The sun., 1900-08-11
Republicans think that over.
NJ 'LrI LICATIDN ANDDIyIsIoS.


n LII LICATI ~ ANDDIYISION.
The New York World thus welcomes
4 suggestion which comes from a trade
newspaper upon whose staff an arith-
lnrticn "fcnd" would seem to be en-
loye,l
~ shorten labor ana save time il TO
lrhgih2n life When. therefore. our con
iiil1otill'S the HabcfddSher proposes to
feihtt the burden Of business CORE
Spnhdencc by abolishing ..Dear SIR,
AMI Yours very truly" it il proposing
i reform ~ the interest Of longevity.
Actual experiment has shown that ii
axes typewriter one hour to write
Iic f9rHal words with which they are
all'htd aud cl9sed nj il batch Of 800 lrt
'eis 1hc IIabrrdashcr finds thai Oh tlt,
stliiiaied total annual letter mail Of the
Atfld, which s ei@ht thousand million
nie'c, lhr Dear Sirs" aud Yours very
fl5E- even il ll written bv nachiue.
S.tld tame thr t.Hl !. one typewriter
t'9e yoarS. tnHtne 800 DAYS % tho
WGfl.iHG yetr. 'l'Ae co-i of tho type
writing tlii, \ @dlrs~ly doAc every year.
allowing $40 nnf wcck Is H. type
writers Wa@s i S3,&5oc0Q
WIS no. It asE> drop these moan.
nsitHs phases ind bigili rigla oif
"iGiil Snith 4 CO." Wv what VII have
1" say and ,islt i ~ Blown 4 O.. \"
IN Rut indeed: + Il telegram him
i.-~ allirrans i'll effective thdn Ii lettrr:
flll Ms n'Hot w. ilN mpsr words iii.
tgiegf th iHu trc upelad Ia convey
ou& 8Hin4
ILL., Ne" Yerl, Tribune commenting
~ ihe suggestion u tho iiabeaaa-hcr.
aatNfls j substantially IL t!r arsa-
mnl ihat nTa ill., sane priucijle III
abolition q l n of other illiu.s, nilllt
l,c atseaair1 fl Whose cNis,atsr tae
iist}rrdashl welh Haiuly Ia,Ee L
stot if- rllHF. for instlner ii
al,G says that tha limo expended by
lIPeNfiirls u The ornamental words
Wonld not BE- saved for other work. but
would simply give little more idle
lihF which argument. VIZ feel obliged
g eaT, i thoroughly tallacious. bnt that
= another story. Tie real answer IL
ne llabertlasher line Of argument-and
! applies 70 other things besides tllis
on@ i MI arithmeticnl answer. Whether
o. not one should fight the devil with
fire. i il certainly good thing 10 fight
the arithmctieal tend with arithmetic.
Ihe fact is that such an arrangement
aS that Fl the IIabrrdnshrr merely
shows that multiplication is il great
lhlhg to multiply with: and. in order TO
make yourself comfortable again with
your Dear Sir" and Yours very tlm-
ly, all you have to do is 10 remember
that there is such il thing as division ~
well rs multiplication. Granting that
the world spends 50. 1000 Il yenr M
these frills Of lettcr-writing. il is 10 be
remembered that this expense il mcttr
evenly divided among the half Il billion
Or 50 Of civilized human beings Of tl,r
earth-for the running expenses Of my
business are, Of course. iii il general
way, returned 10 il ~ its customers
Dividing SS,350.CO0 hy O0.oOO00O wc rct
Just about tw0-thilAs If Il cent i yrar
as the share u each cnc Of rs III thc
maintenanca q this wa.tcful habit. DO
lng step fnrller-Sincr il year is il long
time, and everybody can realize much
more readily for day tthc evil thereof
the burden fallin.. on each Of is every
day is rather les than the five hun
drcdth part Of / ccnt. The world will
probably prefer 70 stagg,r IN under this
burden rather than aivc Up one of the
minor dccencics.