NOTICE.-Contributions to the Overland Monthly should be typewritten, accompanied by full return postage, and with the author's name and address plainly written in upper corner of first page. Manuscripts should never be rolled. The Publisher of the Overland Monthly will not be responsible for the preservation or mail miscarriage of unsolicited contributions and photographs. Issued Monthly. $1.50 per year in advance. Fifteen cents per copy. Back numbers 3 months or over 25c; six months or over 50c; nine months or over 75c; 1 year or over $1.00. Postage: To Canada, 3 cents; Foreign, 5 cents. Copyrighted, 1919, by the Overland Monthly Company. Entered at the San Francisco, Cal., Post-office as second-class matter. Published by the OVERLAND MONTHLY COMPANY, San Francisco, California. 259 MINNA STREET. DIRECT NAME SYSTEM There is hardly a big concern in the country where this "Y and E" system of filing is not in use. Everywhere some department manager or some individual, if not the concern itself, has found that this system gives Speed in filing Assured accuracy Speed in finding Reduced maintenance expense The principle of this remarkable system is "find alphabetically, refile numerically". It is the original and perfected alphabetical-numerical system. Numbered guides are provided which divide the file into alphabetical divisionsas many as six thousand, if needed. Behind each guide is filed a direct name folder for each correspondent in that division, besides one miscellaneous folder; folders are given the same numbers as the corresponding guides. Thus in the system that uses forty alphabetical divisions, guide Bro-Bry is number 4, and all correspondence folders from Bro-Bry are numbered 4. When you want Brown's correspondence, look for it under Bro. When through, just drop it back of guide 4. As simple as that! The success of the system lies in the fact that it is easier to work with numbers than with alphabetical divisions. If a number 3 folder ever gets. behind guide number 4, your eye catches the difference-one 3 among many 4's-the moment you reopen the file! What chance for mistakes does this leave? Miscellaneous folders become the guides when you transfer, so the guides can be used over and over again. The extent to which this "Y and E." system has crept into practically all well-established business concerns proves that it is a better system. More department managers, more individuals, more concerns at large should plan now to install it during the next transfer season. You should do so. YAWMAN & ERBE 132 SUTTER STREET "Leaders of the World" in Filing Devices and Office Systems-Wood and STEEL BY INVITATION NEW YORK, USA |