The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-14
WINS \ GOLD MEDAL.
Miss Johnson's Proficiency and Skill
 Secures It.

A most interesting event. to the of the Butler Business school. was the award which has just been made to one of their number, Miss Ad- cline M. Johnson, of a medal for profic- iency in typewriting. The medal is of gold, with a raised design of a Rem ington typewriter in the center and over It the words For proficiency on the Remington Typewriter" The story of the medal and Miss Johnson.s sue cessful effort to secure ii is very in teresting. The medal was presented to the Butler Business school several months. ago by the Remington Type writer company, to be competed for by the students of the shorthand and type writing department The policy follow ed was radically different than that which Is most likely to suggest itself when one hears of a record" having been made. Particular emphasis was laid on the fact that speed was a minor consideration, that the essential qualifications of a good operator were skill and accuracy and that these were to be sought with the certainty that rapid work would follow. The employ CT who has had a stenographer who could write sixty words a minute on the typewriter" but failed to turn out twenty correctly written, will appre- ciate the good sense of this policy. An other requirement was that the work performed daily in the regular course should count for a higher percentage than the final test. The result was department striving faithfully day af- ter day for the best work of which each student was capable. In the final test the matter selected was difficult and
 :.lcJlated U )'Lt eg'n tie Butler touch operators on heir mettle. For the benefit Of the uninitlated be it said that the touch system is that in which the manipulation of the type writer keys depends upon the opera tors sense of touch and the eyes are left free to read the matter which is being transcribed.
 In announcing the award and in giv- ing honorable mention to one of the youngest members of the school, Miss Jennie Petreln, C. c Fitch the Con nectlcut manager of the Remington Typewriter company, made some brief but interesting remarks. He told how the Remington had created the type writer industry and made possible the employment of the hundreds of thous- ands of stenographers who are to-day engaged iE lucrative employment, but continuing he stated that the Reming- ton company had always had an ideal for its machines and for its operators as to the typewriter. tn best that brains, skill and money could produce, fact everywhere recognized; that its attitude toward stenographers and typewriter operators was to do every thing within its powers to awaken and | inspire a purpose on their part to be worthy of their vocation, to recognize their deficiencies and overcome them, to become thoroughly qualified in ev- cry respect for the exacting require ments of business life and to increase their salaries by making them worth more to their employers He said that 
 in offering the medal the standing and excellent work of the Butler school was
 recognized but that the purpose was
 to awaken constant and determined effort far beyond that, of which they and their employers should reap the results indefinitely He added that he
 would give far more to succeed ir
 raising the standard and in giving the employer the benefit of greater efficien-
 cy than In securing large amount oi
 business; that the policy of his com
 pany had always been to maintain the
 standard. to live up 10 It's ideal what
 ever might he the cost. and he urged
 that course upon them as the one eer'
 tain to serve their bcst interests.
 The selection of the Butler school a' the field of the contest Is strong com
 plment to that school and serves t
 emphasize its standing among Connect
 icut business institutions. That the SC
 lection of the winner was not an easy
 matter augucs well for the success o
 the Butler graduates.