Show U. U US U.S. S. S Owns of Incunabula Wi Which h Means Mean R Rare e Books Boob J Printed Be Before ore 15 1500 Q A. A fl D D. D 1 By fly HERBERT PLUMMER WASHINGTON only WAShINGTON Only once or twice during any session of ot Congress congress Con Con- con con- t gress do senators rs and 1 1 lives Inaugurate a brand new pot pol Icy for tor the country Most 1 of oC their work consists consist ta 1 In iii developing old oM ones ones ones-a a broadening here hero a cutting down n there But Dut tho the congress which itch has Just passed med Into history did start one omme- one one- ono that Is entirely new and one one one-i that lint Is Js likely to havo have a n. far reaching effect In t the tho o years to come comno on tho f cultural status Matus of th the country It bought worth orth of In- In 4 t Incunabula ua Is rare stuff There's Theres Theres Theresa i ia a a lot of ot It In the tIie British museum In lii the thc nationals in In j Paris and In private collections 5 i over the world but up until now Uncle Sam has had very velY little Now ow that he lie has some It Is fairly j safe are to say that he lie will be In th market th 4 market for for- more In fact It i- i Is-iS Is freely freeh predicted that now that be belins hey he has lins been bitten by the time bu buy he he- will j spend millions of ot dollars in the fu future tu fu ture turo purchasing more In Incunabula 1 OLD BIBLES j Incunabula is Is nothing more mora than rare printed things thing Or to be mort mort- precise books and other printed things that were produced before II beforetime V the time year 1500 t tA E A German by tho time name namn of Dr Otto V arrived In this countr coun cotin- 1 tr try not so 80 long ago with his col- col lection Among AmonS' these pieces wu was a a. a. a t Bible printed In Latin and Md on jellum jel- jel lum hum b by Johann Gutenberg somewhere somewhere some some- v where In in- inthe tho the period between 1450 Jl and 1455 It Is one of or the three perfect copies known iino to have sur sur- vi ved no Ross s Collins a member of congress con- con gres gress from Mississippi took a look took 1 t at al this Gutenberg Bible and was so Impressed with It and tho the other Jj pieces In Dr collection J that he lie promptly Introduced a bill j calling on tho the go government nt to buy the collection and have ht It placed h In inthe the tho library of or congress All AlI agreed that It would be a anear near tragedy to permit the collection to pass Into other hands But at tho the same fame time timo the they debated the wIs wis- dom domn om of Uncle Sam joining the army o of coll collectors tors of oC rarities y |