McKinley Junior High School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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TTTAYTTTYYT YTJYTATYY--Yjl regarded as an honor to be permitted to work there. The use of the adding machine and the cash register is very helpful to them. A store of this kind is a benetit to any school..-Anita Maes, A8. Advantages of Business Practice Debits, credits, assets, liabilities. This doubtless sounds to many of the pupils like a foreign language, but to the pupils who are study- ing bookkeeping under the supervision of Miss Whitacre, they are only the common terms used every day. We ''bookkeepers-to-be find the study of bookkeeping very advantageous to us in more ways than merely keeping account of the transactions in a journal and a ledger. The first thing and the most important thing about bookkeeping is to get the brain to working. That itself is a very valuable lesson. A system is needed here, and when we learn to do everything in a systematic way, we will find that all of our duties can be done more quickly and with more accuracy. In bookkeeping we learn to keep account of other people's income and expenses. This shows us the way to check up on ourselves. lf we write down everything we spend, I believe we would not be tempted to buy the little unnecessary things. This cultivates the thrift habit, and we know that success is due largely to thrift. Besides the work in bookkeeping, we learn many things about ottice practice. We learn how to care for the office tiles, how to use the telephone switcliliozii'dgg:lirnv to draw contracts, trust deeds, mortgages, deeds, notes, checks, and other papers which have to do with ordi- nary business practice. We learn many things about banking, and have a little bank of our own in which we practice. The pupils help in handling the student body funds, although this is done under care- ful supervision of teachers, for the sums are quite large, and very few of the pupils care to assume such large responsibilities. Many of the pupils who study bookkegping and the other forms of business practice at school tind it valuztble not only in their own atlairs, but in helping them in later life to 'earn a livi-ng. Some pupils have gone out from McKinley with nofmore knowledge of these things than one is able to get in school, and have bee-n able to get pgptukeijppaii opportunity to keep books for a business office.-Grace ALlLIlLlLslLLL...lLll.L L

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t1YJTfYY1mCTY?!'!,,Y!i LLL during the noon hour, you probably would hear the above conversa- tion carried on. 'This store is located under the bridge between the administration building and the south building, and is run by girls for girls. The boys' store is located in the Boys' Cafeteria and is run by girls, but for boys. ln each store one finds a display of almost every ki-nd of bar, in a glass case, with two girls behind to serve the patrons. A limit of one bar or Eskimo pie was set February 18, 1925. This was made because some boys and girls would spend all their money for candy and not eat a good lunch, which the cafeteria affords. The girls who work in the candy stores are appointed by Mrs. El- lert from the Commercial arithmetic classes, but they work under the direct supervision of Miss Gamble, who has charge of both stores. For their services they receive their lunch free of charge. The candy store work not only teaches the girls how to manage a store, but also teaches them salesmanship and gives them an op- portunity to take responsibility.-Bradley Spencer. The Book Store When you are in a hurry to go to your class, you suddenly remem- ber that you have no pencil or note-book. it just happens to be your luck that it is a test day, and if you have no pencil it will mean an E. What are you to do? Then you suddenly remember the Book Store. What a life saver? It is then into the Book Store you go, and here your needs are quickly tilled. Or if you want a belt you do not have to go down town to get it, but you can buy it in our own Book Store, and better than the ones down town, it will have the word McKinley nicely engraved upon the buckle. Two new shelves, which the girls appreciate very much, were pre- sented to the Book Store in February by the Board of Education. They are a great help to the girls who work there, and the girls en- joyed taking an invoice and filing the notebooks and papers on them. These Book Store managers have their own. system of taking care of this wonderful little store. The -number of articles and their prices are kept in a tall book called the Uday book. In another book the accounts of all the articles that come in and go out are kept. The accounts are added up at the end of the day. Each week the ac- counts are carefully looked over until they have found the total for the month. This book is called the journal. It is a great help to those who work there in preparing for their future life work. It gives them experience of how to manage a store. The work in the store is a part of commercial arithmetic, and it is .L-LLAJ..lL4LlLLsL.lALL.L

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