The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-11
Greatest Printing Shop Run by Uncle Sam

/ make the output OF the publication
| part OF the printing Offices work
/ sound like the report OF the pub
| lcatiols distributed TO by a pros
! porous correspondent. The number
| OF copies OF publications vary from
| IS to 235 900, which figure. however.
I does not include all the copies a new
member OF congress might like TO
forward OF maiden effort on the
rostrum.
There is the huge amount OF postal
| work printed by tho government
printing flee, which pri ats more
than 100000 900 postal cards annu-
ally. Mr.. Carter VIII tell you that
me number Of money orders issued
constitutes a good indication Of the
state OF business Of the country
From the number printed and put
INTO use. taking into consideration
the fact that each money order
means transfer of a sum OF money
approNlmating a couple OF dollars,
one is readily inclined 70 agree with
the public printer on this score, on
the announCemcl OF the number OF
money orders printed. The total is
$50 100000 money order blanks,
while 2O0,000,000 money order appli-
cation slips are likewise put out.
Record Costs $6O0,0 Year,
When IL comes TO the "dailies" to
which the government printing Of
lice may lay claim as a part OF It's
output, first and foremost, OF course.
there Is that one great daily pubIlca-
ton which thrives without advertls-
Ing and has a large clientele with
out having TO give away automobiles
or including in its daily lineup Of
features a woman's page or comic
drawinss--the Congressional Record.
This great magma vox" which car
r!es the words OF the "man from
home" from the halls Of the highest
legislative body back TO the Whisper
ing pines and waving wheat fields,
costs more than 100000 year.
The Congressional Record is pure
~ a morning publication and ia
meant for the breakfast table lust
1s Is the Post or other large morn
ing newspapers, according 10 the
schedule on which the printing of
flee prints Il. Nor does any city
editor keep his staff OF reporters
stepping more ginserly than does
Public Printer Carter the people who
tll the Record. IL is the law Of the
shop which may not be varied that
the Record must be delivered 10 each
member OF congress before breakfast
tbe.ore breakfast, perhaps to stimu-
late his appetlte). In the last year
The printing office missed mailing
the entire daily edition OF 32,700
copies before Z o'clock the next
morning less than a dozen times. be-
cause Mr.. Garter insisted on running
the Record on an absolute news
paper schedule. having been news
paper man and knowing what dead
70
tons,
Uncertainty About Getting Copy"
The printing office does not begin
to handle the copy for the Record
until the night force comes on at
o'clock, the daytime being entirely
devoted TO departmental work. Then
there Is an additional reason that a
congressman does most Of his talk
iug-for Record publ!Cation-during
the afternoon. and as congress does
not adjourn until after o'clock and
remains in session after
that hour Il is Ike betting on n pony
with an artificial leg TO determine
before hand just how long the copy
from the capitol will run when the
printing is in fun" The variance
may be from an issue OF 10 pages
with only 70 600 ems OF type up TO
ANN l'ANtN WIN hNFNNN ( lAaFf 4N44 AAAN
speeches which senators and repre-
sentatives forward 10 their Constitu-
onts 20 let them know how they have
risen IN the cause OF right and JUS
lice and anything else, for that mat l
ter, right In the halls Of congress, |
are printed in the government print /
Ing office. But the printing is not
done at public expense, but Is paid
for by the members themselves,
Printing Of bills, resolutions and /
a mend inents offered on the floor of /
congress during a year represents a [
cost of from $4,000 to 100000, 1
Specifications OF patents, trade
marks and the like, which are
printed, represent a printing cost OF
from $3S5,U00 to S45O,00O in a year.
The value OF printing OF money order
office forms and books increased
from $l06,90l In 1919 20 SS52,533
in the fiscal year OF 1871.
The government printing office