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 Setting President Wilson's 

 Portrait in Type 



HARVEY PARSONS is a 

 cartoonist on the staff of 

 a Topeka newspaper. He con- 

 ceived the original idea of 

 setting up President's Wilson's 

 reply to the Pope in type, in 

 such a way that the result 

 would be not only a readable 

 reproduction of the message 

 itself, but a portrait of Presi- 

 dent Wilson. 



First of all, Parsons drew a 

 likeness ot the President. With 

 that before him, he gave minute 

 instructions to O. W. Kelly, an 

 old printer friend of his. Par- 

 sons does not know Nonpareil from upper 

 case Roman; yet he was able to make 

 Kelly understand what was wanted. 

 After his successful experiment, the artist 

 declared that he could write instructions 

 to a printer which 



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A railway car which looks like an automobile and is 

 controlled like one, but which runs on an ordinary track 



What is It — Jitney or Railway 

 Coach ? 



body, 



A MOTOR truck 

 flanged wheels 



would read: "Set 

 a yard of the old 

 Testament in 8- 

 point Gothic as 

 per . . ." with a 

 string of symbols 

 and figures. And 

 what would be the 

 result? A type 

 portrait of Moses! 

 And the printer 

 would not know it 

 until he had pulled 

 his proof. 



As our illustra- 

 tion shows, light- 

 faced type com- 

 poses the high 

 lights of the pic- 

 ture, and black or 

 bold-faced, the 

 half-tones and 

 darker portions. 

 The proper spacing 

 of the letters is not 

 destroyed, and the 

 reply to the Pope 

 is legible in spite 

 of the underlying 

 likeness. The por- 

 traits are set in 

 type by machine. 



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Hold the illustration at arm's length and 

 the effect will become much more apparent 



a set of 

 and a light auto- 

 mobile engine con- 

 stitute the rolling 

 stock of a Louisiana 

 railway. The road 

 connects Christie 

 and Pearson and 

 carries on a lively 

 business. The "su- 

 per-jitney," as it 

 has been desig- 

 nated, operates on 

 a regular time 

 schedule and is able 

 to make excellent 

 speed despite its 

 rather cumbersome 

 appearance. It can 

 conveniently ac- 

 commodate twenty 

 passengers, and in 

 addition can haul a 

 great deal of ex- 

 press and merchan- 

 dise, by stowing it 

 under the seats or 

 on the top of the 

 coach. No matter 

 how heavy the load, 

 there is practically 

 no vibration, for 

 the railroad bed is 

 still in good con- 

 dition. 



