The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-02-06

wages. A good many of them will
find it is easier to de-odorizs a new
born skunk than it is to stay in goot
odor with the printers unions wher
| they get to ordering just how bust
Il ness may or must be run. A goo(
many will write and publish articles
on how to make fortunes raising rec
foxes or black foxes, and will be
convinced by their own articles and
] will turn the key in the door of the
printing house some day when help
seems out of. the question, and will
60 out and make more money and
have more fun than they ever knew
there was in store for them.
Stop Setting Type
No man can afford to set type by
hand for a newspaper at the present
price of labor, unless it is just lit
| tie to supply some local items or
emergency matter in a paper made
UP of linotype matter or plate. News
papers that have linotypes will soon
find that they cannot afford to be
setting anything on the linotype that
they can secure in plate form. The
demand for matter of general inter-
est to be made and served in plate
FORM will grow rapidly in future
years as the labor supply tightens,
the matter to be made into plate
form will need to be condensed as
much as possible to save space and
paper. The larger country news
paper offices desiring quick service
will install stereotyping outfits for
making cuts and plate, and there will
be thousands of offices buying either
plate or mattrice' (moulds) service
or both, in the effort to save the
time and cost of setting type either
by hand or machine
To Quicken the Service
The mattrice service needs to be
developed so a city like Salt Lake
can on Monday, set in type the Mon
day news such as the smaller daily
or tri-weekly would like to print that
day or the next if they could set the
type. Salt Lake can make matrices
to be mailed out to the papers for
about 400 miles around, so those
papers can cast the plates and use
them for printing on Tuesday what
the big city papers printed on Mon
day, evening or Monday night. In
this way 100 papers can print Mon
days news on Tuesday afternoon
without setting any type excepting
for local matter. Three or four
linotypes. operating at Salt Lake, and
one proof reader and stereOtyping
outfit can eliminate the typesetting
in a hundred country offices, save
the proof reading in a. hundred coun-
try offices, and save the telegraph
tolls fors each of them or save the
time they would lose in waiting for
the chance to clip the news from the
big daily when it arrived by mail
on the same train that / propose
shall carry the matrices all ready |
for casting. In order to do this, a |
vast amount of work must be done |
manufacturing stereotyping outfits
for the country newspapers and a
vast stock of metal secured. Until
such time as they get such equip
ment, the best they can do is to have
the casting done at Salt Lake and |
expressed thru, all ready to lock UP |
and print, and what they save in |
telegraph tolls might offset the ex-
press bills. But under present con-
ditions the Salt Lake house would |
not be able to furnish plate Or mat |
trices Of papers until the day after. |
The big development of the immedi-
ate future should be along the line |
of making matrices and plate in
large volume with the greatest posi-
BILE speed, and in getting delivery by
night trains. In this way the morn
ing papers can print the news of the
day before and the afternoon papers
can print the news of the day before
and do ito easily. The big expense
on this plan will be for transporta-
ton and for metal and stereotyping.
Linotypes will no longer have to
carry the whole burden in every
town as they do today.
Conserving the Printers |
AS the foregoing plans are put
INTO practice it will release linotype
operators, proof readers, and make
Up men of part of, their labor, and
~ the use Of typographs and other
that cast the larger sizes
If type such as is used in ADVERTISE
nents and job printing, many ad
men will be released for other
places or they will be able to greatly
Increase the volume of business
handled.
The Small Town Paper
The small newspaper issuing
weekly or twice a week will use more
eadyprint (patent) in proportion
han it has been using excepting
where the growth of the town forces
to handle more local matter. With
imilar conditions it will issue bet
er paper than at present, but at a
igher price for subscription and at
igher rates for advertising. The
ay is past for getting local paper
t $1.00 or $3.50 year or $2.O0
Or an eight-page weekly. The next
ear or two will witness adjustments
T those things to suit the condi-
ions and prices that are now thin
ing out the newspapers.
This series will be continued after
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