Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-07-14
Loyalty to His Employer
Is the Clerk'S Cue.
BY HENRY DHW 9 q NJ.

presence the employe needs TO get
away home or to his pleasure as soon
as work can be dropped without fear
of reproof.
One of the commonest disqualified
tons of the clerk is his inability to
write a good hand. Training counts
here again, for the reason that a per-
son knowing himself to be lacking in
handwriting can take 1t up at home
If necessary, and equip himself with
the best ~penmanship. A life Insurance.
company calling on IN employment
agency for two men the other day
caused the agency to search through
more h a 100 qualifications In order
to find one man whose penmanship was
up to the standard.
Handicapped BY Poor Penmanship.
In n of the big auditing offices of
the country the complaint is that a
lack of a good business hand is the
chief obstacle in the way Of the CT
fees getting help. This inefficiency
with the pen is laid to the public
school system, almost without excep-
ton. 1t is the one shortening of
nearly all beginners In clerical posi-
lions, and, aside from personality, ii is
the thing of first consequence to the
average employer. In the order OF ne
cessity on the part Of the applicant he
should rank in penmanship, be accu-,
rate at figures, and should have a per-
s~onality that would stand the test,
whether impressionistic or lasting.
AS to the personality of the man or
woman there is nothing calling for
handsome face and figure, considering
the average call for help. Work ac-
complishcd Is of first consideration,
and neatness and dignity are all that
will be required of the most exacting.
1t is possible that an even shabby suit
of clothes, well brushed and showing
care, might produce q better effect up
on a would-b employer than the newA
est and fiashiest clothes could do. But
at the least the young man can be
we'll brushed and his shoes can be
shined.
Loyalty Covers a Multitude Of Sins.
The applicant for the average clerk
ship regards his position too lightly.
Maybe he feels that 10 contract binds
him to his place and that there are
thousands Of others In the streets out
side who would be glad to wrest his
place away from him. Yet I know a
wholesale firm here which employs
nine bookkeepers, and five of these nine
have been with the firm more than ten
years. This is a credit to the book
keepers no less than to the discrim-
ination Of the persons who may have
employed them. Considering that now
after ten years one of the positions
should become vacant, the person who
would be chosen to the place might ex-
pect to be pretty well suited to the
employer in order to be allowed 10 step
into n of their pairs of shoes.
Perhaps IL the average clerk appre-
ciated his position more his sense OF
loyalty and his attention to details Of
his work would be naturally greater.
There are no needed things In a mans
work so slight in importance as to adj
NIT of their being inconsidered. and
when an employer has discovered an
employe to be regardless of the wishes
Of his employer lin disposing OF the
merest routine work that employers
\ confidence in that employee has been
overturned past all reinstating.
II an emnloye once have loyalty to-
ward his employer, all else may be add
ed unto him.