anaheim-gazette 1930-11-13

Was Gutenberg Or Koster the First Printer? A Question Centuries Old Bobs Up A GUTENBERG BIBLE Repeal of Textbook Law a Costly Would Mean Backward M Orange County and Of School Districts SAVING TO TAXPA Rare Bibles In Huntington Library Copies of Gutenberg and Koster Books Mark Beginning of Printing 500 Years Ago WHO PRINTED FIRST ONE? Centuries-Old Controversy Still Goes On The Henry Huntington Library at an Marino has what is generally regarded as the world's choicest collection of old and historic Bibles, rich in the sense of their rarity and with a money value that is beyond estimate. The most reclusive as well as the most famous of these books is a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, generally accepted as the first book printed from movable type—a book, in fact, which was a chief incentive for the invention of printing. The first edition of the Gutenberg Bible, which includes the Huntington library copy, was printed about 1455, or after five years of work had been done in it, nearly forty years before Columbus sailed on his first voyage to America. The Guenberg Bibles were plentiful enough in the beginning but as there is definite evidence—court evidence—that Gutenberg borrowed money to buy tools to make type for his Bible in 1450, because he was sued on the loan and the date was established in court. A printer, named Johan, had previously stolen some of Koster's movable type and taken them to Mainz, and from him it is thought Gutenberg got the movable type idea. There is a contemporary account, by one Junius, explaining how Koster, then a block printer, got hold of the idea of cutting his blocks into pieces, with a single letter on the end of each piece, as follows: "While walking in the woods near Haarlem; Koster cut some letters in the bark of a tree and with them, reversely impressed one by one on paper, he composed one or two lines as an example for the children of his son-in-law. Shortly thereafter he perceived the advantage of utility of such insulated characters, and so the invention of printing with movable types was made." Koster's "Mirror of Human Salvation" was, according to Dr. Bendikson, an intermediate book between block printing and movable type printing. From samples of original printings, now in the Huntington Library, it appears that Lourenriz Janss Koster printed his Bible for the Poor ten to fifteen years before the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, and that Koster invented movable types and used them for printing the last chapters of his "Mirror" several years before 1455, when the Gutenberg Bible was completed. These facts, however, do not detract from Gutenberg's achievement," Dr. Bendikson concluded, "for he improved on Koster's methods and produced a Law a Costly Law Would Mean Backward Male Orange County and Other School Districts SAVING TO TAXPAYER State Printer Opposed to Repeal State Law Repeal of California's law pledged for state printing of free text would be a backward and costlier for the school districts of Orange City. The present system is saving taxpayers of the state from $300,000 every year. These statements were made by Printer Carroll H. Smith, in accusations recently made by the formia Association of Public Superintendents, which will not attempt to repeal the law at this session of the state legislature state printer's report was filed against legislative commission to study problems of the state. Several charges against the system were laid by State Smith at the door of the state government of education. They included the assertions that periods of several years no books given subject were available; that the average length of state-printed books has years; that the books are so quate that districts are forced twice as much as the state to book for elementary education. "The state printing office has not dition over either the adoption textbooks of their distribution Smith." "Whatever delays, if a state board of education has not adoptions, the curriculum comes has caused in falling to promptly sets of textbook plates division of textbook publication caused through failure to ship promptly to districts or properly participate school demands, are mainly not the fault of the State printing office." The state printer insisted that not been an edition of textbooks issued on a given day in the last years that was not delivered on day or weeks in advance. He the minimum adoption period law at four years as a "very restrictive." If the state department of education continues use that period, he continued, "It is an ever which the state printing of no control." To gratify their individual and by so doing aid and abet them. There’s Many Kinds Of Endurance Contests You may be an endurance contestant and not know it, according to the California state board of health. “There are many endurance contests which the participants do not seem to realize they have entered or that they are doing themselves permanent injury,” the board said. “How about the business man who sits at a desk all day, at his radio in the evening, and still prides himself on his ability to eat three big square meals a day? “True sitting, compared to this, is a harmless occupation. Then there is the individual, frequently a boy or girl, who undertakes to see how many hours of the 24 he can do without sleep. The man or woman who sits behind a smoke screen all day is in the same class.” Printer? Jobs Up Again books from private publishers far in excess of the number of state textbooks used." he continued. Smith denied the assertion that state-printed books are costing the taxpayers more than good books bought on the openmarket. He produced figures to prove that the state is printing books, paying a fat royalty for use of plates and distributing them free to school children—all for 40 per cent less than private publishers charge for the identical books. In this day of the high cost of government," he concluded, "when 35 to 40 cents of the tax dollar is spent for education alone; when educators themselves admit that even this amount is not sufficient; that the financial situation is critical, and that new sources of revenue for school purposes must be found; when even now a state legislative committee is investigating means of levying additional taxes to secure more money to spend on education—it is certainly not common sense or good business judgment to seriously contend that the only department in the entire educational system of California which is actually saving money to the taxpayers should be abolished." The Way of Life By BRUCE BARTON "QUOTA MAD" A famous advertising agent was talking with me about business in these United States. It is his function to prepare the advertising for several large manufacturers, and to consult with them on their sales problems. He goes home every night all tired out. He says he doesn't know anybody in business who is getting any real fun out of it. "I'll give you my program for a typi-day," he said. "I come down to my office a little before nine, and there is the sales manager of a shoe company waiting for me. His pockets are full of charts. His company's sales are 20 per cent ahead of last year, but is he satisfied? Not for a minute. He must set the mark for next year 50 per cent ahead. Then I go over to the office of company. If they would get together with their competitors, and agree to curtail production just a little, they could all make more money. The price of their product might have to be raised a trifle, but I doubt it, because the sales expense would be that much less. But will they curtail? Never. Every year must show bigger figures. The quotas must go up and up. "The trouble with this country is that we have gone crazy on the subject of volume. We are quota mad." As he talked I recalled a conversation I had some years ago with an American who represents a French manufacturer in this country. "I have a heart-breaking time with that Frenchman," he said. "Every year I go over there and plead with him to double his factory. We could sell twice as much of his stuff if he would only turn it out. And do you know what he says? He just waves his hands in French fashion and sput-ters: "We and work family are have a good life death?" That seemed terrible until spirit of a man shows his sales, and body and death? "Life," she bread, and also asks it profit a world and Or, in my use of kill mad? A. B. C. 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PAGE SEVEN ters: "Why should I double my plant and work twice as hard? I and my family are making money enough. We have a good time. We enjoy our lives. Why should we work ourselves to death?" That seems to us Americans a very terrible utterance. It is treason to the spirit of modern business. Of course, a man should force his production, and his sales, and force his own poor mind and body until he dies at the age of sixty with an order blank in his hand. Somewhere between the French attitude and our attitude there must be a half-way point that would combine the best elements of both. "Life," say the Bible, "is more than bread, and the spirit than raiment." It also asks the question, "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own life?" Or, in modern language, what's the use of killing yourself by being quota mad? C. Business Directory Reference Look Under Alphabetical Classification of the Career Profession You Are Seeking. 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