Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 288, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1916 — Gotham Office Boy Falls Victim to Efficiency [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Gotham Office Boy Falls Victim to Efficiency

rEW YORK. The New' Yortc hthce boy, being, after all. only a human inJN stltuiion, is about to increase his efficiency. He has yielded at last td the efficiency man, who, starting with the boss, has succeeded in reforhiiug every-

thing in the shop down to the office With 5,000 office-boy jobs going begging, you might think that the boys that are now holding down jobs would feel pretty secure —but that’s just where you are mistaken. They have read the signs of the times, and know that whenever there is a shortage in anything nowadays people promptly devise wnys and means to go without that thing or get a substitute.

Therefore, the boys’ division of the West Side Y. M. C. A. has arranged a' training class for New Yora city office boys, to meet every Tuesday and Thursday mornings from eight to nine, to the end that the race of office boys shall not perirh from the earth. The course, given free, consists of 25 lectures by a faculty that presumably knows what an office boy needs to become efficient, and all the boy has to do is to «lt back and absorb knowledge'. - ; \