of debit and credit, posting, and trial balance, is the maximum
practical need of the younger workers.

Penmanship demands compactness, legibility, neatness, and ease in
writing; also, the correct writing and placing of figures.

The chief demand of business in arithmetic is for fundamental
operations--adding and multiplying--also for ability to make
calculations and to verify results mentally.

Undergraduate experience in school or business offices may be a
valuable method of acquainting students with office practice and
routine and with business organization and business standards.




CHAPTER XIII

SUMMARY OF REPORT ON DEPARTMENT STORE OCCUPATIONS


The field covered in this volume is limited to the business of retail
selling as carried on in the department stores and some other stores
of Cleveland. The retail stores considered can all be assigned to one
of the three following classes: (1) The department store of the first
rank which draws trade not only from the whole city and the suburbs
but also from the towns and smaller cities of a large surrounding
district; (2) the neighborhood store which does a smaller business
within narrower limits, drawing its trade, as the name indicates, from