Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1910, Page 17

A PAPER FOR THE HOME PART THRERD HALF-TONE OMAHA BEE BEST IN THE WEST PAGES ONE TO FOUR OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1910. SINGLE COPY FIV} \ MODERN 'MILL OF COMMERCE WHERE SKILL IS THE GRIST Commersial College Hzs Come to Be a Recognized Factor of Vast Importance in Everyday Business Life Throughout the Civilized World, BOYLES SOULE, SOULE ENOS SPENCER, PRES, SPENCERIAN H.B.BOYLES - nu (;?‘I;'(:..Eg tetu.tl"tc[:w ORLEANS COMMERUIAL SCNORL ,LowISYILLE , KY. N7 COLLEGE , OMANA . ANE J A LYANS, PuBLis HER A5 JEDITOR g 'C;E:uz«us I.ROV‘(AYol" 'FERRIS INSTITUTE OF SCHOOL BOOKS ENN PITRAN SHORTHAND COLUMBUS, ONI0 B16 RAPIDS , MICH, CHICAGO, ILL., uncmmm, omo EADY-MADE train dispatchers, ready-made station agents, ) ready-made bank clerks, ready-made private secretaries, \ ready-made bookkeepers—all of these turmed out while you wait, and, as a rule, the waiting period is limited to six months S0 much for the business evolution brought by the modern com- mercial college. Time was, not so very many years ago, when com mercial schocls were few, and in those days only the sons and daughters of well-to-do cltizens aspired to collegiate training for business. Such schools were then located only in the larger cities, and the cost of attendance was looked upon as being almost pro- hibitive But the world moves, and the commercial school has moved for ward in rythmic consonance with the motion of the earth, €o that now, every city, every town and even some of the villages have their business colleges - T The forthcoming conventions of the Central Teachers' association % e \ 7//| and the Western Commercial School Managers' association, which ! /l ALMON F.GATES, Pres. {Jl) H.EREAD, eaes ; meet jointly in Omaha, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 26 ’ WATERLOO BUSINESS (OLLEGE (| CENTRAL (OMMERCIAL TEACHER! and 28, bring vividly to mind what an important factor in the world's = YVATERLIR S (OWM v dsalg e Bl work the modern business college has come to be, These conven- T tions—they meet simultaneously, but they are two distinct organi & factories, etc., and the work-a-day routine of the business world is zations—will bring to Omaha a large delegation of representative 4 p lived in exact reproduction. Thus the student goes from school to business edicators of this country. Notable among the visitors will r : . 4 office, not as a novice, but as one well seasoned in the work that is be “Uncle’” Robert Spencer of Milwaukee, of Spencerian fame, and 4 £ to be taken up. Year by year the volume of students increases; Colonel George Soule of New Orleans. These are veterans in the . i 7 § year by year the scope of the schools expand; year by year new ideas work and each occupies a prominent place on the program. : 1 3 ., 3 3 P are introduced. Gymhasiums have been made a feature of some of The meetings will be held in the Boyles building, dedicated to g ™ the more prominent schools and colors have been adopted after thé | commerefal education, Bighteenth and Harney streets, and head- fashion of the great universitles quarters of both assoclations will be at the Rome hotel. A feature \ e g ; g The two ccnventions will bring to Omaha leading lights in com- of the conventions will bethe appearance of Miss Rose L. Frits of ; mercial education all the way from New. York to New Orleans, with New York, who at the present time Is said to hold the world’s record [ S e 3 e : especially large representation from the middle-western cities. Type- for speed and accuracy in typewriter werk. Miss Fritz will give ‘it ¢ i 4 2 writers by the ton will be on display.aiid pretty stenographers, blue~ dgmonserations dally vt g ! ip | eyed girls, black-eyed girls, girls with raven tresses, girls with golden Anothey feature which will add interest to the occasion Is the ¥ 3 ; : { tresses—every type of stenographic beauty, will be in evidence Brown traphy contest. G. W. Brown of Jacksonville, Ill., has KTk ; ) If the man stenographer, as hereinbefore shown, has through his offered a handsome cup a D for excellence in typewriter work i ’ Y i pot hooks found a stepping stone to future greatness, what of the girl The school winning the Brown trophy shall be allowed to retain i stenographer? until the next meeting of the association, at which time it shall be 3 returned for another contest Any school winning the trophy for = .,// She Iu.nu‘l I.lfplv to hvu)!m' n rml.rn.ad munum-.v, division superin- five consecutive yea 1all be allowed to retain it as a permanent > = SR ‘ \ A tendent or general passenger agent; she is not likely to found a great possession BFW’ILLIAHS CAPITAL CWW'EAJHERIY PRLS, WIM.A DYER cen. mar. - newspaper or to become the guiding spirit of a factory. While there will be many AUTHOR h‘ GREGG SHOMI~ CITY COMMERCIAL C(OLLEGE JOPLIN BUSINESS CcLLLfi{ SMITH PREMIER vvlfl(’wmtmw. No. Even the HAND = NEW YORK DES MOINES , 10WA JOPLIN, MO SYRACUSE ,N. YT convention sidelights in the nature of cntertainment, including among which is a banquet at the Rome hotel given by the Smith-Premier Typewriter company, the real pur- ofe of each of the associations is to transact business for the gen- fact Ural promotion of commercial schools and commercial education The program is elaborate, taking in almost every subject that has a bearing on the main idea most sanguine of new woman boosters would hardy slate the girl for such executive place. There is a rising gen- eration of bosses coming on And there's nothing to hinder her from becoming the wife of one of the bosses-to-be. And meanwhile stenography removes her from drudgery, enabling her the while to that the late secretary of state, John Hay, was a stenographe Canada as a high railroad official, and who was lm}v;-‘hlml. h’\““\.],:‘,\ of the early-day type. as was also F. A. Vanderlip, ex-assistant sec- British in recognition of his services in the industrial dc \ml’v:“mr‘.l retary of the United States treasury, and Edward Bok, editor of the of Canada, was once a telegraph operator for the lllinois %" enjoy the independence that woman derives from self-support. Go Ladies' Home Journal railroad in Chicago into any modern commercial school any day in the week and you will s a bright aggregation of future execatives—and future executivesses Following the nguet at the Rome hotel, there will be a theater General Passenger Agent (. S. Fee of the Northern Pacific an- C. Brown, the New York Central chief, was a telegrapher in { Wrty at the Boyd, where the visitors will see Peter Pan,’ . arious parts e west. Later as guests other who journeyed from “pot hooks"” to executive prominer His the service of the Burlington in various parts of x!l‘ l\‘ Frahied 7 3 5 » geners 8 W \eadquarters in St. Joseph, of the Underwood Typewriter company. Four hundred seats have road is one of the most important in the United States and an he became general manager, with headquar P been engaged—probably the largest theater party ever given in Passenger officials he ranks as a leader. It is probable that the late lamented Mr. Noah Webster would Omaha or any other wstern city Everybody disown “executivesses'’ as a word, but the descriptive is so apt in its « @pplication to the girls who come from business colloge that it's € o take executive work persons of pessimistic trend ma Others who have risen from the key to take up executive cofnsge 14 perlinds nardonable upon leaving that sy:tem he took high service with the Vanderbilt is familiar with the romantic rise of William Loeb lines Many uninformed persons perhaps have the belief in a vague sort and George B. Cortelyou. Some of way that the chief mission of a business college is to teach short- shake their heads knowingly declaring the while that politics and are Albert J. Earling, president of the Chicago, Milwauk: & hand and typewriting. True 3 ; Now and then there comes from somewhere this pessimistic . the pretty black-eyed stenographer, pull nlaced Cortelvou and Loeb on the pinnacles to which they have Faul; Marvin Hughitt of the Chicago & \‘th\:l;aU'lx: ;‘“;‘;\\;.1::::: P e as well as she of the golden curls and azure orbs, is a commercial risen. Very well, grani that politics and pull might have sent them Fish, former pre ) the 1llinois Cen “'_‘ .‘.ill‘l,‘j,\, of the Mise Do all commercial college graduates succeed in the business college product, yet the same is true of the :lean-cut, clear-eyed to the front, it is a certainty that politics and pull could not retain president of the Mexican Central; A. A \1~|.\“‘\,: “: ml- of the Mz iar young man who manipulates the telegraph key or who, perchance, their positions for them, because there is work to be done and it souri, Kansas & Texas; A. J. Davidson, presiden St. L . 1 ot The answer is ! : s de \0st of active railroad officials and others enters your deposits on the big bank book back of the frosted takes workers to hold high places fan Francisco, besides a host of active ra window No In the law stenography has been the stepping stone of thousands prcminent in the world of affairs. Whereat, there may with due Not all stenographers, not all telegraph operators, not all bank ©f men who are prominent legal lights today. ¥ri pounded this counter query tellers, not all bookkeepeers are from the college, but a majority of Kansas City, for instance, who within ten sreatness in railroad work Do all theological seminary graduates become distingulshed . > W 3 w. Time wi ) tune of three-quarters of a million dollars from legal fees. Mr. the wire is a stepping stone to future greatnes ailro preachers?” or, “Do all law school graduates develop into supreme them are today—and more will be tomorro Time was in the long . D ago, when a college educttion was not legally essential to the jed- Walsh begun life in a most humble manner, A ™ s | aitara AR (0 'l judges? . 3 el S by little, worked as a newsboy, became & stenographer in a law office takes dictation from the “‘boss,” writing the boss a The same “No ical practitioner, but that time has been relegated into the scrap by k A AR heap of antiquity. Time was, also, when the lawyer simply “read and eventually bloomed out as a full-fledged lawyer. Here in day out, has ample opportunity to "'“y ‘H T Aa thh tealinidid of the: IS 0thers oo e z &) : + . yyment he become killed in the technique ¢ e law” in Judge Somebody's office and then walked over to the court Omaha there are many successful lawyers who used stenography as of his daily employment he 1 1‘ AT A A hatariis But, a commercial college diploma, while not a blanket passport 1 " b acs ) matter whether that business be the ope house to represent his clients. That method may have answered all a stepping stone, bo:s’ business—no matter whether T Tate L RIABRRE | o' suboee L business life, is beyond question the cornerstone of suc requirements in that day and age, but the world moves and what Telegraphy is also a passport to a bright future. Perhaps it is of a railroad, a bank or a f(mm.,\ : |.‘ A Wm- i 8 AT e, and in the vernacular of the street, it is up to"* the graduate was quite the proper thing a quarter century or so ago is passe in DO PXBKBI‘X'&“UI.K to say that two-thirds of the really big railway ex- veloped in legal atmosphere, and t l-’vl;‘ n} o l;»l : .11 ’ to make the most of his opportunity these onward days of prosperity and progress. ecutives of this country studied I ) should not un 80, there comes the natural deduction that the commercial col- dots and dashes in the early lege is a fixed institution in the business world of today, and it is a part of their career. A general Nt A e g B With the cornerstone given, the resourceful young man or g er superintendent . e . aturally W the era : 5 fact that cannot be treated lightly that the big banks, the big rail. manager or a superin l) k. l" > . h woman, as a rule, will find completion of the structure “ Pl m expansion of business and the roads and other concerns of magnitude are turning to the training Wwho cannot ‘“‘jerk lightning” is rominent igures in Omaha p Y school for recruits to fill the places vacated by good old “has beens” an exception to the rule. Tel ..qm, with the encroachment of age, are dropping one by one from egraphy and railroad operation regard to eternal fitness be pro- Telegraphy and rallroad work groove together so naturally that B pro- years has amassed a for- the two are almost inseparable, and it is easy at a glance to see how fought his way up little Stenography is an even broader stepping stone, for the man who that answer one question simultaneously answers The school simply helps the graduate to help himself—and dergo the natural evolution f \ s b , after AU hsdome s Lha s all, that class of help s the best help. > of Buccess comparatively easy modern way of doing things, . fter all, life what the individual makes it Y e 3 e commercial college hus Atter.» onventions b e s 3 Graduates of Yale and Harvard are sometimes found ringing up A 2 ¥ grown. New Ideas are belng the service Al0 40, GIOBAIT ALIAL {hat tDaY R . 7 Yoy injected all the while and the f&res on trolley cars, yelling “front” from the other <What future does stenography or telegraphy hold out to the as- are taken as matters of course OFFICERS AND E TIVE COMMITTE . side of a hotel Bae daca IR while® isses "ENTRAL COMMERCIAL TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION journey from the primitive to “°UNer, OF washing dishes in the back end of & restaurant {piring youngster? ) e Y Radd abaauiant Lans A. Vost: Becreary the present is belng rapidly Education is the stepping stone to success, but no college can From *‘pot hooks” to the presidency of a vast railroad system is raphy s the stepping stone Peorta, 111 7 Cedar Rapids, la w1ieda insure the graduate that his feet will not slip while climbing thé a long jump, but C. M. Hayes is one man who made it. The name of to great achievement in other G. E. King, Vice President, C. W. Ransom, Treasurer — o 3 Cedar Rapids, la Kansas City, Mo. In the early days of Spencer Mr. Hayes is well known in railroad eircles, not only in the United Ll‘:ea :'n :‘21‘)“‘\?1 \T]uls hu; Bakcibice G et L L PR Sk O The college has power to build the track leading to fortune, but States, but in Canada also. Nearer home may be mentioned J ’l:n‘"or lu.uu er, ln nl |rl <' H. B. Boyles, E. A. Zartman : G. A 'lil"ll"'_””\k":v was simply a school room It cannot undertake to perennially ballast the track-—and without Francls, general pasenger agent of the Burlington Route, who for The Omaha Bee, and who left Omaha, Neb. Omaha, Ne maha, Neb, ey o U T TR g o g ey many years was & familiar figure in Omaha. Mr. Francis begun his a powerful newspaper and a where penmanshig a service with the Burlington as stenographer in the office of a division magnificent building as monu OFFICERS WESTERN COMMERCIAL SCHOOOL other adjuncts of business were It has been ordained by the Creator of the superintendent in Lincoln. James B. Barr, high executive on the ments to.his work on earth, be MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION drilled into the craniums of '0dividual must furnish his own ballast Seaboard Alr Line, was once a stenographer in Burlington head- 8an as a telegrapher. G. W. Watherly, President, E. A. Zartman, Vice President, bucolic Therefore, it is not good logic to place blame upon the system of students., Now-a-days stem 5 I g Joplin, Mo. Omaha, Neb this rlly He was thorough in his work and his rise was Sir William C. Van Horne, P ‘“ne"' universe that every } alas llege education simply because now and then in g £ . the up-to-date commercial ©© 3 Almon F. Gates, Secretary-Treasurer, apld ‘Whose name is known through Water igolated cases a , Pw;”‘ it ll not generally remembered now, yet none the less & sut the United States and Ia. school is equipped with tel. ©°!leBe graduate makes a failure of lite. Such fallures are in spite egraph wires, make-beljeve ©f €ducation, and not because of it.