The Dolores star., 1916-05-26
AN AUTOMATIC BooKKEEpER.
rosgh's Aiding Ssbtractins Machine
to Keep Books.

rosgh's Adding Ssbtrsetina Machine
to Keep Books.
A real mechanical marvel is the new
pkkeeping machine that has just been
4nstalled at J. J. Harris & Co. q bank.
The machine is the Burroughs Adding
Subtracting Model and will greatly
simplify the work of keeping the
banks books.
One should see this Burroughs in op-
GRAFTON to fully appreciate what q
wonderful thing it is. 1t automatically
prints dates, subtracts checks, adds
deposits and computes new balances,
all in one movement of the carriage
across the page, and with a speed that
seems incredible. That is to say, the
machine not only posts figures to the
ledger page, but computes balances
automatically as the posting is done.
ERROR-PROOF "STEEL BRAINS
And this automatic bookkeeper can't
make a mistake. His ''steel brains"
are mathematically error-proof De-
pressing the keys puts figures into"
the Burroughs. Touching bar adds
or subtracts the figures and prints them
in even rows. And no matter how fast
or how long you feed figures into it,
the machine never gets tired, never
lets error creep in through brain fag."
1t has just as lively an appetite for
large numbers as it has for small. AS
depositors you might deposit SIC, 900, 600
tomorrow, but the machine would not
have to exert itself to enter the amount,
add your old balance, subtract your
checks and automatically compute the
correct new balance of your account.
The only time it balks is when you
have an overdraft. Then it warns the
operator. by the simple expedient of
refusing to figure any more withou.
the t.subtract" lever is held down, that
your account is overydrawn, and there
upon proceeds to print a red "OD"
signal opposite the amount you need to
get square with the bank.
Heretofore, in posting to the ledger
it was necessary for list of checks
and deposits to be entered by hand in
order for the bank to properly debit
and credit each customers account
The bookkeepers had to add each list
0f -thecks mentaily, also had4to-add
all deposits and combine their total
with the customers old balance. When
that was done, the total of all the
checks had to be deducted from the
sum of old balance and deposits to deter
mine the new balance. With the ma
chine all this is accomplished automat-
ically and without any mental calcula-
tion whatever. The operator has only
to depress the proper keys and touch
the operating bar.
Burroughs-posted ledgers have many
advantages that even person who is
not familiar with bookkeeping will
recognize. As explained all figuring is
handled mechanically, the operator be-
ing obliged only to watch the amounts
he is entering.
Then, in addition to the speed and
economy such method affords, there
is the infallible accuracy accruing to
the use of the machine. The preci-
sion with which the internal mechanism
operates insures an exactitude hereto
fore unknown in figure work.
The adaptability of the new machine
is another feature of its usefulness.
1t can be adjusted to an infinite number
of combinations. 1t may be used as
an ordinary adding machine, or as
straight subtracting machine. 1t may
be used for posting to the ledger or
making out depositors' statements.
And figures, whether simple or compli-
Gated. are gobbled up and digested
with equal facility" by the Unsuitable
appetite of its mechanical works.
There is no human being who can list
and add long column of figures at the
same time with speed and with absolute
accuracy, but the Burroughs does it.
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Senator Dunlap strawberry plants.
Inquire of Jack Riddle.
Wanted-Clothes to clean, mend and