC
IN
It was in 1870, the year of the great FrancoPrussian war, that our Jake landed at Castle
Garden with
some other
New
Jake fled for his life from the irate superintendent. He was still determined to enlist in the
French army, but the only battle in which he
took part was one with the French consul at
New York. He had been to the office of that
gentleman about twenty times to get enlisted
in the service and finally the French gentle-
And then he picked up a partner as disreputable in appearance and as nearly down and out
as himself. A little outcast black and tan dog
that occasionally had fits. Jake had been almost tempted to. end his existence in the grey
waters of the river when this little outcast crept
upto him shivering with cold and poked his
nose into the chilled hands of the boy. for Jake
was only a boy of twenty and a little more.
They soon became companions for a brief
time until the dog met a tragic fate. Onenight
Jake wet and shivering with cold sought refuge
in the lodging room of the police station the only refuge there was at that time in the great city
for the tramp or the man down and out from
honest poverty and lack ot work. They would
not admit the dog and the little fellow stayed
outside under the shelter of the portico toawait
the return of his master who spent the remaining hours of the night in the company of
drunkards, thieves, outcasts and tramps reeking
In the brief hours when sleep
with filth.
brought unconsciousness they stole from about
his neck the only memento he had of his old
home life, a little gold locket that he wore
around his neck under his shirt and which con-
25
NEW CAREER
the ablest
write
fifty
We
'u+u&r
A
RED HOT
UITOF
Jake published
in
Brooklyn
One
to
NARROW ESCAPE
particular
summer and
Spitz
to
deal of trouble.
The paper sold like hot cakes. Any paper will
sell well that is all the time pitching into every-
go
in
ECCENTRIC" HOUSEKEEPING
Jake came back with his new bride and they
started a home in a neat little flat. Neither one
of them knew anything about house-keeping,
hut they bought a cook book aDd they ordered
groceries including everything in the
cook book from apples down to yams and they
cooked some weird dishes many of which
found their way into the ash barrel to the great
scandal of the neighbors who never wasted anya stock of
thing.
to take
him
A LUCKY COLLISION
Jake was sent on all kinds of assignments.
night rushing furiously across Printing
House Square in a blinding snowstorm with
copy for the Trib.. he collided with a couple of
One
of
them "galley
the
icy mitt," to use a poetical expression but Jake didn't mind that, he was the
man that put the "war in warfare and flew to
meet trouble "as the sparks fly upward." The
gang had a habit of passing around news to one
another and they froze Jake out greatly to his
benefit, for
he hunted up
his
some good
umn
in a
the
him
to
gather
news.
For
many
year
self
sition.
to for
"How the Other Half Lives," hail appeared, looking for the author, who was out.
He left his card merely writing on the back of it
that be had read the book and had come to help.
From that day to the day of his death Jake
idolized "the Sage of Oyster Bay." Now I
don't idolize Roosevelt myself, but nobody can
doubt his impetuous courage, or his tremendous
activity, energy and ability, and he was the
power needed in the reform movement, which
meant the cleaning up of the slums, the putting
of a great playground in place of the stews and
dives and sinks of Mulberry Bend and the
great News Boys' Home towers a monument
where once centered the old Five Points.
Roosevelt was police commissioner for two
years, and they were strenuous years before the
great Theodore moved on to higher game.
But while he remained there was something doing every minute day and night, for Roosevelt
Jake's,
man
in
his fight
against rottenness in the New York Police System, but they made it so hot for him that he was
glad enough to get the appointment of Assistant-Secretary of the Navy under McKinley.and
our Jake went to Washington and spent some
time with the active dynamo who soon jumped
into the Spanish-American War with his Rough
Kiders, thence to the governor's chair of New
York, where Jake was again in close touch with
the executive, and finally by the bullet of Czolgosc into the presidency. But Jake never took
an office under Roosevelt though the latter
would cheerfully have given him one. Our hero knew his limitations, and knew that he was
entirely too hot-headed to serve under anybody.
He was a free lance as a reporter. The "Sun"
which he served did not at all agree withhim on
but printits editorial page, quite the contrary,
ed his "stuff" just the same, and he tells a pathetic little story of his last interview with the
great editor, Charles A. Dana, who was as savage in attack with his editorial pen, as he was
gentle and kindly in his private life.
Jake met him one day on the dirty, narrow
stairway that led to the editorial rooms of the
"New York Sun." Jake was going up and the
old
He stumbled
and seemed stooped and aged, very dif-
slightly
^u4Mu&^ticuMtfr
what he had
to say
it
moved men
and women.
Jake tried to go to war in 1898. He never
quite got over the notion of hearing the bullets
Tacoma
IN
Nebr.
After graduating he tiled on a claim adjoining his father's ranch at Stuart, Nebr., breaking
broncos in| summer and teaching school in
GUNN SyUAKE,
8, 191(5.
to
some
of
your readers.
It
gives the amount of time devoted to Penmanship in nineteen city High Schools of Commerce. Only four of the nineteen cities have a
I could give
population of less than 100.000.
the names of the cities, butfeel that as the in-
State in
which
cated
city
is
lo-
Periods
per Number
week
study
is
Sincerely yours,
S. O. Smith.
175 lessons.
of
weeks Previous
drill
pursued
Two
Connecticut
Supervision
Nebraska
5 periods
One and
Ohio
4 periods
One
a half
Yes
Yes
Two
Yes
Pennsylvania
5 periods
One
Supervision
Pennsylvania
5 periods
!One
Ohio
5 periods
One
New York
2 periods
One
Yes, in a
Maine
period
Four
Yes
New
4 in 1st year 2
Two
Yes
New
Jersey
Jersey
in
3,
Supervision
half year
Supervision
way
Connecticut
2nd year
Yes
Connecticut
1910.
TEACHERS:
Please
.Mr. 11.
are
6.
HABIT TRAINING.
January
ment"
Public Schools.
Mr. O. B. Crouse. for the past six years connected with the Eittleford School, Cincinnati,
and a strong supporter of The Business Educator, has resigned that position to accept a
position as District Agent for the Equitable
Life Insurance Co of Iowa. Mr. Crouse's address continues to be Cincinnati. We wish him
much success in his new position.
5 periods
5
Missouri
2 1st
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periods
Minnesota
in
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half,
One
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half year
One
Michigan
5 periods
Ohio
5 periods
One
year
Yes
Connecticut
3 in 1st year
in 2nd year
Two
years
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5 periods
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year
Jno.
1A good idea, Editor.
().
Peterson.
New
York
one
last 3
lesson
years
per
Lesson is applied to
business forms last half
Yes
J2
Cheerfully yours,
Also
week
of 1st year
told
him
number
DC
VIII
wrote a shorttime back that Mr.
Wiliiams' position gave me no chance to exercise my intellect. I was wrong.
don't suppose there is any position in which the holder's
fund of information does not serve a purpose
21.
how
He
is
enthusi-
astic,
to it?"
off.
I
don't know what experience he has had
with stenographers, but I'm sure he had come
back fully expecting to have to edit my attempt
at the letter before a final draft could be sent.
And at High School I used to wonder what
earthly good I would ever get from the hours I
spent on Latin
That was chapter one. Chapter two came tohave spoken over the lei epone w ith Mr.
day.
Cameron several times since that day to give
him information that he wanted about some oftice details. Then today at noon he came to
the office. I told him Mr. Williams had just
gone to lunch and would be awav for an hour.
"Then I'll have a chat with you.' said Mr.
Cameron smiling, "I won't interfere with the
folding of those circulars."
And a mighty pleasant chat we had, in the
course of which he asked me how I liked my
present work. He has the manner that makes
one feel he will understand and sympathize.
So I answered him the only way I could with
!
any degree
of trutb
NEWS NOTES
wanted
Alice M. Goldsmith,
June
<F
was folding.
Business
see
&
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2S
whom
I am to help.
eral secretary
The Association is to conduct a membership campaign,
extended over a period of several months, and
that
when my work
is
finished, into
something
else
fast
table
and accompanies
downtown. Sometimes
me on my
ride
part of
my equipment.
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gaged to teach in the Port Huron, Mich., Business University. Mr. McCannell has recently
been with Wood's Business College, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
W. H. Van Kirk, of the Wichita Business College, is elected to teach penmanship in the
Wichita, Kansas, High School, following Mr. F.
S. Robinson, who goes to the Detroit High
Schools.
Agnes S. Ordung, of Boston, has accepted an
appointment to teach Graham shorthand in the
Trenton, N.
Bertha
are
J.,
High School.
W. Ferguson and
recently
Mildred
engaged teachers
in
B. Allen
the High
W. A. Wille has been chosen to teach commercial subjects in the Washington High
School. Milwaukee, Wis.
F. C. Andrews, of Camby, Ind., is now President of the Practical Business College, of Cambridge, Ohio.
Guy D. Miller, recently head of the CommerDepartment of the Shortridge High School,
Indianapolis, Ind., has been chosen to head the
Commercial Department of the new High
School of Commerce, Springfield, Mass.
cial
C. M.
charge of
school
at St.
a position to take
Maries, Idaho, owned
by Mrs. M. M. Counselman.
recently of Bedford, Ky.
Mr. Cutshaw
is
R. E. Bullock, who has been taking penmanship under W. C. Brownfield, in the Bowling
Green, Ky., Business University for the past
six months, recently engaged to teach the
commercial branches in the Galena, 111., High
School.
The
In sending
Business Educator an order, W. H. Moore, Lake, Ohio, drew a picture
of a very charming young lady on the side of
his letter. The work shows more than ordinary
art ability. Mr. Moore lias been studying art
for some time and is making rapid strides.
The Opportunity
Journal,
Were Twenty-one."
The journal contains many advertisements
I
by
the
ability are
May
it
The
Detroit
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ploma to Mrs. Celina Calzin, "(Jl years young,"
the enthusiasm and applause were generously
given, she having completed the shorthand
course in an exceptionally efficient manner.
Lean, President, held
ercise
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Miss Jeanette A. Krebes, supervisor of drawand writing of Tiffin, Ohio, will have
charge of the art and penmanship work next
summer in Heidelberg College. Miss Krebes
is a teacher of valuable experience and splen-
WANTED
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Must
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Address A. L. C, care
Business Educator, Columbus, Ohio.
ing
mean
business.
FOR SALE
New
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weeks. Write
to
ILL.
SUPERVISOR OF PENMANSHIP
A THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED
SOLICITOR
who is also competent and willing to teach commercial subjects part of the time is desired by established Business School in the East. State
qualifications, references, salary in first letter.
way
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HUNT.
GRANVILLE,
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Mr. Peter Levins has charge of the penmanship in the evening schools of St. Mary's Cath-
Association Evening Schools of Cambridge, Mass. The progress made was creditable alike to the students and the teachers, as
well as the institution. Mr. Levins is an enthusiast on penmanship.
Columbus, Ohio
C. E. Baten,
Instructor
in
Commer-
RARE OPPORTUNITY
cial
for
in
Five years ago, C. E. Baten began his teaching career in the town of Blackwell, Oklahoma,
where he worked for two years as head of the
commercial department and as secretary in the
the A. N. Palmer
Company,
as traveling teach-
New England
ling all subjects would find this a good investment at double the price asked.
Address "
Care Business Educator
C. G. E."
Columbus, Ohio
FOR SALE
A private school in fine town of 8000. No com
petition in 150 miles. Vast inland empire to
draw from. District very prosperous. PossesLow rent.
sion June 1st. Centrally located.
Small amount will handle.
ADDRESS
OUT WEST
Columbus, Ohio
For Sale
Business College of excellent repute, located
Owner compelled to sell
in Los Angeles. Calif
on account of ill health. 1 his is a high grade
school and is a chance of a life time to get into
a well established school for less than half its
actual worth. N'o outstanding debts. Will sell
for $4,000.00. Address,
care of Business Educator,
L. A.
C,
COLUMBUS, OHIO.
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lish
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Our issue
January, 1910, Professional Kdition. was exhausted shortly after the issue was
mailed and, as a result, many peisons who have
subscribed since and ordered their subscriptions
to be begun with that number, have been disappointed.
If any of our friends can spare copies of that
number, we shall certainly be thankful if they
will mail them to us. The journals can be returned to us at the rate of four ounces for one
rent, or
tor
one copy
for
two cents.
The Publishers.
"Shorthand Reporters' World," volume 1, No.
January 1916, published monthly by Miner
& Bailey, New York, N. Y., is the title of a new
publication devoted to all systems of shorthand.
Mr. Enoch N. Miner is the general editor and
Mr. Arthur R. Bailey is the editor of the Re1,
The
111.,
we
recently received
1.
Date, April 20, 21 and 22, 1916.
2. Place,
Hotel McAlpin, Thirty Fourth
Street and Broadway, New York City.
3.
Round table sessions to be held at the
Packard School, four blocks from the hotel.
4. President, W. E. Barthlomew, State Inspector of Commercial Education. Albany,
New
5.
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York.
Twentieth Annual Meeting
Nearly six hundred paid members.
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This remarkable fact has recently
been brought home to teachers and
pupils everywhere by the improved
Remington column
selector.
It is
innumerable comparative
why
it
tests
and it is a
Remington feature exclusively. No other
machine has it or anything like it.
Isn't that reason enough why every
school should teach touch typewriting and
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DAY
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or
IS
IN
AUentown, Penna.
NIGHT SCHOOL
or
I am highly pleased
with this course of instruction, and can already (lesson 3) see good results from it."
SMALL CLASSES
EQUALLY*FASCINATING FOR
(April 3, 1916.)
H. M. Pinkston, Secretary,
Southern Timber and Lumber Companu.
Fapettevil/e. N. C.
R.
THE
F.
H.
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COMPANY
J.
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cial
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of the subject
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THE EDITOR ON THE
COAST
PACIFIC
i9
growing
institution.
Normal School
thoroughly mod-
State
It is
penman and
teacher.
No man
is
prob-
Dick
to sanitary janitors.
Midway Hotel, where, to their surprise, a banquet was given in their honor at the glorious
sunrise of day, attended by about two dozen of
the faculty and other friends. We thank God
for friends as true and hearts as hospitable as
those which surrounded that breakfast feast.
OMAHA
Omaha
is
growing
at a
first
Venus
W. Y.
KEARNEY
surprising rate.
in large
New
numbers, big in
We
enthusiastic.
SANTA MONiCA
evinced
progressive spirit in writing. Writing, as well as water nymphs will help to make
a
SANTA ANA
Since visiting this city of wealth in tropical
surroundings three years ago, Supt. J. A.
Cranston's dream of a great polytechnic high
school has come true, and the buildings
are as a consequence beautiful and impressive and a fit monument to his foresight and the
Wherry, formerly
the writing
SIMMONS
COLLEGE
BOSTON, MASS.
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Modesto, in Stanislaus County, is a city well
named, splendidly served by hotels, and beautifully situated in one of the most fertile valleys
of the world. The teachers proved to be interested in writing and progressive generally.
County Supt. Frank Bacon says little but accomplishes
FOR
9th,
Commercial Teachers
()
a
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V
ft
a
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tt
forty miles of
a dozen feet
in depth, sometimes twenty and thirty on the
level. In an hour'srun down the western slope
the State
AUGUST
11,
1916
is
plan-
completing courses
and credit towards college
degree may be secured in certain courses by properly qualto those
ified
students.
of the Rockies,
in
3 to
During theSummerSession
(J
JULY
\j
(]
SACRAMENTO
March
mento.
much.
Los Banos, a less pretentious little city, southwest from Modesto, in Merced County, was
where County Superintendent Margaret Sheehy
held the institute where we encountered another
group of progressive teachers who were ready
to welcome help in handwriting and its teaching problems.
Fresno, where the Central California Teachers' Association held its convention, is a very
fine city. Here we noticed more fine store display windows than in any other city of its size
anywhere. Here, too, hotels are numerous and
fine.
The courthouse looks like a state house
and is beautifully illuminated by night.
We found much interest in writing among
do.
tic.
At the head of a fine High School we discovered H. O. Williams who gained his educational spurs in ColumbuB, O.
He was delighted to
learn that his former principal of East High,
Frank B. Pearson, is now Ohio's State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Mr. J. F. Dale heads a very progressive and
prosperous Commercial Department, with J.
G.Moore, a fine looking, skillful penman in
charge of the writing.
We then dropped into Heald's Capital City
Commercial School and found it prospering
with Mr. Peareat the head and with our old
yet young Ohio friend in charge of the Commercial and Penmanship work. Mr. J. F. Sterner, every inch a man, every pound a teacher,
and every ounce a penman. Heald's. as you
will see, comes about as near spelling Head,
Hand, and Heart education as it is possible to
We
the
his teachers
sults.
in
met
VENICE
Venice
lying along
women.
for
I)
full in-
formation, write to
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SIMMONS COLLEGE
BOSTON, MASS.
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GREGG SCHOOL
Summer
Normal
Gregg Shorthand
The Leading System
What should a Shorthand System be
win and maintain Leadership ?
It
1.
Session
July 3-August 11
THIS
and
COURSE
offers the
SINCE
most practical
In addition to instruc-
elementary, intermediate, and advanced shorthand, the pedagogy of Shorthand, Typewriting, Office Training, Business
English and Commercial Correspondence is
successfully imparted, and teachers have an
opportunity of conducting practice classes
under the supervision of competent critics.
The course prepares eligible teachers for
the Gregg Federation Teachers' Certificate,
and for the Teachers' Certificate granted by
Mr. Gregg.
in
UNUSUAL FEATURES
A new feature this year will be a six-weeks'
1.
reporting course conducted by Mr. Fred H. Gurtler
for teachers who wish to increase their speed. The
work is highly concentrated, every moment being
made to count for the upbuilding of speed and accuracy.
3.
Visits to some of the big business houses of
Chicago, under the direction of members of the
faculty, are productive of wonderful results. Many
teachers never have the opportunity to see how
the products of the business schools measure up to
the requirements of modern business.
GREGG SCHOOL
6
inefficient.
Young Gregg
commercial teacher.
tion
RAPID
Must Be
1916
to
III.
2.
It
ACCURATE
Must Be
is
as
of simplicity.
The fact that 67% of the public high schools are
teaching Gregg Shorthand, and most of them have
changed from the old systems, is proof that Gregg
is the easiest to teach and to learn, and the most
satisfactory in actual use.
The following
tive standing
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Chicago
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San Francisco
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New
More Misstatements by
the Gregg Publishing
The New York
Company. From
March
Practical Course in
Touch Typewriting
Globe,
27, 191b.
number
The arrangement
The advertisement
members
of the team
tion renders
be called
The
work
rapid progress from the beginning is more completely worked out than in any other textbook.
The student commences to write sentences and capitals in
Figures are introduced at a much
the third lesson.
earlier stage than in former editions.
"One of the most important principles in the teaching of
touch typewriting, is to train the beginner to form the habit of
returning the fingers to the guide keys after using the other
keys. This habit enables the pupil to learn the true relation of
find that the exercises in
I
the other keys to the guide keys.
'Practical Courseware so carefully graded and arranged that,
even without the supervision of the teacher, the slowest pupil
must return his fingers to the starting point. The present upto-date methods of arranging the business letters; the clear and
concise explanation of how to work oul both copy and original
tabulations the invaluable information about the three methods
of preserving copies of outgoing mail, the copies for speed
practice all these I consider indispensable aids not only to
the teacher but also to those who are preparing themselves for
Regents, Civil Service, and for the business world. "-Arww
\uslander, Buswict High School, Brooklyn, t?, Y,
57c.
respectively.
WEST
45th
NEW YORK
STREET,
snorthana
instructor
Dictation
Ky Edwin H. Cravf.r,
terest; to
Some
Difficult
WEST
45th
NEW YORK
STREET,
r? ,MHJIJ I
KFyj
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the re-
The advertisement
"the crack
'
'
the advertisement liberally quoted other facts from the report it deliberFurthermore, even the descripately omitted this one
tion of 'the normal regents'requirements for 400 hours of
100 words per minute average' is a misinstruction
statement
Every teacher of shorthand in the city knows
that the regents' requirement is that a pupil shall obtain a
rating of (iO per cent, for the transcription of either a 100-
mittee published in
'
EDWIN
A.
BOLGER,
Chairman.
Department
of
as 440.
Send for
of a Free
in
WEST
45th
STREET,
NEW YORK
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COLUMBUS,
VOLUME XXI
O.,
MAY,
NUMBER
1916
IX
O..
Zaner,
E. W. Bloser,
Zaneh & Hloher.
Editor
Business Manager
C. P.
Publishers and
Owners
Two
Editions.
The Teachers'
Professional
Professional Edition.
The Business Educator is devoted to the progressive and practical interest of Business Education and Penmanship. A journal whose mission is to dignify, popularize, and improve the
world's newest and neediest education. It purposes to inspire and instruct both pupil and
teacher, and to further the interests of those engaged in the work, in private as well as in public institutions of business education.
Change
of Address.
If
We
Subscribers.
If
we do
not acknowledge
re-
we
dence
that
as
among
"*~Rates to
sent
you
office workers,
home
students, etc.
upon
WHO
SOMETIMES FORGET.
or
N. Y.
first
item
in the
common
sense creed
Obedience.
Do your work with a whole heart
Revolt
is
is
When you
revolt,
why
declared yourself.
But to pretend to obey, and yet carry in your
heart the spirit of revolt,
and
is
to
do halfhearted
stirtshod work.
revolt and obedience are equal,
your engine will stop on the center and you benefit nobody, not even yourself.
The Spirit of Obedience is the controlling imIf
mind and
the hospitable
heart.
world.
to receive
not fit to issue them. But he who
to execute orders is preparing the
give
them, and better stillto have
way to
them obeyed.
orders
is
knows how
&
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A big business is a steamship bound for a port
It takes a large force of men to
called Success.
operate this boat. Eternal vigilance is not only
the price of liberty, but it is the price of every
other good thing, including steamboatinp.
To keep this steamship moving, the Captain
requires the assistance of hundreds of people
a singleness of aim one purpose a
do the right thing and the best thing
who have
desire to
in order that the ship shall move steadily, surely and safely on hercourse.
Does
In'
to
order
Some penmen dote upon their abiland weave signatures together with one stroke of the pen,
and for that reason some people have
the erroneous idea that a signature,
no matter what initials it contains,
should be made with one stroke of
the pen, and the more complicated
ity to twist
and inharmonious
they like
it
is
the
better
it.
and
is
imitation justifiable
learning.-
ZELLA RICHTER.
ful
then give
you
from
If
off
a tilt to starboard.
are on a greased plank,
it
it,
and quickly,
LOYALTY
IS
you
better get
too.
THE THING
To
power as well.
By this method only
is it possible
bring writing within the normal
capacity of the child and thus expect
and exact no more relatively from the
child than from the adult. It is only
to
SUPERVISORS' SALARIES
The United States Bureau of Education in Bulletin No. 16, 1914, under
the title of "The Tangible Rewards
of Teaching," gives a detailed statement of salaries paid to the several
classes of teachers and school officers.
Supervisors
In cities
Is
penmanship
question.
Doyoahavea
specific
place on j-our
program for writ ing': If so, do roll follow your program": ZELLA RICHTER.
Who will answer this question?
[Editor.]
Should writing be taught in the beginning grades from the standpoint of the
art of writing or from the standpoint of
the child's need to express himself?
ZELLA RICHTER.
of
both
penmanship
and
ex-
pression.
penmanship alone
considered,
either from the standpoint of form
drawing
copy-book
plan
by the script
or by the so-called muscular moveIf
is
is
de-
minimum,
000:
Penmanship
of
$1800
000:
minimum,
$1100;
minimum,
$900;
and
250,-
maximum,
000:
250,-
maximum,
and
100,-
maximum,
As
preparing as supervisors of writing in the pubIf you have not seen this directory,
lic schools.
a copy will be sent free upon request.
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The above set of capitals was executed byH. H. Stutsman, Lus Angeles. Considering that Mr. Stutsman is seventy-three
Few there are who can retain their
years of age, it is wonderful work. There is a good lesson in this work for young penmen.
skill to such an age. Mr. Stutsman is enjoyiDg good health, which is no doubt due to the fact that he is a strong believer in exercising the body and living a healthy life.
Herewith is the countenance of H. H. Stutsman, who was born in Elkhart County, Ind.,
near Goshen, June 20, 1843. At the age of ten,
his father removed from Ind. to Cedar Rapids,
la., and from there, to Anamosa, la., where he
was reared. Like Piatt R. Spencer, his first labor was chopping cord wood and later farming.
When eighteen years of age, he enlisted in the
Union Army and served in Co. F. 13th la.
Inft.
Vols.
Early in life he was drawn towards the wonderful beauties of the pec In March, 1868, he
In the same
took his first lesson in writing.
year he taught penmanship in Brooklyn, la.,
with splendid success. May 26, 1869, he entered Shrocks' Writing Academy, Iowa City,
la., from which school he was graduated, after
which he taught penmanship classes in SpringIn Februville, la., securing excellent results.
ary, 1870, he took charge of the writing in the
public schools of Anamosa, la., where he remained two years. Some time later he succeeded H. C. Clark at the Cedar Rapids, la.,
of copies
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PRACTICAL
BUSINESS
WRITING
By
&
E. A.
LUPFER,
a beautiful
TOR CERTIFICATE
fer's
course
1:111
BUSINESS EDUCA-
College.
the year.
postage for free criticism.
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FACILITY
There is a certain amount of variation in letters so that they can be
easily read, and a certain amount of
similarity for beauty and facility.
The most easily read writing is not
the most uniform, and writing which
is the quickest done may be the most
uniform, yet the most difficult to
read.
Some of the things which make
writing beautiful are
Size
Slant
and Spacing
Writing may be very irregular in
size, contain many different slants,
Uncontrolled push and pull movement, the paper and elbow not shifted often enough, and lack of co-ordination between push and pull and
lateral movement causes irregular
slant.
with a hump or shoulder on the down stroke. Notice that it is made a little higher than a or n. Check the motion at the
copy by the check mark. Be careful though not to make a complete stop on the shoulder or you will form a sharp angle.
For the joined letters, one count is sufficient for each letter. Watch the slant of the down stroke.
Copy 92. Watch the shoulder, and notice the width of r. See that the down stroke in r is on the same slant as down stroke in u. Not too fast on
shoulder indicated
Count:
is
an
in the
the shoulder.
Copy 03. Study the large tracer. The beginning and final strokes of s are the same as in r. There really is very little difference between the two
except the s Is closed at the bottom while the r is not. The s contains no straight line.
I'se a rocking motion.
Review copy 21. The up
stroke should be curved considerably. Count: 1-2-3, or closethe-s.
If the down stroke is made too straight, it resembles the letter t, andifitisnot
letters
closed
at
the bottom
it
resembles a poor
r.
Copies 94, 05 and 96. These words will test your ability in making the letter s. See that it is closed at the bottom and that the down stroke
curved a greatdeal. A straight down stroke in s makes it look stiff and like the t. Try not to stop on turns or they will be angular and stiff.
is
the loop. Pause at the base line but do not raise the pen. Count: loop- 1 -2-3-4-5 6. The second exercise is very imporRetrace the indirect oval six timesbefore swinging t the stem. Count: 1-2-3-4-5-capital-stem. Keep the down stroke straight. The third
exercise is to prevent curving the down stroke.
Any one who has a tendency to curve the down stroke will find this exercise especially gQod to
overcome the tendency. Count: Capital-stem- 1-2-3-4-5-6.
tant.
>
Count:
Notice the proportions, the size and slant of loop, and the rounding
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Copy 99.-The first part of is the capital stem. The second part starts like and swings over lo the stem, looping it.
You will notice that the last part is made of two compound curves joined by a loop. Count: 1-2, 3-4, or capital-stem, 1-2.
slight pause in the count to allow the student to change from one stroke to the other.
3-finisb.;
Copy
are
bound
101. -The
to
in
H.
first part.
You
succeed
ay ay
Ap Ap
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Copies 102 and 103. How about your position? Read the instructions given in the February number.
The compound curves should be gracefully and.'freely made. Do not stop on the loop.
The
is
very beautiful
letter
when
well made.
Copies 104 and 105 Study the copy before doing any practicing. Be sure that you know what you want to make. After you have made a line,
stop and criticise your work. Are you making them too wide or too narrow? The word is a nice one to write. See what nice final strokes you can
make.
Copies lOBand 107. -Always see that there are turns where there should be turns, and angles where there should be angles.
your writing will not be legible.
'X'X
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Copy 108. Review copies 2 and 7. This is an excellent exercise for the t. Count: Startl-2-3-4-5-6-t.
-2-3-4-5-6swingl2 3-4-5-8-swing, etc. Don't goto sleep on this copy. Let the arm glide freely in and
Copy
Keep
jfc* yfct^y^y
y//
Copy
Copy
112.
113.
Count:
The d
is
extended
slight pause
down low on
the joining
a space higher
the
may
be
and has
made
at
start-
It
t.
is
74.
way.
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BUSINESS
WRITING
By
S.
E.
LESLIE
LESLIE.
EXERCISE 00
The movement
stead of retraced.
drill is the same as that in the preceding copy except the hand is moved slowly to the right making an
Instructions for P and B will apply here except for finishing stroke which is the same as K. Compare.
EXERCISE
Join R to small letters. In writing word
with a continuous motion.
"Richmond"
in
91
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EXERCISE 02
Review the indirect oval exercise before practicing J. The retraced letter in Line 1 is an excellent drill. The down stroke in J should
quite straight. The three lines in J cross at base line. Count 1, 2. The top of letter Is made a little larger than lower patt.
be kept
EXERCISE 93
Write these words without
lifting
pen
is
finished.
EXERCISE 04
The
begins like
and finishes same asT. The retraced ex errite should be given much
page
of
practice.
Count
1, 2. 3.
exercise 05
sentence compare with former specimens and note improvement.
EXERCISE 06
finished all the letters. The remaining copies are given to enable you to develop a settled or individual style of writing.
now be made automatically. Give most attention to arrangement, neatness and appearance of the page as a whole.
words in this copy end with ing. When words end in g, the loop below the line is not usually made.
forms should
Note
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EXERCISE 97
They are excellent
for
developing
a free,
Good
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EXERCISE 9W
Here are some
difficult
loop combinations.
Do
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It is
one
of the
most important
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By A.
P.
Meub, Pasadena,
Calif.,
High School.
CLUBS
The following
is a
partial
list
of friends
who
By
Etta
McNamara, student
instructor.
in
This 9tudent
&
EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
lar.
A forum
for the expression of convictions relating to methods of teaching and the art or writing
DC
Penmen have had scales and standards in their heads lo these many,
many years, but Thorndyke "beat
us to it" in the publishing and popularizing
game.
And we
As women enter
Think
What
over.
are you doing to encourage
it
Which
Handwriting Scales.
to estimate
it than that
they should
be able by mechanical means to
classify
No
it.
who
teacher
is
and movement
them.
of
PARTIAL CONTENTS
penman-
Number
of
of the Business
Educator.
It is
ktiow what
Editorial.
sightliness.)
The "old"
is
under
fire
and
in
bad
repute generally.
The new disposes of the old with a
gesture or a cynocism and promises
anything your heart may desire.
Let us remark in passing that the
not as bad as some deold is
clare or there would have been no
one to survive to tell the tale.
On
the other hand, most of the old was
good and most of anything that is
new is old.
Mental Meanderings,
shall, Ceilar
Carl C. Mar-
Kapids, Iowa.
Advertising, Thus.
E.
Cupper, Inc.
Accounting,
Chas. F. Kittenhouse, C.
P. A., Boston.
Arithmetic,
J.
troit.
Commercial Law,
P. B. S. Peters.
Kan-
sas City.
Efficiency, Harold
S.
Cowan,
Passaic,
N.J.
smith, Philadelphia.
tli
rather than
of child
mature and
&
^i&^uAtne&V&rtu&rifr
make
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Professional Edition
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FEDERATION INTERESTS
Number Three.
Marshall's
are,
during
the year, to study the matter of Sections and to report at the first session of the next convention the result of their findings.
Each member, during the year,
should study the question and be
prepaYed to act intelligently upon the
recommendation for the betterment
of the cause for which the Federation is but an instrument.
The merits of more or fewer sections are not as vital as some think.
The success of the organization is
not in the machinery but in the
minds of those who utilize it. And
if all can appreciate that condition,
concession, conciliation, and consideration will evolve the solution.
The greater the number of large
units, the fewer the subdivisions that
will be necessary.
On the other
hand, the fewer the sections, the
more sub-divisions will result, or the
more the roundtables, whichever you
vision.
In the Sections
one and
in
it
the Federation
its
finds the
it
discov-
and
detail.
Federation
meetings
penmanship,
in
bookkeeping, in
shorthand, in machine writing, in
high school problems, in school
management, etc. Either that, or he
wants to see some one who is a recognized expert in his line.
Once he
has the habit, he continues to come.
But no matter what the result may
be,
five, six
or
Mental
Meanderings
DOC
What Kind
of
"The
we
DDL
Sections.
proper
shall
probably have
to
go on
building forts to defend our churches, and making steel guns to supplement our bibles.
The Speed
Delusion
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18
one that can be most easily learned
and accurately written at a moderate
speed.
Time alone can tell what
system this will be.
I
am glad to
note that the best business schools
are beginning to pay less attention
to speed in shorthand, and more to
speed with the typewriter, where
speed really counts.
Living and Making To be able to
a Living
"make a living"
one thing. To really live is quite
another.
Life would be a rather
simple affair if there were nothing to
it but to provide one's self with food,
clothing and shelter. We ought not
to need much more brains than a
rabbit to do that alone. We have a
religious community out here in Iowa
that comes pretty nearly to living
within this limitation.
They are
hard workers, have farms and factois
ries,
six
days of the week, devoting Sunday to
the divers functions
of a rather
cheerless religion.
They taboo
ter
ly."
That
is
just
what
live, as "abundantly" as
The Value
want
I
to
do
can.
of
There is an active
Tags.
demand all over this
country for live, competent, dependable commercial teachers.
This demand is most active among the high
schools, and it is growing more insistent every year. Up to the present time most of the recruiting for
these high school commercial positions, has been among the business
colleges. As a rule, the high schools
offer better salaries as well as more
desirable working conditions, so it is
quite natural that a large proportion
of the best business college teachers
have gone into high school work.
But here comes in another condition.
Practically all the high schools de-
mand
educational
credentials col-
and
difficulty in applying
cial teachers, for the
most
none but
employed.
language,
this
rule
has been
to
name
of Weaver.
Mr. Weaver is a
striking example of that rare human
avis, who is both near-and-far-sighted; that is, he can see "the vision of
the World and all the wonder yet to
be" and yet not overlook the things
right under his nose. As a side line
of his schoolroom
activities, Mr.
Weaver makes a specialty of studying
his boys (he is in a boys' high school)
with a view of finding out first, what
kind of jobs they are fitted for; second, to connect them up with the
right job. He has been doing this
for so many years that he has become
an
expert in such service,
and
has won the confidence and faith
of hundreds of the young men he has
helped. Also, he has attracted the
notice of large numbers of local employers who often call him in for conferences, as to the availability of
young men or boys to fill given posi-
Homer
man
in
Pace, of
the well
known publishers and accounting experts. Through the initiative of Mr.
Pace, a society has been organized in
New York known as "The Society of
&
L.
Pace,
Vocational Research".
It was my
pleasure to attend oneof the monthly
luncheons of this society last fall,
and to listen to Mr. Weaver, above
referred to, who was the chief speaker of the occasion. This man fairly
bristles with important facts bearing
on the matter of vocational place-
ment
He
unemployed."
of the
Weavhim a
discouraged and
loafers,
(
Men become
are tramps,
and bums, or even criminals,
Continued on page 21.)
finally
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ACCOUNTING
CHAS. F. RITTENHOUSE, C. P. A.,
Si
Materials
Inventory, January 1
To close into the materials account the
inventory of January 1, 1915
Raw
To
115,000.00
140,000.00
Materials
bring on the booksthe inventory
of
140,000.00
Manufacturing
Raw
SIMMONS COLLEGE,
1111
II
II
75,000.00
Materials
75,000 00
To
BOSTON.
II
122 500.00
W^ges
To close
in the
Finished Goods
Manufacturing
269,500.00
1,
1915 December
31, 1915.
8115,000
Purchases
100,000
Less
Inventory Dec. 31, 1915
215,000
close the cost of goods manufactured as shown by the Manufacturing Acc't into F'ns'hd Goods Acc't
Sales
1,125.00
Returned Sales
1,125.00
To
Sales
264,400.00
Finished (joods
To charge the Sales Account with the
264,400.00
cost of
Sales
and Loss
19.475 00
Wages
:
10,000
1.
25.000.00
12,000 00
30.000 00 71, B00. 00
285.000.00
1,125.00
Net Sales
Deduct
:
Goods
31,
1915
2U1.0O0. on
17,500.00
17,500.00
In the solution given, a separate schedule is prepared showing manufacturing costs. While not specificially asked for, this results in a better presentation of the facts and is generally to be recommended, as has
been stated
in a
former
article.
1914
Miscellaneous Earnings
on Contracts
2,87500
This problem is in line with the last two articles in this department
dealing with Manufacturing Accounts; it represents a financial statement for a manufacturing concern prepared in a crude and unfinished
manner, the requirements being to prepare the statement in regular
form. The problem illustrates the necessity of intelligent analysis and
classification in the preparation of such statements, as in the form given,
while the correct net profit is arrived at. the statement as a whole would
be of little value to a board of directors.
A difference ot opinion is entirely possible regarding the classification of several items in the problem for example, we do not know whether "Other Operating Expenses." 830,000. is a manufacturing expense or a
general administrative expense; it is treated in the abc.ve solution as a
manufacturing expense. "F'reight on Returned Goods" may be on returned purchases or on returned sales; it is regarded above as applying
to returned sales; this item might with good reason be deducted from
Discounts on Purchases and on Sales quite frequently are ehown
sales.
as a deduction from Purchases and from Sales. The argument against
doing so is that under most circumstances purchase and sales discounts
are matters of financing, over which the Purchasing and Sales Depart-
Profit
5.500.00
600.00
1.500.00
December
8,500.00
10.475. nu
Inventory, Fn'shd
1,500.00
6,500.00
500.00
Comments on Problems
Miscellaneous Earnings
Profit on Contracts
Discounts on Purchases
Profit anil Loss
To close all accounts representing a
profit into the Profitand Loss Acc't.
Profit and Loss
General Expenses
Freight on Returned Goods
Discounts on Sales
To close all accounts representing a
loss into the Profit and Loss Acc't.
Profit and Loss
Surplus
To close the net profit for the year
into the surplus account.
75.000.00
122,500.00
Manufacturing Expenses
Fuel
Repairs and Renewals
Factory Supplies Used
Inventory, January 1, 1915
Less
Inventory, Dec, 31, 1915
Plant expense
F'actory Operating Expenses
Total Cost of Goods Manufactured
Interest
140,000
Deduct
269,500.00
To
To close the
Add
2,500.00
2,000.00
25,000.00
12,000.00
30,000.00
Operating Expenses
To close into the Manufacturing Account all manufacturing expenses
January
Add
71.500.00
Plant Expenses
Profit
Add
122,500.00
large cities.
last issue
31, 1915.
115,000.00
Inventory
Assistant Professor of
.11
Raw
1.500 00
6.500.00
27,475.00
5.500.00
General Expenses
Freight on Returned Goods
600.00
Net Profit from Operations
Deduct
Net Balance of Interest and Discount Items
1.500.00
Interest Charges
4,:i75 no
2 875.00
Discount on Sales
:
6,100.00
.8160,321.00
8 93.57s. on
$ 66,743.00
In addition to the increase in net profits for distribution, the comto its Debenture Reserve and 807,500 to its
Depreciation Reserve.
The net profit represents
1913Surplus.
a return of 5. 30S
Less
Discount onlPurchases
(a)
Net Profit
1915
500,00
.81.346.192.00
8 817.307.00
S 528,885.00
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Comments on Problem
II
The
IV
Open an account with Notes Receivable Discounted, crediting it
with the face value of notes receivable discounted for us by the bank or
by private individuals, the corresponding debiisbeirplot ash and Discount. When the note is paid by the maker at maturity make an adjusting entry debiting Notes Receivable Discounted and crediting Notes
Receivable for the face. If a balance sheet is prepared previous to the
maturity of certain notes under discount, show Notes Receivable among
the Assets less Notes Receivable Discounted.
If the maker defaults in paying the note at maturity and the endorsing company has it to pay, debit Notes Receivable Discounted and
credit Cash; also an entry debiting the maker and crediting Notes Receivable.
Maim
subject.
Bookkeeping
III
ciation.
and
Office
PART
it
Note: Candidate
more convenient.
may
(80 POINTS.)
I.
1.
(12 points.) A business requiring two weeks to take slock commences one week before the closing of its business year, (a) What
How should
(b)
care should be given to the stock being inventoried?
you record goods being bought and sold during stock taking?
2.
(12 points.) What is a stock dividend? Is it legitimate to issue
a stork dividend? Is it justifiable ever to borrow money to pay a dividend? A writer states. "A stock dividend is really not a dividend at
Our store fixtures and goods were partly destroyed by fire and
company has paid us a lump sum of $1,500. Contractors have
(e)
the
to replace the fixtures for $200 and repair the building for 8300.
5. (12 points.) Construct a merchandise account, supplying the
Profit, lS'o per cent; inventory equals
correct amounts, and close it
2 5 of the purchases; sales. 818.697.59.
(12pnins.) Inventory 8433 25; gain, 12'._, per cent; credit side
6.
of merchandise account at time of taking trial balance, 81 .352.16. What
were the purchases?
agreed
1914
LIABILITIES.
Common
Share Capital
Preferred Share Capital
Debentures
Bills
1913
1914
540,000
540,000
405.000
405,000
18,476
L35.000
90.000
721,895
22 054
157,500
157.500
788.638
2 070.692
Pavable
Sundry Creditors
Debenture Reserve
Depreciation Reserve
Profit and Loss
1
Freehold Premises
Machinery and Killings
Late Construction
Stock
Deposit Account and Kecei
.910.3-
1915
DECREASE
300,000
720.000
135.000
55,746
180,000
157.500
259.753
2,887.999
426,198
354,213
588.213
571,251
(93.222
419,953
653,757
580 766
602 057
630.566
1,910,371
'.',070,692
2,887,999
1915
INCREASE
DECREASE
540,000
300,000
315,000
1,080,000
112,938
555,007
580,021
INCREASE
135,000
33,692
22,500
3.578
22.500
67,500
1,346.192
93.578
6,245
13 260
25.014
217,038
94.991
255,812
9 1.991
73.730
580,766
31,706
137.344
823,552
6,245
&
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were altogether what he wanted.
er city.
He told
am sorry to leave, but at least there is the satisfaction of knowing that my connection with the
Association has been a splendid thing forme.
has given me experience that will be helpful
whatever kind of work I undertake. And
not only that, it has paved the way for what
took place today.
1 had
said my good-byes this afternoon, had
been made to blush a little by the kind things
the office people had said to me, and was just
about to put on my hat when in came Mr. Cameron. He had a big, ruddy-faced gentleman
with him, and after they had spoken a fewwords to the Civic Secretary, Mr. Cameron
came up to me. He asked me what my plans
were for the future. I told him I had none but
was open for suggestions. With that he led up
:
it
is
good
to
Home?"
I
do with those
letters
took to
Boston?"
"Where
shall
address
letter to
Theodore
Roosevelt?"
countless others. No matter how inconare, he seems to expect an answer.
seriousness the other day, when the telephone bell had rung, anil 1 had told him Miss
B wanted to speak with him, he asked
And
gruous they
In
all
"Where is she?"
"On the phone", I answered.
"No, I mean from where is she telephoning?"
At times there
although
men
two
who just left would
for the position of superintend-
of those
"Which
you recommend
a letter?"
weigh?"
in
of my attitude in regard
taken by the city in this matter?"
much does an average size butter ball
"How
at the
It
in
of
fault
Civic
me
time she should. Even after he had remonstrated with her. and even when he had an extraordinarily heavy load of work to carry, she
would put in her appearance from ten to thirty
Business
"How
Anil of these
to anoth-
MARSHALL
Continued from page IS)
because there was no efficient agency
at the right time to help them to find
something thev could do successfully.
"There is a right iob fornearly every
man, if we can onlvhelp him find it,"
says Mr. Weaver, lie says also that
(
this cost of
non-employment and
in-
personal organization is a
tremendous tax on our industries,
amounting, in the whole country, he
thinks, to not less than 38 per cent of
the wage fund. In New Jersey it was
found that the loss through non-employment alone is over six per cent
of all wages paid in the state.
efficient
succeed
who might
clerks,
or
ially
other, a
few of them
"Who was the leading
:
woman
the Strings'?"
"What
is
German
pot-roast?"
in
'Bunty Pulls
Brief
Meanderings.
is
Three of the most successful American public men and officials, are
President Wilson, Gov. Ferris, of
(
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In a sentence
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS
ROSE BUHLIG,
CHICAGO.
mi
nczic
Dtznc
VIII.
soon
The and
The and so
such as
so
to
edly as a connective.
Again the
cure for such a condition is proper
subordination.
In order to do good work in subordination, pupils must have a knowl-
infinitive phrases.
differ.
We
The
a sentence unified in
thought and form. Instead of a senas
tence such
Mr. John Warren of Toledo is recognizedas
an expert, and we have employed him to direct
result
weak.
is
our investigation.
It is better to say.
To direct our investigation we haveemployed Mr. John Warren, who is recognized as an
expert.
that
is
4.
moment:
Gentlemen
you
Monday.
Hoping you
you
this,
we
are
first
We
it
PARTICIPIAL,
Having too many canned peaches on hand,
Howard Bros, decided to offer them at a very
low price.
RELATIVE.
Howard
offering
INFINITIVE.
:
We wish to advise
that
price.
the different
reads:
of
letter for a
as,
as. until,
Howard
We
proper subordination.
It may be that they have cut out unnecessary words but, as a result, have
produced a succession of short sentences, probably all beginning with
we. The cure for such a condition is
proper subordination. Or it may
be that, in doing the work in condensation, but little attention has
been paid to the structure within a sentence, and as a consequence
and or so has been used repeatattention
connection
to (verb).
since, because, for, when, while, as
if, although, unless, provided.
on investigation,
may
3.
the
Letters.
SUBORDINATION.
It
like
will cause
venience.
you no incon-
Yours
ADVERBIAL CLAUSE.
Because Howard Bros, had too many canned
peaches on hand, they decided to offer (hem at
a very low price.
Dear
(l)
Sir:
We received
your
letter
it
truly.
(2)
cut out of
the letter because it is stereotyped.
Or notice the improvement that
subordination brings about in the
following, where (1) shows the letter
before being subordinated, and (2)
shows the subordinated form:
(i)
Gentlemen:
In your letter of the 8th instant you say that
you would like to substitute Style 03 Stockings
for Style 32 in our order of the first. We would
be glad to have you do so. We are entirely out
of our stock of size 9 stockings, so we would
like to receive the ones you mean at your earliest convenience. We have orders for them,
and they cannot be tilled until we receive them
from you.
Yours truly,
Gentlemen:
We
Yours
truly.
(21
Gentlemen:
When the coal
to which you refer in your letter of the loth instant arrived, we rejected it,
as you suggested, and returned it to you.
We
have deducted the amount from your November bill and are remitting the balance.
Yours truly,
It would be well, in teaching subordination, to have pupils practice
using as many different methods of
subordination as they can in eachsentence given them to subordinate.
Put on the board a list like this:
In subordination use
Parlicipial method.
1.
Relative pronoun method.
2.
3. Infinitive method.
4.
Adverbial clause method.
1.
Casual.
2.
Temporal.
8.
Concessive.
Etc.
Illustrated thus:
l.
2.
iag.
who, which,
that.
Movement
The
tests,
<^Med8u<Hn<&y&&uxafr
An
On
in the
other lines as the banking business. If information is desired regarding the financial standing of any
all
commercial institution, one instinctively looks to the banks of the community and he not infrequently gets
more intimate information from this
source than from the commercial
agencies. Now, the bank's comparatively intimate knowledge of the
business of the community
is due,
not to a proclivity for gossip, but
rather to the fact that it makes itself
so useful to the whole business community, Banking, unlike many other
kinds of business, has no monopoly
of any commodity which the community must have. It merely renders
a service of which people may or may
not avail themselves; but because it
is a genuine service which the bank
renders, its clients are placed at an
advantage over others. For this reason it is very important that our
boys and girls who are preparing to
enter business life shall be well informed regarding this relation of the
bank to the community.
The arithmetic class offers an excellent opportunity to give part of
As a very essential
this training
part of every commercial arithmetic
course whether long or short should
be sufficient
drill
to develop skill in
computing
but
it is
understand an operation
he must
also know where and how to apply it.
The best method of approaching this
application is to take up a brief consideration of credits passing into the
particular lines represented by notes
and drafts. The construction, nature, and purpose may be considered
at this point, and the purpose and ef:
the
the
count
undertakes to do.
Attention should be called to the
two classes of notes which may be
discounted, one's personal notes and
notes of others, the date of paper and
date of discount usually being the
same in the former case whereas they
are quite likely to be different in the
latter.
to set
down
action
as
more
of
it
will re-
down
definite rules
it.
MARSHALL
(Continued from page 21)
Michigan, and Gov. Brambaugh, of
Pennsylvania, all of them schoolmasters. The world do move.
I used to write in my copy book:
"A little learning is a dangerous
thing,
it
isn't.
good thing,
Drink what you can
Spring."
Once when
at
the Pierean
my own
insignificance by
some
little
who show
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IDC
EFFICIENCY
HAROLD
E.
COWAN,
H114I1
To prepare
his
our own
mind we must
We
bookkeeping, we can
it
last to
come and
the
formed people, are as bad for a person's peace of mind and success in
life as decayed teeth are to his digestion.
The
desirability of a
good founda-
to his
own
advantage.
If the study is of so much importance, then where shall we insert it in
our school curriculum ? It must come
late in order to be understood at all,
not before the third year in high
school, and preferably the fourth. If
the pupil is preparing for college,
the subject should be given only as
a basis for future study. If the pupil is going no further than the high
school, he should receive a very careful instruction in a few economic
principles.
The next point is what to give.
The college graduate, deeply versed
in economics who attempts to conduct a high school class on college
it.
To prepare
his
mind we
in history.
Th
find chunks of
vital |necessary in
of
application
realize his
er ideal substituted.
An idea once firmly fixed in the
mind of a high school student is
there forever, unless affected by an
extraordinarily forceful argument,
and if this happens, the person begins to doubt the virtue of all the
known
New York
The first examination by the Board of Education of New York City for regular license to
teach Gregg Shorthand in day high schools
was held March Tth in the examination room of
About seventythe municipal civil service.
rive teachers from New York and vicinity and
various parts of the East participated, both men
women
and
being eligible.
to disclose
an
85 to 120
They were
placed in a typewriting room at the High
School of Commerce and the room darkened so
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TALES OF A
MELTING POT
CHAS.
T.
CRAGIN,
THE REVOLUTION OF
Holyoke, Mass.,
Thompson's Business
School.
3C3C
3CUC
3DC
Germany
Europe, but by
Germany.
It began
far,
come over
here away back in revolutionary times, for quite a large part of the
army of George III, crazy old half German
King of England, came from the little principality of Hesse Cassel and they were known as
the Hessians. A good many of those Hessians
stayed here to fertilize the soil of Vermont
around Bennington, where John Stark with his
New Hampshire Riflemen and Ethen Allen's Green Mountain Boys cut Col. Baum's
Hessians all to pieces, and others enriched the
soil along the banks of the Delaware, where
Washington surprised Colonel Rahl and his
Hessians at Trenton.
These Hessians were hired soldiers. Their
miserable little prince sold their blood and bone
and sinew to anybody who would buy them.
They were good simple fellows themselves
and many of them were taken prisoners, and after the war was over, they stayed here and became citizens in due course of time, for the free
air of this broad country was preferable to the
slavery of Hesse Cassel. We had good ( Jermans
in our Revolutionary Army. Theie was Herkimer in the Mohawk Valley who defeated Brant
and his redskins and Walter Butler's renegades;
and Baron Von SteuDen, the best drill master in
to
Washington's Revolutionary Army, came difrom the ranks of Frederick, the Great, who
my story.
The revolution of 1847-8 in Germany was not
After the murderous affair in
Berlin the rioters who had built barricades in
the streets, marched in great procession before
the Royal Palace bearing on litters the bodies
of a large number of men women and children
who had been shot down by the Royal troops as
they met to petition Fredrick Willhelm IV.
The Crown Prince, afterwards, "Kaiser Willhelm der Grosse," got the blame for this reckless shooting of peaceful people and was so unpopular that he got out of Prussia and went to
England where he spent a considerable period
of time.
The great crowd of people made the King of
Prussia appear on the balcony and take off his
hat in the presence of the corpses that were displayed around the palace. He did it and promised the people all they demanded but as soon as
he got a chance he went back on his promise
and the revolution followed and our hero
young Carl, at the university of Bonn, was one
of the first men who took up a musket in this
for constitutional liberty.
ill-fated struggle
The revolutionists were poorly organized. It
was a happy-go-lucky kind of revolution and
resulted in disaster and the final surrender of
the chiefs at the Fortress of Rastatt
at all successful.
rect
man
settled cities.
Our
East,
great
prai-
Jew,
tier-
everybody
else,
extremely
which protects them as it does
except the Negro, within the
and
going to
'48
Now Germany has not always been so obedient to the ruling powers, as it is today. It has
had its revolutions and many of them, and
Fredrick William IV, of the House of Hohenzollem, experienced a very lively revolution
and the streets of Berlin ran blood, when his
soldiers fired on a peaceful multitude that had
gathered to petition him. The most popular
professor at Bonn was Kinkel.
A brilliant,
forceful man.
He was a natural born rebel
against tyranny, and Kinkel became one
of the leaders in the revolution of 1847, and
one of his devoted followers was the subject of
Young
Carl
AN EXILE
knew that if he was taken
army
country of ours only a few years before the outbreak of the great Civil War.
It was in 1852 thattheyoung Prussian, Carl,
with his newly wedded wife, landed in the city
of New York
They came on the fine packet
ship, City of London, and it only took them
twenty-eight days to cross the Atlantic ocean,
which the ocean racers now cross in less than
five days, if they don't meet a submarine or hit
a friendly floating mine.
There were steamships running in 1852.
Charles Dickens came
over in about that time, and was nearly scared
to death, for he says that the smoke stack from
the boilers, stuck right up through the wooden
deck and someti mes became red hot and threatened to set the ship on fire. So DickenB went
back on a sailing ship.
A TABLE D'HOTE
Carl and his
DINNER IN
1852.
new
wife had considerable troubThey had heard that the Astor House was the most famous hotel on the
continent, but the Astor House was crowded
and so were all the hotels, until they reached
le to find a hotel.
room
scribes their
prison -
was so
formerly
common
in
leading hotels.
They were ushered into a long, barely furroom which had a single table. A
crowd of negro waiters in white jackets, grinned
nished,
head was
in
vogue everywhere.
A man
could
officers
eat
enough
for
it,
down in
York with
his new wife and had a pretty homesick time of
speak English except a few
it, for he didn't
words he had picked up in his studies at Bonn
and in his short period of exile in London.
brilliant
Astor House.
Young Catl settled
He
New
how he
acquired
language.
He says, "I never
bought a grammar. 1 don't believe I have an
English grammar in my library, but I talked
the English
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plurality
was only 17 years from the time he landed at Castle Garden that he, an Ex-Major General of the United States, was made United
and
Clellan.
of
to take
Many
Many
of the
own
of-
for
it
crats
ficers,
military experience
Revolution of 1848,
stump
for
army surrendered
to
Grant
at
Appomatox, and
newspaper
of the
A DEBT YOU
became the
York
my
He was, in
opinion, the greatest German
that has ever landed on these shores, more than
that, he was a thorough American eager to give
his life to the country, that had received him in
exile when driven from his own native land.
He was indeed splendid
p u bl
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Name of
Editor, C. P. Zaner,
Editor,
C. P. Zaner
Post-office address
Columbus, Ohio.
Managing
Columbus, Ohio.
Business Managers,
Zaner
&
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Publishers, Zaner
Bloser.
Columbus, Ohio.
&
Columbus, Ohio.
E. W. Bloser.
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Y.
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OSKALOOSA COLLEGE,
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Degrees conferred. Especially of Interest to thost
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capable lady teacher of Bookkeeping, Shorthand, etc. The right
ma
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fifty
vacancies
now on
file
.corporatedi
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filling
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Let us
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in prosperous
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city;
March
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The Business Educator is devoted to the progressive and practical interest of Business Education and Penmanship. A journal whose mission is to dignify, popularize, and improve the
world's newest and neediest education. It purposes to inspire and instruct both pupil and
teacher, and to further the interests of those engaged in the work, in private as well as in public institutions of business education.
Change
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THE SUPERVISORS-CONVENTION
C. P. Zaner,
E. W. Bloser,
Two
NUMBER
A PARTING WORD
1916
If
We
pose.
We
P. B.
Peters,
S.
Manual Training-
Bingen, Ga.
Bucyrus, Ohio.
May
Half of each day was spent inspecting the writing in the schools and
observing the children write and the
teachers teach.
The other part of the time was deto
papers, speeches,
discussions, demonstrations, and examining exhibits from various cities.
The writing in the Ft. Wayne
Schools is in excellent condition, be
ing balanced in form and movement
Mr. Elmer G. Miller, Director o:
Commercial Work, Pittsburgh Pub
lie Schools, presided.
Mr. O. L
Rogers, Supervisor of Writing, Ft
Wayne, was elected president for the
coming year. Mr. G. G. Gudmunson
Supervisor of Writing, Boone, Iowa
was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer.
Cleveland, Ohio, was selected the
next place of meeting, about the end
voted
of April, 1917.
Great Progress
in
fine.
Penmanship.
this year
show
Many
be mutually beneficial.
a success.
which
will
on citizens.
Teachers
in
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PRACTICAL
tools are in
How
BUSINESS
WRITING
E. A.
LUPFER.
COPY 116-This
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N and
Business Educator
try
M.
certifi-
it
as narrow as the
should be.
Count: loop.l-2-S-4-etc.
Copies 117 and 118 Start the N the same as the H. The second part is similar to the small n, and 6hould be a trifle shorter than the first part.
Make two rounding turns at the top and one angle at the bottom. If you have a great amount of movement you will possibly like the finish on the
Use only one style of finish. Count: loop-1-2. No finger
one, but if you are calm and deliberate you may getalong better with the second.
movement. Sit up.
first
Copy 119 A
It is
Copy 123-Without
ters.
Try
it
free
Master
exercise.
is
the
it
and the
will be easy.
Make
If you make three tuins at the top and two angles at the bottom
has an extra section.
about 30 a minute but not every minute while practicising for you should occasionally study the copy and
same
Make
as
movement, writing
except that
is
it
drudgery.
Let the
little
of small let-
get.
Keep
it
compact.
Count: swing-1-2-8-
Better try the first one in sections first. See how easyly and freely you cpn make tbem. If youdon't get
don't worry. What you want is to learn to make an 1 easily and so that people can read it. The exercises are only a
is,
COPY 128 The is the same as small e, except the e Is one space high and
They should be looped and never closed. Keep the turn at top of
-
the 1 long.
the back.
Count: 1-23,
or loopthe-1.
the 1 is about three. It Is essential for legibility to make the e short and
the same as the turn at the bottom. Comedown rather Btralght on
1
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the b
same
as the
is
like v.
Avoid making
it
too wide.
Be
sure that
it
like liorle.
1-2, finish.
Two
weak by studying the copy then drill on that part. If it is loops, you need more work on loopsand
consider in writing are ease of execution and the ease with which your product can be read.
part of your
important things to
work
is
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Copy 130 Kvery exercise should have a definite purpose. This exercise helps to round out the bottom turn. Count
The comma after 8 denotes a pause.
Copies 131-132 The V is the same assmall v except that it starts like capital H. It is very important that the letter be
look like U. A common tendency is to make it too wide. See that the bottom is rounding.
Copy 133-Some like this finish on the V. One way of finishing a letter may be a little more beautiful than another, but
loop-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8,
finish.
Count:
finished high or
it
will
is
1-2-3.
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COPIES 134-13B The beginning and ending strokes are the same as in V. The
also is much like U. Keep it narrow, free and graceful. Get
two turns at the bottom, and a turn, angle and a retraced finish at the top. Keep the finish high. Count: 1-2-3-4, finish. Keep the down strokes
on the same slant and avoid twisting the compound curve too much.
Copy 136 This style contains three angles. The beginning stroke is exactly the same as for H. The spaces in the letter should be uniform. Finish about two thirds as high as first part. Count: 1-2-3-4.
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COPY 137 Heads up, and shoulders back. Study the copy carefully and don't be afraid to do plenty of work.
Copy 138 It is well to dissect letters and work on the parts. Curve the up stroke well and make the down stroke
Count
easier
it
is a
a little finger
movement, do
Some
60.
at
are
if
1 -2,
Copy 140 The k and h are very similar; in fact, many ks resemble poor hs because the break in the back of the last part is not definite enough
Inthekmake the second part taller than minimum letters and close the little loop. Count
1-2,8,4, Notice the pauses at the angles.
Copies 141-142 Shift the paper a number of times so that all down strokes can be pulled Btraight towards the center of the body, thus maintain:
in.
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WRITING
By
S.
E.
LESLIE,
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(Present date)
(Place).
(Student's name).
exercise 100
in? these capitals off easily and rapidly, endeavoring to keep them
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all
the
apart.
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EXERCISE 101
Initial letters for signatures should be joined when possible. These capitals should be joined rapidly.
three letters in order to be able to join any possible group of three letters.
You should
try other
combinations of
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EXERCISE 102
Signature writing is very important. Every one should adopt a certain way of writing his name and then w rite it in this vi ay at all times. After
you have pncticed the signatures in this copy, try writing your own name, joining the capitals in the manner you prefer. One's signature in a way,
is his trade mark, and should be written so that it would be very difficult for any one to imitate.
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complimentary closing
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is
important.
lines
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EXERCISE 105
Study the arrangement
of this
model
letter.
of
it.
This copy
is
good
test of
your skill.
tion, etc.
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EXERCISE 106
In addressing, the
name should be
written just a
little
of the
of the
succeeding lines
The following invitation and acceptance may be used as model social forms and
nearly always pen-written and are all the more pleasing when well-written.
at
the
same time
furnish
are
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Exercise 109
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While you
upon
given
as
will find
them excellent
for study
and
practice.
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EXERCISE 108
Make the capitals
one
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EXERCISE
111
This style of lettering is used for marking boxes, packages, labels, ledger- headings, etc. An ordinary pen is used. The paper should be held in
the position shown in the cut. In Line 1 the strokes are made starting with a fine line and gradually increasing the pressure until a heavy shade is
made; then decreasing the pressure and lifting the pen quickly on the base line. Note the slant, spacing and width of strokes. Finger movement is
used.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Penmanship Edition
A forum
for the expression of conviction* relating to methods of teaching and the art of writing
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PENMANSHIP EXTREMES
Yesterday was the day of Form
even unto formalism in the penmanship teaching world. Yesterday was
,
became an upright
art.
It
was
in-
how labored
or
slow.
wonderful
how
spacing; neat and symmetrical margins and arrangement; a touch of individuality or distinctiveness these
are the real essentials and not any
For if any one of the
one of them.
essentials is emphasized or exaggerated, some other essential will-
specialist.
leather.
We
must suffer.
Too much movement is as
They are
too much form.
fatal as
co-part-
competitors.
Writing is
both an art and an act in order that
it may be that which it was designed
to be a secondary language.
ners
not
PARTIAL CONTENTS
Number
of
of the Business
Educator.
difficult
slovenly.
Consolidation.
In March the Miami Commercial Collepeand
the Jacobs Business College, both of Dayton,
Ohio, combined with W. E, Harbotte of the Jacobs as Pres., and S. O. Albaugh, of the Miami,
as Sec. This union means a strong institution
and a long lease of enlarged usefulness. President Wilt, founder of the Miami and one of
America's veteran and most highly esteemed business educators, retire s and goes to
Detroit to live. Our congratulations and best
Mental Meanderings,
shall,
Carl C. Mar-
a.
Accounting,
Chas. F. Rittenhouse, C.
P. A., Boston.
Arithmetic,
J.
troit.
Commercial Law.
P. B. S. Peters.
Ka
sas City.
Efficiency. Harold
-ArtO-
/^a>n^/^i-^y
S.
Cowan,
Passaic,
N.J.
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EDITOR'S PAGE
Professional Edition
Devoted to the best interests of business education and dedicated to the
expression of conscientious opinions
upon
topics
related
thereto.
Your
DC
HDC
DC
DC
FEDERATION INTEREST S.
Too Many
Meetings.
Number 4.
time.
from
on
Sunday
afternoon
until
thus beat
diers.
If you think likewise,
say so to
President Slinker.
If
you think
otherwise, say so and good will result.
We're writing in order to stir
you to action.
30C
tant by us superior ones, who proudly call ourselves "civilized." Furthermore, the savage
does not fuss himself over matters of sentiment,
or art, or spirituality, or general information.
He sees in this world an aggregation of various
mineral, vegetable and animal objects and substances, many of which he finds, add to his
comfort and his pleasure, while others make
trouble and are to be avoided or got rid of.
Life to him consists in adjusting himself to
these things in such a way as to add to his
pleasures and diminish his pains.
When his
stomach is full and the sunshine warm, and
there are no enemies about, he may indulge
himself in certain vague imaginings about the
hidden and mysterious forces that cause the
thunder, or the earthquake, or put him out of
life's business suddenly when, in his innocence,
he takes into his alimentary canal some unusually vicious ptomaines or microbes. He
may even contrive schemes for placating these
hostile forces thereby developing in himselfthe
germs of religion or his eye may be caught by
glittering pebbles, or bright-colored
shells,
and he may fashion these into rude ornaments
to hang in his ears or his nose or he may
brighten his dusky hide with earthy pigments,
thus discovering his natural possibilities in
the matter of art. But for the most part, your
savage is a materialistic creature, troubling
himself but little with the intangible ideas and
ideals that exercise those of his fellowmen
whosecraniums have acquired more frontal de;
velopment.
But if it is materialism that marks the savage,
and puts bim in his category, what are we to say
of the outwardly civilized man whose soul reacts in the same way? Plenty of these there are
all around us men and women who hardly
spend an hour of their lives outside the quest
ly,
Marshall's
Dana was
right
is
Mental
man with
real estate
Meanderings
DDC
DC
who
toilets,
and
right.
another matter.
It is
shows, or
capitalistic
business, or
in
moving
picture
plumber.
The reward of a teacher is not a
ward, and there is a certain equity
money
17
verve.
Webster defines
this
word compre-
down
in tropic
America.
He
carries
under his
We
I
hope every commercial
The Federation
school teacher, who is not completely dead in
professional spirit, will elect himself a booster
and especial assistant to President Slinker, of
the Federation, and Mr. Trenary of the Executive Committee, and the other workers, who
from now till Christmas, and working like dray horses to make next
will have their coats off
winter's meeting the very best ever. Just realize thai a special effort is being made this
year to make this meeting worth while to the
teacher in the ranks, as well as to the fellows
who drive the bandwagon. Nobody who is
within a day's ride of Chicago, (and that includes everybody between Duluth and New
Orleans, New York, and Omaha,) can afford to
stay away.
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suddenly discovered that it is an awful pedagogic sin to ask a child questions. It is "suggestive," "mentally paralyzing." and so forth.
You must merely give the child a "topic" and
let him spin it for himself.
Let/ir/nask the
questions, if any are to be asked, bat don't
answer them, whatever you do. Just set the
learner's think-buzzer going, and let him talk
himself into wisdom, while the teacher feeds
the topics into his hopper. How painfully do I
remember my first attempt to operate this system among the corn-fed boys and girls of a
Kansas district school! Then came the
"Mnemonics" craze. All knowledge was a
matter of memory. If you could only get the
dictionary by heart, you would know everything, and by means of "mnemonics" it would
be a simple matter to get the dictionary by
heart. All you had to do was to invoke the
"great law of a- so -she- A -shun" and then let natake
ture
her course.
The
would
children
of
the
drums
and
there
is
to hatch.
He
ties of the
careful investigation.
We
father.
ii
for
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
by caring
of a high order. He discussed the "Articulation of secondary education and higher educa-
Another simon pure treat followed in the address of Mr. F. C. Schwendtman, of the National City Bank, N. Y. City, who discussed the'relation of commercial education to domestic and
foreign trade." Failure is due to not recognizing certain fundamental laws. The cooperation of the American teacher with the American
business man results in American success.
He explained at length the plan of the National City Bank in educating its employees.
The attitude toward self improvement and
daily efficiency in work are important factors in
advancement. Classes are held before opening, at noon, and after hours.
Commercial
geography, history and language of the countries are important subjects, as well as the law,
financial
resources and
credits of the countries
into which the young men are to go.
The aim
of the managers and clerks of the branch houses
is to get direct touch with the people at once.
Good class records with good bank records are
essential to promotion to the next class with increase of pay.
Such a school eliminates the unfit, helps the
ambitious and develops the group spirit. Personality and personal appearance counts big. A
business man wants clean habits, will, loyalty,
originality, good judgment, enthusiasm. Surely such a talk from such a man is a fountain of
inspiration.
"Music
of
in
was exceptionally
waltz music, the capitals, "ES D"
good.
To
mmmm,"
and
"1111,
records are
in teaching business writing," brought out the following excellent points from C. G. Price, of the Packard
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ACCOUNTING
Accounts,
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and involved
sets
work entirely
illustrating
From
would seem
cern in a good
many
many
teachers.
is
schools and
it
causing con-
among
good
The vocational
development
of an educational
will train our young people as
in
Bystem which
wage earners
lie.
tain subjects.
ing.
whom
in
tigators
should study farm accounting; if in an insurance center, the accounts of insurance companies; if in a city engaged mainly in the manufacture of paper, the accounting principles,
books and forms peculiar to the industry, and
so on.
These and many other things can be introduced by the wide awake, progressive instructor
who thereby becomes a teacher in the truest
sense of the word instead of a checker of endless
bills and entries. The subject of bookkeeping
thus takes on new interest for both pupil and
teacher and the class period becomes an animated recitation in which everyone takes some
part, rather than a period of silent plodding
over transactions and trial balances with the
teacher seated at the desk correcting papers,
writing letters, or what not. fearing that she will
be interrupted by a pupil who is bold enough to
ask a question or who has a piece of work to be
examined.
CONCLUSION,
As
this article
which
is
the last
one
in
the series
have contributed
to this department
during the past year. I take this opportunity to
express n.y thanks to the editors of The Business Educator for suggestions relative to
the scope of the articles and for their cordial cooperation in the arrangement of the copy submitted. Their assistance has been most valuable in my attempt to conduct the department
along lines which would be of service to the
average teacher. I desire also to express my
appreciation to those readers who have offered
criticisms and suggestions relative to the articles which have appeared from month to month.
Such lettters have been of great assistance in
giving me the reader's point of view and in indicating certain phases of the teacher's work
which merit discussion. However.it has been
somewhat of a disappointment that the department has not proved to be more of a clearing
house of constructive views and opinions on
the subject of bookkeeping, and that it has not
been more generally used by the teachers as a
medium for propounding concrete problems in
bookkeeping and questions on the theory of
I
the subject.
Whether teachers
answer
question
in
proposed.
In decided contrast to this is the Student's
Department of the Journal of Accountancy
conducted by Mr. Seymour Walton. C. P. A.,
of Chicago.
The Journal of Accountancy is
the official organ of the American Association
of accountants and is read
widely by practicing accountants, students of accounting
and by teachers. The Students' Depart,
ment is in my opinion a model department of its kind. Under Mr. Walton's unusually capable and intelligent direction. Ihe department is crowded every month with live,
practical and most interesting discussions relating to all phases of accounting. A good part
of the subject matter is supplied by readers
who have questions or problems to submit,
most of the letters being published over the
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full process of digestion in due order
instead of being pronounced a dyspeptic (failure) and sent back to complete the digestive process five or
twelve months later.
The writer knows of no school
where such a plan as a whole is in
operation in an arithmetic class, but
he has frequently heard principals
and others declare that individual instruction is the ideal system. (Their
experience had been confinedto class
instruction). Now he wishes it to be
clearly understood that he has little
sympathy with the capitalized system
of "individual instruction," whereby
one teacher daily gives "individual
instruction" to fifty or a hundred
pupils in half a dozen different sub-
jects.
As a first step in the direction outlined, in the case of a small class the
teacher can assign work to the students according to their needs, having all work upon the same topics at
once, but giving the brighter students more complex problems than
are assigned to the slower students
and by taking up more phases of the
topic with some than with others.
As a concrete illustration, take the
topic of simple interest. The absolutely essential thing is to have all
students able to find the interest in
all cases where the three factors are
given. However, it is well for the
students to be able also to find any
one of the factors when the other two
and the interest or amount are given.
See that all become skilled in the direct and essential operations but require only the better students to go
into the indirect and less essential
operations.
In a large school where there are
several arithmetic classes, the pupils
can be tested and assigned to classes
according to their abilities.
Then
either of two plans may be followed:
the better classes may follow the plan
outlined above forthe better students
and the poorer classes the plan suggested for the slower students; or,
the time limit may be removed and
the same outline of subject matter
may be pursued by all students.
Suppose that you now have a course
running through a year. That means
that probably as high as ten per cent
of your pupils find the course easy
and another forty per cent can handle
it well; while thirty per cent handle
it
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SIDE LIGHTS ON
Commercial
Law
P. B. S.
PETERS,
KANSAS
CITV.
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PRIVATE TITLES
All private titles to land in the United
States were originally derived from grants to
the states; from the Federal government, or
from royal grants made prior to the revolution.
For instance, in Texas titles are
derived from the state because that state
ownedthe land at the time it was annexed to
the United States, after having secured independence from Mexico. In many of the
western states titles are derived from the
TITLE TO LANDS
Under the feudal system there was no such
thing as absolute alienation, or the transfer of
the property and possession from one person to
another. The conveyance always provided that
the grantee should hold as tenant of the grantor,
and render certain specific service to the grantor. The service which the tenant was under
obligations to render to the lord varied in character with the tenant under which the land was
held. It might be to furnish and equip armed
men for the defense of the lord and his rights;
it might be for actual use in war; it might be
for personal military service; it might be to
render a certain quantity of the product of the
soil, or to plow the lord's lands.
Hence the
property interest which a subject might have in
land could not be an absolute ownership, but
merely an estate, the character of which depended upon the service rendered. However,
in the reign of Edward I a statute was passed
which declared that it should be legal for every
free-man to sell at his own pleasure. hi6 lands
and tenements, or
a part of
them.
GOVERNMENT TITLES
A government obtains
ery,
by conquest, or by purchase.
otherwise treated.
SEAL ESTATE
LAW
may
occur,
only through the exercise of extraordinary care and formality that land should be purchased. The title should be passed upon by
those skilled in such matters. No reliance
should be placed upon memory or "town talk"
as to the validity of the vendor's title. Court
records are burdened with lawsuits involving
land and interest in land through the failure of
those most concerned in observing certain
definite, and fixed rules in relation to the conveyance of real property, or an interest therein.
The first step of the prudent purchaser will be
to insist on the seller furnishing an abstract of
title showing a complete history of the title of
the land from the time it was parted with by the
government. Then, unless the purchaser is
versed in all the intricacies and niceties of "real
estate law" he will obtain the advice of a lawyer
a9 to whether the abstract shows a safe and
It is
ble.
BUSINESS ENGLISH
MISS ROSE BUHLIG,
Lake Technical High School,
Where while
which
is
yon understood.
idea
is
ridiculous.
The
re-
(This
clearly understood.
Perhaps it would be well to consider
briefly what are the faults that destroy the clearness of the sentence,
before suggestions are given to remedy the faults. I shall consider the
are
following
1.
Dangling expressions.
2.
Ambiguous pronouns.
4.
Misplaced modifiers.
Omission of necessary words.
5.
Shift in construction.
3.
I.
DANGLING EXPRESSIONS.
Dangling expressions are generally
participial in form. They are dangling because they do not modify anything in the sentence. The sentence,
therefore, shows faulty construction.
For example:
Confirming our telephone conversalioti of yesterday, the casters you ordered were packed last night and go
out on the first trip this morning.
Confirmi?ig our telephone conversation
of yesterday
is
participial
phrase, which, according to its nature, must modify a noun or a pronoun in the sentence. The only noun
in the sentence for it to modify is
casters, and this, of course, it cannot
logically modify.
A word must be
supplied for the phrase to modify.
We may
say:
we
are glad to
etc.
(or)
be avoided is
Confirming our telephone conversation of yesterday, would say that,
AMBIGUOUS PRONOUNS.
A pronoun whose antecedent is not
perfectly clear sometimes makes a
sentence ambiguous, as it does, for
example, in this sentence:
We have a number of styles on display in our State street salesroom,
which we shall be glad to show you.
MISPLACED MODIFIERS.
most common misplaced
modifiers found in business letters is
One
of the
He
told
John
door.
To be
be condemn-
may be
utes.
etc.
it
that.
Or
it
may be
utes.
A man
(2)
be allowed,
etc.
sulting
Ambiguity of Expression.
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IV.
SHIFT IN CONSTRUCTION.
Shifts in construction are found in
many business
letters.
This mistake is a little more subtle than the
others that have been here considered and so creeps into letters that are
otherwise quite good.
Shifts are
found in person, number, voice, and
almost all other grammatical forms.
Very often a shift in construction is
found in two expressions that are
joined by the co-ordinateconjunction
and. The point to remember about
arfisthatit must join two elements
Hoping to be in New York tomorrow and that I may see you at that
time,
am
Hoping
to be, etc.,
(or)
and
to see
you
and voice are shifted in the first sentence, and number in the second (because of a shift in point of view)
Gentlemen:
Your letter of the 6th instant was
received, and we thank you for the
order you sent.
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EFFICIENCY
HAROLD
E.
COWAN,
r
[-
Department,
ments
for living,
life;"
(3),
mind."
In
plainer
words,
this
When men
Physics,
biography and
study.
languages are admirable to bring out
tiny quantities
doubtless
commercial
standard.
be added an advanced
curriculum of college
Educators are realizing
knowledge?"
person
These
uate
practical study.
Many
from
of
all of
them are
entirely
the others. This
number of courses
tended toward specialization.
Each course has a distinct reason
and aim of its own.
increase in the
course, yet they are always quite circumscribed by the Ten Commandments.
Strangely enough, a man
has
of classical education
fM/*
REPORT OF
The mild
E. C. T. A.
School.
the hest results, 3) stick to a few simple movement exercises, 4) get personally acquainted
5) have instruction accurate
and explicit.
Although the hands of the clock pointed to
Mr. Harry Houston, of New Haven, was re-
six.
Eckles
Norman. Baltimore.
The Executive Committee recommended
New York City asthe meetingplace for 1017,
but so persuasive were the arguments of
'
Chicago
in
December.
The incoming
ACCOUNTANCY
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edge pertaining
interest displayed
on the part of the teacher. I'nlikeshorthand and typewriting, the business experience
to
own knowledge
his
Waynesboro, Pa
Business College
State
Normal School, Silver City, N. M.; Marietta
Ohio. Commercial College; Drake Business
College, Newark, N. J.; Brown's Business
University, Adrian, Mich.; American Com,
effort
and constantly shifting standard. To a considerable extent each school must establish
its own
standards in the attempt to meet the needs of
a
numbers.
ARITHMETIC
of his subject.
It is to
3CHOCZ1C
CATALOGS
CIRCULARS H
LMr==nmnr
H
The
is
al-
Simmons College Bulletin, issued by Simmons College. Boston, Mass., is before us, antheir summer session which is open
to both men and women. Commercial subjects
to take
on
skill
according
to their individual abilities thus limiting the failures to the very few who
At the close of this series of articles the writer ventures to hope that
all who have followed the series to
its completion may have been lead to
think along lines which will lead to
the solution of their problems and
the ultimate improvement
product.
of
their
nouncing
receiving
the attention
ENGLISH
(Continued from page 'J'J
As soon as we received your letter,
the order was forwarded to you and
will probably reach their destination
by Friday.
Yours truly,
The cause of any of the mistakes
that bring about ambiguity of expression is illogical thinking.
In
seeking to correct any of the mistakes, therefore, the teacher should
first show in what way the thought
expressed is faulty.
After the right
construction is understood, several
sentences showing the form under
consideration should be composed
by each pupil.
The work requires
considerable practice and, I would
suggest, practice on correcting but
one fault
at a time.
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Mr. Wright
Mr. Chas.
^
sylvania
Simhouse,
=
fr
C. P.
College, Boston,
whose exceptionally
valuable contributions
THE
BUSINESS
EDUCATOR
announce in this
number of The Business Educator
all of the contributors and features
for the coming year, but we take
pleasure in announcing most of
are unable to
them.
As
in the past,
we
shall try to
its
make
predeces-
is
workers
tive
and
is
critical.
in a
number
wish you
year and
same.
all
all
Mr. O. S. Smith, of
the Detroit, Mich.,
law.
Penmanship Features
Mr. E. A. Lupfer will
continue his eye-opener series of lessons in
Business Writing.
Many are marveling at
School,
will
al
Penmanship
spire,
some
more
"Tales" simmering in
his "Melting Pof'from
countries across the
seas as well as from
the Western hemisphere. Cragin's tales
are strange because
true. They are human documents of
people who have won distinction by
individual methods.
They are stimulating and wholesome.
Commercial Features
E. Cupper,
His
messages are
meaty and practical
as well as stimulating
He
and instructive.
says much in few sentences, and he
speaks from a busy experience.
Convention
communications
your obliques
etc., will
be
in
please.
Keep
in order.
We
expect, also, to
Penmanship work
of three of Eastern
Massachusetts Normal Schools. Mr.
Doner's exceptional skill and his
still more exceptional knowledge of
methods
of teaching will
to our profession.
mean much
of
and
News Items,
order as in the
and
instruct
Mr. F. E. H. Jaeger,
of the East Side High
Thomas
lic
Mr. P. B. S. Peters.
Director of the Business Course of the
Literary Features
gin has
in
F. RittenA.,
mons
25
past.
now
not
describe.
Berkman is original,
versatile, and vitally interested and
interesting. His friends are in the
thousands.
Mr. W. A. Baird, of
Dennis& Baird, Brook-
ancy.
Mr.
Wright
gradu-
roundhand
penman-
ship.
modern ornament
instructions.
illustrations
and
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Mr. E. L. Brown, of
Rockland, Maine, will
Mr.
P.
W.
Costello,
keeps us
supplied with
valuable suggestions
of Scranton,
well
and illustrations
re-
lating to Engrossing.
His material is of interest and value to
amateur and professional. There is much originality in
his work and at times it is elaborate,
single specimens sometimes represent several hundred dollars.
use
Educator
afford
you
you
contributions
1916-17.
The Educator
The Question and Answer department will be continued, Special articles and Editorials upon' timely
topics
Public
presented,
Methods discussed,
etc.,
Lefthandedness
2032
Eastern Ave.,
Covington, Ky.,
May
2, 1916.
here,
Number
enrolled, 4058;
number
left-
handed in all work, 16; number lefthanded except in writing, 85; number changing to right hand, 6; number right hand afflicted, 4.
Strange to relate one-eighth grade
is left-handed in writing only.
This is certainly one proof that because a child in the first grade takes
his pencil in his left hand, he is not
necessarily left handed.
No child in the first grade has been
permitted to write with his left hand
and those in the second grade who
wrote lefthanded when I came have
been encouraged to change. I find
it an interesting study.
May[J. Lynch, Supr. of Pen.
boy
School
etc.,
mak-
representative of
the Penmanship Profession.
ing the B. E. a
fit
The
and consideration of
always productive of good results. Liberencourages it In others and
brings answers to our own questions.
Help to make this department so valuable that It
will become the recognized anthorlty to which all
may turn for answers to almost every conceivable
technical, pedagogical, or supervisory penmanship
others
spirit of helpfulness to
Is
question.
ship''
Eytinge.
Altho we did not
know
it
then, our
lie
secured?
R.
most not-
Columbns but he was in the Ohio State Penitentiary. He is now serving a life term in the
Arizona penitentiary, at Florence, for alleged
murder.
A moral bankrupt, given up to die of tuberculosis, with only the ashes of opportunity on
which to build, Mr. Eytinge, in spite of the
hard limitations of convict life, has focused on
his achievements the enthusiastic attention of
the world's word-wizards, from the late Klbert
Hubbard, all along the line.
We have all been stirred by the words, "Be
noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men
sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty
Some one roused that
to meet thine own."
sleeping spark in the being of Louis Victor
Kytinge at last, and the resulting flame has apparently burned up the physical and moral
germs that were destroying him.
If. C.
The
scales
are
Wm.
J.
Kinsley
On March
25th, as a result of stomach trouble of several years' standing, Mr. Wm. J. Kinsley, the widely
known handwriting
expert, died in
Roosevelt Hospital of New York City.
Mr. Kinsley began his penmanship
and professional career in Shenandoah, Iowa, and for a short time was
located at Lincoln, Nebr., but for
nearly twenty years his headquarters
has been New York City and his
main business that of handwriting
Daniel T.
expert. He succeeded
Ames, foremost handwriting expert
of his day. Mr. Kinsley was recognized as an expert far above the average. As a witness he was skilled
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Some one has said that "Any letter to be a
producer must have the proper ring." It
teachers in attendance.
convincing printed
mailed out at such
and other
intervals
matter, and
insure
as will
WHY.
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JOHNSON,
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Bellevue Ave..
JACOB MILLER
42 AVE. B.
N. Y. CITY. N. Y.
work.
Would you like to win a brand new Remington Typewriter? This is the question which
the Remington Typewriter Company is asking
in a new circular which they are sending outto
the stenographers and typists of the country.
The next Remington "error proof" teBt is due
on Thursday, June 15th. All Remington typists who have not already registered to take this
do so now. No Remington
from this invitation except
employees of typewriter
companies. Call and register at the nearest
test are invited to
Remington
OR
may do well to write Zaner Bloser, Columbus, Ohio, as they have more calls than qualified teachers in above combination subjects.
office.
Graham
WANTED
To take small
Pitman
TEACHER
when
all
WESTERN
OPP< >RTUNITY,
COLUMBUS, OHIO.
SIGNATURE
nportance.
SUPERVISORS OF
Of these I'-Jntyles
yon will, no doabt, find
that yon will want to
adopt and beg In workup
on. Write me today and
styles.
^_^s
^/^o^^^^y
The following
will
summer
Columbia University
New York University
University of California
1'niversitv of Denver
University of Pittsburgh
Simmons College
Adelphi College, Brooklyn
University of Virginia
is a strong indication of the growing det iregg teachers all over the country.
Full information about these courses may be
secured by addressing the schools.
This
mand
all
excluded.
only true of
ing system, is finished in mahogany, has telephones in all departments, and is modern and
completely equipped school plant.
The majority of the student body are high
school people with many college people and
BINQEN. GA.
is
for
By
'^Ls
NEWS NOTES
(
Itto
Department
ml., for the
at
Richmond,
Whitman,
School
school year.
of the
for the coming
High
Mass.,
Ethel M. Nichols, of Searspart, Me., is teaching stenography in thenew High School Buildat
New York
Minneapolis
The managers
W. Ilackman,
recently been
1
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28
Bangor, Me.
J. P. Lelly has been elected to teach commercial branches in the Winslow, Arizona,
High School next year.
Mr. Rickard, of the Minnesota School of Busdean of the private school teachers
Minneapolis, gave a very interesting brief
in
of
WOULD YOU
m&tz
Training School,
irtlatlcl
mirli
M>
ictter than
I.E.
'or
Send
Hand*
iting
Changed
Address
ulars free.
D. B.
to good.
yon
mong
will tak'
the
is.
Partic-
Route No. 3.
7 1016
penmen
of today.
G. B. Jones.
Experienced Business
1'rln
Ma
Has
dual and Manager of several BChoolB, Sixteen years
experience in educational work.
Salary desired
SlfilKUlO a year.
Understands Pitman and OreRg Systems. Practical experience as auditor.
B. and G. B.
bas said of the
idorseall that the la
me of the finest penmanship critics in
took a course onder Flicktnger a good
years ago nd ever since has been a close student
equainted with
many
both
D.
of penmanship.
D. B. promises o
ADDRESS. O. M. M.,
Care Business Educator.
nlng ornamental
WANTEDPOSITION AS MANAGER
manshlp
COLUMBUS. Ohio.
circles.
make the name Jones fanmas In penKeep an eye on him and patronize him.
Editors, Business Educator.
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class in
iness, the
Summer School
University
New York University offers an excellent opportunity to learn Isaac Pitman Shorthand and
Office Training. A number of schools adverMr. Charles L. Frank will again conduct the
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Ornamental
Penmanship
BY
E. A. LUPFER.
Columbus, O., Zanerian
College.
become
and study.
amount
am
Give me a trial
and be convinced. Write for particulars. A Ransomerian graduate. Address
ness writing by mail.
D. A.
SHOFFSTALL,
LECK
KILL, PA.
&
<J0i'j6tti//i&i6du&t/fr
At San Diego
MissTralla
teaching stenolypy in
the Lansing Business University,
Lansing,
character
all evil."
Zanerian in the
high school in the person of P. A. Whitacre,
who is about as full of pep and good fellowship
as another widely known and expressive individual named "Geewhitacre !"
It was in the San Diego State Normal School
as Dean we re-discovered Mr. W. F. Bliss, the
thorough, Lincoln-like gentleman we had met
three years before in an institute in ElCentro,
ten miles north of the Mexican Border in the
famed Imperial valley where the sun sizzles and
the things grow as no where else on earth, or in
either of the other places where you
and
Edward
L.
Hardy promotes
better writ-
DC
is
Mich.
Miss
Emma
now employed
N.
Zeigler, of Lansing,
in the
Mich.,
is
J.
Frances E. Warner, a graduate of the Plattsburg State Normal School, Plattsburg, N. Y.,
has been elected to the position as commercial
teacher in the Glens Falls, N. Y., High School,
and supervisor of penmanship in the grades
there.
L. Pound,
now head
Commercial
Department of the Sheridan, Wyo., High
School, will teach during the coming year in
the High School at Boise, Idaho.
J.
dczidchc
NEWS NOTES
of the
AND NOTICES
High School.
Avard P. Goudey has recently been selected
head the Commercial Department of the
Mamaroneck, N. Y., High School, next year.
to
W.
J.
teach
in the
at
High School.
Oi
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tf
"S
J.
of Elmira,
work
for
is
the President.
the public press we learnthatthe Northwestern Business College, Spokane, Wash introduced this year a department of accountancy,
designed to lead up to the C. P. A. decree.
,
The department
ing.
lege,
oftheDambach Mercantile
of the
as
9M
MWM
Vleet
From
$.vK!
HUH wflk
WW ^^^Afl
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W. Van
in-
tend to go.
Pres.
Wood
in
wai-JmJ
Wbgr' i
states.
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FOR SALE
A popular private school in live western city
of 9000. No competition in ISO miles. Vast empire
lo ilr:iw from.
District very prosperous.
Low
rem. Centrally located, oiher interests. Will
accept part cflsh and give liberal terms. A big
chance for n live teacher. Address,
WANTED
PfcNMANSHIP LESSONS
85,000.
Prefer
large
WESTERN COLLEGE.
COLUMBUS,
* Position as
ANTED
Manager
or
O.
IS
Teacher.
semi
ami BXJK
rvieh
.he
FOR SALE
etter.
desire to
to avoid all
College
Western ci ty of
com petition within 100
Railroad connections to many
Business
No
.SOOO.
miles.
towns.
C.
S.
JACKSON,
Aberdeen, Wash.
Address
ZFIRTILSrai ZF-A-L
Care B
isiiiess
EUREKA,
less E
ati.r.
COLUMBUS,
<>H1
FOR SALE!
*i;.=.im.
Insurance,
Don't write
business. Ad
17.500.
WESTERN."
Kcjutpnient.
ai
J. M. G.,
are Bnslness Educator,
COLUMBUS,
<
>H
nllege teaching
Miiployed in Edne;
ipany. Address,
Money mal
Terms to a good nan. Imt
hool.
Ex-c
<peots better than
territory.
hange, September
1'epartment. Ford
BURTON C. BACON,
elle Avenue. Detroit, Mich
FOR SALE.
Well established Business College, in a
With large population.
Price about half the present year's bus!
taken early. Good Reasons.
Possession, now or in June.
Fine chance for a good school man or for tv
ever.
to I'JOOO cash,
don't an swer.
school western
Is
a htgh-
state.
L.
C.
J.,
COLUMBUS,
XVAIVTKD!
Proprietor has other duties In banking.
school.
Prefer one who can inves abont J&00.00 as evidence
of good faith.
COLU *BUS,
BOWLING GREEN
O.
B. J..
CARE BUSINESS EDUCATOR,
l>
SIM10
Iraile
If
This
O.
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COMMERCIAL TEACHERS
IN
FISK
DEMAND
r.xii-trati.m
V r.-e
t..
Denver. Colo.
S^LIE!
IFOiR,
BOISE, IDAHO
miles f r->in
Vp-to ilate eqnipraect. well advertised. PerOne all around teacher
sonal reasons for selling.
h small school
11".
work.
can handle
Address
it.
We
SMITH,
COLUMBUS,
AGENCY
~Wrlte
Immediately
For
Free
Circular.
O.
THURSTON,
TEACHERS
Portland, Berkeley
TEACHERS' AGENCY
Chicago
28
SCHOOL
PMD
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CttlJllLKO
lUK llUlTII'IDKl/IHL
R.
for position.
2!)tta
. E.K.Nk'hols
Mgr. Railway Ex-
B.
I.
TRAINING
Rochester, N. Y.
COLLEGE GRADUATES
proprietor,
COLLEGE
DEGREES
requests for commercial teachers holding
Many of the positions are in the large city high
file in our office
of openings in high schools and business colleges
where degrees are not required. The demand is strong for Penmanship teachers able to handle the commercial subjects. A postal card request will be sufficient to place oar organization at your service.
FIFTY
are now
schools.
GREAT DEMAND
IN
on
R0CKrMr7ACHAS\
'('"
BOWLING GREEN,
(incorporated)
Free Registration.
KY.
POSITIONS
OF ALL KINDS FOR
TEACHERS
vou want.
hat
Writ*
In September, 1913,
TUnCC
aaking
llr\Ll
sale.
MARION. INDIANA
We
O.
as commercial teacher.
WM,
we
Idaho, High School as head of the shorthand department. In October, 1913, we sent A. B. ZuTavern there
(a specialty by a specialist)
PRATT, MANAGER
E. Gaylord,
BEVERLY. MASS
Prospect Hill
Manager
B. F. CLARK
TEACHERS AGENCY
The
A gency
With
GOOD
27th Year
Chicago
New Yo rk
\*<i\
Flatiron Bldg.
Kno
Kan
City. Mo.
Spo kan e. Wash.
U. S. Trust
Blrf e .
COMMERCIAL
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FOR SALE
BUSINESS COLLEGE
TEA.CHER5
Population
Central Texas.
Business Is good.
No competition,
over 17.000.
nood reputation. Personal reasons for selling. Will
sell for part cash: balance In scholarships, or easy
payments. Address
In
IB.
ROBERT
COLUMBUS. OHIO
iji rw.
iii.i,
to us
from practically
many
at
moder-
ate salaries,
that
we know
it.
is
our aim
2C,
coming
A.
GRANT,
Mgr.
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W.
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Scranton,
Pa.
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modern illuminating. Not only is the work ornamental in design but the design contains
much in the arrangement that makes it appropriate to the subject matter of the resolutions.
All of the scrolling around the reading matter
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We found
().
Los Angeles
open-armed
cordiality
Lawyer, of the Coast College of Lettering, and his skillful assistant, H. S. Blanchard. Lawyer is a booster but not a boaster and
as a consequence he is prospering.
We next called upon Mr. O. T. Johnston, of
by K.
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S.
the Y.M.C. A., the educational efficiency engineer of that institution, who changed a deficit of 817,000.00 into a profit of some $1,500.00
within a year, and who looks the part of a boy in
years even though he is old and wise in experience. Later on we faced a splendid audience
in the institution an audience of men bent on
finding their highest service.
Our next call was upon M. E. Austin, head of
the commercial and penmanship departments
of the California State Normal School of Los
in
and
among some
At Long Beach
Here we met the supervisor of writing, Miss
Severance, whom we found a wide awake
teacher who is growing and not merely going.
We found the teachers very appreciative and
alert, and the principals cordial and enthusiasSupt. Stevens believes nothing is too good
tic.
in quality for bis pupils and consequently for
his teachers and patrons. The city is long on
education as well as on beach.
At Santa Barbara
This
little city
The
City Teachers
environs of mountains;
An
We
At Berkeley
At Pasadena
We made
its
all
They
with
Pasadena to see
Supt. M. C. James called his teachers together and a congenial lot they proved to be.
We
in the audience as
the penmanship medicine was handed out in
the editor's blunt Dutch way. Mr. E. W. Barnhart, head of the Commercial Department, is accomplishing things worth while in that work.
He has charge of the commercial and penmanship work in the Berkeley Summer School o
the University. Mr. Frank A. Kent, of Stockton, will have the writing in hand. The Zaner
Method is in demand because it has been
adopted by the State. The interest and enthu-
siasm
is
At San Leandro
Supt. Guy Smith and his teachers are progressives and as a consequence they are progressing in writing as well as in other things.
Here we were entertained at the hospitable
hands of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Weaver, who is
now a prosperous banker, who formerly owned
the San Francisco Business College. A sixtymile auto trip through one of California's in-
in
friendships.
At Oakland
is a practical Bchool man
tests by results and not by theories, and his
Supervisor of Writing, Mr. W. E. Moore, is preparing the evidence in the form of better teaching and more practical writing. We met here,
Supt. A. C. Barker
who
also, Principal
known
The
"Frisco" Normal
At Alameda
Supt. C. J. DuFour called his entire teaching
force to receive inspiration and instruction in
writing. Writing is receiving splendid attention because the superintendent has put writing upon the list of major subjects which means
that pupils must pass in penmanship in order to
Many and practical were the
be promoted.
questions asked.
In
Nevada County
good
to
them
as they
In
looked to
us.
Sonoma Co.
is
fel-
low.
In Tehama County
We discovered the Supt. of Ked Bluff Schools,
Mr. P. J. Sweeney, and the County Superintendent of Schools, Miss Minnie B. Lang, both
and more
consequence progress
teaching.
As
practical
is
being
*3tiuJ//i&)6duixi/fr
made in the art of writing. We spent a very delightful day in conference and contact with the
superintendents, teachers and pupils.
This ended a most enjoyable rive weeks'
work in the great empire of the Pacific big
and great
in
the Pacific
many
is
particulars.
Penmanship on
At Spokane.
We had the
gram.
At
Salt
Lake
City.
We know of no school system better supervised than that of Salt Lake City under the superintendency of D. H. Christensen, the two
grade Supervisors, and the exceptionally able
in
ell
We
We
OSKALOOSA COLLEGE.
Oakaloosa, Iowa.
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$1.00
W. A. SCHMIDT,
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA
WISE ST.
1212
as well.
COURSE
THE COSTELLO
IN
is
for particulars.
P.
W. COSTELLO,
Write
to
FRANCIS
B.
COURTNEY,
DETROIT. MICH
Box G 492
SPECIMENS
Doz. Cards (all different)--.
Ornate letter
1 set Ornate Capitals
20c
50c
Mr. Charles Swiercinsky, whose portrait appears above, recently finished his first year as
principal of the penmanship department of the
Kansas Wesleyan Business College of Salina,
Kansas.
This has been one of the most successful
years, not only in this department, but in all departments of the school. Mr. Swiercinsky, a Zanerian graduate, has been successful in turning
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25c
25c
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Combination
Business Letter
Set Business Caps
10c
Blanchard Flourish
Scrap Book Specimen
26c
2Sc
All
$2.05
$1.50
for
....
10c.
$1.50
department.
Mr Swiercinsky
this
519 Germain
Bldg.
SPECIAL OFFER A
Artistic liems In Ornamental Penmanship by L. Madarasz a book or 32
t; 3 4x9
k ,'ontiilns X'J sp,:-, 'linens ,,t ,-ard writing and
r Indies. Tills
pages,
:i
pages of other work ami Is worth ten times the price quoted.
Artistic Gems in Ornamental Penmanship
Hi
by Correspondence
unqualified success.
Moreover, he
In Pocatello
Hornell, N. Y.
St.
ENGROSSING
At Boise
penman
SNOW
e. D.
78 Main
Supt. C. E. Rose is deservedly popular because he is a modern efficiency educational engineer. The penmanship work we found in exThe teaching force is recellent condition.
Primary as well as a
sponsive and efficient.
Grammar Supervisor make for efficiency in all
subjects. Mr. A. B. Zu Tavern, of the Commercial Department, not only knows that work, but
a skilled
Cts.
itals,
things to eat.
Spokane City and people are inspiring.
is
25
he
printed Ntinn-
Departr
Graduate. College. Normal. Commereial a Ml
eparatorv by mall and In r
Degrees, >nfei red. Especla y of Interest :,, thn-e
wishing t
Ireadv begnn.
accepted from other Instttat ,nu. Pi
! rei sonable.
Pay by Install lents. Catalo
gave some skillful demonstrations of his ambidextrous and double hand writing. Raymond
P. Kelly, the Gregg Shorthand Expert, and his
better half, extended a welcome to their near
is an accomplished harpist and jolly good fellow. We also discovered another Zanerian in
the person of Mr. Scudder, who was promoted
from the commercial department to Secretary
We met for the
of the Board of Education.
first time after many years of professional acquaintance Mr. J. Fred Williams, of State ComSession's
office whom
missioner of Education
we found to be a clean, clear cut, able man. As
the former head of the commercial work in the
city, he started the teachers some years ago on
the road to good writing.
Boise is a beautiful little capital city nestlir g
at the foot of one of the Sierra mountains and at
the side of the Boise river. Thecilyis heated
from hot water from springs.
Zu Tavern and Scudder, devil-like, motored us
up one of their many canyons to the top of a
mile high mountain, showed us the landscape,
lunched us at sundown, and then, saint-like,
took us to Nampa, twenty miles aw ay, in thirtyeight minutes to catch the train. Whether they
touched the earth on their way home we have
not heard at this writing.
my
Principals.
$1.00
30
30
75 Lessons..
.30
50
.30
2.70
1
00
C. W. JONES. Principal
BROCKTON, MASS.
Brockton Business College
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The
is
a mixture of
DESIGNING
and
ENGROSSING
By
E. L.
BROWN.
Rockland, Me.
Send self-addressed postal
for criticism, and stamps
for retarn of specimens.
Co
<j//i**&UM/te^C<&a*itirr*
K'l.
manner. To all let us say that a careful, painstaking and conscientious student will surely
succeed. Remember that anything worth doing at all is worth doing well.
ir im
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tion.
We receive from time to time many specimens from students following these lessons,
and we regret to say that a large percentage of
them are gotten up in a careless and indifferent
building a vocabulary.
All teachers of English will do well to investigate the merits of this excellent book.
1.
Pub-
PITNAN'S
2,
"
50c.
'
Ma6s.,
is
the
title
of one of the
highest grade magazines published. It is devoted to the subject of Advertising in its various phases, principally with that which relates
that
The Book
by T. B. MacGregor,
Wagnalls Co., New York
of Thrift,
this
to bring
it within the reach of the average person, it was decided to make the price but 50c
per copy.
What is it worth to a business man today to be
quick and accurate at fignres? That would be
difficult to estimate. However, it is easily seen
new views
who
We
profit
by the experiences of
acquaint him-
The
you signify
until
in
dis-
In adopting any of
The
Practical Text
Book Com-
______
future
man who
But
commercial schools are using our text-books, and prospering marvelously because
equipment
"sing-song" mechanical
ly the possibility of a
writing of the words.
as fast as
you
first
of
them.
as
of
Let
Catalogue
free.
Now
is
Drop us
a card
TODAY.
Avenue and
18th Street
of
book teaches.
self
a benefit to
hand outlines.
This book contains an immense amount
think.
contains a review of shorthand prinIt
letters,
ciples, facsimile model typewritten
a selection of original letters and articles from
many different lines of business, helpful sug-
Lincoln Said,
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his stenographer to know and to be able to doarranged with vocabularies of engraved short-
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LESSONS
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RAPID WRITING
FOR TEACHER AND PUPIL
Eighty-four pases
a greater
amount
5'
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Ninth St
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ESTERBROOK
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1916
Idea,"
Accountancy, Chas.
Rittenhouse.
F.
.Sept.
Forward
Opportunities for Commercial Teachers in
the High Schools of the Larger Cities. Oct.
Nov.
.Business Statements
Dec.
Financial Statements
Jan.
Percentages of Profit and Expenses.
Trial Balance and Profit and Loss StateFeb.
ment...
Manufacturing Sets
Financial Statements for Mfg. Business
Solution to Problem Given in April
Accountancy
Arithmetic,
..Mar.
Apr.
-May
June
Sept.
Ideas of an Arithmetic Teacher
Oct.
Outlining of the Course
Rapid Calculation in the Arithmetic Class. Nov.
Dec.
Practical Measurement
Jan.
Dealing with Parts
Feb.
Interest
-Mar.
Legal Rateof Interest- April
Exorbitant Rate of Interest
On Certain Phases of the Banking BusiMay
ness
June
Ideas of an Arithmetic Teacher.-
Business Efficiency, H. E.
Cowan.
in the
Oct.
Nov.
Learn
Putting the Business Course on a Business
Dec.
Basis... -The Ascending Standard of Commercial
Jan.
Education
Commercial Work as College Preparation, Feb.
Mar.
What the Employer Wants
April
Buildinga Text Book
May
High School Economics
June
Culture Subjects in the High School
to
Sept.
Oct.
April
Letters, Subordina-
May
tion
Ambiguity
of
Married
is
June
Expression
Commercial Law,
Every Man
Court
Entitled to
P. B. S. Peters.
in
General
Dec.
Jan.
Feb.
April
May
Carl C. Marshall's Mental Meanderings.
-
Sept to
The
Who
The Open
Among
Melting Pot
Dec.
Road, A Fortnight of Boston;
the Boston Educators, A Big
New
Sept.
York
Jan
-Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
.Jan.
Feb.
Italy
Darkest Russia
Rejected Metal
Clear Havana
MetUfrom Austria-Hungary
Mar.
April
May
Sept. to June
Business Penmanship.
Lessons
in
in
Business Writing by
June
-Sppt. to
lie
Lessons
man.
Lessons in Business
Lupfer
1.
Z.
Hack-
Sept. to Feb.
Writing by E. A.
.Feb. to June
Nov.
Designing
Dec.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
April
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June
June
Dec.
Jan.
O.Gordon
Esther Hade
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H. E. Wilson, C. E. Baten
H. H. Stutsman, J. G. Moore, F.
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Oct.
No
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No. 2
April
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May
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Miscellaneous Articles.
W.
B.
less,
Tribute to
The
Dec.
Feb.
Pessimist,
Sept.
E. Dennis;
M. B Nichol; Correlation
Anthony
June
M. D.
Oct.
Knox
Organize
Oct.
Gregg Teachers' Convention, New England Federation of High School ComNov.
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Announcement of N. C. T. F.. Report of
New Jersey High School Commercial
Teachers' Meeting, Notice to Penmen
and Teachers of National Penmanship
Teachers' Federation, Report of WashDec.
ington Educational Association
Missouri Valley Com'l. Teachers' Association, New England Federation of High
School Commercial Teachers, Connecti.lerseyites
South Dakota
Feb.
terests
A.
Announcements and
Educators'
Teachers'
May
Reports.
Central Ohio
...Sept.
Commercial
Oct.
Nov.
Style and Method, Technical Training
Conditioning Things for Writing, ApproE.
Brown,
priation, Tribute to
L.
Handwriting Extremes
Dec.
Editor's Trip Eastward, Constructive Criticism, Extremes React, Cliques
Jan.
Robin-
cut Business
in
Education
Making your Word your Bond. T. E. Cupper; Aim, Ability, Industry ardMastery,
Editorials.
April
Obituaries.
Association,
Mar.
Meeting
Nov.
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R. Rosen, B. M. Lomeland
The
Penmanship
Oct.
C. E. Lowder
Stella G. Smith, F. H. Arnold, L. R. SwanJ.
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Biographies.
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Oct.
German Text
Oct.
Law. Nov.
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Tales of
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Lessons by P. W. Costello.
Buhlig.
June
OtherSpooks
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May
Job, Brief Meanderings
Savages and Others, The Teacher's Capital,
The Federation, Vertical Writing and
Rich
C. Howell.
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Association,
Commercial Teachers'
Penmanship
Eastern
Nov.
Cupper
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Institute Outline for Penmanship Discussion, Wm. Evans; The Penmanship
Supervisor, P W. Steinhaeser; Business
Education in the Middle West
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Taft's
tising, T. E. Cupper
The Cost of Experience, T.
Tribute to R. C. Spencer, G.
..Feb.
E. Cupper;
W. Brown,
Mar.
T. E.
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