Evening star., 1902-01-18
This IS the age OF organization.

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employing hundreds of thousands
% throughout the nation, and the most
complicated machinery known in the
history OF the world, are managed
81 smoothly. quietly and easily III
suites OF handsomely furnished,
o. pleasantly situated offices round
about Wall street, where plain,
straightforward, pleasant-mannered
men handle. affairs OF billions with
less friction and fuss than some peo-
pie run a peanut stand.
Organization is the explanation
system.
The manager OF a great trust pulls
out a drawer in his desk, runs his
finger down the even tops OF indexed
cards. stops at M tips back the
, rest OF the cards. and reads:
Machinery Pittsburg office, new
= equipment, s2,638.742.IS; May l.,
{; 1901, etc.
+: He turns in a second to any fact,
any figure. regarding anything with
. in the dominion of his trust. He
doesn't have to touch button for
the bookkeeper or his private secre-
tary.
The Ladies Home journal Case.
Over in Philadelphia there is a
floor OF the big building owned by
the Curtis Publishing Company de-
voted to subscribers OF the Ladies
Home Journal and the Saturday
Evening Post. I was asked once on
time to investigate the circulation
of the Ladies Home Journal-three
quarters OF million then-a million
now.
1t took ME twenty minutes to find
out that the Ladies Home Journal
actually did have the circulation
claimed, and that its circulation was
paid for- -
| would take place at random
Los Angeles, Cal. for instance In
the gal1eys I would find the name OF
Mrs. John Smith OF Los Angeles.
Then in the drawer where the Los
Angeles cards are kept | turned to
the SIS. found the card that told
when Mrs John Smith subscribed
2 for the Journal, when she paid for it
IA ard the place where her subscription
order, was on file; and then in the
filing cabinet, under the index,
quickly | turned to all the CORE
spondence between Mrs. John Smith
and. the Ladies, Home Journal.
.ea..- Sinlplifies Bookkeeping.
,.- BY the modern index system any
business no. matter how big or how
complicated, is reduced to simpIici-
ty. Of course. the index system is
not the. best thing in the world for
bookkeepers and Office employees, for
1t cuts down the office force, Just as
the moving machine and the limo
type reduced the demand for labor,
a at the same time it reduced the cost
OF manufacturing and doing busi-
ness. go
The index system enables man
Z to run his business with almost no
bookkeeping at all, very few office
a assistants and at greatly reduced ex-
pense- Its coming into universal use
Is just as certain as the electric street
car. This is the reason that Moses &
Sons got the exclusive agency for
Washington for the best index svs-
teni-practically the only one-when
ii first came into the market. This
index system was naturally offered
to Moses & Sons. Everything that
is newest and best in office furnish
ings, or any other kind OF furniture,
Is offered first 10 this firm, for Moses
& Sons have the largest possible out
put for anything that has merit, and
the fact that they handle an article
Is conclusive Endorsement OF it.
Coming Into Universal Use.
Hundreds OF business houses all
over Washington have put in the
card index system, and the
, time will come when every LAWYER.
every physician, every retail and
wholesale merchant, every manufac-
'turer, every newspaper, periodical
and printing Office, and every one of
the departments, will put in this sys-
tenn. 1t costs so little and is so ab-
solutely necessary, that this predic-
ton seems 'superfiuous. do not go