The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-05

from sueh institutions. lhey naQ actually
learned more from him in single
week than all they had acquired by
months Of attendance, with all the pre-
tendeG advantages Of individual in
structiOn" in the colleges. That pre-
tence Of individual instruction." by the
way, is merely a fraud upon the credu-
lily Of the public, and is very little diff
ferent from the individual attention that
spider customsrily bestoWs upon esch
hy caught IN his web. 1t is maintained
simply as means of catching the dol
lars OF pupils, let them come at what
time they may. To make good the
promise in the college system, would re-
qalre as many teachers as pupils. In
point of fact, each Individual pupil in 8
hourishing "business college" gets about
three minutes per diem Of, the teachers
time. Mr.. Dow, on the other hand, only
teaches classes, the members Of which
muat all stat together and progress to-
gether. Ii there are any among them
who are exceptionally slow, he gives
them persoLal assistance privately when
ever it is needed; but the class must, az
whole, keep together in its studies.
By this means. each pupil actually re-
ceiYes two and a hslf hours of direct
personsi instruction each evening, not
az 10 colleges-throush his own delving
in dull and puzzling books, but by the
infinitely superior magnetic impulse OF
practical illustration and preeept, by q
living, thoroughly earnest and able
lescher.
The expenses Of Mr.. Dow's course Of
tuition-a not unimportant consideration
to many young men entering upon 8
business career-sre actually only about
one-tenth for thorough and serVieeRbIe
knowledge of bookkeeping, Of what they
would be for a season Of proftless attend
ance and payment of exhorbitant sta.
tionery bills at one Of the business col
eyes.
Mr.. Dow and the "business colleges
have one ether radical difference be.
tween them which may as we'll be re.
feEred to in this connection. He doe
not promise situations to his pupils, bu
simply gives them such an excellent
business education as will fit them FOL
holding good situations when by thei
own energy they Obtsin them; wheres
the business colleges do promise situR
tions to thair drpes and then fail to Civ
them sufficient knowledge TO either get o
keep places. 1t is common thing t
see, in connection with advertisement
for bookkeepers. the warning mo bust
ness college graduates need apply" bu
such discrimination against Mr. Dow
pupils have never been seen Bushes
men know their value and when requir
ing help always prefer to employ them
One of the happiest @
Mr.. BOWS simplifying snd Labor
saving devices, which he vii
do we'll to introduce to his pupils 10 hi
future courses Of instruction in his pat
ented multiple column Journal whic
is now in use and atfording the highei
satisfaction in the counting roons @
many o. our most prominent CONNER
cial houses. 1t is practically. for al
large accounts, presentation Of the re
suits heretofore shown discoDnectedly b
day book, journal and ledger, saving 6
least 60 per cent Of the labor involved
keeping an old-fashioned set of boob
and possessing the rare advantage (
showing clearly at the close of each ds
t the exact state of the business. tt
column indicator" which goes with Il
new style Of journal, makes it so simp
3 that mistake in its use is hardly pc
3 sible, and at the same time it is, for Of
vious reasons, an almost perfect proven
) i've of any extensive fraud.
In brief it may truthfully be said, tn
3 Mr.. Dow, who has always been far in Il
t van Of ell business educators, in the prt
, gramme of instruction now before hin
, excels himself. Not only will ne giI
I his pupils all the unriYalled advantage
l he has heretofore offered of superior il
Q struction in the regular methods Of bool
keeping. and his special informatiC
upon topics peculiarly his own such
t the detection of counterfeit money, Il
safeguards against eheck-rsisiDg az
| other frauds; the legal requirements
established business rules and forms, Il
: laws and customs governing interchanl
: of values, domestic and foreign, ETC..
but, in addition to all this, he includ
4 in his new course, without any increa
r upon its cost, such further importal
= topics of instruction as might we'll, to
e less conscientious and liberal instructo
seem worthy of being made the subjec
q Of special extra charge
While the great majority Of Mr.. Dow
: pupils will of course be the youth, OF Dol
: sexes, it may be confidently expectC
t that no uncomfortable number of matu
? business men, employers as we'll as en-
D ployed, will gladly avail themselves
T the opportunity be offers for such g:
9 haustive, yet readily acquired, inform
: ton upon this theme of highest impor
q snCe 10 them. It is an undeniable IA
that very many business men, heads
: large mercantile and manufacture
8 concerns, are quite incompetent, throug
t lack Of practical knowledge OF tt
9 science Of bookkeeping, to understsI
+ their own accounts, to ferret out ar
/ irregularities" Ito use the polite MOI
= ern euphemism for entertainments al
ldefalcations) ia them, or even to leal
T from them the precise condition Of the
II own affairs. Either they have nevt
!, learned bookkeeping, or have forgott'
e it for lack of practice. or have studio
it in q Cuisines college," which pref
} certainly leaves them in q worse pig
l. than either those who never knew
g have forgotten. So they have to tru
% entIraly to their bookkeepers, with Il
Q occasional aid of an ''expert" called
: 10 see that the bookkeeper is not Chef
d ing. This is condition of affairs VIII
y should never exist. 1t is not prudent
" any business man TO leave his affairs
entirely in the hands of others, howey
Q honest or reliable he may believe them
be, nor is it morally right for him TO 2
i such temptation in the way Of his 81
l. ployees as is involved in their knowled
a Of his ignorance. He should know NJ
i to intelligently watch his business, a
l. thev should know that he is possessed