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WILKINSON'S

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THE ABSOLUTE PURITY

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YOUR SAFEGUARD "THE CHOICEST OF ALL. CHOICE WATERS” The Clifford-Wilkinson Tansar Mineral Water Company, Lul," are a British Company daly incorporated under the Companion Orbisances of Hongkopy.

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ABAQUERIA FILIPINA FILIPINA

LEADING TOBACCONISTS IN THE FAR EAST

BUSINESS EFFICIENCY.

AUTOMATIC “ OFFICE STAFFS.

Blowly but surely the efficiency which is aimed at in the factories is being smulated in the commercial offices, and more and more the necessity of keeping

strict account of costings and over brads" as applied to the clerical staffs of

business

dern lines is being appreciated. In no other way can the extraordinary interest taken in the Busines Efficiency Exhibi- tion, which was held recently at the Cen- tral Hall, Westminster, be explained.

3RD, 1925

against the Constitution and a distur bance of the established order of the Creation. He was far from saying th. by any machinery, however elaborate and up-to-date, they could do away with the dispense with need of a good staff or Those things might human initiative or haman discretion. be overdone. A good stick might be a bad crutch, and the beat of systems might be a hard and even an unprofitable taskmaster.

might h asked to do what ought to

to be done by arithmetic, and the memory might mental a be atrophied by perpetual-reliance as Like everything wise that was best in life, good business methods de- pended on the right choice, and the right use of suitable appliances. The act The purpose of the exhibition was ex- of business like all other arts. was the art plained at the opening ceremony by Mr. of selection. That was not to say that Thomas Dixon (president of the Uffice Ap-every business depended wholly upon its

but he did

sy office arrangementa, pliance Trades Association) It was, be

their others said, publicly to demonstrate how, by most businesses were what

The office was the rain making the office the most afficient of the organisation, buscar part made them

could be place of the business, and in any business done on a greater stale, more accurately, that was adequately organised the light speedily, with far less mental and and leading ought to radiate from the physical effort, and, most important of office to all its departments and con sil, with a great of expenditure.cerns. (Hear, hear.)

was invested in

more

WONDERFUL MACHINES.

over £5,000,000

companies tion, and the

Y the associa

their research

the

TO GET BETTER BELTS

than

I was hoped that employers and mana-

of their discoveries, and of their gers would find in the exhibition the and inraus of obtaining better. accumulated: knowledge and experiencexits, and of saving tanecessary ex- was offered free for the saking to ever penge. In order to demonstrate its wan visitor to the exhibition. Although the fulac

the fulness it was hoped to show how the chief werk of the

the association was the promotion

of similar exhibitions in daily duties could be performed at greater London and in the provinces, it dealt speed and with greater accuracy. As one the with the common problems

gave a good deal of

of time of its mem- Ibers, and had thereby improved the work. educational work of the country," he was

note that

the last iro to

during Its Blad educational work, however, was in winter sessions, at the suggestion of the по Londoa Chamber of Commerce, a series

of lectures

ing conditions of the whole trade.

way limited merely to the

exhibitions, and included wotion of lectures by members of the association i

EL

30

in turn impart the huge gemerce, and the handbook issued by thei

do

all the

15

delivered to teachers on commercial eub who could speak with authority, each in own has had been given for jects as the London Chamber of Com-his merce, and the London County Council teachers of commercial subjects -

County dar

London

Conarik the establishments,

teachers that those

ad

the London Chamber of Com of and could their appliances to thei

of pupils. The. present exhibition he association would be used on the basis

That was a im- their examinations. claimed to o be the greatest assembly of

portant link the course of training office

one young men appliances ever shown in

and women for business building

By the use of those appliances principals and exreatives could guide and careers in the technical knowledge of their craft, which ought to be of solid value control their undertakings with greater rout

from the standpoint of pational eficiency. driving ease, with gree

power, and

and Two

thousand business students bad been with greater

an illustra invited to visit the exhibition,

and

to tion, one machine would the work of attend a lecture au modern office Ewelve prople, another machine would and prizes and diplomas would be gather and tabulate detailed informa

mad on the essays sent in subsequently. tiou in Sva cites which would take The attempts mads to link up

an army of clerks three months to

14 activities and ideas of business efficiency DrSpace. Accounts and balance-sheets, with the principles of intelligent co- which were proverbially three, four, Sve, operation and enlightened self-interest. or six months in arrears, could with one were worthy of the support and sympathy Accounting sad tabulating machine be of business men throughout the country." kept right up to date. Letters which used, to go out at the rate of twenty-five Business, concluded Lord Burnham, a day could now go out at the rate of Was a very different thing now from 25,000 a day if necessary, and each have what it was in the nineteenth century. the appearance of being individually had taken its place as the determining

ват 1-beings Letters factor of our national well- typed and personally signed. could be dictated to a dictating machine ranked at least on an equality with the

the at a speed which could not be taken down learned professions, as

proof and by the average shorthand clerk.

potentiality of our national ability. He invited them to contrast the difference in in calling epon Lord Burnham o the assessment of social values as be declare the exhibition open Mr. Dixon tw said the great paper over which his ford-ween the estimate of to-day and the Ther estimate, of

of early Victorian days. for ship presided had long been known

would

recollect Mr. Jonas Chuzzlewit's its interest in philanthropy, and than words Here's the rule for bargains: do raight be taken as embodying family other men, for they would do you, that's traditions." Lord Burnham was always the true business received we did

Now willing and ready to help forward any ought to say, and he cause which bad for its aim the public Bay's

Do the beat for other men, as they good (Hear, hear.) Only recently he would do for you; that's the only business. was publicly entertained for his magcifi- precapt." That was what they were try cent work

is connection with the Advertising to do by virtue of that remarkable dis- ing Convention, which had for its ob- plar and demonstration. (Hear, hear.) ject the increase of crade. Now he had the chairman had been good enough to come to the aid of their association, pay a bigt compliment to his own office which bad the same

object in view. "It on the score of efficiency. He was, how would be impossible for me," he con-

con-ever, afraid that in the business methods, tinued, to tell of Lord Burnham's as distinct from the mechanical branches. achievements in practically every walk of they were not quite up to date, and what life, in all of which he has been a shining was true of his own office was true of light, loved and respected by ali men. many another. He hoped that all the One of the best things I have heard said heads of firms and heads of departments about Lord Burnham was that Lord who could do so would spare the time Burnham is as true and reliable as The to visit the exhibition and see what huraan

Telegraph itself."

Cheers.) What ingenuity had devised to facilitate the her praise could be given? If

course of business affairs and to mightily, as he believed it was possible

of

to

gruph office towards midinght, as I have done, at that tense moment when vitally effectiveness. (Cheers.) important news comes over the wires and have seen the marvellously swift manner in which it is handled, seen the gigantic ARVIN machines as the complete, is being

paper turned out at an almost incredible speed, You would better understand ey and modern appa

to do, to their prosperity and their

FREE JUSTICE.

what MAGISTRÁTES TO ADVISE POOR

LITIGANTS?

mean.

these modern appliances The Daily Telegraph could not be what it is

to-day-the most reliable, the most up- The Home Secretary has suggested that to-date, and the most influential paper justices of the peace at home should set: in the world. My one concluding re-apart one afternoon a week to act the role mark is that, if business

would only of the frieridly Cadi" to the poor seeker it, the same tense conditions as after legal guidance. eval in The Daily Telegraph in other offices, strikingly apparent

offices are

At close quarters the law seems like a they are not soae net skilfully woven to catch anybody.

Erms which

are equipped with the latest appliances Directly this net begins to draw neur s always find themselves equal to these we cast about for a friendly lead away tense moments, and ready to cope with four its threatening approach. And in them to the best advantage, whereas those about in all directions. It is always in these days the net of the law swings firms which are not so equipped fall the neighbourhood of the home, for the behind. That is a sound, rndisputable Rent Restrictions Acts have provided the fact, the moral of which I leave with you to reflect upon." (Cheers.)

"

best groundbait for a generation And when mouey is scarce and credit lan the legal armoury available to the creditor is bowildering in its extent and ingenuity.

Only a small minority set the law ab defiance. The bulk of English folk are

"BEAIN PLACE OF BUSINESS."... Lords Buruhan, in declaring the ex hibition open, said he did so with pleasure because, as one, whose life's business had been dealing in news and a newspaper, he realised how important auxious to keep within its terms, bat it was that their offices should be equipped in poor districts in daily shoals), what when difficulties, arise (and they spring up and conducted with all the advantages

that the best appliances and the best are the needs to do t methods could afford. In looking at their

The Daily Mail commends the ides that: costing sheets, they should take care that each justice, who is qualified by his know what they saved in the machine-rooms ledge, join a rota of friendly eadis who and foundrica was not wanted on the will sit one afternoon or evening a week desks and behind the counters.

A to give free advice to the needy.

Dovelist not long dead bad said The With care the system would work easily Universe is full of magnificent things, and bring considerable public, advantage.

waiting

for our wits to grow For the law is not a patent medicine sharper."

had beer pathe available only at trade prices. It is a Lically true of the

patiently, whst eftime-honoured customs right of the citizen and must be brought

the

of British business. When they talked of within his reach,

City they were only thinking of one city, and that was the City of London.

The City rightly

pride

the

H

THE UNLUCKY. CADDIE,

htly prided itself upon age-long traditious but

ut its very

in 1 undoing

and better "Do you have.

had been ite

"of new adoption

said a visitor to a beeg went in the past to label all the remote Scottish coures to his caddie. devices for saving time and for substitut. "Naw, sir. Verre seldom," he replied. the regularity of the machine for the "Fer if it isna anaw then it's frost, and clumsiness, of hand-labour as un-English if it inna frost it's rain, and if it isna and, worst of all as American dodger Fain it's wind. But supposing t

it's a In fact, one might have thought that fine day," said the golfer.

ways of doing its business, and it had here in the winter Buch esddying up

the short-circuiting of office routine by genrally the sawbath," was the gloomy the triumph of ingenuity was a crime reply.

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