Evening star., 1933-09-10

recovery movement were piling in
orders for tons and tons Of printed
matter to meet the needs Of their work.
1t became Immediately apparent that
paper stock must be shipped in at .
greatly accelerated rate. So carefully
organized Is the printing office that
whole forests Immediately began TO
move toward Washington in the form
OF paper. During six weeks period
2l4 carloads Of paper were received.
Five carloads were consumed q day.
No branch of the recovery movement
moves leisurely. The need to swing
every battery into action against the
forces Of depression has been vital The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
was under no greater pressure for haste
than the United States Employment
Service or the Farm Credit Admins
tration. The Federal Home Loan Bank
Board and the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration, the Federal Coordination of
Transportation and the Federal Emer-
gency Relief are in as great hurry as
the Tennessee Valley Authority the
Public Works Administration and the
Civilian Conservation Corps. The ofIicials
in charge of all of these agencies de-
scended simultaneously on the Govern
ment Printing Of1ice with demands for
instant service.
Magnificent Cooperation.
Within a brief period orders included
30, l9l ,265 blank forms, 1885, ,040 PAM
phlets, 1,225, ,450 envelopes, 2,8l7,5
letterheads, 544,268 miscellaneous ruled
sheets, blank books, posters-some in
color-folders, charts and tags, and ST.
6l9 900 postal cards. cards for tabulating
and the like. In the first rush of work
l49, ,783,423 pieces of printed matter
were produced and l8,495,8l5 OF them
were mailed out of Washington. Some
'of the matter was sent by airmail
The public printer turned to the work
nearly all Of the 19l presses and. at
times, as many as 81 presses were at
work on a single job. For example.
AZ 0O0, 900 copies of the consumer
statement of cooperation had to DE
turned out in record time to insure
early mastering in of the people Of the
country controlling the purchasing
power.
Meantime, the regular work OF the
Government Printing Office had to pro-
ceed without interruption. Even Delore
this national recovery job was unloaoeo'
the printery was doing the biggest rou-
tine printing work in the country: every
day some 100000 regular postal caros
were pTlnLeu, pdCAcu dio SiiAPfSN' 80
the production of postal money order
books had to be maintained at the
normal rate Six dailies. nine Weekiles
and sixty monthly Government publ
cations continued to come from tns
presses on time. Book work in hand in
cluded the $50 900 edition of the Agrlcui-
tural Yearbook and 1861 copies OF the
new Postal Guide The printing OF pat
ents was in hand and also the perma--
nent edition of the Congressional
Record.
An instant effect Of the N r. A. pro-
gram was to add to the number OF
Jobs at the Government Printing Once
and in the paper mills, but OF greater
importance was the production OF TINS
material. which made possible the
throwing of the whole country INTO
high gear with the least possible de-
lay. That meant the early emploS-
ment of millions all over the country.
If there is any place at Washington
where the Blue Eagle has been Tapping
energetic wings it has been at the Gov
ernment Printing Office.