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""TOMORROW is the day of machinery; the man 

 A who works solely with his hands will soon be elimi- 

 nated from the industrial world. Levers, cams and 

 gears, made of trass, steel and other inanimate sub- 

 stances, are already replacing what was formerly 

 considered skilled labor. Brains only cannot be re- 

 placed by the mechanical creations of mans ingenuity. 





THIS page which you are now read- 

 ing is the result of a large number 

 of castings. It required 1936 moulds 

 and eight pounds of metal to cast the 

 perfect type faces which printed these 

 two columns. Fifty-two times the brass 

 moulds used in the work have been as- 

 sembled in their proper order and molten 

 metal poured into them so as to cast as 

 many slabs of type each slab being a 

 single line of reading matter. 



As complicated as the task may appear 

 to be, its execution is a very simple mat- 

 ter at least as far as the human ele- 

 ment is concerned. An operator has sim- 

 ply to manipulate a keyboard with no 

 greater effort than is required to operate 

 the conventional typewriter, the different 

 moulds dropping into place and the lines 

 of type being cast without any attention 

 whatsoever. 



It is the great elimination of the human 

 factor that has made modern printing so 

 efficient and speedy. Take away the 

 typesetting machines and our newspa- 

 pers would not be what they are today. 



Neither would the magazines be as large 

 and as moderate in price,- for the cost of 

 labor involved would be several times 

 what it is at present. Due credit must 

 necessarily be given the marvelous 

 presses and binding machines now in 

 use, but these do not concern us now. 



The typesetting machine, of which 

 there are two designs in general use 

 the linotype and the monotype is a 

 monument to man's ingenuity. It ac- 

 complishes a task which was considered 

 impossible prior to its inception that of 

 setting up type by machinery. Any one 

 who has watched a printer set the type 

 by hand knows what the work involves. 

 To begin with, the various pieces of type 

 are placed in their proper order in a sort 

 of holding device known as the "com- 

 posing stick/' After the printer has as- 

 sembled enough words with spaces be- 

 tween them to make one line, his next 

 task is to increase or decrease these 

 spaces between the words in order that 

 the type line will be of a certain width. 

 All the lines in a printed column must 



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