New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-09

EAD some good fellow done a'
~ much for letter-writing as
L. Il ,,.ot Walton did for fishing
We should now have. use 81"
sniov, for better and for worse "'
Correspondents Comp'eat Lew
Writer" Indeed, now and again o"e
will profes, to find such book IN '"'
piled UP, largely unread mass Of 81!
rent business literature, some s0'o'
.ome bad. much worse, which IN a neg
d,v Of practical efficiency has co"' ~
d,iuge a commercial world.
such works, however, in place oil DE-
inc for apprentices that know ho'n'" 'i
arc very largely for the 'rs'"'o
orror Who already knows something
for the business veteran that ne may
cat more business. In place OF your
s.yinr "Miss Smith, taks this; your
fayor If the - inst. received, and con-
,orts noted. Our Mr.. Jackson IS al,
tending to the matter personally anu
you will hear from him at an carry
date. Thanking you for remembering
-, with this business, and trusting u
30 f,vored with your orders in tne
future. we remain, Old, Fosey 'o''
;,sto,d Of this. then. nowadays the I'M
,irod business man draws up MS dicta
nhonc. consults manual IN manu-
,ive7 an address. perhaps. says 10 inc
bor, "H-A; F-32; H-ll,' inserts ?
nhrase or two for local color. ne
stsnorrapher will next consult her
corv If the book, look up those STOCK
and unelastic forms required, and u l.
Gnishcd-thc letter de luxe trah-
,cr;bed from talking macnlne'
brought out from a manual OF business
words and phrases, done into PRINT on
4 modernized machine, copied without
a lcttcrprcs'.
Connecting Man and Jon
For the purpose, good enough but
in the life Of every man there comes a
time when he must seek and IND a
lob. Such nc plus ultra methods are
not available to him. Quite prooapiy
he cannot go in person. for ne ana
b;s onnortunities may lie in broadly
separated places. as most unfortunate
~ thew have way Of doing. Again
being new. the job may very possibly
not come a-seeking him. He may even
have to 20 out and intercept it. What
matters it, if he can write? II doesn't
if he can.
Then with some loosely coordlnated
thoughts of what he wants, scrambled
idea Of how he means 10 get 1T, and no
convention at all of what it means to
get it right, he commences to produce
Probably in ordinary days one letter IN
on. hundred lands a JOB. We're Jobs
awarded solely on the application, less
on supply and demand, one in thou
sand might De relatively high. In long
hand, cramped hard, typewriter and
seeming Sanskrit characters they come
and the man who may be failing as a
nenmsn but strong in the knowledge
that goes with "Now is the time for
all coed men to come to the aid OF
their party has not always an advan-
tage over the chap with a pen, for
tho timing machine, while acccntuating
pure goodness, also sprays the light OF
plainncss athwart the badness Of gram
mar and the waywardness of punctns-
ton and arrangement to a remarkable
extent.
! have no doubt that | have happily
and unconsciously, with light heart,
spun out many and very eXcellently
bad letters. Occasionally enjoy doing
so nov. | have received and read more
of them. The one in about one hun
dred is, as say. remarkable. Human
appeal, good judgment, business taste
and ethics, first impressions, the psy-
Geological etfect-one, all, go to the
wall. In advising what to do 1t is
popular to suggest what not to do.
Thanking You in Advance"
Quoting from life"
I most respectfully make application for
place in your business affairs.
Having a fair knowledge Of drawing