The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-07
The Printing Prize Medal at the
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Columbus Index
One of the most interesting items In the
at the Industrial College on
Tuesday morning, was the AWARDING Vi 'ns
,o,,l medal offered by Col. j. L. Power, OF
Jackson. for excellence in the printing de-
partment of the College. There were
thirty-eight competitors. Proofs OF their
work. as we'll as their daily record, were
admitted TO a committee consisting OF
Messrs. Hargrove and Evans OF the Ne"
Orleans Picautne, and Col. j. j. shannon,
al Meridian. The committee awarded the
medal to No. 26-Miss Callie Woods. oil
Kemper county. No. 3l-Miss johnnie
Mcfarland, OF Clarke county-being next
in order of merit, Mr.. Evans of the COM
mittee, stated that he would provide
special prize for her-a nickle plated COM
posing stick.
Col. Power, in presenting the medal
offered by him spoke substantially as ioi-
lows:
No Young Friend, and my other Friends !;
When a printing office was first suggested
as a feature of this College, and a medal
was offered for excellence therein, d1d
| not suppose. for moment, that | would
| h ave the honor and privilege of presenting
II. That pleasant duty presumed would
be discharged by your President, in man
ner that he only knows how. But as he
| appears to be very generous in the dlstrlbu
| ton OF his prerogatiye in that line, l beg
leave 10 thank him for the part assigned
TO me- He has added another to many
courtesies for which | am his debtor.
You have, my young friend, earned this
badge of honor by your promptness, your
diligence, your application, your skill
your deportment-qualities which, II cult
waited, combined and exhibited in You
future career, cannot fail to bring You thu
rewards of business and social success, dis
tinction aud happiness.
Printing is only one OF several accom-
plishments that yoa are acquiring in thi
noble institution but it is one that may b
of substantial use tc you in the coming
! years Ii is we'll, in this age as in ever.
other, that young people should start IL
lie with profession or trade. Paul, yo1
know, was a tent-maker; Benz Frankli
was a printer President Fillmore was
| weaver; President johnson was tailor
the Crown Prince of the German Empir
served brief apprenticeship at the art {
printing, and many of the greatest me
: and noblest women with whose lives We al
] familiar knew how to work with the han
i as we'll as think with the mind.
;, Printing has been very aptly styled ''tf
, art preventative of all arts" 1t migl
{ also be appropriately termed the art pr,
motive of all arts. This College is a ere
1, ton of the press, for it was the press tn;
gave expression to this grand thought
II "a Mississippi Woman"
e Printing has become one of the gre
ii industries of the world, and in this COUNT
z gives employment to about one hundrt
thousand persons, a goodly proportion
t ,uho - IL
At winning fame aud fortune as Journalist
oi aud hence the utility of this department
N the College.
80 Printing is also a progressive art. Fol
ID hundred and fifty years ago Faust al
Gutenberg invented movable and int
r. changeable types and matrices f
lt multiplying the same. To-day we ha'
L presses that print from twenty
D thirty thousand newspapers an ho
s from pages multiplied by electr
typing. | have here dimutive catalogl
It # the 81 newspapers printed on this con
te neut in l777. To-day there are more tn;
H. 10 1000 newspapers and magazines publish
IT in the United States, brief description
s which fills huge volume of thousal
pages.
3, The mechanical operation of typs-settil
J, is suggestive of few practical thoughts
lie LIST. You work by rule, and So as "
fill each 'stick" in the column of time,
the result be measured by that golden ru
of doing unto others you would ha
p others do unto you. On one side of ii
4 badge the shape Of composing rule h
At been engraved, on which your name will
he inserted.
ie I'd. Each line should be evenly and III
formly spaced and justified So let all yo
thoughts and words be so well considers
3 that every sentence and paragraph w
bear ''lifting."
lie Sd. Your proofs are read, that errc
n' may be detected and corrected. So shou
u your life be a proof sheet so clean that
may pass the favorable inspection of t
81 great Author and oof-Reader of t
Universe.
4th. And remember, that in printing the
> is nothing so pleasing as good impressic
=. That you have already made. Perseve
o as you have begun, and when the pages
+. your earthly life are all locked" al
1f chased" and bound into the volume
ID life eternal, you will be admitted into t
Sahctam Sanctorum on high.
II That this prize, so fairly but so close
won, may be au incentive to great
D; achievements here, and higher rewar
hereafter, is my earnest, heartfelt pray,