Show t W 0 afi I 1 I 1 ot N R A 4 7 k IN 54 0 fv f 06 fil 1 C r C g 0 A N azy A z y es plan of I 1 v CIL 5 OLI ar f by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN N THE united states senate the other day debate waxed fast cast end and furious over the act senator bruce of maryland and senators edge and edwards of new jersey were making the fur far 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 malu main force senator smoots Is specialty pec fialty a Y Is 11 figures and appropriations hes a sort of treasury watchdog so he simply imply go kot lato into the fray long enough to implore the file senators to rem remember embee they were loading up the me congressional record which would cost the taxpayers 43 a page the retort 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 his contribution to the proceedings calls attention to the fact that the printing of the congressional record Is a bigger job than th an that of printing any daily newspaper in the world that it Is nevertheless merely one isemin item ln the days work of the government printing office that this office Is the largest of its kind in the world and that this monster establishment celebrated its sixty fifth birthday the other day all of which Is interesting to the taxpayer who helps pay that 48 a page it if you want to fix this beginning of the government printing office why the deal was put over ever the very day that abraham lincoln was inaugurated augu rated president the federal government agreed to buy for the printing plant ol of cornelius wendell and a little later john heart hear the first superintendent of public printing took over the premises and put in operation the government printing office today the office occupies a building worth operated equipment worth employs over operatives and turns out an annual product of more than and mind you this government Jr printing inting office Is a Pe separate parate ind and distinct establishment fr lish ment from the burcan of engraving and ting of the he treasury department which makes the money and stamps and does an enormous amount of other work could congress function without the congressional record I 1 probably still it Is the steno graphic report of the days proceedings in both houses louses and it must be on the desks of the members of congress before cori congress gress meets the next nest day copy for the record Is s supposed to be in hand band by midnight this must be set up ste stereotype plates made printed gathered stitched and mailed by 5 in the rooming morning the stereotype plates are made in the foundry as the type pages rush in from the linotype room and are whisked away to the presses especially designed and built tor for printing the record and publications of similar size there are two sixty four page iloe hoe presses constructed ted to print signatures of tour four to sixty four pages and to fold gather and paste or wl wi the separate signatures at the rate of copies an hour from the gathering machine the copies go 90 to a continuous trimmer and the finished copies progress along to the nearby maltin loe tables where they are wrapped and carried by moving belts to mall mail sacks backs 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 min lites after leaving the government printing office thus sacks backs of records are dispatched nightly when congress Is in session and the type for the 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 book form and some copies of these are run off and bound under the rules the public printer shall furnish the congressional record as follows and shall furnish gratuitously no others in addition thereto to the vice president and each senator SS copies end and to the secretary and sergeant at arms arm of the kenata each 20 copies and to the secretary tor effice use nse 10 copies coples to each representative and delegate CO 00 copies find and to the clerk cleric and doorkeeper of the house each 20 copies find to the clerk for office use 10 co copies riles and to the clerk for use of the members of the house ot of ri tives lives CO 50 copies and to the sergeant at arms on of the senate for the use of the senate 20 copies to he supplied dally daily as originally published or in the or permanent form bound only in halt half hussla or in part in each form ns its each may elect to the me vice president tInt and each ec ee representative senta selita tive and delegate there shall be furni furnished blied two coples copies of the dally daily record one to be ba delivered at t lili i cosidente and one at the capitol I 1 lie he of the record Is it a most exasperate Z 44 4 mcg Ms rsS rj f ing job from a printers titers viewpoint because it calls for so go much elasticity 11 its ita pages are lla 1124 by 0 9 inches the text test Is in two columns A 4 page contains about 2200 words it may consist ot of eight pages or it may run to in either event it must be produced on the same basis to meet the same time almus the average size Is 80 pages and the average edition Is the largest dally daily record ever printed consisted of pages of railroad records which the late senator robert lafollette inserted in the senate proceedings on may 0 6 1014 the congressional record Is at times very good reading indeed it if you know how to read it A beginner might read every word of the debate over it a measure and still not be able to figure out what became of the measure but any citizen can tackle its pages it if he be cares to F for or example the dally daily record tor for the first erst session of the sixty ninth congress will be furnished by mall mail to subscribers free of postage tor for 1 50 per month monah or 3 for the session cession payable in advance single copies 24 2 t pages or less 3 cents each additional 8 pages I 1 cent extra remit by money order payable to superintendent of documents government printiss office washington D 0 you will probably find eliat uncle sam will not take your personal check the printing of the record as an stated Is but a small part of the welk of the government printing office says an off official lelal notice the superintendent of documents united states government printing office washington D C Is authorized to sell public documents at cost 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 are covered agriculture law engineering lands army and navy fi indians transportation finance education noncontiguous territory geography and explorations tariff chemistry animal industry forestry plant industry roads soils rolls american history health and hygiene poultry and birds maps political economy and astronomy the government printing office attracts attract it a steady stream of visitors of course there la Is much to see beside printing the vast building contains all sorts of interesting places including u ding restaurants cafeterias and social service r rooms it would not be possible to keep thousands of operatives at work night and day without ucb such things A tiling thing that every one wants to see nowadays is a certain linotype machine its much like any other linotype machine except tor for its history and associations it Is the pershing linotype and Is nothing than the machine used at general ings headquarters at chaumont france to set type for the most confidential communications of the general staff of uw the american army the pershing machine Is in a model no fl linotype of american manufacture anu facture but was wai originally equipped with mith a french keyboard kp board find and to cast slugs lower than Anie american rIcan height when the commander of the american expeditionary forced force decided to establish a printing plant a at t Chau chaumont mout he be detailed maj W W kirby karby to procure the necessary equipment in france major kirby located two linotype machines in a small french printing office and despite the protest of the french military commis commission slon transported them by canal and truck to general ings headquarters tho the pershing machine was later used in the fully equipped printing train operated by the twenty ninth engineers after the armistice the war printing plant was us dismantled and shipped to camp humphreys va from which camp the pershing machine was finally transferred to the government printing office Althou although gb the war machine has been completely reconditioned and now dow looks much like rho rhe 14 other linotypes lino types with which it keeps pae pa e la in set ung ting type for prosaic government documents ti it 04 14 irl f seems to have more distinguished individuality than all the other machines employees hold it in special Tener veneration atlon and aery visitor does homage to the historic machine whose types had recorded war secrets of vital importance copies ot of the confidential publications of the pershing printing plant have been preserved in the army war college for or further used use by the general staff school some day public printer carter hopes to have placed on the pershing linotype a bronze plate recording its war record so its ito distinguished military service may never be forgotten public printer carter by the way Is george n H carter whose selection as public printer on april A 5 1921 was one of the earliest appointments of president harding having been a congressional employee since 1910 in capacities connected ft with ath 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 office the biggest job of the office Is probably the weekly issuance of the patent office gazette this requires the output of fifty to sixty linotype machines working eight hours a day throughout the year says mr carter in his annual report for 1025 in the last fiscal year there were printed pages of patent and trademark trade mark specifications an increase of pages over the preceding year to expedite printing tor for the patent office a special patents section was organized all patent printing has to be completed weekly on a definite time schedule another tremendous job ot of a different sort being almost entirely a presswork and shipping problem Is the printing of all the postal cards used throughout the entire united states the report continues A new record for this work was set net in the fiscal year 1925 by printing cards which exceeded the 1924 output by OA the rost post office department estimates estimate that it will use cards during the next fiscal year A new record established in the printing of approximately post office money order forms forma during the fiscal year 1925 which topped the preceding years record mark b by Y an n increase of 10 per cent money order forms are produced from rolls of sensitized and water marked paper by special presses which in a continuous operation print on both sides of the sheet sheel two colors on one side consecutively number each order in several places print the name and number of the respective post office on each order perforate the purchasers stub and collate sir cordIn to the consecutive numbers the sheets lire fire then certified put into packs of individual orders and bound into books of orders each tor for the convenience of the postmaster this printing of money mone y orders incidentally gives elves a glimpse of the tremendous prosperity of the american people the annual fluctuation in the quantity of money orders required in the trade of 0 the country has long been considered an accurate barometer of business conditions the tremendous increase to in the demand for money orders during the last to years yearn breaking all former records of the office tor for eighteen years can be accepted therefore as an assured indication that thai tin business siness conditions throughout the united states are steadily improving and that the upward trend ot of general prosperity lias bas substantial support in ID the use of nearly more inore money orders order during 1925 thou were required to transact the peoples two years ego ago As each money order way may call for the transfer of df ninda vp up to some idea may ie had of the vast volume of trade that in I 1 represented ri by the 22 money p I 1 A 1 for r use last it year |