San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-21

Now l returned to a regular seized
ule and a regular desk job, determin,
ed that my aim for the next year
should be to put over the firm of A
L. Harrison and Company. Advertising
Consultants. As in a dream ] re
called that when Betty Winston went
abroad as the guest of the Hoadleys
Aunt May HOadley had been advis'
ed by Uncle Max that it would be
fine job to transfer her holdings
in the company to Betty. She had
owned ten per cent of the stock and
Betty twenty-five per cent. Now
Betty held thirty-five per cent, my
brother Neal ten per cent and the
remaining fifty-five per cent interest
was mine.
/ began 10 figure excitedly.
The business as it stands ought
to bring in at least two hundred
thousand dollars this next year. II
leave it in charge Of Miss Mcbride,
| thought. IN just hustle AROUND
for the next few months and drum
up new accounts. Then I'll start tho
personal publicity branch. Five
clients at a hundred a week is TWEEN
ty-five thousand to start. That
should mean another fifty Thousand
at the end of a year. A quarter Of
million dollars worth of bust
ness"-
] totalled rapidly. Thus lavishly
reckOned on a basis Of outside costs
the business would cost one hundred
and fifteen thousand. Say a hundred
and twenty-five.
That left a hundred and twenty
five thousand clear profit. Fifty
thousand must go back into the bust
ness. Seventy-five for the partners
That actually meant that I'd be earn
ing around forty thousand dollars. jim
had never done so well in his best
days. At this rate | could have .
high priced car and a chauffeur in
uniform-a place in the country foI
summer months. A fine suite in
town for the cold season.
Lets see just what il fifty-five
per cent of seventy-five thousand:'
| asked myself.
More figuring. I stared with thrilled
admiration at the total and figured
again to make sure. Yes. that was
il; Sal go it read. l rolled it over
on my tongue, saying it aloud with
relish:
"Forty-one thousand two hundred
and fifty dollars and no cents"
And then Miss Mcbride asked from
the doorway:
May / speak to you for few
moments, Mrs. HarrisOn-or are you
too busy to see me?'
"Come right in" I said expansive
". What are you getting now, Miss
McBride-seventy-five a week, ism I
it?'
That's il. And I've done my
best to earn it," she said, nodding
like raven as she took the chair
across from me. =,
well make it a hundred" said
with the greatest satisfaction.
oh. Mrs. Harrison" she began,
but | cut off her protests with a
large wave of my hand.
"Im thinking of expanding-tak.
ing on more office help. Instead OF
Two TWISTS and n switchboard opera
tor. five stenographers at once. More
later. A filing clerk. Possibly an Of
flee bow for errands. I'm figuring on
the basis of ten girls at thirty a
week. 1t would come out the same
If we had eight stenographers, fill
ing clerk. office boy and operator
But. Mrs. Harrison!" she protest
ed.
I went on, carried away by my
dream of a success so great that those
who pity me now because Jim has
left me for a mere child will sit back
and exclaim over the wonderful pow
or am becoming in the world OF al
fairs-where Jim never attained TO
such heights as l had scaled-alohe
But Mrs. Harrison" Miss Nc
Bride interrupted again, Il don I
think we should plan to expand Just
now, | was thinking of reSlgnlhs
now. you are here. You don need
an office manager. You don't need
more than one stenographer."
Her tone chilled me. My exuoer-
ance began to dim. felt a horrible
portent of evil.
what do you mean?" I asked.
We're growing-not shrinking. We
must expand
But the conviction had gone from
my voice and my heart.
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