Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1915 — ROLL-TOP DESK IS BARRED [ARTICLE]

ROLL-TOP DESK IS BARRED

In the Interest of Efficiency Eastern Railroad Equips Its Offices With Modern Fumishinga

This is an age of efficiency, and In the successful stores; offices, and corporations one sees many things that make for more efficient work on the part of every one from the big boss down to the janitor. Nowhere perhaps is efficiency mors rigidly demanded than on most of the railroads. An order just issued by an Eastern railroad is illustrative of the point. This order forbids the use of roll-top desks by any of the employes—all offices from.the president’s down and all those along the system have been equipped with flat-top desks." '

This la bo the men will not cram pigeonholes full of papers and pile work and papers on their desks, dose them up and go home. The man with a fiat-top desk will dear it off before leaving. In fact It’s mandatory In case, and hg steps up to* his desk the next morning, not having to fuss and fume over a pile of unsorted papws, but ready to dig right in on the day’s job. There's nothing left undone from yesterday.