The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-14
TWO MINDS
 i IN ONE.

Talk about your psychological mar vels! I saw one few weeks ago that was brand new to me.
 P I was invited by the principal of a well-known commercial school to see young man from the Remington Typewriter office give a demonstra- tion on the Visible Model 10 Rem ington.
 } 1" A demonstration on the type writer? What is new in that?" I wondered. " can see scores of such demonstrations every day in any busi- ness office"
 Nevertheless, I had a feeling that it must be something out of the ordi- nary, so l went.
 1 watched the young man for some minutes copying from manuscript. Of course, he was very fast operator and very accurate operator, and all that. He fairly made his Remington hum. But what of it?" I thought. "The woods are full of fast and ac- curate operators.
 Presently the school principal took me up and introduced me to the young man. He acknowledged my salutaton but continued his writing.
 l asked him few questions about himself and his work. He answered them, still writing.
 Then it dawned upon me that here indeed was something out of the ordi- nary.
 All the while that this young man was talking to me, he never ceased to copy from his manuscript. He was doing what psychologists have grave ly told us is impossible. He was per forming favo separate mental opera lions at one and the same time.
 But this was not all. It was only the beginning.
 " Do you speak German asked our host.
 I confessed my ignorance of that language. But German happened to be present, and he took up the conversation. The operator answered him-in German; while he still con- tinued to write-in English.
 Then a, man was found in the audience who spoke French, and the same test was repeated in that lan- guage, for the operator was not only a proficient typist but also an accom- pliShed linguist.
 There was no stumping that oper- ator in his remarkable feat of two simultaneous mental operations. He could converse fuently in French or German while at the same time copy ing from English manuscript, and he showed us later that he could just as easily reverse the process. It was all new to me and to everyone present. IS new as 1t was extraordinary.
 But of what practical use is it?" thought on my way home.
 Then my mind began to stray back ,ver the earlier days of the writing machine. 1 remembered another mar vel of 20 years ago, when Frank Me Gurrin, the pioneer touch 1" opcr- ltor, the first typist who ever operated .he machine without looking at the keys, was giving his exhibitions on the Remington Typewriter in all the :ities of North America.
 remembered how they called Me Gurrin freak, sort of magician, who did what no other operator could ver do. Today the whole business world knows that all the best oper- .tors are touch " operators.
 The wonder of yesterday is al'"5cyo he commonplace of to-day.
 It is not the two in one tunts that this young man does that natter in themselves. It is the fact hat he is able to do them, for this act proves what perfect mechanical proficiency an operator nay attain with practice.
 The lesson this latest marvel teaches that the typist becomes proficient y becoming mechanical-a human Iutomaton. And only when typing becomes as mechanical and uncon- cious as walking, is the typist truly master of his craft.
 Twenty years ago the Remington Typewriter Company brought out Frank McGurrin as an example to the operators of his day. Now they have drought out this new marvel as an xample to the operators of the pres mt. Thus the Remington Type writer fulflls its role as the perpetual pioneer, not only in the development 5 ,f the machine itself, but in every development of its skilled operation