The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-20
~ ERNEST MORTON BEST,
Editor Typewriter Topics, tho Interna.
tiondl OJfce Equipment Mdodxtne

Editor Typewriter Toptcs, tho Inferno
tiondl Ofttce Equipment Magazine.
In review OF present conditions in
the Office equipment industry I make the
unqualified statement that only favorable
reports come to us in our capacity of
trade organ publishers and then proceed
to prove the condition through the ex-
perience OF practically everybody who
peruses these lines
Judge that nearly all who read this
SUNDAY Sun compilation use some form
OF time and labor saving business device
In pursuit OF their daily tasks. Tyne,
writer's are as much a part OF every
business off1ce as the boss himself. There
IL just as much necessity for desks and
other articles OF furniture II there Is a
proprietor or manager in the Office. II
there Is even the slightest activity some
kind of filing system Is required; the
greater the business the greater the
number of devices such as adding and
calculating machines, stamp affixers and
daters addressing machines. check pro
tectors. duplicators. &c.
Every business man in America will
testify to the difficulty of securing all he
wanted during the war In the way OF
ONCE equipment Governmental depart
ments Of our own and friendly nations
had the first call. and permit me to say,
through the various war service commit
tees our industry contributed in no I'M
certain manner to the winning of the
war. The supplying OF goods in this
direction greatly restricted deliveries TO
commercial houses both at home and
abroad. Themselves shorthanded by de-
pleted forces IN factories, the output OF
Office equipment manufacturers was be-
low normal at n time when such time
| and labor saving devices meant more
than ever before. Machinery In business
was more fully dpreciated as essential
than would have yeen possible TO demon
| strate under other circumstances
Because of this latter fact. together
with the inability for a considerable time
to secure much needed Office equipment
to keep pace with natural expansion,
business houses are now buying heavily
| or typewriters, linked ribbons, carbon
paper and other supplies, with the result
| that very active conditions now prevail
| In our industry Standard prices have
always prevailed in our business. prob
ably to greater degree than in many
! others. and there is not the slightest in
dication that reductions will be made
material and labor costs point more to
higher rather than to lower prices upon
office devices, supplies and stationery,
AS indicated in the beginning. the In
| divtdual demands to-day OF most OF your
readers Is a fair demonstration OF what
IL just now taking place in the Office
equipment industry, to which may be
added the gratifying fact that America
Is very rapidly being recognized by for
eign countries as the home OF labor saw
Ing office devices and systems. In my
twenty years connection with the bust
ness l have never known such interest
as is now manifest in the United States
as source Of supply for typewriters
adding machines. Office furniture. sta.
tionery and the many other articles
which make up the products of the office
equipment industry. Export prospects
alone indicate highly prosperous condi.
ton for some time to come.