Central Middle School - Ceejay Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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l I iii!2IIHSE!IF3235lZiIil5lEIiWEmI?EEIIElIZ.I Ii.ElIElElSS!IiilliilWEEE!iliiliilllgliiliilf-l I K! Advice for the Business Girl ELIZABETH FRANZ. '25 Typewriting and shorthand have played a very important part in bringing women into the industrial life. With the knowledge of typewriting and shorthand, thousands of women have gained a name for themselves and a living in the business world. To secure a good position as a stenographer, one must first have the training necessary for that kind of work. You must do clean, neat work, and always be on time with it. In taking dictation, it is a very poor stenographer who interrupts the dictator to ask how to spell a word, or, Would you please repeat that last sentence again, or, How do you punctuate that? It is this that would keep you from climbing higher. If you have taken the advantage that was given to you at school in your commercial course, there is no reason in the world for not succeeding. Many times, the person dictating notes will pause a moment to concentrate. At a time like that, you should be very quiet and not whistle, hum, or drum on the desk HTAVIHCI asm or n x 1 ,Vf ,lx ,f , W :mfr V V ,f ,,,,,,, f, .4 J 4 .S QOX4 f Jf ., XA f M.. ..i,.li si with your fingers, After having taken a letter, you should be able to read it, and not guess at it as many do. As in court stenography, or in abstract work, you must be ac- curate. If one word is omitted or changed, it many times changes the whole meaning. If, when reading over the dictated letter, something is not as plain as it might be, it is your place to see that it is corrected. Many times, you will have to answer a letter, or do something in that line, when your employer is not at the office to be asked how to do it. In a case like that, you should ask yourself the question, What would the boss do if he were here? In this way, you will be able to solve many diiflculties by the use of common sense. I might add this as a word of advice to the lady steno- graphers. 'ADO not dress gaudily, or try to attract attention by your apparel. A good business man wants his employees to be neat and clean and modestly dressed, The Typewriter MARIE GRIFFIN, '25 The modern typewriter is the outgrowth of various crude machines for producing printed characters on paper without the use of movable type. In 1874 the first really practical machine was put on the American market by E. Remington and Sons, gun manufacturers. The original idea of the typewriter belongs to C. L. Sholes, S. W. Soule, and Carlos Slidden of Milwaukee, but Soule and Slidden got tired and quit, so the honor belongs to C. L. Sholes. The original typewriter was not unlike those of today. It was provided with a number of metal bars, carrying type on one end, set in pivots, about a horizontal ring. The shorter arm of each type-bar was attached by a wire to a lever which ended in a lever in the keyboard of the machine. When the key was struck, the type lifted so as to strike a single point on the rubber cylinder, called the platen. Between the type and the platen was an inked ribbon that was wound on spools at either side of the machine. It was mounted on a carriage, so arranged that it was automatically moved forward one space, at the release of the keys. I IEYE5IIEZIEZIElIQlEil25i!!iiI?i!IlEiIEE!liilliiilIE!!Zil!!iiHHHiEHIIi!!II!IEHHIEZEIEIHIHIHE555lEiiiI5ili3iSIlSIii!!.Q Page One Hundred Six

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n luv: 'I 'llll31 Y Ai ' if .. ' .. Xl fghe Cpurpose QF the School CBanlc PILMA SHl'Il'I'ARD. '27 The purpose oi' schools is to fit men and women for life. WVe cannot fully enjoy life unless we are prosperous. And we cannot hope to be prosperous unless we have . , The best time to learn this ability is while we are young. The purpose of the school bank is that students may learn to save money by saving a few pennies each week so that this savings may become a habit. Thrift can hardly be thought of without mention of Benjamin Franklin, its great was Never forget to have a penny enumerated and paidg then shalt thou reach the point of ntial difference between thrift and miserliness is aptly illustrated in the universal recognition of l ranklin as the greatest exponent of judicious saving. the ability to save and to be thrifty American advocate. One of l ranklin's sayings when all thy expenses are happiness. The esse Nobody ever thinks of him as having been penurious. On fx the contrary, he was freehanded to the extent of his ability. The grinding poverty which was his lot in early life en- grained in him those precepts of thrift which he practiced and on which he based many of his writings. than mere money value. oC':f . It is a proof that the saver is worth something to himself. x f f K 7 ' IV S, Ss l 1 6, VY What vou are to be, you are now becoming. Thrift is the THRIFTMX lf' wfxsit Z 2 570 ' , . iT f: . ' lr Savings represent much more ' V i f Yr If x f fi virtue of common sense and the highest form of unselflsh- ness. A student should be a saver, not a spasniodic one, for that will not get him anywhere, but a consistent money saver. Thrift will secure for u student a better position and standing in life. In the life of the individual it must be remembered that it is not possible to practice thrift in money matters without receiving benefits in other ways. While one is saving money, his frugal habits mean the conservation of time, health and energy, the uplifting of his moral instincts, and the development of his mental capabilities. The boys and girls of today are the citizens of tomorrow. Their knowledge and practice of savings and thrift may mean the difference between success and failure in the future. Many students have savings accounts in some bank, but the deposits are made irregularly, consequently the account is of little value in the teaching of the savings habit. While a small deposit every week in the school system will help to establish a habit that will continue through life and will be of daily use. nf- X , i 2 t, V- .F Li -1 -' i :mfs Wwe I lg' v -' 1- 'll'-'I '!' -s -wer, a 1. . s. IlERI!!3fi??Z!IE231ZiliiliiliiiliilgllSIISZIIEIIQEJIKEIIZlL.iiEI!lffI!iiIs III. .5 I.5.E!If.'i.5liElE2 ii. Page 0mfHif,t.1mzrnt

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fX llEIIii!!Kilim!!liiiiiilQliililillwlllgliillim- KJ In machines of the present time, the type-bars are arranged horizontally about an are of a circle making possible what is known as visible writing. On the old style machines the operator was unable to see his work. The first machines had two sets of type. One set was the capital letters and the other, the small ones. The modern typewriter has a single set of type-bars. These type-bars have two letters, capital and small. The capitals are made through the action of pushing a shift key. The keyboard also carries punctuation marks, figures and various characters. Although there are many makes of typewriters, there are really only two types, the basket and cylinder. The basket typewriter has each key on the end of a long bar hung on a pivot joined to its respective key by a lever attachment. When the key is depressed, the key rises and strikes the inking against the paper. In the cylinder type, the depression of a key causes the cylinder to revolve to a point where the char- acter desired is impressed by a hammer. There is a special advantage to each kind, but the basket machines far outnumber the cylinder machines. The typewriter has played an important part in bringing women into the indus- trial world. Stenography and typewriting have opened the way to business to many A Life of Thrift GUS AGRON, '27 My story starts in Novgrood, Russia, forty years ago. At the age of ten my mother died and I was left alone in the world. The big problem then was, what will I do to make a living? I had very little education. I was left with only two dollars. A boy today would say, Well, I will go sell papers . But I couldn't sell papers for there were no papers to sell. At the end of two weeks, I had spent all my money. I finally got a little job in a tailor shop. I had to shine the tailor's shoes, run errands, serve the meals, and get the pressing irons ready for use. We did not have electric irons nor even gas with which to heat them. I didn't get any salary, but board and room. My room was under one of the tables in the shop. By the fourth year I had saved about twenty dollars. At this time, I heard that many tailors were wanted in a city called Odessa, so I went there. I got a job at five dollars a month, with board and room. A week later, I met a friend who oH'ered me seven dollars a month so I accepted, but I soon found working for a friend is not always the best thing. I left and got a job in a factory for six dollars and fifty cents a month with board and room. After I had saved about one hundred dollars, I was taken into the army where I got practically no salary. When I was about eighteen years old, I heard of the free and wonderful country, America. A man told me that if I would push a button in the wall, I would have light that was almost as bright as the sun, and if I would turn a thing in the wall, I would have water and not have to go to the well to get it. At the age of twenty, my time in the army was up, and I left for America. I arrived in New York and went to St. Joseph, Mo., where a few of my relatives were living. Here I get a job in a tailor shop for twenty dollars a week, which seemed to me a very good salary. About every four years I was given an increase. At the end of thirteen years, I was making thirty-five dollars a week. I saved all I could and by this time, had enough money to buy a small dry goods store where my income has been very good and my work agreeable. As success and enjoyment of life go, I believe I have my share and that I am a useful citizen. It seems to be this success and enjoyment can be traced directly to my habit of saving money and the practice of thrift. XVOITIQII. ufe:nema:is:ezaa:IsalesmanwenIsm5al:me:Icanrs:I2:I:zaassI1:seii::nl:s4ei:arezzHrises::arenaire:ia:e:a:s::5ss::sssn:sr: w Page OncIIunr1rc1ISei1'n