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Show Printers in Utah I Observe "Week" During the week of January 11-17, Printing Week, sponsored by the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen and cooperating graphic arts organizations, organi-zations, was celebrated in the U. S., Canada and several foreign for-eign lands. Printing Week is observed partly that we may nemind ourselves our-selves of a debt to the past, that we may recall that printing both grew out of and sustained the great rebirth of western civilization civili-zation as we all know as the Renaissance, that it has been the" means of propagating all the subsequent ideas embodied in the institutions we live by today. to-day. , It is well substantiated that, after Gutenberg showed the way printing spread so rapidly and ,'so accelerated the exchange of knowledge as to have had a direct di-rect influence on the dream of Columbus: colonizing our country, coun-try, and its development. As Thomas Carlyle wrote: "He who first shortened the labor of copyists by the devise of movable mov-able types was disbanding hired armies, cashiering most kings and senates and creating a whole new democratic world." .Above all, Printing Week paid tribute to a pride of craftsman-shop craftsman-shop that is a tradition among printers but all too rare in other industries. But if the printers today have retained their pride in their heritage, their work and the product of their labors, the public, pub-lic, in an age when printed mat- ter has become a commonplace, is quite naturally inclined to overlook the place of the printer in our society. Every school child knows that printing is the bulwark of our culture, and every businessman realizes that it is the mainstay of our mass distribution economy; econ-omy; yet, with our way of life more than ever responsible to printing, nothing is more taken for granted. Yet printing remains re-mains the number one method for disseminating information and for recording it in permanent perma-nent form. Printing week is a . reminder. Printing is vital to our economy econ-omy not only as a tool of other forms of commerce, but because of its enormous employment rolls and its position as a buyer of goods and service from other industries. Among the 20 industrial indus-trial groups covered by the U.S. census of manufacture, printing ranks third in number of estab- lishments, eighth in total wages and salaries, eighth in value added by manufacture and ninth in number of employees. For every 200 of our population, one i is an employee of printing. |
