Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-04
For Greater Efficiency
In Typewriting
New and Important Policy Recently
Introduced by a Leading Typewriter
mpany-Valuable Prizes Offered
to Efficient Typewriter Operators.

efficiency" is the latest idea-the
very last word-in business. Greater
Efficiency is the demand of the age, in
manufacturing, in selling, in office man
agement, in everything.
Several big concerns have already
established themselves as leaders in the
new efficiency movement, and natur-
ally. among these leaders is the con-
Germ which a generation ago started
the era of time and labor saving in
the business office.
"For Greater Efficiency in Type
writing is the new slogan of the Rem
irgton Typewriter Company. This slo-
gan describes an extended program
adopted by the Company in the interest
of the typewriter user, program
which represents a big investment of
time, labor and expense.
The idea which underlies this new
program is that the interests and the
duties Of the manufacturer do not end
with the mere efficiency of the ma
chine it manufactures and sells. It
extends to every other factor which
may increase or diminish the efficiency
of that machine and it's value to the
buyer. In the case of the typewriter
the three principal factors which con-
tribute to the net result are the ma
chine, the operator and the conditions
under which the operator works.
First Of al! it is necessary to cor
rect some erroneous notions as to
what constitutes efficiency in type
writer service. one of these notions
is that the sole test of efficiency is
the speed of the operator. Nothing
could be further from the truth. There
is only one test of the operators eff
| ficiency and that is the size of the
days work, and this is determined by
several factors, the chief of which IS
| ACCURACY.
Your So called fast operator. who
makes a mistake or two on nearly
every page loses so much time in
correcting these mistakes, or, worse
still, in rewriting matter which can
not be corrected, that her days work
is always smaller than that of the
operator of only moderate speed whose
work is accurate. A fair measure OF
speed is taken for granted in the case
of every experienced operator, but
there is never any guarantee of accu-
racy unless the operator has been
trained to be accurate-either self
trained or trained by others. 1t is
along these lines therefore that the
Remington Typewriter Company's new
program is directed, with the idea and
purpose of increasing the efficiency, the
value and the earning power of every
operator of the Company's product.
How are these results to be OBJ
tanned? There are several features OF
the program, but one of the most inn
portant is a series of awards or prizes
for efficiency in typewriting, which
will be given by the Remington Type
writer Company to all operators o,
Remington. Smith Premier or Mon.
arch Typewriters who are able to quail.
ify. This system Of prizes, which i:
very comprehensive, includes awards
to students of typewriting in the be.
ginner class, the intermediate clas!
and the graduate class, to teachers o
typeWriting whose pupils show higl
] percentage of efficiency and to opera
tors in general. The prizes offered b!
the Remington Typewriter Company t
the latter are OF very substantial valu
and they are open to every typist ex
cept those employed by typewrite
companies. The conditions are simpl
the maintenance of a speed of sixt.
words per minute for fi'teen minute
without error. The plan includes tn
: holding of these contests twice a yea
at every Remington branch office; tn
: months chosen for the tests are Janu
airy and June. Further particulars col
corning the conditions of the tests an
the prizes offered may be obtained a
the Remington office, 917 Main st
Boise Idaho.-Adv.