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Show ; Elbert Hubbard, editor of the t Philistine, says: "The Columbus tt Pcnitentairy News, for many years a famous and flourishing daily paper published by convicts, has suspended publication, for the very good reason that there is not left in that big penal institution a single man who can handle han-dle type. Bankers are there in plenty. plen-ty. More than twenty, and more are on the way. Several convict banks might be operated, with men to spare. I Enough lawyers arc there to take fj care of an enormous amount of legal II business. Doctors, brokers and other J 'eminently respectable' citizens arc I not lacking. Business men, farmers, 'l mechanics and representatives of al- Jj most every other depa-tment of in- dustrial activity are common there I But there is not one printer. The fact If' throws new light on a character that if has long been commonly misjudged. I The printer docs not pi his spiritual m1 and moral form. The printer today is a home-owner. He is of fixed employment em-ployment and he has no time for late suppers and fast rides in the benzine buggy. Ifc is and always was far above the average man in information and intelligence. All the notable events of human life pass thru his hands and make impress on his brain The fact that more than twenty bankers bank-ers arc in the Ohio pcnitentairy, and not one printer, tells of the relative honesty of the printer of today and tells more, for there arc ten printers in the land to one banker. It shows us that the most common and most dangerous crimes of today arc not being be-ing committed by the world's workers." |