Show PRIDE IN THEIR HERITAGE Printing January During the week of January Printing sponsored by the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen and cooperating graphic arts will be celebrated throughout all the United and several foreign Printing week is observed partly that we may remind ourselves of a debt to the past that we may recall that printing both grew out of and sustained the great rebirth of western civilization we all know as the that it has been the means of propagating all the subsequent ideas embodied in the institutions we live by It is well substantiated after Gutenberg showed the printing spread so rapidly and so accelerated the exchange of knowledge as to have had a direct influence on the dream of colonizing our and its As Thomas Carlyle wrote who first shortened the labor of copyists by the device of movable types was disbanding hired cashiering most kings and and creating a whole new democratic world Above Printing week pays tribute to a pride of craftsmanship that is a tradition among printers but all too rare in other industries t But If the printers today have retained their pride in their their work and the product of their the in an age when printed matter has become a is quite naturally inclined to overlook the place of the printer in our Every school child knows that printing is the bulwark of our and every businessman realizes that is the mainstay of our mass-distribution with our way of life more than ever responsible to nothing is more taken for Yet printing remains the number one method for disseminating information and for recording it in permanent Printing week is a Printing Is vital to our economy not only as a tool of other forms of but because of its enormous employment rolls and its position as a buyer of goods and service from other Among the 20 industrial groups covered by the D. S. census of printing ranks third in number of eighth in total wages and eighth in value added by manufacture and ninth in number of For every of our one is an employee of |