Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-09-20

quotation system must be such that it
can be easily kept up-to-date, that the
price of anything desired may be had
at glance.
Has Many Office Appliances.
In the later years of the course
office equipment and systems are
studied. In organizing this course
the department undertook to open
correspondence with every concern in
the country which manufactured Of
fee appliances. At present there are
on file catalogues and correspondence
from nearly three hundred concerns,
with adequate information on every
device manufactured to reduce work,
DO II better or more economically.
Last year manufacturers sent samples
OF their product to Madison for stu
dents practice. This resulted in a
collection of office appliances of all
sorts. The collection was so salts
factory that on June Sth an office ap-
pllance show was given at the univer-
sity for the benefit of business men
This summer Office appliance manu-
facturers have been asked to furnish
lantern slides for the university
courses and public lectures through
out the state and slides are now COM
ing in with nearly every delivery of
express on the campus. Lectures
given with these slides are bound to
be inter-, ting and instructive. The
general course includes printing, sta
tionery; advertising, filing and bind
ing devices; loose leaf and card sys-
TENS; indeXing; adding and other
mechanical computing machines,
typewriter devices; bill and charge
devices and machines; autographs
registers; sales slip systems; tele-
phone conveniences; follow-up de-
vices; map and tack systems; time
clocks; locks; registers and compu-
tiers; commercial graphophones; let
ter and rotary presses; manifolding
folding, addressing, and sealing ma
chimes; check protectors, and other
small equipments.
To Cooperate with Business Men.
The department is planning to CO.
operate with the business men of the
state; to do for them what the ag-
ricultural college and experiment sta
ton have done for the farmers and
agricultural interests of Wisconsin
Any business problem, like cost &C
counting, advertising, or office sys-
tens, will be considered for any con-
Germ in the state. Not only will ques-
lions be answered by correspondence,
but professors and instructors will
visit interested concerns and person
ally assist them in working out their
business problems. The head of the
department will visit commercial cen
tiers throughout the country, and after
making careful study of similar condi-
tions, will give the business men of
this state the benefit of his investi-
cations. The libraries of New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, and Madison
will be used to prOcue the best Amer
lean and foreign books, trade journals,
and other literature.
Gives instruction by Mail.
The latest movement in this work
has been the adapting of all courses
to teaching by correspondence. All
courses in business administration
taught in the university are being or
ganized for teaching by mail, under
the auspices of the university extern
sion department
President Van Hise and the board
of regents are very anxious that the
expert service at the university shall
reach every person in the state who
can be benefited, and there is no field
of activity so quick to take advantage
of improved methods as the COM
mercial interests.