Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-11-02
STEnOGRApHERS MADE
ON "RUSH ORDER" PLAN
They Do Not Cut Into thy Demand
for the Genuine 0nsr-
ators.
WORK is HsPELIssLY INACCURATE
The Male Typewriter Ia Considered ths
More Reliable. and 10 Again Coming
to the Bront-Bssiness Men
want Experts.

The larger the number OF operators
turned out by the schools OF stenogra-
ply and typewriting on rush orders
the larger grows the demand for ex-
pert, veteran manipulators OF the type
writer, says the Minneapolis Journal.
According to certain young women
In the big office buildings, whose word
is law, the constant accession to the
great army OF typewriter operators In
Minneapolis no longer has the democrat
iz.ng effect on the business that 1t once
had. The incompetency OF the raw re-
cruits forced them TO work for much
lower wages han the regular scale
usually paid those who are proficient.
But the business and professional men
who were once glad TO have the work
lone at "A smaller figure, have been
brought to realize hat there is no
economy in employing poor help at
small wages.
With the reaction that has set In,
there is a greater emand than ever
for intelligent operators, who are not
| only rapid at their work. but who know
whereof they write, and 7 turn out
copy" that requires scarcely n cor
rCcting.
spollinH IL "retcneu.
The chief complaint against most OF
the girls who have been deluded into
the belief that typewriting Is a thing
to be learned over night, Is their abom-
Unable spelling, and the fact that even
the rudiments OF grammar are often
an unknown quantity TO them. Type
writing is, TO a large extent, mechan-
ical, but Il becomes a question OF head
work when II comes to spelllnB ana
punctuation. Girls who are short on
correct spelling usually resort to pho-
netic spelling, n the poor unfortunate
who has 10 revise their copy must pIou
patiently through folio after folio, look
Ing for mistakes. and at the end
the copy anything but neat.
In Minneapolis, as in Other cltles,
talk OF organization among the type
writer's I'm order TO check competition
has been heard. 1t has even been suS-
gested tina candidates should be re-
uuired to pass rigid examinations as
to their ability to handle a machine
and to spell and write grammatically.
The idea OF a union has never gone fur-
Their than talk, for the reason that
there Is now, and always VIII be, a ON
stantly increasing demand for opera
tors who have raised themselves TO "A
high standard OF efficiency by practice
and study. Until the gulf between
lIlc kODu anu ll' az DlNi 49, 800
appeared, operators cannot get to-
gether on a common basis of action.
Erpsrt, Get the business
The experts who have q state reputa-
ton for neatness and dispatch get the
bulk OF the business. There is one
young woman I'm the Guaranty build
ing who never makes less than $l26 n
month, and generally more. Lawyers
from all over Minnesota are her us
toners.
Many young women from the coun-
try, or who live with their families In
the city, become fascinated with the
idea OF earning an easy livelihood at
good wages. IL Is only when the sue
coed in breaking into the business at
So per week that disillusionment IN
And even then they are well content
with their new positions. Many OF
them live at home, and, being exempt
from board bills, can spend their earn
ings on clothing or pleasure.
The male typewriter, who Is general
ly considered more reliable than his
fair competitor is again coming to the
front.
Altogether, the future has a silver
lining for the serious-minded, intelli-
gent young women who have made Il
study OF the business n are In II to
stay. The young girl who thinks that
she has mastered typewriting after re-
ceiving q diploma crediting her with
ability to write Nov is the time for
all good men to come to the aid OF
their party" at the rate OF seventy-fve
words to the minute, will hardly do.