The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-30

Jack INTO the business where MS
heart is. After he had studied the
typograph a long time and become
convinced of all the wide scope of
its work and the ease and simplicity
with which it created type forms, he
aid. Nov want to know if you
will set a little advertisement for me
20 take home. If 60 back there
and tell the fellows what have seen
ere they will not believe me unless
take some proof" He was invited
o write his ad. and present it for
setting, which he did in a minute,
and in few moments it was handed
,ack to him a solid block Of shining
metal that he could lock and unlock
by pressure of thumb and finger. 1t
was ready to place in any press, and
was good for 100000 impressions
without wearing the fine finish OF OF
the type faces. He said he was 60
ing to use If for paperweight in
the bank and for printing his insur-
ance ad. IN his home paper. A. good
many Of the editors had paper
weights made in slug forms that
would print their names and serve
as ornaments of their desks and be
ready to demonstrate the typograph
product to visitors.
Long Step Forward
o. H. Barber, of the American
Falls Press, and now commissioner
Of immigration for Idaho, visited the
office before the typograph was in
operation, and his former partner
]. R. Jones, suggested that perhaps
he would like. to buy some of the
type supplies which this office would
e setting aside when the typograph
went into commission. Mr.. Barber
said he might, and again he might
not. He wanted to see what the
typograph would do before he con-
tered buying any more type. When
he came back to the demonstration
in company with his partner, David
Burrell, they watched the typograph
long and earnestly, and said, IT'S a
typograph we want; not type"
Twenty Years in Day
One of the publishers, after spend
ing most of the day studying the Of
flee and it's methods and machines,
said he spent the most profitable day
he could remember in twenty years
Another one, l.. w. Gaisford OF
American Fork, Utah, said he had
learned more about how to operate
newspaper office in one day than
he had learned in twenty years be-
fore. B. H. Reed of the Idaho Falls
Post, said he wanted to bring his
whole force down some afternoon
before he moves into his new build
ing, and have them study the plant
in operation till supper time, so they
could not only see how things are
done, but give them chance to alb
sorb some of the spirit of comrade-
ship and cooperation that prevails
among the workers in The Republic
can office. He was invited by Fore
man Lantis to wire us when he was
coming so we could engage to have
The Republican bunch banquet his
lunch at the Eccle3 hotel and spend
the evening taking S. op, and lac
said he would do it, and do it in time
to plan things in his new building
before it is compile ed.
Visitor With a Vision
James H. Wallis, president of the
Utah Fress club travelled 423 miles
for the meeting, and was much
gratified to find len other member:
of the club present. He said they
were going to hold meeting of theil
club on the second Of June land tha
these eleven men would convey mucf
information t. tho rest OF the clul
members, rega1 ding the methods, the
system and the machines operating
in the most moaern shop in the 1--WE
states. He sad that his work 81
sanitary commissioner in Utah mac
taken him into all the towns aat
all the newspaper offices in the state
and two years ago he considered
Utah printing house, outside of th'
cities, very antiquated. In tina
time they had organized and studied
their business and are progresslnf
rapidly. Every newspaper in Utat
is now a member of the club ant
is studying efficiency as never be
fore. Eleven of these men in the
Blackfoot demonstration, it's even
ing session, its banquet, its sight
seeing trips, it's picnic on the great
plains, and their contact with the
pep, push and concerted action In
evidence at the Blackfoot entertain
ment, would do great deal to unity
the men of Utah in the study Of their
profession and their craft, and to
give them that larger measure OF
courage to launch out and dare to
do what they have thought they were
unable to do. What can be done in
Idaho, by one man without exper-
fence, without trade and with small
means to build with" Mr.. Wallis
said, "can be done by other men,
and will be done by them, and the
future will tell who among them will
chart their course and clarity their
vision enough to follow it to big
success"