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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711 111 vvv1fx4?Qr1'vtfYY'FW The Value of Typewriting After a pupil once becomes familiar with the keyboard of a type- writer it is only a matter of time and practice until he becomes a skillful typist. By typing the same words over and over, the location of each let- ter becomes fixed in the typistis mind. No matter how poor aspell- er he may be, a pupil who is studying typing will end by being an excellent speller. If one expects to find a first-class typing position, he must know spelling and punctuation thoroughly and be mentally alert. A pupil must be in earnest, he must have a certain goal i-n mind and put all his ellort upon his work. By constant repetition of a word, the nerves of the finger tips and the mi-nd become familiar with every letter on the keyboard. Besides perfecting one in spelling, typing teaches alertness, co-op- eration, and efficiency. Every typing stude-nt must keep pace with his fellow students if he wishes to succeed. Those qualifications are not only necessary in typing, they are also -necessary in the great hus- iness world outside.-Bernice Lucier. l-l. R. 39. Many Useful Things Learned in Shops Great pride is taken in something constructed by oneis self, in something which can he shown for the time put in. A mother or father is always proud of a tine piece of work, such as a foot-stool, a fern stand, a table, or some other convenient article made by the son. For the simple cost of the material alone such things can be made, and the knowledge of such construction acquired in the shops of McKinley. Very capable teachers instruct the work. In Shops 52 and 56. new desks have been installed. These desks l-ave been equipped with three different size chisels, and a hammer and a saw, all new. Piano benches, tahorets, mallets, tables, and similar things are made in 56. Before starting work on a new thing a neat, accurate plan must be drawn. Then a lumber bill is made out. No hammering on chisels is permitted. A mallet should be used. The boys are taught to save material. They must be able to take a plane apart and put it to- gether correctly. They are shown how to stain and shellac. When the bell rings, wood should be tied up neatly with every piece having its mvner's name on it. 4 'Shop 51 affords a knowledge of the use of machinery. ln it is a iointer. a circular saw, a jig saw, a band saw, and three turning lathes. A new circular saw and a six-foot turning lathe is expected to be run- Ll 1.1 fl L I Ls-jirjjl L LL lil L L F