Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1906-08-17
METHODS ARE CHANGING.
And Business is Being Simplified.
Some Interesting Facts.

are changing rapidly. For in
stance, in bookkeeping the old
time method of single entry and
the use of the journal is giving
way to loose leaf ledgers and card
files. Everything is being SIM
plifed, and system is the all i'm
portant thing in the keeping of
records and accounts.
Shorthand is being wonder
fully simplifed. The old Pit
manic system with their shading,
positions, and four lengths of
characters, are rapidly disappear
ing. The Gregg, a light line
and no position system is taught
in four-6fths of all the largest
and best business schools in the
United States. This one can be
learned in half the time it takes
to master the others and when
learned is as rapidly written and
more easily read. The conse-
quence is that the number of
Gregg writers is increasing
day by day. In competition
with other systems of the world
the Gregg obtained the highest
award at the St. Louis Exposi-
ton.
No profession allows greater
opportunities to ambitious young
men and women than that of
stenography. Many young peo-
pie who obtained positions as
stenographers a few years back
through some business college,
are now high-salaried officials of
well-known banks and CONNER
cial houses. How many know
that Grover Cleveland first en-
tered an Office as stenographer?
And yet it was through this
position that he gained the know
ledge of business principles that
carried him to the highest pin
acle of success. George B. ~Cort.
elyou advanced from stenogra-
pher to ca binet member in less
than seven years. Mr.. Loeb
obtained his position as private
secretary to President Cleveland,
and held the same with Presi-
dents Mckinley and Roosevelt
because of his knowledge of stem
ography. /
Fred B. Fisher, right from Al
banv, Oregon, now consul at
Harbin, studied shorthand and
took the position with the O. R..
& N. Company, then went to
China and now holds the con-
sulorship.
There is no reason why any
one should not adopt Shorthand
as a permanent profession, W.
L. James, one of the members of
the firm of Messrs. Walton,
James & Ford, the official court
or Chicago, received
onlv a common school educa-
ion. He studied shorthand and
typewrilirg and is now world
famous as rapid reporter
Thousands of such cases could
be cited, but space does not per-
nit.
The North west is on the eve
Of great industrial development.
More millionaires will be madel
in this section of the country
during the next ten years than
in any other part of the world.
The demand for competent book
keepers and stenographers is
greater than the supply. Office
salaries were never higher than
they are today. True it is, that
often someone says, "Oh don't
So ~ tdS lily. SlNdOSl aPuSlSi
and bookkeepers are walking the
streets in search of work"
There are unemployed people
to be stenographers
and bookkeepers, but they are
the men who ''just picked it up;"
if they are able to take dictation
their limited knowledge of Eng-
is b does not permit them to tran
scribe it correctly. When they
are told that their broth ers and
sisters are drawing a hundred
dollars month, they say,
What good ]uck.'' There is
no such think as s'luck" In the
business Office. In.
1uence counts for naught if the
person is not Efficient :: Thank T
goodness this talk sabout s.sltEkn.