year between thirty-two and thirty-six thousand young ladies and young men will be trained in our Comptometer schools and in the offices of our customers.
We estimate today that the Comptometer family of regular operators and clerical forces using Comptometers is between three and four hundred thousand. If so many of our operators were not advanced to higher positions, and if so many of our girl operators didn't get married, then we could estimate rather accurately—but we wouldn't like our operators to forego the pleasures of matrimony just in order that our statistics might be accurate.
We are rather proud of this record. The Comptometer schools are the largest commercial educational institution in the world today, and these schools are training more young women and young men for the business of earning their living than any other institution under one management.
And we can all feel that we are doing a great deal of good in the world, for by skillful Comptometer operation we are effecting an economic saving by turning off a large volume of work that could not be effected in any other way.
So every Comptometer operator can be proud of her profession—and she can be proud of the enormous family to which she belongs.
Comptometer—a Trade-Mark
MANY persons think that Comptometer is a general term meaning "calculating machine"—any kind or make of a calculating machine. When it appears in the newspapers and other publications, which it does quite often, it is almost invariably used in this general sense as is indicated by the omission of the capital "C".
Comptometer, however, is not a name descriptive of a class of machines, but is the registered trade-mark of Felt & Tarrant Mfg. Co. It has been used continuously as such on all their machines—and only on their machines—for thirty-nine years and is duly registered by them as a trade-mark under the law governing such registry.
There is only one "Comptometer."
