Evening star., 1927-08-28

| cafeteria in the bureau, where more
| than 5000 employees are accommo-
| dated with meals daily. The business
| of this lunch association is conducted
| by an executive committee and joint
| board selected by the employees at
annual. elections and by "a . manager
| employed by the association The
cafeteria is operated solely. in the in
| terest of all employees and not for
| profit. All food is sold practically at
| cost.
| A MONG the many improvements in
"A troduced within the last two
| years for promoting efficiency and
economy in the operation of the big
| plant which have contributed to the
million-dollar saving during the fiscal
| year 1927, just closed, are these:
Revised the method of overprinting
| national bank currency by arranging
| for the printing of both the seals and
| numbers on these notes in one opera
| ton instead of two and for elimira-
ton of the use of the Treasury serial
numbers from the face of this class
of currency. These changes have re-
| suited in an annual saving of about
| $45 900. -a...
Discontinued the examination of
| United States currency after the
| trimming process, thereby saving ap-
proximately $65,000 a year.
Installation of the intaglio rotary
| Webb presses was completed for the
printing of postage stamps, reducing
| the cost of production and saving the
Post Office Department 100000 for
| stamps.
By recovering and regrinding waste
| inks and exercising greater care in
| the issuance of inks. a big reduction
| in the quantity of ink used has been
| effected, saving the bureau about $751;.
| 600.
Installed automatic feeders on the
| machines used in the operation of siZ.
ing of currency sheets and made other
| changes in this operation that effected
| an annual saving of more than $25, ,000
| The discontinuance of Woolen blan-
| keting as rigging for printing rollers
| and the substitution of a rigging COM
posed of a double-faced rubber drill
and tag board will save the bureau an.
nually about $105,000.
Increased the production Of electro
lytic plates and extended their use.
| thereby reducing the quantity of
plates produced by the transfer meth
| cd, and effected a saving in engraving
| cost of approximately $125.000.
| introduced several changes in the
examination of printed currency
| sheets that have had the effect of re-
ducing the bureaus spoilage on cur
rency work to less than per cent,
which is the lowest percentage of
spoilage on record. These changes
saved more than 100000 sheets of
distinctive fiber paper in the fiscal
year 1927, and the work performed on
! these sheets, which under the old
| method would have been destroyed, re.
suited in a money saving of more
than 100000.
| Through a Encouragement of the
flow of work and revision OF related
methods and organization the produc-
ton in numbering and sealing United
States and Federal Reserve currency
was increased, thereby reducing the
cost of operations annually 100000.
Changed the platter pressing opera
ton from four to an eight subject
Sheet basis, affecting reduction in
cost Of an annual saving to the bu-
reau of about $4,000.
| n X X
i AN employe was going through
"a some paper mills in New England
during his vacation last summer. He
noted that in an operation, sheets OF
metal were placed so many sheets
. apart in the pile before the pressing
operation. Heretofore. at the bureau
the larger sheets could not be used
, because they would wrinkle. Special
metal sheets were then made for the
bureau and tried out with entirely
satisfactory results. This one little
; device brought about a leo per cent
, increase in production on that one
} operation, with a related saving or
other operations, such as counting the
sheets.
| Accounting control was set up over
; all materials In the stock OF the bu
, reAA with the object Of establishing