DON'T MIX YOUR BUSINESS.
By Editor
THE business for many of our societies is done at the REVIEW Office, and yet it is not done by one clerk. Perhaps the fact that business for General Conference, Michigan Conference, General Tract Society, Michigan Tract Society, Dime Tabernacle, Foreign Missions, etc., is all done under one roof, has led to the opinion that it would save us time, as well as some stationery to the writer, to put all kinds of business as close together as is possible. This is a great mistake. Each kind of business has its regular clerk, who must read the whole letter in order to find out which part of it belongs to him. One letter often contains business that must go before five different clerks, and in the busy time of the year when hundreds of letters are received daily, each one of these clerks may be so hurried with other letters that this one must wait a day or two, and it may be five or eight days before all is attended to. To T. & M. officers who do a large amount of business we say, Please use the printed blanks we have sent out, as far as possible. In every case, putting business for Dime Tabernacle on one sheet, book orders upon another, periodical business upon a third, and all miscellaneous business and correspondence upon a sheet by itself. Copy for the paper must of course be separate. To those doing a small amount of business we say, Please put book orders and periodical business on separate sheets or parts of a sheet as far as is possible, and you will in so doing confer a great favor on REVIEW & HERALD.