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Evening star., 1912-01-07
A Night Owl.

NTHE crooked politician is bound to
be exposed said Senator New
lands at a dinner in Washington. "Ex-
posure will come-even from the most
improbable sources It's like the case of
Jones.
Jones. a hypocritical individual, was
a Sunday school superintendent, and one
Sunday the minister, in an allus on to
the domestic cat. said to Jones' little boy:
Now, Tommy, tell us the name of
the animal which, when all the house is
dark and everybody is asleep, comes
creeping softly and silently upstairs"
Father said Tommy promptly
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is of white enamel with border of blue.
and between the points are small gold
shields representing the American wars.
Each shield bears a symbol appropriate
to itself. such as, for example, an In
dams head in profile for the colonial
wars, a liberty bell for the revolutionary
war, an anchor for the war of 1872: a
cactus for the Mexican war, shackles for
the civil war and castle for the Span
ish war. On the reverse of these shields
are the dates of the various wars. The
laurel wreath in the background is SYM
bolic of success. In the central medallion
or red enamel are the arms of tht United
States in gold surrounded by gold band
bearing the motto: 'Vicerunt ut Viva
mus they have conquered that We may
liveo On the reverse OF this medalIon
are engraved the title of the society ana
the number Of the member who owns the
badge.
A great deal concerning the object OF
the society may perhaps be gathered
from an address made by DR.. David Starr
Jordan at the first annual banquet OF the
California commandery at San Francesca
"Patriotism means not only enthusiasm
about our own country and Its past anu
nresent, but knowledge of 1t and deVotlon
to it's best interest, IS intellleent patfio'
ism" said DIR. Jordan. here comes III
the idea of the society, the interest IN
American history, past ana iuture, anu
behind ii all love or country, that Pa
triot.sm which IS iove OF tnat lor VIII VIZ,
tions and devotion to what institutions
are or should be.
"a man to be eligible should stand
we'll should be man Whom ms LEI
low men can trust and respect ne
should be man of Intelligence and a
worthy member of his profession, WhaI-
ever il may be. This, l thlnk, Is one
of the strong features or the soclety.
1t brings together men OF prominence
and character, but without any re1er-
ence to their calling in life. or to their
personal views on any SUBJECT Inere-
fore it is one of the societies that
bridges over the various gaps between
one profession. one mode OF lie ana
another.
"In other words, the society exists
for present good fe lowsfip and or
future good citizenship; and good citi-
zenship comes with 81 o,,r n9r deedsMa eds,
from remembrance OF IL our h.ve ueeHs~a siye
bled and suffered; remembrance OF
what the great flag of the united
States has stood for in the past. All
these things tend to promote good
citizenship in the future, And. as l
have said before, for good citizenship
in the future and good citlzenshlp OF
today this Society of American wars
must stand"
X X
The society is made up OF the va
rious state Communicates and the COM.
mandery-in-ch chief. The latter. It's head
quarters now in Washington. Is COM
posed of about sixteen men. Admiral
J. e. Pillsbury. U. S. N. Is the COM
mander general and the head OF the
organization. The vice commanders
general, the recorder general. the treas
urer general, the registrar general, the
genealosist general, the chancellor gen.
eral, the chaplain general, the surgeon
general and the historian general are the
other officers of the commandery -in-chief.
Each state commandery has its own Of
ficers corresponding to the national ones.
The officers of the commandery-in-c
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tails The totals foreeach Office will be
compared with the amount Of money or
derS issued as reported by postmasters.
To find the number and amount of out
standing money orders at the end OF
year the substitute cards Will be run
through tabulating machines
The proposed system is radical de de-
parture from the one now in use. The
more the auditor studies the plan the
more tasks he finds for the machines, for
they work with almost human under,
standing. The advan ages of mechanlcai
tabulation as summed up in the auditor
report, are that the work Of his office VIII
be performed with greater degree OF ac,
curacy: the tine required to audit paid
money orders will be reduced from eight
to three months and thousands OF dollars
will be saved the government.
The cost Of the equipment and cards is
fixed at ss1. 100 In connection with the
estimates for his Office the auditor says
that a saving to the United States Of
slo7. 40 may be effected by the adoption
Of the mechanical tabulating system. On
account OF the decrease in work the au-
ditor has recommended a reduction IN
force Of seventy-eight clerks and en-
ployes. He states, however. that no one
will be separated from the service as
result OF MS AoN SAcaA
will be made for those affected. In antici-
patton Of the numerous changes to follow
no permanent appointments have been
made in the auditors office for the last
six months.
Altogether there will be 300 Of the new
machines, installed, including 2oO card
punching machines. % tabulat ng ma
chimes and % sorting machines.
A number of cards are to be used In
the operation of the new system. the
total of which will amount to about 10O.-
100000 annually. it is estimated. Three
million of these cards have already been
purchased. and are ready for use.
While in charge Of tabulating section
in the census Office during the compia-
tion of the eleventh census of the United
States In 1890, tl-n attention of Mr.. kram
was first drawn to ~ mechanical devices
invented by DR.. Herman Holierith. Since
that time they have been adopted for
use in the accounting departments OF
many Of the larger corporations in this
country, and by census departments Of a
number Of foreign governments. In the
spring of 1909, Auditor Kram broue ht
these devices to the attention of the
Secretary of the Treasury and recon-
mended their installation at that time.
=
The operation Of the system is COM
paratively simp'e and a brief description
only Is necessary to show its adaptability
to the audit of the accounts OF the postal
service The foundation of the tabulating
system is a small card on which the items
or amounts to be tabulated are record
ed by punching out certain figures. The
card punch is q small machine provided
with eleven perforators operated by keys.
The tabu,at'ng apparatus Is an electric
adding machine which automatically ac-
cumulates and registers data from punch
Evening star., 1912-01-07

it required twice as long to turn out the
same amount Of copy. In 1893. when the
phonograph gave a hint of it's commercial
possibilities, Mr.. Andrew T. Deyine, a
member Of the House corps, gave the in
.vention a trial. 1t proved so successful at
the start that he lent his aid to its per-
fection, and in a few months they had
made gain of several laps in their work
in the race against time.
What the typists now do in turning out
copy has fully repaid Mr.. Devine's ef-
forts, A photograph will take dictat on
as rapidly as any human being can give
it and speak distinctly, and it will push
the swiftest typist to the limit in echoing
back the words.
The stenographic reporters dictation for
one turn on the floor fills about one wax
phonograph cylinder. But the typists of
the corps have ears that have be-
come ex remedy sensitive and by the aid
of the phonograph they turn out the copy
at the rate of sixty words a minute. By
the time, therefore, that reporter No. L
returns. from his second turn on the floor
his first copy is ready for rev sion. TIE
typewriter pages thus turned out for
or 300. During the last days session of
the previous Congress they reached as
high as $50.
Perhaps no employees Of Congress more
fully earn the right to draw breath Of
relief after their days work than the
stenographic corps. The whole number of
words which this body turns out each
day amounts to 10000 or more. which
means that each man is responsible for
the accuracy of about 10000, which he
must write, transcribe, speak and read.
Likewise the typists' fingers must fly at a
corresponding rate, and since this entire
copy of the days proceedings must be
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man possesses to wade through more than
a third of the PAGES of daily issue.
But if the Congressional Record holds
the leather medal for its slowness in the
rare for mental entertainment, it wins by
many lengths in the process of construc-
tion. The collection of the matter con-
tanned within its pages represents one of
the most active processes of Congress,
and the compiling, printing and distribut-
ing of the daily record indicates a speed
on the part of the orerators unenualed in
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Putting Out Congressional Record Each Day Gigantic Task

transpires in a few Kaleidoscope moments
on the floor unless they possessed the
combined characteristics OF Speaker OF
the House. a base ball umpire, a foot
ball referee and Jim the Penman?'
Natural ability and length of service
has made this famous corps the reputa-
ton which it now no ds. Each member.
from Theodore F. Shuey, dean of the
Senate corps, and Fred Irland. dean of
the House corps. down to the youngest.
has seen not only long service in the
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he has noted. 1t requires speed to do
this, and herein the phonograph has
been brought to the aid of the reporters.
1t was. in fact in these same offices and
on this same kind of work that that in
strument was used for the first time
commercially.
Prior to eighteen years ago the steno-
graphic reporters used to dictate their
notes to two shorthand amanue nses. and
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used to cut out the symbols which stand
for the office number. the amount, ETC.
Another machine. a gang punch. will be
used to perforate in the proper sections
data common to twenty-five or thirty or
ders. Thereafter the cards will be sub
stituted for the original vouchers.
Cards rear. sent ng money orders paid at
a post Office in a day. week or month will
be run through the tabulating machine.
each Office separately. and the totals ar
rived at compared with the totals report
ed on the postmaster's adding machine
lists.
AS the comparisons are completed the
cards win be run through sorting ma
chimes and arranged numerically by the
office Of issue. When so arranged the cards
will be examined for missing numbers.
Lists Of orders issued by postmasters Will
be referred to and the particulars Of the
missing orders punched on substitute
cards. All of the cards. representing all
money orders issued at a post office in a
given period. will be run through the
tabulating machines to arrive at the to-
Evening star., 1912-01-07


bW stalled in the Office OF auditor
for the Post Office Department
TO audit the increasing ava
archc Of postmasters accounts and
vouchers which roll into Washington
year by year. Under the present ar
rIngernent it is practically impossible to
adjust postmaSters' accounts until almost
Year after they have been placed on
file in the department. With the new
method these accounts can easily be ad-
5Jsted within month. and effect a saw
ing 10 the government of $1,000 an
nualiy. Incidentally Uncle Sam will be en-
abltd - keep closer check on the busi-
ness Of the postmaster. All other ac-
counts OF the Post Office Department in
riudIng the postal savings bank system.
are Il be audited in the future with the
jSe OF these mechanical tabulators
About one hundred million mones or
ders paid by 5000 postmasters in the
United States are sent to the auditors
Office for audit. There they follow a
routine which was prescribed before the
close of the civil war. First they are
compared with the paying postmasters'
stateme nts: then assembled BY hand into
states and Offices of issue and ARRANGED i'm
numerical sequence that they may be
identified on the reports OF the issuing
postmasters Eight months subsequent
to their receipt when the moneys they
represent have been accounted for, the
orders are given a resting place in the
fileroom for three years, after which their
short lives end in macerating ma
chine.
With the expansion OF the postal serv-
ice and the corresponding increase in the
work of audit it has been necessary to
wake annual estimates for additional
Jerks and employees So many requests
that kind have been made to and
:. -.snted by Congress that the auditors
tee force. in the last fifty years, has
,feased four fold or from 1866 to GIL
F.suns.
~ preparing the estimates for the fiscal
ar. which will begin July I next. Audi
Ig. Charles A. Kram had the choice of
alternatives. Either an additional
s'''ovc must be secured for clerical serv-
c-s or a new method of handling paid
.nney orders must be installed.
A. thp money order business of his office
was assuming such large proportions, the
tudttor decided to investigate the adapta-
I lily of mechanical tabulation to the au-
lii OF the accounts of the postal service.
-howed conclusively that mechanical sort
ing and tabulating devices would reduce
the cost of clerical assistance. produce
quicker results and furnish statistics
&hich have not been obtainable hereto
ore. When Secretary MacVeagh was ac-
Iuainted with the situation he heartily
approved the auditors plan to tabuiate
the accounts and directed that the esti-
mates for 1913 be based upon the adoption
If such q system.
Auditor Kram has been engaged for sew
eral months In working out the details of
the new plan. One Of the first require
ments was that each post office In the
United States should be given a designat-
ing number. That work has been COM
pleted, and on each money order, In the
Evening star., 1912-01-07
COncelninU
Mell-KnOWn peODle

with an oath:
i don't believe Mr. Vanderbilt. TIT
the editor of this here journal 80 1.
enough about farmin' to plant ..s feet
in the road and raise a cloud of ,,ust.
Evening star., 1912-01-07


witness the annual meeting in
Washington of the Society of
American Wars a national pa
triotic organization. with head
quarters in the District of Columbia
1t is one among the many societies
that seek to pay just homage to the
memory of the brave men who fought
for American independence. It's roll
call numbers men whose ancestors par
ttcipated in one or more of the Ameri-
can wars or who themselves have served
their country. The broad scope of it's
membership requirements makes it unlike
other patriotic societies. for representa-
tives or their descendants of any of the
wars of the United States, instead of a
particular war. may be admitted. Henry
G. Crocker, registrar general of the or
ganization, in his address at the seventh
annual meeting Of the District of Colum-
bia commandery, spoke of this feature
Of the society.
"The Society of American Wars holds
this one grand distinction among its fell
lows" said Mr.. Crocker that while 9TH
ers look backward each to a single war
from which it draws it's ipSpira tion and to
which 1t owes its members, our society
bases eligibility upon service in any war
in which the United States has or shall be
engaged. And SO We alone, making no
discrimination between one war or an
other, look to the future as well as to the
past"
Though the society is about fourteen
wears old, it's commandery here in the
,3- 4
until March 81, 1903, under Gen. Breckin-
ridge, U. S. A. This commandery corre-
spends to the state communicates of the
society located throughout the country.
New York holds one of these state COM
manderies, as does also Minnesota. Cali
fornia, Ohio and Maine. The society itself
now has several hundred members.
To attain membership in the society a
candidate must comply with the rules laid
down in it's constitution. He must be not
less than twenty-one years of age, Of good
moral character and reputation and
A lineal descendant of an ancestor who
served as q governor. lieutenant or deputy
governor Of any of the thirteen colonies
A lineal descendant Of a member of the
councils or assemblies of any of the thir-
teen colonies.
A lineal descendant OF military or
naval officer under authority of the colo
mes which afterward formed the United
States. from the settlement of jamestown,
May 13, 16t7 I, to April 10, 1888
A military or naval officer who has
served with honor as q commissioned Of
tcer of tie Lnlted States iii the army.
navy. Marine Corps or revenue cutter
service in any war in which the United
States has been or shall be engaged, or a
lineal descendant thereof.
A lineal descendant of a companion Of
the Society of American Wars.
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GATHERING the Material

GATHERING the Material
- and Placing 1t in Read
able Form - The Congress
sional Reporters and Their
Work - How Photographs
Are Used-Work of Stenog-
raphers-Setting the Type at
Government Printing Office
The Corps of Proofreaders
Distributing Finished Cop
les of the Publication-Daily
Distribution Now Totals
$4,000.
Evening star., 1912-01-07

F. one were told
that the greatest.
most important Of
Uncle Sans publ
cations contains the
driest. most unin-
viting reading mat
ter one might hesi-
tate to believe II.
However. the state
ment is not a clash
Of oppos ng facts.
The skeptic has
Evening star., 1912-01-07

Upon admission a member is presented
with a badge. a six-pointed star, made
of gold and enamel, pendant ty wreath
and spread eagle of gold, from a red rib-
bon with a narrow blue edge. The star
Evening star., 1912-01-07
PRINTER DONNELLY,

.ACiIINEsS with almost human
intelligence will soon be in
stalled in the office Of auditor
for the Post Office Department
10 audit the increasing ava
Evening star., 1912-01-07

HE 10Th day of this month will
witness the annual meeting in
Washington of the Society Of
American Wars, a national pa
triOtic organization, with head
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-06-19

Laurens Jonathan Scruggins" (Jack
Wofford) and his adoring Belinda
Jane" Miss II. Cunningham) to let
the public know what is the latest
fashion in "Pumkin Ridge!
Mr. Renby Martin, young son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chuck" Martin, of
Eunis, Texas, Is here on a visit to his
numerous relatives and friends and
his parents who left the county some
27 years ago are also thinking of COM
ing back home to live This will be
welcome news to many friends.
Mrs. Margaret Allison accompanied
by her granddaughter, Margaret Fin
ley went up to visit her granddaughter
Mrs. Bess Wright of Enoree. She was
joined in Laurens by Miss Josie Mar
ton Of Clinton. They returned Mon
day.
Misses Juanita Martin with little
Winona and Annie are on visit to
their uncle Conway Martin of Ora.
Mrs. Judge Thompson still con-
tinues to improve, her friends Will be
pleased to note.
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Wall colora and Llnht

In painting or papering tho walls Of
room the question often aris.s what
color reflects the most and what tho
least light? Recent experiments In
Germany gave tho following results:
Dark blue reflects 6h per cent. OF the
light falling upon IL; dark green,
about 10 per cent: pale red. a little
moro than 10 par cent; dark yellow, ,
20 per cent; pale blue. 80 per cent:
pale yellow. 40 per cent; pale green.
dSh per cent; pale orange. nearly So
per cent; pale white. 10 per cent
GloSsiness and varnish increase tho
amount OF light reflected. - Harper's
Weekly
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NEWS
FROM THE COUNTY
Continued from Page One.)

long friend Of the family, conducted
the funeral services. She Is survived
by husband and large family CON
nection who grieve because she has
gone
!, Among those who attended her fun
eral were Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Madden,
Mrs. Gena Winn and children, of Wa
terloo, Mrs. America Madden, MIR. and
Mrs. b. b. Blakely, Mr.. Whit Adair
and daughter, of Holly Grove, Mr..
Henry Madden and mother of Green
vile and Mesdames Bonham, Felts and
Davenport of Laurens.
Mrs. Luther Finley, who was car
ried to the county hospital last week,
stood her operation all right and at
the last report was getting on very
well indeed. This will be good news
to her friends.
The Misses league, graduate nurses
of Washington, d. c., are taking their
annual vacation and are now with
their mother for visit. While here
they Will also visit their sister, Mrs.
Chas. Robertson of Birmingham, Ala,
and together they will go to the mar
rlago of their brother, Stokes L..
league Of Atlanta, Ga, who is to be
married In July to Miss Roberts, the
charming daughter of a Methodist
minister Of the Gate City. Stokes
spent his boyhood and young manhood
near here, but Is now SUCCESSFUL
businoss man OF Atlanta He has
many admirable qualities. not the least
among them has been his love to his
sisters, his care and devotion to his
stepmother Many friends will join in
waiting to him and his intended bride
hearty congratulations
The Dicey Langston Comedy Com
pany Of Madden" has been duly or
ganized and will give a splendid ac-
count of itsolf in a few weeks. AS
press agents they Will send up to
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-06-19
His SLIM Said "a

Ono evening at o'clock a man
with wife and II children. many Of
them grown up. appeared at the en-.
trance to an entertainment hall
bought two ::Ckets and demanded that
the entire family should be admitted
The doorkeeper declined to admit
the family with two tickets only. "
But all rthese are my children, -
said the man
"of course" said tho doorkeeper:
"but some OF them arc too old to be
admitted free"
TO" old? What's that to do with
1t? bont II say on your bills that
children under IL are admitted free
with parents?"
Yes"
We'll. I've only got II children.
and II IL children aren't under ~ I'm
beat."-Evorybody's Weekly.
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:. rrotractcd Services.

Shealy has announced
that a protracted revival meeting will
be held in the Second Baptist church,
beginning Sunday evening. The SER
mons VIII be preached by Rev. Mr..
Shealy himself who has but recently
been pastor OF the church. Special
music Will be on the program every
evening and the public is cordially in
yited to attend.
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Railroad Visitor.

Mr.. w. b. Gresham, representing
the Passenger department of the Sea
board railway, was in the city Thurs
day. Mr.. Gresham is on publicity"
trip in this section, working up the
summer rate tickets to Wrightsville
Beach. The railroad has put on n
rate of $3.50, round trip from Clin-
ton, with limit of ten days at the
resort.