DICTATE TO THE DICTAPHONE

With shorthand he couldn’t keep “caught up”

How much more freedom does a man get from office routine when he uses The Dictaphone than when he’s held down by shorthand?

Read this story of Horace W. Davis—then note our coupon offer

CHIEF executive of so important a concern as Ansco Photoproducts, Inc., manufacturers of the famous Ansco Cameras, Ansco Speedex Film and Cyko paper, Horace W. Davis must be on the jump all the time. So one day sees him in the New York office. The next, at the Ansco Factories and main office in Binghamton, N. Y. And the next, on an overnight jump to a midwestern city.

When Mr. Davis gets back to his desk, docs he spend all his time “catching up”? Not at all! The astonishing fact is that he has abundance of leisure—for constructive planning and recreation.

How does he do it? The Dictaphone!

His regular train from the West drops him at Binghamton at daybreak. Then—straight to his office. If his desk is piled with the accumulated correspondence he attacks it—by dictating to The Dictaphone. And when the 8 o’clock whistle blows, his desk is clear.

Three days’ work in three hours! He’s got the jump on routine. He’s free from that burden for the rest of the day.

Mark this—he never has to wait for his secretary to take dictation. The Dictaphone is always ready. With machines at both offices and at home, he can go and come at will—work at all hours—with his mind intent only on his job.

And The Dictaphone is a boon for his secretaries. Since Miss Van Alstyne, at Binghamton, doesn’t have to copy letters twice

—once in shorthand, once on the typewriter

—and isn’t constantly interrupted to take dictation, she can handle all Mr. Davis’s work and assist the vice-president in Mr. Davis’s absence.

—While Miss Ruckel, of the New York office, has time to handle many important matters—taking over work which would otherwise consume Mr. Davis’s time.

Which of these coupons will you send, as the first step to “doubling your ability to get things done”?

DICTAPHONE advertisement in The Literary Digest for September 12, 1925