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Show H HO GOOD DOWN THIS WAY H The Logan Journal recently H published this description of a H machine for bankers, which it H ( terms "A Wonderful Machine." H "In Thatcher Bros, bank there H has been recently installed a H machine that is one of the H wonders of modern mechanical H -.contrivances. It is a posting H -.machine and is made by the H .Burrough people. It looks just H ;liko a Burrough adding machine, H but in addition to adding it also H subtracts and then gives one the RPR Correct total after doing this wmm mathematical computation. iQj More than that, when it strikes Nl an overdraft in an account it MH . Vi promptly balks and won't work Imm '"' "'until "Arrangements aro made." jfol ' "In fact the machine displays $RF almost human intelligence. A $$$ . cabinet containing all the deposit 1 . accounts of tho bank stands near pw . and as tho sheet of each fwM customer is taken out and placed sfMjjj '" tne machine, tho amount of ja his deposits or withdrawals, is rafjj , , added or subtracted from his tf$Kfj ' balance as tho cbbo may be and fwjtim ' the new balance given. All this WLmW 1S ono ky ie macnmo which is MH operated just as the ordinary VBBHBk adding machine is. As indicated, indi-cated, there is no possibility of overlooking an overdraft as the machine locks Isteelf whenever it strikes one." The machine is no doubt a very ingenious one, but the objection ob-jection to it in this neck-o'-lhe-woods is that thero aro so very few accounts on which it would work, that it would bo cheaper to make the computations "by hand." |