The Washington times., 1919-10-01
Ninety-Five Million Stamps
a Day
a Day
By EARL GOODWIN.
And Eash On Mads with A Smile.


little boy being taken through the great workinr
rooms Of the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing and af
two or three hours Of interesting experience he turned to
his mother and asked:
Do these people at the machine have to PAY to work
Ihere3''
That the impression the child received and It
would not be surprising if large part Of the impression
came from the fact that scarcely anyone ever visits the b
engraving plant without carrying away the idea that tie
men and at work on the big lob Of supplying
hundred million people with stamps money and bonds are
HAPPY
remember when first went into the factory district
of Connecticut twenty years ago. My feeling was one Of
depression 1t wasn't the noise Of machinery; it wasn the
smoke the brick factory wallis because the faces
of the workers were drawn tight the smiles had gone and
on the lips doWngrade expression exactly the opDo-
site Of that the faces Of the and the little
boy saw at the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing
There today 500 employees in the Bureau The
experts there being the tOpnotches their class They DO
the biggest job Of its kind earth. No other group Of
printers and engravers turn ont such good or So much
work No other group Of employees their class are held to-
high standard in both quantity and quality. and yet
I'll defy any human being earththe cynical the
betertO go through that plant and find happier looking
working community.
There is something inexpressibly glorious in being
happy the job The smiling workman is going to Be the
salvation Of America, and apprentices at happiness could
well take under James Wilmeth director Of the
Bureau.
In the navy there is an Institution known as shappY
ship From stem to stern, cook, cabin boy, blueaes
team The ship goes faster It is cleaner Il fights better
and shoots STaigiter and THAT'S IS one ercuss fOr
HVing.
No one ever saw happy lounge lizard corner l0aeF.
The man who works is happies and the empoye who IS
happy because he works and carries his happiness into his
work is better of than any king.
The Bureau Of Engraving and Printing turned ont Two
million two hundred and fifty thousand notes of al kinds
yesterdays also nnety-fve million stamps Of al dsnona-
tions In addition It turned out bales Of United Sss
bonds and lot Of little odd jobs that would take folks
month to accomplish It win DO the thing toT and
tomorrow and the next day, and II did the ting only
more Of Il, all during the
In all the war period, with everything at mhsaEd 81
pressure It didn't lose enough to worry flea, only
sheet Of stamps being unaccOUnted for IN al the snoE
stamp product for two years. The accounting for the
minute details Of the Bureaus Job would be enough to vs
some entire communities socalste headache which would
be large pain shared equally BY all But that old happy
smile pervades the Of plate printers and sheet
ters alike.
Washington should be proud Of that big pant-and It
is It is prOuder however Of the spirit the Bureau employees
show They fight for what they believe is right and thereby
show considerable force and initiative. the director
ried to put something over, he would know BY $50
that morning he had Of the fights Of his life on his
hands. However the fights are not the rule