Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-12
The Senator's Secretary

am a high school student who has
just completed a semester's course in
typewriting and Office practice. In COM
we were amazed at the testimony given
in the current hearings by Senator Nc
Carthys secretary.
There are, in our tipping room, thirty
typewriters of three different makes.
After a few weeks Of working on the
various machines every person in the
class could identify the make of ma
chine from copy.
The sharpest students (of whom
am not one) could identify certain ma
chimes Of the same make from copy.
A typewriter types copy just as dis
tinctive as persons own handwriting,
and that Secretary's testimony showed
either a lack Of training and knowl-
edge of office procedures or just plain
ineficiency. She wouldn't pass our high
school course, I'm sure.
r Geraldine Yates.
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assume that there will now be
vacancy on Senator McCarthy's staff
for a secretary, and I feel that
I am capable Of handling the job. since
I know at a glance the difference be-
tween a typewriter and washing ma
chine, am careful to keep my short
should be needed again, I know ex-
actly how long have used my present
typewriter, file by alphabet, and have
a memory like the proverbinl elephant.
can recognize my own style OF work
and can pick it out Immediately. OBJ
viously the Senator is in dire need of
some one with these qualifications.
Irma Peterson.
In view of the evidence recently pre-
Sented at the Army Mccarthy hearings.
by Mrs. Driscoll, would it not be most
appropriate for the chairman of the
Senate committee investigating Govern
ment efficiency to set high priority for
an investigation Of his immediate Of
fee?
:. A Citizen Interested in
Government Efficiency.
X
Lowell Mellett's picayune attempt to
discredit the testimony Of Mary Dris-
coll, competent and Woodworking sec
rotary to Senator Mccarthy, is laugh
able. II he thinks there are many Gov
eminent Stenographers who could read
their shorthand notes months later
nay, five minutes later-he is sadly in
error. He is correct in his statement
that they do pay attention to the kind
of typewriter they use, chiefly because
they feel that an expensive machine
might in some way make up for their
incompetence.
A Woodworking gal like Mary could
type with her left foot, in the dark, on a
5O-year-old Oliver and flle the matter
where she and others could find it.
And she wouldn't sit for hours making
pale green, pink, blue, yellow and white
carbons for lot of morons to file or
destroy. Get wise, Mellett, most of
us know what's going on and the
primary thing is America.
A. C. Nagel.
I'm just q simple homemaker and
mother who. for some years before
marriage, earned her daily bread with
a typewriter and shorthand notebook.
I was busy, but loved every minute Of
it-and even found time at night, after
Office hours, to earn a degree in law at
one of our local universities.
Although I've been away from my
secretarial position over IL years,
still not only remember what kind of
typewriter I used but also the name Of
the salesman who sold them to US.
All the secretaries in our Office were
fussy about their machines, too. I've
never known one who wasn't. And we
kept our FUSED up" notebooks for
months and months.
Ex-Secretary.