Show government printing office big thin thing ay to the capital are always VISITORS V impressed Imp reused by uncle sams bains printing office which Is the largest lagest jn in the world it Is pretty complete too it even manu luona fractures tac fac turea tures its ta own ink its cost was w as more than this printing office prints all the letterheads and other stationery used by tho the government all ail the bills und and resolutions introduced in congress and virtually everything in printed matter used by the federal government it houses 3 mor moru moro u anu t ann 2 linotype and monotype machines and its undertakings in surpass those of any private plant in existence in a single year for instance a single branch of the government the department of agriculture was supplied with moret more than ban printed pamphlets of various sorts every year it prints about post poet office money order slips blips nearly OW income tax blanks and many millions of pamphlets circulars and books which give to the world the results of the governments research work in the numerous fields then there are millions upon millions of postal cards iud lav elopes ln in fact there Is seeri fligl y no end the government printing office pub li when congress la in in session what wha t Is perhaps the largest dally newspaper printed on heavy days tho the size of this paper goa goes to pages it Is the Congress congressional lonal record the report of what tins has happened in house and senate the day belore before it tells the world the official fact of tile the day in congress more th than a n 3 0 copies are printed dally daily its ith subscription price Is 8 for each session the employees nearly arid and the annual output Is about worth of pil the public printer gets n salary of and tile tho deputy public printer thirteen managers superintendents foremen land and the lelce get salaries ranging from 2500 to an act of congress requires all printing binding and blank book work tot fot the government to be done at tile the government printing unless the joint committee on printing shall deem it emergency work which makes it advisable vit to have it done elsewhere this committee consists of three oliree members of the house bouse and three of the senate it controls the printing of the congressional record and has large lauffe powers over the operations of the gar printing office |