Evening star., 1927-08-28

ing to an end of the fiscal year
/ i survey in Uncle Sans largest
industrial plant - the Bureau
of Engraving and Prlntlng. 49,,
The honor system" OF service mas
been put in operation.
Here is the record: More and better
work was done, with fewer employees
who received increased compensation,
in smaller working space per unit,
thus avoiding extensive and expensive
building expansion, with a smaller
bulk of improved supplies and greater
safeguards for the workers.
This was done with an actual money
saving of approximately 81 100000 for
the fiscal year just closed in the oper.
alton Of this one plant, whose total
expenditures for the year were ap-
proximately $1O,3S9, ,S00-nearly a 10
per cent saving.
Although the changes in operating
methods have had the effect of reduc'
ing the personnel of the bureau, these
changes were made gradually. permit
ting the administration to utilize the
services of all surplus employees IN any
division to fill the vacancies that have
occurred through deaths, designations
and retirements.
The increases in compensation
granted to employees by. promotion IN
the past two years have amounted to
$433,287. This will be an added an
nual expenditure.
The million dollar saving that has
been effected will continue every year
hereafter, because the improved meth
ods have been installed. AS matter
Of fact, other new processes are now
being studied and tested out and Will
result in still further very large saw
ings throughout future years.
THE decision to reduce the size OF
paper money, announced by the
Treasury Department, cuts the dimen.
sions of the notes about one-third, and
Secretary Mellon says the new issues
will have better wearing qualities.
This alone means a large saving.
The normal increase in the popula.
ton and wealth of this country, how
ever, has resulted in a constantly
growing demand for currency, which
has reached such proportions as to
make the matter of replacement Sc
rious problem. The increase in this
demand for currency is perhaps bes,
| illustrated by the delivery figures OF
| the bureau. In 1917 it delivered 12S,
| 672 ,045 sheets Of currency; in 1920 II
delivered 1853 ,Ss0,74s sheets: III 1856 1886
sheets in 1923; 1881 $40 sheets ir
| 1924; 206, ,059 ,563 sheets in 1925 and
227,566, ,949 sheets in 1925. This nor
NAL increase in the demand for cur
rency would, within the very near fu
ture, force the bureau to obtain add
| tional manufacturing equipment and
| build a large extension to the plant.
| The Introduction Of the new size cur
rency will solve the production diff
culties Of the bureau, for the reason
| that, the size being reduced by about
| one third. or in other words, II sub
| jects to plate instead of 8, each
| printing operation will produce so pei
cent more notes. For the same reason
storage facilities in the bureau anC
vault space in the Treasury and Fed
eral Reserve banks will then be ade
quate to accommodate the bureau:
output.
1t is through such readjustment:
and efficiency methods that the bureau
is getting a much larger production
| without a corresponding increase il
the cost Of operation.
| At the same time equal care Is be
ing taken regarding the health an
comfort of the employees. The ny
gienic division is supervised by
. physician, VINO, with four gradual
nurses. attends to the needs Of en-
ployes and administers medical treat
ment. This division is most liberall
equipped with the most modern hos
pital facilities. About 5S,1l6 patient
are treated annually, or an averag
Of 1855 employees a day. Tho nurse
of this organization also visit tn
homes of sick employees. and in tn
fiscal year just closed 2,344 calls G
this character were made.
The employees, through their ow
organization, the Bureau Cooperativ
| Lunch Association, operate a larg