| Show typewriting AND RECORDS some years ago when typewriting ty was introduced in the public depart ments remarked an old typewriter to tol a star reporter there was a great fe fear expressed that the work would not ot hols out in comparison with the p pen writ ing that the ink used wo would I 1 fa fad 46 away and that in twenty five years 0 so it would it would be entirely ob liter abed and the record entirely g gone 0 ne as am wiling to admit that the ink uses when typewriting was originally intro sl deuced was not as good as it should baj and by no means as good as that ehla chic soon followed but as far as I 1 la havy been able to ascertain by frequently r res ferring to typewriting done as tar far b bacce as twenty years ago there are i signs of deterioration the aniline arte rte I 1 in now used axe are practically everl everlasting that word can be used in co connects nee with any ink I 1 find that the ink wu in pen writing sixty years ago and I 1 i some instances less shows considers signs of fading out though in many ciany 0 stances it gems to be as good as hii first used the differences in favor of ayi writing is the same all the urne time wt very few of even the best clerks ways write a clear hand some of t n very old pen writing in the old re of some of the departments is ig V ye poor for the reason that it was wag ve borly written originally some of can only be deciphered with the gre greta est difficulty and in cases of prop names this delays searches confide con ly ay with typewriting the initials initial ELI i names an dabe names themselves a are a plain as the rest leaving no room fc doubt and causing no extra sea bearol in corroborating corob orating them another c vantage in favor of typewriting that more is put in on the sheet a the size of the record is corresponds correspond lii ly decreased tor for there is no chance L flourishes which while easy eno enough read when fresh axe are not easily p afterward the state department never allowed a typewriter to be in that department though they key capt leters from the other depart dePar mc so written secretaries olney and sl man bothe endeavored to get type wi ers era introduced but ate machinery the department and the desire t to foreign in every respect was too ma tor for them of course should any of oi real foreign offices start in with 1 writers our state department adi follow suit in an hour afterward I 1 it is estimated that it costs the gov gohei ment about three times as much have letters written by hand ln in old fashioned way as it does by modern system and typewrite type washington star |
