bureau are the means, as stated above, by which the bureau accomplishes its work. It is highly important that it be continued, and it is believed that its publication is authorized by Congress in the general provision in the organic act establishing the bureau, approved March 3, 1901. Its publication is essential to properly carry on the functions of the bureau. To use a rough comparison, the list of publications is believed to be as important in connection with the work of the bureau as the publication of the telephone directory is to the telephone company, or the publication of a time-table to the Railroad Administration. It is not a periodical, but rather an essential guide to the records which are needed in industrial and technical work. QUARTERLY SUPPLEMENT TO BIENNIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 1. Name of publication: Quarterly Supplement to Biennial List of Publications. 2. How often issued: Quarterly. 3. Issuing bureau: Standards. 4. Authority for publication, stating whether specifically authorized by Congress (cite authority): The organic act (Supp. Rev. Stat., p. 1813, sec. 5), approved March 3, 1901, establishing the Bureau of Standards gives authority to the director of the bureau to "issue when necessary bulletins for public distribution containing such information as may be of value to the public or facilitate the bureau in the exercise of its functions." 5. Date of first issue: April, 1919, in new form. 6. Where printed: Government Printing Office. 7. Number of copies of last issue printed: 2,500. 8. How distributed: To administrative officers of technical institutions and others concerned with the work of the bureau, and on request to specialists. The aim is to economize and use to the best advantage the very limited free editions which the bureau is able to issue of its technical publications. These publications are the means by which the bureau carries on its work. They are not something superadded to its work, but the mechanism by which that work is done. This supplement saves the cost of frequently revising and sending out the whole list. 9. Annual receipts from subscriptions, if any: None. 10. Annual expense of printing and issuing: Estimated amount (if actual amount is not known), $100 annually ($25 each issue). 11. Annual cost of preparing publication for printing, including salaries, wages, materials, and other expenses properly chargeable to editorial and other work in connection with its preparation, other than that reported under preceding item: No record. 12. Total annual cost of publication, including the two preceding items: No record. 13. If publication is not printed at Government Printing Office, is it" urgent or necessary " to have it done "elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District," as provided for in paragraph 3 of section 11? If so, submit reasons and recommendations therefor: Printed at Government Printing Office. 14. Is publication a duplication, in whole or in part, of any other Government publication, or does it relate to work which some other branch of the Government service has undertaken or is authorized by law to perform? If so, state reasons therefor: This supplement merely gives the numbers of publications which are not available for free distribution or which may be obtained by purchase from the Superintendent of Documents. This information saves a large amount of letter writing, which otherwise would be required and would have to be repeated many times each day. The publications of the bureau are the means by which the bureau accomplishes its work. It is highly important that it be continued, and it is believed that its publication is authorized by Congress in the general provision in the organic act establishing the bureau, approved March 3, 1901. Its publication is essential to properly carry on the functions of the bureau. It is not a periodical, but rather an essential guide to the records which are needed daily in industrial and technical work. And, moreover, the bureau list gives (what the department list does not give) a list of the United States depository libraries; where the publications of the bureau that are not in print or otherwise available, may be consulted. This list also economizes the actual distribution of the publications themselves. 15. Submit reasons and recommendations, if any, for continuance of publication until the close of the next regular session of Congress, if not specifically authorized by Congress: Continuance of publication recommended. The bureau list gives a sufficient explicit description of a publication to enable a specialist to decide whether or not the publication would be of any service in a special case. In this wav economy in the distribution of the bureau's publications is effected. The department list gives only a brief abstract, entirely inadequate for this purpose. STEAMBOAT-INSPECTION SERVICE BULLETIN. 1. Name of publication: Steamboat-Inspection Service Bulletin. 2. How often issued: Monthly. 3. Issuing bureau: Steamboat-Inspection Service. 4. Authority for publication, stating whether specifically authorized by Congress (cite authority): Section 4461, Revised Statutes. No specific authority. 5. Date of first issue: November 1, 1915. 6. Where printed: Government Printing Office. 7. Number of copies of last issue printed: 2,700. 8. How distributed: For official use, 900 copies; for free public distribution, 1,800 copies; by subscriptions, no copies. 9. Annual receipts from subscriptions, if any: None. 10. Annual expense of printing and issuing: Actual amount, $138.02. 11. Annual cost of preparing publication for printing, including salaries, wages, materials, and other expenses properly chargeable to editorial and other work in connection with its preparation, other than that reported under preceding item: No record. 12. Total annual cost of publication, including the two preceding items: No record. 13. If publication is not printed at Government Printing Office, is it "urgent or necessary" to have it done "elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District," as provided for in paragraph 3 of section 11? If so, submit reasons and recommendations therefor: Printed at Government Printing Office. 14. Is publication a duplication, in whole or in part, of any other Government publication, or does it relate to work which some other branch of the Government service has undertaken or is authorized by law to perform? If so, state reasons therefor: Neither, except that "Accidents to vessels under the jurisdiction of the SteamboatInspection Service." reported monthly in the Bulletin, are included in the Annual Report of the Supervising Inspector General. 15. Submit reasons and recommendations, if any, for continuance of publication until the close of the next regular session of Congress, if not specifically authorized by Congress: Continuance of publication is recommended. It is important that inspectors of the Steamboat-Inspection Service, steamboat companies, and others interested be informed of the matter contained in the Bulletin. JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, United States Capitol. DEAR SIRS: In compliance with section 11 of the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, authority is. requested to continue until the close of the next regular session of Congress the printing of periodicals and publications in the places. they are now being printed, as follows: AMERICANIZATION. Published monthly, printed at the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at a cost per issue of 20,000 copies per month of $340.88. This publication is absolutely essential to the plans of the Americanization Division of the Bureau of Education. The work of this division must be carried on in 2,400 communities of the United States. which have a large alien population. The work is to be done by people in the schools, in the industries, and by committees within the communities, in order to arouse the people to the necessity of work among the foreign born, to show them how the work may be done. To give them the experience of other people and other communities, there must be some means of conveying a message of inspiration and instruction to these widely scattered people frequently. No more effective nor a more economical way could be devised than through this publication. Thousands of communities, industries, and individual workers are looking to this publication monthly for instruction and guidance in their work. To discontinue it would mean an entire loss of contact in the work with these foreigners. A copy of Americanization is inclosed. THE SUN DIAL. Published at intervals by St. Elizabeths Hospital in the interest of the patients and employees of the hospital; printed at the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at a cost per issue of 1,000 copies of $53.74. The publication of this periodical is considered of vast importance in assisting in carrying out the functions of this institution. It is believed that the enlightening curative treatment of the insane includes the most advanced curative treatment that it is possible to give these patients, included in which is the printing and circulation of this periodical, through whose columns the patients may be reached and given information of therapeutic value. In addition to the foregoing, this journal is used as a means of communication between the office and the employees and the office and the patients. It is very convenient when there is information of general value to transmit to patients and employees to publish same in this journal, calling their attention to anything of note, instructing them in the proper course to pursue, and advising them of what may be for their good. It is believed that the number that have been published have been the means of doing a great deal for the patients and employees. If the printing of this publication is stopped, it will prove a loss that will be difficult to replace. A copy of The Sun Dial is inclosed. ALASKA RAILROAD RECORD. Published weekly at Anchorage, Alaska, by the Alaskan Engineering Commission; printed at Anchorage at a cost of $29 per issue of 1,200 copies, in the interests of the officials and employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission. This paper is furnished free to United States Government departments, representatives of foreign Governments, public libraries, and employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission. Subscription price, $1.50 per year and 50 cents additional per year to foreign countries. This paper is published in the interest of the Government railroad in Alaska and contains weekly reports of the progress of the work in all divisions, and gives not only to employees but to the public at large an idea of the progress and operations of the work going on along the Government railroad. To have this paper printed at any other point than Anchorage, Alaska, which is the headquarters of the construction work, would undoubtedly cause great inconvenience. The items of interest printed therein would be somewhat delayed in going to the place and much inconvenience would be experienced in getting the items together for publication, particularly if the paper were printed in the United States. This would virtually defeat the purpose of the publication. A copy of the Alaska Railroad Record is inclosed. Authority is also requested to have other miscellaneous printing for the Alaskan Engineering Commission continued at Seattle, Wash., for near-by points on the Pacific coast, until the close of the next regular session of Congress. Up to January 1, 1917, all the printing of the commission was done at the Government Printing Office, but owing to the great delay in the delivery of work, the additional cost of shipping the completed work across the country to Seattle, all of the commission's forms being used in Alaska where the Government railroad is being constructed, it was deemed advisable to have the printing done at Seattle, where the office of the general purchasing agent is located. This has resulted in a great saving of time and labor. Prior to January 1, 1917, the field offices of the commission in Alaska, forwarded their printing requisitions to the purchasing agent at Seattle, who in turn placed the requisitions with the Washington office of the commission, that office making out separate requisitions for each form ordered which were placed in the hands of the publication di |