The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-13
Printers No Longer Use
Hit-and- Miss Plan Of
Of Estimates
WANT A FAIR PROFIT
Organization Teaches Esti-
mating of Producing Costs
ON Equitable Basis
ny HARVEY D. GropCs

uT luHN'u|. uHI.I bl.I. iu'N usual F.
Is utu t balance sufficient iu make
possible tine enjoyment of d ten.
cent cigar.
Tu.y "gucs.d" tholr labor was
worth H1 much tu hour. ana they
.H.. ..u. iuuN.r that fuo paper
they used .pruuug cost about
% certain figure. ADDING thc two
Iur.iuur They determined how uIIru
lu,. should charge tho customer
who bad fh,m print 1000 I,.rl
N,.JH aud 1000 envelopes. Iut
muat printers u those days dIa.
oo..iud tu tuyir disappointment ai
tu, end of tho year 'uit lhr profit
column ul their lcderrH lf they
hopt icdeors.-waR filod with
"guu.U.,pgs' ana that the loHa col.
uwu was uIlod with houcat-lo-Eood- To-
ur.s figures. IL they didn't keep
lodLcr4 they found tho uuth uf this
condition hy reference TO their bank
books which were usually woIl dec
fIpfod wi'f red Ink,
iut, liko most other Industries In
tho light of u moro modern CltIllld-
tiou aud general tendency toward
determining accurately tho cost ut
production, the printing industry ls
rapidly passing out OF the old state
ana onto a huslncssliko plano,
Printers are coming TO know def
lnltcly how much II costa them to
operate their establishments,
Exclusive Bank balance.
This change was started several
years ago whom BOmo owner OF "a
job printing shop looked sorrOwfully
at his bank balance Ut tho close OF
tho year and found thoro wasn't any
ouch thing. with now resolution,
no went 10 his office tho next morn
ing. determined 10 ascertain II rca-
sOnlbly accurate cost figure on
which no might buso his selling
price. lie got down his catalogs and
found tho prico OF blank paper, then
he figured his hourly cost OF opcr-
nting the plant. lie figured for a
few minutes, adding ana subtracting
and found tho reason why no had
no bank balance. Heretofore he
had failed TO include In cost OF pro-
duotion dozen different slemcnts
that should have been there,
Doubtless this follow was ono of
those leaders who holpcd organize
tho United Typothotae OF America,
of which tho Tulsa Typothotae Is n
member. Tho local organization Il
composed OF Tulsa job printers who
have emerged from tho rut OF guess
work and who are conducting theii
establishments along proven bust
ness methods. There are possibly
some prlnt-shops that nro not mem.
bors, but IL thero are, they are us
ing similar methods for conducting
their places aB are advised by th'
typothetae.
The United Typothctae or Amer.
lea was organized October Is, 1887
ana In July, 1919, was amalgamatcc
with the Bon Franklin clubs o
America ana then became known a.
the United Typuthctao and Bet
Franklin Clubs OF America, until OF
or about September /, l9l7, whci
tho namo was lawfully changed I,
the United Typothetae OF Americ,
and became II corporation under tn
membership corporation laws .
New York state.
Keep Members Posted.
Instead OF being an organization
10 control prices and fight labo
unions. Il Is, according To Guy {
McWilliams, secretary OF the Tuls
organization, an organization TO ed
ucate each other as 20 costs. As
result the standard cost system ha
been worked out that viii apply {
any size OF printing plant. Thi
system is distributed to the mem
hcrs. But nothing Is said as {
what prices a member shall charB
his customers,
The printers. through success
ful knowledge OF cost seem TO hay
easily and quietly and solved thei
problems. which have only been les
economically solved In other indus
trlos by consolidation In the forr
OF so-calcd trusts, McWillam
says
Tho purposes ot tho organization
as outlined 10y the national ottlcer'
are as follows:
TO encourage ana foster feel
ing OF friendship among printer
generally and in the trades allie
herewith,
To devise ways and means OF bet
tcriug conditions I'm the industry /
every proper and lawful manner
To encourage higher standards a
proficiency iu the printing husincs
aud especially in the creative fiel
OF he industry.
10 maintain just and equitahl
methods OF conducting the pulntuU
business among those cngaEod in d
70 strive 90 eliminate the evils a
ignorant and ruluuus competition b
Suhs,ltuuuU therefor iutclNrCu
methods OK operation hotWce
printers themselves and buyors q
printing.
no spread q wider knowledge ,
tho elements uf cost Oh tNr end tNu
competition may Dee honorable. lu.
and reasonable uud that buyers ,
printing may Doe fairly dealt with.
l. No pirtHtiuu.
TO never attempt 100 amy tim"
regulate the membership io tho maj
ter OF price.
TO maintain educational work d
conducting classes among ils men
h.vg i'm cost f.u..Hu. ,st|m4I.u