Show penmanship IN SCHOOLS A BUSINESS MAN WHO REGISTERS AN OBJECTION his experience HAS been that verti cal writers are no equipped for business prom wednesdays H L girffin one of agdens most prominent business jsn joins with tho school teachers in advocating a return to a natural style of penmanship iu a communication to this paper he says tho article in monday evenings standard Stan daid by prof thomas on the vertical system of penmanship LOW being taught in our schools finds an echo in my heart and freant it re echoed 1 I have been in business here for the last quarter of a century during which time I 1 have had not a little experience peri ence la hiring clerks and this ex has been such that when I 1 want one who can write a free legible hand I 1 have to send out into the sagebrush where they ha e not yet adopted the up to date vertical system of writing 1 I hope tor the benefit of the coming generation that the agitation on this subject will not stop here and that the educators of this state will set the balance of the beaten a good example by going back to the system of teaching penmanship which for case of execution and legibility is certainly tar in advance of the vertical if there are any advocates of the latter system among experienced business men I 1 would like to see their reasons for the same in print |