Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-07

News Letter and Z monthly
magazine. Chemistry. It also
issues q publication In Inter-
tiingua, an International Ian
guage.
The American Home Eco
Monies Association gets out q
monthly Journal circulation
$4,000 and also publishes about,
80 different books. pamphlets
and leaflets.
Military publications here in
clude about 20 for the armed
forces and various branches.
Some of them are old institu-
tons. such as the Army, Navy,
Air Force Journal. founded in
1868. There is also Leather
neck. circulation 10000, pub
lished and printed here by
non-profit association Of Marines
and ex-Marines. The purpose:
To glorify the Marine Corps.
The women are well repre-
scented In the business. Some
wag finale of course) has re-
ferred to their organizations as
the publishing houses of the
projecting Ewes Among them
are the General Federation Of
Women's Clubs, the American
Association Of University Wom-
en- and the Daughters Of the
American Revolution.
The League Of Women Voters
Of the United States issues Is
times . year q publication. the
National Voter. to about $50 900
members. It also issues PAM,
phlets and other publications.
II you hunt and shoot, you
may be one of 305,OOO SUBJ
scribers to the American Rifle
man. It is the monthly maga-
zine of the. American Rifle
Association and involves an an
ual budget of 100000. Or If
you are sheriff or a deputy, no
doubt you read the National
Sheriff, the publication of the
National Sheriffs' Association.
President Eisenhower is a life
member. Both are printed In
Washington.
Elab0rately Equipped Plants.
The Washington printing
houses which serve this big pub
fishing business are among the
best equipped In the country,
able to turn out everything
from leaflets to magazines in
color and books. The larger
concerns employ from about 200
! workers up to TOO. Some oper-
ate on two or even three shifts
q day.
A few Of the printing COM
panies are also publishers. Some
get ~ substantial part of the
business from other cities all
over the country. Some of the
companies. chiefly photographers.
do work for the Government.
while others don't try for that
business.
Lithography has undergone a
big expansion. One photographer
estimated about q third of the
/ Nations printing is done by
that process. There are q few
companies that do both letter
press printing and photography
photographers do q large
amount of color work. ano most
of the road maps and other
maps are produced by lithogra-
pliers. They also do reprints Of
books and other book work. Ten
thousand copies Of the first Kin
sey report were turned out by q
Washington TYPOGRAPHY COM
pany. #Ss
Biggest Companies.
In the printing business. 1t is
generally agreed these are the
largest companies here: Judd &
Detweiler, Inc; RaAsdell, Inc:
National Publishing Co., McArdle
Printing Co., Rufus M. Darby
Printing Co. and the Mercury
Press.
The chief lithography con-
Germs. according to those in the
business, include the Haynes
Lithograph Co, Williams g. Heitz
! Lithograph Corp. Sauls Litho-
graph Co.. National Litho Co.
Kirby Lithographic Co. Kauf-
mann Press. Inc: Columbia
Paragraph Co., Washington
Paragraph Co. and Federal
Lithograph Co.
An idea of size of the WASH
ington publishing industry may
be gained from the fact that
the N. w. Aver & Sons directory
of publications takes IL pages
of small type to list all the pub
locations here. The classified
telephone directory lists 325
printers and Sc lithographerS.