The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-01-31

try not to be more progressive than
the community wants him to DO.
What am trying to do now 10 to
md out whether my community
wants . wodern press and . modern
job printing outfit to do the loads
of printing which we a. community
are now having done in distant cities.
(The following paragraph was
left out Of last weeks article on
| types and mats, for the reason that
Comparing demonstration referred
to-
The linotype mats (molds) are as
sembled In line by operating key
board, and one line is cast while the
next line is being assembled, so 1t Is
about the swiftest thing possible.
The larger the type, the slower the
assembling of the mats to cast 1t.
lTypograph mats are assembled and
distributed by hand, but 1t has a
simplicity that wins. Look at the
Kinney ad on this page Hosiery
| Specials for February 2" and notice
| that every line is almost duplicate
| of the one above. If set on the limo
| type. each letter and each filler OF
white space in each line would have
to be set for each line, but when set
with the typograph, the same mats
are used each time for the next line.
excepting the changes of words or
figures. Casting the second line re-
quired changing only ribbed" to
extra and changing "25" to "49."
Going down thru It the lines were
merely recast with slight changes In
each line and in some combinations
mass of matter is Typographical"
in large type with a rapidity that
startles the old style typesetter, and
linotype operator.
The. amounts paid in during the
past week on the different accounts
we're:
Display advertising ------------$ 5.97
Job printing ----------------- 1926
Subscriptions ------------------------- 61.65 |
twenty-five per cent of the dis
play advertising, $1.49 and an equal
amount from the editors ranch &C
count, was placed to the credit of
the Better Type Fund, raising that
total to $1,000.
Twenty-Five per cent of the other /
collections, $2337 and an equal
amount taken from the editors
ranch account, was deposited in the
Better Printing Fund, raising it to
S24294. These amounts have been
in two weeks, and
there is still a month to add to
them. The one fund is to be used
to buy new type, mats, ETC., and the
other to make the first payment on
as good a job press as seems Justl-
fed by the interest taken by the pub
lie. The cost of different kinds of
presses under consideration varies
from $1,000 to $1,000.
Last week we offered dollar
apiece to the persons making the
closest guess to the amounts that
would be paid in on these four ac-
counts by 1 p. m. January 81, and
J. N. McKie was the only one putt
ing in guess. He wins all four
nrizes, his guess being very close on {
but wide of the mark s
IN the others. His guesses were: It
lob printing ------------,-----------$ 92.76
------------------------- IOo.zo
---------------------- 66.2o
legals ------------.-- 10000
The total of his guesses was
1921, while the total of the pay q
nents actually made was only +
;97.47. Not enough to pay the s
wages of the help for the week. Mr.. i
IcKie is quite a famous guesser, U
nd our bookkeeper mailed him four f.
hecks for a dollar apiece, just to re- q
nind him that it pays to guess, even
t he does guess high. AS general n
ule it pays better to be optimistic h
nd guess plenty, and just to show is
hat we are good sports, we are go !,
ng to double the ante and give 81
Or the closest guess on each account h
ext week. All of you who kept still h
his time and did not send in any 2,
uess, can confer a favor on Mr.. a
IcKie by laying low again and let n
ng him walk off with some easy q
loney. Now that he is getting the II
ange, and finds that our checks are n,
God, he may be forgiven for re- a,
eating the mental operation. m
To be continued al