The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-03-19
AUTOMATIC BOOK
KEEPER INSTALLED
THE BANK OF DAWSON HAS A
NEW BURROUGHS ADDING
SUBTRACTING MACHINE.

A real mechanical marvel is the
new bookkeeping machine that has
just been installed at the Bank of
Dawson. The machine is the Bur-
roughs adding-subtracting model and
will greatly simplify the work of
keeping the banks books.
One should see this Burroughs in
operation to fully appreciate what a
wonderful thing it is. 1t automatical-
ly 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 bal
ances automatically as the posting is
done.
Error-proof "Steel Brains"
And this automatic bookkeeper
can't make mistakes. His "steel
brains" are automatically error
proof. Depressing the keys puts fig
ues "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 new
er gets tired, never let's errors creep
In through "brain fag." 1t has Just
as lively an appetite for large num-
bers as for small. AS a depositor YOU
might deposits $10,0O0,0OO tomor-
row, but the machine would not have
to exert itself to enter the amount,
add your balance, subtract your
checks and automatically compute
the correct new balance of your ac-
count. The only time it balks is
when you have an overdraft. Then
1t warns the operator, by simple ex-
pedient of refusing to figure any
more without the Subtract" lever is
held down, that your account is over
drawn, and thereupon proceeds to
print a red GOD" signal opposite the
amount you need to get square with
the bank
Heretofore, in posting to the led
ger it was necessary for a list of
checks and deposits to be entered by
hand in order for the bank to prop
erly debit and credit each customers
account. The bookkeepers had to add
each list of checks mentally, also
had to add all deposits and combine
their total with the customers old
balance. When that was done the to-
tai of all the checks had to be de-
Quoted from the sum of old balance
and deposits to determine the new
balance. With the machine all this
is accomplished automatically and
without any mental calculation what
ever. The operator has only to de-
press the proper keys and touch the
operating bar.
Burroughs-posted ledgers have
many advantages that even a person
who is not familiar with bookkeeping
Will recognize. AS explained, all fig
uring is handled mechanically, the
operator being obliged only to watch
the amounts he is entering.
Then, in addition to the speed and |
economy such a method affords. |
there is the infallible accuracy ac-
cruing to the use of the machine.
Ire precision with which the inter (
mai mechanism operates insures an
eXactitude heretofore unknown in fig |
ure work.
The adaptability of the new ma
chine is another feature of its useful /
ness. 1t can be adjusted to an in
finite 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 deposit
or's statements. And figures, wheth-
er simple or complicated, are gobbled
up and digested with equal facility
by the Unsuitable appetite of its me-
ch9nical works" There is no hu-
man 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. |