Show t I Y I Budget of Hou Hours s 1 BUDGET making in t the e United States has been r confined principally lly to matters of finance I For Fora a long time every well regulated business has operated on a budget system Years ago city governments began to see the light and adopted Jh this is s plan of of sp spending public money Not all aU of them them have perfected their systems ti with the t result that wastes and extravagances which shock the well ordered budget stin still exist The system has been extended to the home and the individual income every well ordered home operating according according ac- ac cording to a set plan which gives due consideration consideration tion dion tion to income and outgo Lately the federal government has got down to a budget plan an and ande wYe e h have ve hopes of a successful elimination of t the e federal federal r l pork barrel s Budgets however may be used for another purpose with beneficial results The efficient business man not only budgets his financial affairs N ut his business hours as well The Englishman budgets b his time much more carefully than the American The American with his vim and vigor and ability for concluding a business transaction in short order no doubt would ridicule the adopt t tion of an English business custom And ye yet t when we consider the time wasted in America Americ a by Eby y careless arrangement and fulfillment of busie business busi busi- Bess ness e s engagements we can see possibilities 38 v f The 6 e man who overstays a business busine engagement engagement engage engage- ment ent usually keeps another man an wal waiting who n i-n might ht easily be devoting himself to prof profitable occupation if given the opportunity This waste of time ime is in daily evidence in ev every r city in the country and the unfortunate part of it is that the time wasted belongs to one who is not re re- re In the same same- way many business menthe men ue the telephone purely purey for their own O convenience convenience ni nce f forgetting entirely the man on the other end nd Often a a secretary is told to get a cert certain in p party on th the telephone of the sup sups supe- 1 r ar the annoyance of waiting Invariably how how- S r eyer y r the man called has to wait for the man placed the call caU him to take take- up all lf of the slack involved in waiting More than likely this mans man's time is as valuable valuable valuable able as that of the first and to waste the time of another man is little short of business tes tesy A budget for business hours and a rigid carrying out of the program laid laid down down would not only save considerable time in the course of the year ear but at the same time it would conserve J I I iJ T 11 a lot of idle talk for fr Qu business ness to Jollow follow M Moreover More More- re- re over ver over It it would not interfere re with the dispatch t h of American business As a matter hatter of fact it would speed it up rather rather than slow it down r I I |