The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-02-21
REFLECTIONS OF THE EDITOR
Continued from page one)

about 1000 to 10000 pieces and they
cost from $4,000 to $4,000 apiece
or about that. They are such a
great success it has been freely pre-
dicted that no printing invention will
ever be made that will equal or sur
pass them. limitations have been
built and are competitors, and as
patents expire, the imitatOrs follow
up and enjoy the rights thus ac-
quired.
But it often happens that great
principle in mechanics is finally re-
versed and simplified so that it
:. brings forth new successes, for eX-
ample, the original airbrake on rail-
roads. The linotype has a new
competitor in the Ludlow for max
ing the larger sizes of type in slugs,
drawing unlimited variations of type
characters from a simple mass of hot
metal and cutting out so much of the
complicated system made necessary
by movable type, that the two ma
chimes promise to revolutiOnize both
newspaper work and commercial
printing. The process of revolution
izing the newspaper work is already
so we'll along that nobody doubts 1t,
the process Of revolutiOnizing the
typesetting for commercial printing
by means of the linotype and the
Ludlow combined or by either one OF
them in their special fields and ban
ishing movable type forever Is prob
ably the greatest question now be-
ing contested in the printing world.
This series is being written, not
only for the people of Bingham
county, but for seventy newspaper
offices in southern Idaho ,and
would like to present another chapter
to explain the sweeping changes for
simplicity that / see ahead by pan
ishing movable type. But l nave re-
signed from editorial work Tor one
week to allow the women OF TINS
county to issue leap year ed1tlon
in which l shall not have word TO
say nor write a line, so this closes
the series on printing excepting that
the cash prizes for the best guesses
will be carried GU by my bookkeeper
under the women's administrator.
l have in my desk three unsigned
orders for mats and type materials.
I have also three unsigned orders
for modern presses-ene that Is
ultra-modern and there Is none IKE
it in Idaho. These presses range in
price IrOm SlOVU " oDO0e w " >~
/ don't have to buy any OF them and
take on the battle that will be neces-
sary to operate them profitably. AS
I have said before, the commercial
printing industry in this county has
been pretty we'll destroyed by the
cooperation of the printers and the
public, and no man can or men can
rebuild it without getting more or
less abuse from both sides. Added
to all the other difficulties Will pc
the trade war; of the outside print
ing houses that have been organizing
their business to draw printing out
of the county. The man or men VINO
go out to put the dying industry on
it's feet will be counting a large
volume of trouble for a doubtful
volume of profits and will have to
wait many SHOWS to have the salts
faction that comes from winning anu
holding what is won.
Five years ago the public did not
understand what they had to 40 TO
get good printing service In TINS
county. and those who tried to build
that business did not fail, but tney
did not succeed. Their plants nave
become more worn each year, more
out of date, and more printing Is
sent away each year. In the past
few weeks people have learned
great deal about how they would
have to cooperate with printing
house to rebuild the industry and
get printing up In quality and down