The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-08
BUSINESS SHOW REVELATION TO
 OFFICE STATES
Time And Money-Saving Equipment Show In
 Old Post Office

 in the science of doing business are forcefully demonstrated in the third . annual business show of the Birming- ham Office Equipment association, which opened Thursday in the old post office building.
 Check writing machines that oper- ate by electricity, electric adding and subtracting machines, steel desks, pam eled and trimmed with brass and pat termed in attractive colonial design 1; steel filing equipments with heavily loaded drawers that have shot out and in, electrically driven for a million and . half times without impairing their perfect mechanism the last word in typewriters and billing machines and calculating machines-al these and a hundred other modern appliances and ingenious developments are demon- strated in this interesting exposition.
 Stationers *E
 Roberts & Sons, Dewberry & Mont gomAry Stationery company, the Office Outfitters, Fac Smith Stationery com pany, the Alabama Printing company, and many of the national manufac- turers whose products these Birming- ham establishments sell, as well as many companies having direct branches in Birmingham for distribution, are represented.
 The Office Outfitters company is . making use of the unique demonstra- tion that has been attracting atten- tion as window display-a desk with office equipment 125 years old, as compared to a modern up-to-the-min. ute office, This company is featur- ing Art Metal equipment-steel desks artistically patterned, steel safes, steel shelving and other equipment of this character. The company also is dem strating the Irving-Pitt machine post ing ledger equipment.
 Filing Equipment
 The Zac Smith Stationery company is exhibiting the G-F all-steel filing equipment, steel lockers, Sykes chairs. the Royal typewriter, Rotary Neostyle machines and supplies and other de- tails of office supplies, office furniture and the product of its printing and en- graving departments.
 Roberts & Sons are featuring in their booth the Globe e-Wernicke office equipment, including the visible in- dex method; the Wilson-Jones de luxe loose leaf system; Standard desks, Marble & Shattuck chairs and the 4 Dick mimeograph. H. l.. Frater, rep resentative of the Wilson-Jones Loose leaf company of Chicago, is on hand to demonstrate his company's prod ucts, and Charles Hucke of Cincin- natl, district representative of the Globe -Wernicke company. is aiding in the demonstration of his company's wares.
 New Desks
 L,.l,a nfT safes, wood filing cabinets, steel fill ing cabinets, transfer cases, filing sys- tems, card systems and office tables, are being featured at the booth of the Dewberry X Montgomery Stationery company. ill addition to the Dietz desks, Milwaukee chairs and security cabinets. The '. X E. efficiency desk, which makes it possible for all impor- tant data to be neatly and systemati- cally filed away in various drawers, is : attracting attention at this booth. The Alabama Printing company is demonstra ting Shaw-Walker filing de- vices iu wood and steel and supplies for all makes of files. < The Shaw Walker steel transfer cases and port able steel vault are also being featured. This Company engages in the sale of office equipment as an adjunct of its extensive commerciul printing busi- ness.
 Card Index
 Kardex--"the worlds leading card record' is its motto--has an exhibit under the personal direction of NJ. A. Davidson, district manager here. Kar- de4 is visible card index system which can be used effectively in sales follow up departments, stock control nP 0th hpySi hyov oy,A xx,hs hsnh may he adapted for use by many, lines.
 Barney rStapert, one of the worlds champion typists, is attending the busi- ness show as representative of the Underwood Typewriter company, and will give speed demonstrations at the Underwood booth every day from 12 until ? p. m. Stapert's record is 1S9 net words per minute, which is just below the world championship record held by Albert Tangora, who was here at the business show last year but is now demonstrating for the Underwood company in Cuba. The Underwood booth is displaying the standard, port able, billing and bookkeeping machines.
 DictaphOnes
 The Dictaphone company's booth Is showing as a speciality a new multiple machine by means of which six typ ists may transcribe while one record is on. This appliance is being used in business colleges and the commer- cial departments of high schools and colleges. E. R, Smith, district man. ager, and k. NJ Brown, division man. ager, of Atlanta, are in charge of the Dictaphone display.
 The Todd Photectograph company is displaying its new electrically operated check protecting machine, and it's new models of the hand-operated kind, and is also featuring its Protod-G -Greenbak forgery proof check paper, which flashes out the word "void" repeated many times, if any attempt is made to use chemicals or ink removers in order to after a check written on it.
 The Remington Typewriter com