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Show TIIR SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH v t V 'XJfJ Is your car a General Motors . -- t klHfSfe i RP i ite ii i!I ? ait ..$ ! j r QjrF. I lmS rlfsfT;ft 4 rj J jt V.S: &?' 04 AJ z aSs && v Ml 8T iw YOU own a Chevrolet, a Pontiac, an Oldsmobile, an Oakland, a Buick or a Cadillac, you own a General Motors car. But what, you may ask, docs that mean to me? It means just this: General Motors is a family of companies building motor cars and trucks and such other famous automotive products as Fisher Bodies, Delco and Remy electrical systems, Harrison radiators and AC spark plugs. Still other General Motors products are Delco-Ligelectric power plants and Frigidalre electric refrigerators. There are General Motors plants in 44 cities, employing 120,000 people; and sales and service organizations in 144 countries. General Motors uses the combined resources of this great family for the benefit of each member.lt effects great savings in the purchase of quality materials; it provides the best of .engineering talent; it maintains the worlds largest research laboratories and proving ground for automobiles; and it assures the permanence of its various divisions and the products which they make. In other words, General Motors has every facility- - and every incentive to maintain quality and to offer value for the price; and the current models of General Motors cars are offered as the greatest values in the history of the automobile industry. IF ' ' - 5 - v i i.$ . Car? r'x. awa1& s j, ht Largest Plant f Its Kind Celebrates Its U S Mrrrr-- r Tnrttf' 6- 5- birthday 6 4 By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN prrl M THE United States senate the other day debate waxed fast and furious oer the Volstead act. Senator Bruce of Maryland and Senators Edge and Edwards of New Jersey were making the fur fly, with other senators on either side looking for a chance to get a word in edgewise. Whereupon Senator Smoot of Utah broke in by main force. Senator Smoots specialty is figures and appropriations; hes a sort of Treasury Watchdog. So he simply got- inter the fray long enough to implore the senators to remember they were loading up the Congressional Record which W'ould cost the taxpayers $4S a page. The letort of the debating senators was, of course, that it was money well spent. Without passing upon the merits either of the debate or of the reply of the senators to Senator Smoot, bis contribution to the proceedings calls attention to the fact that the printing of tiie Congressional Record is a bigger Job than that of printing any daily newspaper in the world; that it is nevertheless merely one item in the days work of Printing Oflice; that this office is the largest of its kind in the world, and that this monster establishment celebrated its sixty-fiftbirthday the other day. All of which is interesting to the taxpayer who helps ray that $48 a page. If you want to fix this beginning of the Government Printing Office, why the deal was put over the very day that Abraham Lincoln was Inaugurated President. The federal government agreed to buy for $135,009 the printing plant of Cornelius Wendell and a little later John Heart, the first superintendent of public printing, took over the premises and put in operation the Government Ilinting 0fi.ee. Today the office occupies a building worth $1,000,000; operated efluipment Wiorth $3,500,000 ; employs over 4,000 operatives and turns out hn annflal product of more than $12,000,000. And, mind jou, this Government Printing Office is q se'parate and distinct establishment from tiie Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, which makes the money and stamps and does an enormous amount of other work. Could congress function without "the Congres- sional Record? Probably. Still it Is the steno- graphic report of the days proceedings lu both houses and it must be on the desks of tiie members of congress before congress meets the next day. Copy for tiie Record is supposed to be in hand by midnight. This must be. set up. stereotype plates made, printed; gathered, stitched and mailed by 5 o'clock in the morning. rI. h e stereotype plates are made in the foundry ns the type pages rusli in from tiie linotype room and are whisked away to tiie presses, especially designed and built .for printing the Record of similar size. There are two Hoe presses, constructed to print signatures of four to sixty-fou- r pages, and to fold, gather and paste or wirestitch the separate signatures at the rate of 12,000 copies an hour. From the gathering machine the copies go to a continuous trimmer, and the finished copies progress along to the nearby mailing tables, where they are wrapped and carried by moving belts to mail sacks at the ends of the tables. As rapidly as the sacks are filled they are dumped Into a chute and transported by a belt conveyer through a tunnel to the city post office, where they are transferred to the Union station and placed .on outgoing trains, all within five minutes after leaving the Government Rrint-- . ing Office. Thus 350 sacks of Records are dispatched nightly when congress is in session. And the type for tiie Record must be held for thirty days for any necessary reprint work.. At the end of each session of congress the Congressional Record is compiled into hook form and some 4,500 copies of these are run off and bound. Under tiie rules the public printer shall furnish tiie Congressional Record as follows, and sjiqj furnish grutultouMv no others in addition thereto; To the vice president and each senator, $8 copies; end to tiie secretary and sergeant at arms of the senate, each 20 copies; and to the secretary, for office use, 10 copies; to each representative and delegate. 00 ooiios; arm to the clerk and doorkeeper of the bouse, each 20 copies; and to the clerk, for oflice use, 0 copies; and to the clerk, for use of the members of the house of representatives, r.0 copies; nncLtu. the. sergeant at arms of the senate, for the e of the senate, 20 copies; to he supplied daily as originally published, or In the revised or permanent form boupd only in half ttissia, or in part in each form, as each may elect. To til vice president and each senator, and delegate there shall be furnished two copies of the daily Record, one to be delivered at lus i evidence and one at the capitol. Iho prni ng of the Record Is a most exasperat GENERAL MOTORS - ' ing job from a printers viewpoint because it calls for so much elasticity. Its pages are IDA by A page 9 inches. The text is in two columns. contains about 2,200 words. It may consist of eight pages, or It may run to 200. In either event it must be produced on the same basis to meet the qanje time limits. The average size is 80 pages and the average edition is 35,500. The largest daily Record ever printed consisted of 306 pages h sixty-four-pa- -- u-- rtpre-sentati.- e. of railroad records, which the late Senator Robert LaFollette inserted is the senate proceedings on May 6, 1914. , The Congressional Record is at times very good reading indeed if you know how to read ft A beginner might read every word of the debate over a measure and still not be able to figure out what became of the measure. But any citizen can tackle its pages if he cares to. For example, the daily Record for the first session of the Sixty-nintcongress will be furnished by mail to subscribers, free df postage, fof $1.50 per month, or $S for the session, payable In advance. Single copies, 24 pages or less, 3 cents; each additional 8 pages, 1 cent extra. Remit by money order payable to Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Oflice, Washington, D. C. You will probably find that Uncle Sapi will not take your personal check. The printing of the Record, ns stated, is but a .small, part of the work of the Government Print- ing Office. Says an official notice : The Superintendent of Documents, United Slates Government Fruiting 'Office, Washington, D C., Is authorized to sell public documents at post, .and upon application that official will furnish free of charge price lists showing, under topical headings, the publications now available for sale. The following .topics .arq cpv:eryl: Agriculture. law, engineering, lands, army and nufyr fishes, Indians, transportation, finance, education, noncontiguous .territory, geography and explorations, tariff, chemistry, animal industry, forestry, plant Industry, roads, soils, statistics, American history, health and hygiene, poultry and birds, maps, political economj, and astronomy. The Government 1rinting Office attracts a steady stream of visitors. Of course, there is The vast building much to see beside printing. contains all sorts of Interesting places. Including restaurants, cafeterias and social service rooms. It would not be possible to keep thousands of operatives at work nigl t and day without such things. A thing that every one wants to see nowadays is a certain linotype machine. Its much like any other linotype machine except for its history and associations. It Is the Pershing Linotype, and is nothing less than the .machine used at General Persliings headquarters at Cimumont, France, to set type for the most confidential communications .of the general staff of the. American army. The Pershing machine Is a model No. f linotype of American manufacture, hut was originally equip; ed with a French keyboard nnd designed slugs lower than American height.,. When the commander of, the Anid'cnn Expeditionary Forces decided to establish a printing plant at Cluiumont, he detailed Maj. W. W. Kirby to procure die necessary equipment in France. Major Kirby located two linotype machines In n small French printing office, nnd. despite the protest of the French military commission, transported them by canal and truck to General Pershings head . . quarters. The Pershing machine was later used In the fully equipped printing train operated by the Twenty ninth engineers. After the Armistice tiie war printing plant was dismantled nnd shipped to I Camp Humphreys, Ya , from which cutup the Pershing machine was finally transferred to the government printing office. Although the war machine has been cnmlct'dy reconditioned and now looks much like rhe ID other linotypes with which it keeps pace ip set it ting type for prosulc government document h . ..... Ktnr . SrMirifif eeems to have more distinguished Individuality than all the other machines. Employees hold it in special veneration, and every visitor does homage to the historic machine whose types had recorded war secrets of vital importance. Copies of the confidential publications of the Pershing printing plant have been preserved in the Army War college for further use by the general staff school. Some day Public Printer Carter hopes to hav placed on the Pershing linotype a bronze plate recording its war record, .so Its distinguished military service may never he forgotten. Public Printer Carter," by the way, is George II. Carter, whose selection ns public printer on April 5, 1921, was one of the earliest appointments of President Harding. Having been a con gressional employee since 1910 in capacities connected with the printing of congress, Mr. .Carter was accorded the distinction of being confirmed In open session of the senate, an honor that heretofore had only been extended to members of the senate who were appointed to some other high oflice. The biggest Job lf the office Is probably the weekly issuance of the Patent Office Gazette. This requires the output of fifty to sixty linotype huh bines working eight hours a day throughout the year, says Mr. Carter in his annual report for In the last fiscal year there were printed 1925. specifica149.C43 pages of patent and tions, an increase of 419,011 pages over the preceding year. To expedite printing for the Iutent Office a special patents section was organized. All patent printing lias to be completed weekly on a definite. time schedule. Another tremendous Job of a different sort, being aimo-- t entirely a presswork and shipping problem, Is the printing of all the postal cards used throughout the entire United States," the A new record for this work report continues. fiscal In the set year 1925 by printing was the 1924 1 595,370, ShO cards, whi h exceeded Office Post The 342,303.710. department output by estimates that It will use 1,791,299,000 cards during the next flscul year." A new record was also established In the printmoney-ording of approximately 220,500.000. forms during the fiscal year 1925, which topped the preceding years record mark by r 30,808,000, an increase of 10 per cent. forms are produced from rolls of sensitized end water marked paper by special presses, which. In a continuous operation, print on both sides of the sheet, 'wo colors on one side, consecutively number eiwb order In several places, print the name and number of the .respective post office on each order, perforate the purchasers stub and numhers. The collate nrcorditg to the into of individthen certified, packs put are sheets ual orders and bound into books of 200 orders each for tiie convenience of the postmaster. This printing f money orders incidentally gives o glimpse "f the tremendous prosperity of the Aniericin people. The annual fluctuation in the required in the trade quantity of money orders been considered an acof the country lias long conditions. of Tiie trebarometer curate mendous increase in the demand for money orders years, breaking all former (luring the last records of tb office for eighteen years, can lie n snrc-d indication Hint accepted, theefore. ns an busine-- s londiticns throughout the United States are steadily improving, and that the upward trend substantial support In of general piosperltv of nearly 4'"'io noo more money orders th? during I'U ih"Ji won- reooir.-- to transact the ago. As each money peoples business inn f rands up to tan order may 'all i r v had if (he vast volume 10(1 some bic-trade-mar- k post-offic- e BUICK CHEVROLET ' PONTIAC OAKLAND OLDSMOBILE CADILLAC ' GMC TRUCKS WA Absurdity of Avarice Daniel Guggenheim, who has Just given $2,500,000 to advance condemned avarice at a dinner in New York. Theres a story, he said, that shows us how absurd avarice Is. A California boy asked his father: Father, can I go down to the orange grove and pick a few oranges? d cureful Yes, son, but he . only to pick lmd ones. But suppose there aint no bad ones, father? Then you'll have to wmit till some Ye cant afford goes bad, of course. to eat good, sound fruit I hat fetches a dime apiece up in New York. nero-nautle- s, all-fire- The Chinese Flapper Is not ns nttrne-.tiv- e ns the term' might seem to Imply for her garb is a hybrid arrangement which Is neilher one thing or the other. She has positively discarded the trousers which has been the traditional garb for centuries and wears Instead a long full skirt. The Chinese headdress is retained, but she is liable to put on any of the other features of the Occidental girl that she can obtain. The result is a garbled IVe can't quite enter Into the hapappearance which is sometimes piness of other people If we think It foolish. The Chinese flapper O Costs less er Onex Money-orde- eon-ecutl- ve bu-ino- to h-- ) u- car for every purse and purpose electric General Motors cert and trucks Delco-Llgplants and Lrigidaire electric refrigerator mar be purchased on the QMAC Plan provided by General Motorsitself to assure sound terms and low finance rates -e Dollar ! Dont than $1.00 to decorate a room with King Wall Finish spend a penny for painting or decorating until you have investigated King Wall Finish. This amazing gives any room a rich, beautiful appearance, the cost is remarkably lerw. You can make any average sized room look like new for less than a dollar. Ask your decorator about King Wall Finish. He will tell you it is easy to handle (just mix with hot water and apply) and that it never spots, laps or streaks, even when used by an inexperienced painter. Write today for name of dealer nearest you and FREE Color Chart . showing 19 beautiful colors to choose Qvfrom. ' not only THE CHICAGO WHTTB LEAD BC OIL CO. 15t.h Su Sc S. Western Ave Chicago 111 Wall Finish - ve.-ir- r b- - of in do i'ni money ordeis i by i t ' u-- e lur the 220,500,600 year DISTRIBUTOR SALT LAKE GLASS 8C SALT LAKE CITY, t PAINT CO. UTAH |
