The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-11

/ Finally, In the year OF 1861 the
! government became proprietor OF
/ the government printing office
| which was set up under the act OF
| June 20, 1860. The first building
/ now known as the "old building" OF
the present printing office group
was purchased from Cornelius Wen
doIl President Lincoln appointed
John d. Defroes OF Indiana, tho first
public printer and he took office
March 20, 1861, as tho clouds OF war
were gathering over the republic In
more than sixty years which have
luterVened between that time and
the present day, when the world =
greatest printing plant is turning
out the hugo volume OF work re-
qulrod by tho government depart
! mcnts and congress-, under the able
direction OF George Il. Carter of
Iowa, a truly great Institution has
grown up on the site on part OF
| which once stood only the unpre-
80 Period Gals Printed
Nearly all the matter printed in
the government printing office IS ia
miilar to man, woman and child
everywhere. but not so with the
quantity turned out, nor some few Of
the items printed, The plant prints
more than fifty daily weekly, and
monthly reports, journals and mag
uZlnes Issued by the government. The
Monthly Labor Review, for instance,
has as many as 230 pages TO a
single Issue. Others, as the Weekly
weather, Crops and Market Report,
VIII encompass an edition OF 10000
copies.
The variety OF work handled by
the government printing office is OK
traordinary. II Is called upoA in the
course OF year to handle as many
as SIS, 200 different Jobs on 1852 press
es The government printing office
differs vastly from a privately oper-
ated printing plant of great output.
The private shop might be able TO
employ year for getting out, say.
large mall-order CatalOg. But
within the same period the dlvers.
iled nature OF the governments work
means thousands of different Jobs
Eiyen To tho government printing
office,
The owner Of a private plant not
long ago tried TO persuade high Ii
oials OF the government that the
United states printing plant could be
run much more economically. be-
cause his own plant. with an output
OF nearly Sl3,Q00,000 year, got
along with about two thousand en-
ployes less than the government
printing office, IL took considerable
explaining on the part OF the public
printer TO convince officials that
there Is vast difference between the
printing Of an encyclopedia where
the job may he tho object Of con-
centratlon and equal distribution
over long period and the work Of
the government printing office
which must be prepared 70 assume
NO any time n peak load OF work
The private plant whose owner COM
pared 10 20 the national print shop
has. by the way, alne linotypes or
type-setting machines, Is monotype
6eybuards and 10 casters, The gov
or1meut printing office has "a SLUG
casting machines, 100 mouotype key
boards and les casters
Although II has been said that
some OF the presses date back TO the
time when short skirts were con-
fined 20 the chorus Il Is wrong 20
think the government printing is AT
all behind the times in It's equip
ment, Among It's l53 presses are
some which turn out four-color
work. Besides the Congressional
Record, which Is printed on two S2s
and one 6i-page web, the pressworll
is done on y rotary webs 50 flat
beds and a score or more OF latest
model automatic presses. Ninety
four presses are automatically fed.
2,tb2, 100000 Impressions in Year.
The presses were credited with
more than 2,l52,000,O00 single inn
prcssious last year. From the fact
that most Of them are kept hum
ming Tor l6 hours a day throughout
tho year, II may be seen that there
are few dun moments in the printing
pla 81; OF the government. Runs vary
from few copies up 10 10000. 600
money order blanks, or on a single
Job, the plant prints nearly enough
single pieces Of printing to give two
copies OF the finished product 20
every man, woman and child In the
United states a1d its possessions, in
cluding the three-mile limit.
Current publications include four
dailies, 90 weeklies and 20 month
les, IN addition 20 regular quarterly
semiannual and yearly reports which