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Show USING DIVISORS IN TRADE i Why the Efficiency Expert and the Fourfluiher Got Two Weeks' Notice. Tho efficiency expert had reported In favor of tiring Binks nnd promoting Jinks to tho bend of n department of tbo great store. As he was a renowned cfllciency expert, paid n great price for n few weeks' work, the director of tbo storo listened very attentively Indeed to the recommendations. "It's this way," explained tho export, nccordlug to the New York "Sun. "Binks never sends dpwn more ltorus for advertising- than bo knpws wo enn grvc space to. IIo Is" modest In bis statements of fncf. nnd very exact. There are hardly any complaints, but hfs"stuffv sells very slowjy. , "Jinks, on the other hand, Is nhftys down on tho mnf. fighting for advertising adver-tising space. IIo bunds' down tbreo times ns many Items ns there Is room to feature, nnd ho knows It. IIo Is enthusiastic nnd his enthusiasm makes htm overstate things occasionally. So j ho Is up on the carpet when bo Isn't I down on tho mat. But ho has great I punch nnd sells stuff enormously. Dl-Ivlding Dl-Ivlding his snles by tho number of coin-Iplnlnts, coin-Iplnlnts, I find that tbo quotient of Ibis cfllciency Is much higher than I Blnks'. That Is one of our llttlo meth-lods meth-lods you may not know about. In I other words, Jinks Is n good man. Ho Ifourflushes n lot, but bo is n bustler." I The director of tho storo was n man I wbo bnd started ns on errnnd boy. In loll tho years of bis patient upward I progress bo bnd never known what It I was to have "punch," but bo had I known ninny men whoso painstaking I attention to business nnd whoso mod-I mod-I est conformity to tho needs of their I fellows had enabled them to build up I Institutions ns huge nnd solid os this I store. Ho could not remember thnt bo I himself bnd ever fourilushed anybody lor sacrificed the truth for the sake of I attracting attention. I So he drew n check for tho cfllciency expert nnd gnve Jinks two weeks' no-I no-I tlco of dismissal. ' |