Show A LESSON IN YANKEE THRIFT TRI European manufacturers and leaders of Industry and commerce who are just now In a state of perturbation over the encroachments of American trade might learn u little lesson as to the true reasons rea-sons for American success and supremacy su-premacy in a recent news item from Cleveland relating how a Toledo corporation cor-poration having lo Issue a check for 12000000 on the last day of June dated the check a day later In order to save I the twocent stamp that would have been required had It borne the June date Two cents may seem an insjlgnlfl cant trifle in a 12000000 transaction but It Is by paying attention to precisely precise-ly such trifles and by having business affairs under such perfect and systematic sys-tematic control that even the smallest details do not escape oversight and regulations that Americans are enabled en-abled to conduct enormous enterprises with profit and success The saving of two cents In the case In question did not mean parsimony nor petty methods of dealing It was an evidence only of that exceeding circumspection and fidelity fidel-ity to business details which often makes all the difference between success suc-cess and failure in a commercial enter price whether It be of small or large proportions Leslies Weekly |