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It’s Simply A Habit GOOD HOUSEKEEPING is as im portant in business as it is in the home. In business it helps efficiency, induces good working habits, saves space and money, speeds up service, frequently eliminates accident hazards and improves the appearance of a place. But even in top-notch companies, where good housekeeping is practiced every working day, there is an inevi table human failing that tends to let "clutteritis" set in gradually over a period of time. The "disease" takes various forms.' . .here a file drawer over burdened with material that's no longer needed. . .there a desk top sprawling with a volume of disarrayed papers the employee can't possibly handle. . . here a supply room with obsolete forms taking up valuable and needed space. . . there a closet shelf with dusty boxes unopened for years, containing mate rial that's been unwanted for years. . . here a work area with desks that have been inched out of their once-neat rows . . . there a desk drawer bulging with personal bric-a-brac ranging from bobby pins and old lipsticks to theatre ticket stubs and matchbooks. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING is simply good"habit Grandmother’s Perfect Day Grandmother on a winter's day milked the cows and fed them hay, Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule, then got the children off to school. Did a washing, mopped the floors, washed the windows and did other chores, Cooked a dish of home dried fruit, pressed her husband's Sunday suit, Swept the parlor, made the bed, baked a dozen loaves of bread. Split some firewood and lugged it in, enough to fill the kitchen bin, It's a curious thing, but it seems the harder you work the luckier you get. An Internal Revenue man is writ ing a book called "How We Made $1, 800, 000 Off The Fellow Who Wrote a Book About Making $2, 000, 000 in The Stock Market. " QUALITY PLUS Q-uality never comes by accident-- U-nless you plan it, it just isn't there. A-nd it takes everyone cooperating together, so L-et everyone contribute his share. I-n all ways strive for perfection. T-hen at least you'll be on the right road. Y-our product is only as good as you make it, so P-lease won't you help shoulder the load ? L-et Quality Plus be our motto, and we'll never be U-ndersold. And, when the books are balanced, you'll find S-atisfied customers are better than gold. Blanche Jackson, Timekeeper Seaming Department, Plant #7 Cleaned the lamps, filled them with oil, stewed some apples she thought might spoil. Churned some butter, baked a cake, then exclained, "For mercy sake. The calves just got out of the pen, " went out and chased them in again, Gathered the eggs and locked the stable, back to the house where she set the table, Cooked a supper that was delicious, thereafter washed up all the dishes. Then pumped the organ to softly play, "When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day. "
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