The Idaho Republican., 1915-09-24

Job somewhere where they have the
things you want or where they are
willing to get them for you. That
settles 1t. The machine gets operat-
ed when you tell them that"
do you have trouble to get work
we'll done by the pupils when they
go out looking for employment"
Yes, the new beginners can't
spell, or they cant punctuate, or they
write in words that never existed and
the sentences don't make any sense
and don't mean anything"
That's because of their limited
vocabulary. The stenographer that
takes the course in school generally
i goes at 1t with the idea that it is
entirely apart from English"
That's what they do. We have
noticed that in school. They fight
shy of English all the time as II
stenography had done away with it,"
why do you let them take up
shorthand before they know their
English"
well, il they are going to take
short hand they have to take 1t the
last two years they are in school,
We have trouble to hold them in
school long enough to finish. With
the kind of pupils we get, it takes
about two years to make them pro-
fcient. OF course, some of them can
take 1t in six months or year, but
to do that they have to drill all the
time. have seen pupils, country
boys and girls, take it in six months
and go out and make good, but they
drilled almost from sun till SUM-
Il know of one pupil who takes it
down and outlines it perfectly, and
lshe spells correctly, but she can't
iIpunctuate at all. Has no conception
lof sentences or anything else but just
ito reduce it all to type"
That's right; some of them do
that, but that's apt to be the fault
,of the typewriter. Now, l had fell
low working in my office for long
ttime who said we had one typewriter
THAT wouldn't spell right"
II once knew very scholarly man.
t.who said he had little respect for
anyone who could not spell a word
more than one way
my friend here has a typewriter
that writes Swedish =
well, it requires lots Of drilling
to become stenographer. A fellow
kmay drill along for months before
khe gets on to it, and then it may
Lcome to him all at once and he will
Ego rightoff Now had young
fellow, you know him, in my office
for three years and he was never
exact about his work. He was never
neat and careful; just kind of sloppy
you know, and began to think he
never would get to be a good work
man. At times he would get out
pretty good work, and then again it
would be sloppy Finally he got in
with Ham Wright and. settled down
to steady writing, and all at once in
about a month, he came to himself
and got to doing good neat work, and
he is good reporter now and does
nice"
That's pretty rich! That shows
that he got in with a good office
man! That was what he had needed
all the time was to be with a man
that would give him chance to
develop, and Ham Wright was the
man. All, come off now, and pass
the cigars!"
Maybe it was Royal typewriter
he needed; maybe you had been keep
ing him pounding away on machine
he didn't like and couldn't get used
to-"
1--WE got Royal and Remington
in the school the other day. like
the Royal for stencil work"
/ Scene ii
Time, Tuesday; place, newspaper
office; enter two typewriter men.
"The top of the morning to you.
Could we get a copy of last weeks