THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
H. E. WADSWORTH, Superintendent
VOLUME té
JUNE, 1914
NUMBER 9
PRTNTCRAFT
R E G IN A L D D O W N IE , Clallam Tribe; Washington
A man who lives riuht, and is riprht, has more power In his silence
than another has by his words. Character is like bells which ring
out sweet music, and which, when touched accidentally even, re
sound with sweet music.
-PH ILLIPS BROOKS.
HE splendid discontent of God with Chaos made the
world. And from the discontent of man the world’s
best progress springs.” It is a notable fact that no
advancement is ever made but as a result of dissatisfac
tion with existing conditions; for “ progress is not an
accident, but a necessity.” Progress in printing was
so great a need that the wonder is that it did not come
sooner.
In remote times inscriptions were made by means of stamps. Later,
Ixioks were transcribed and illuminated bv hand. Then wood cuts
were used for printing books. The idea that there was a better and more
rapid way of printing was beginning to prevail among men, but it re
mained for Gutenberg of Germany to originate the wonderful scheme of
moveable letters that could be put together to form words and, after the
page was printed, dissembled to be reassembled to print another page.
That the first book ever printed with moveable type was the Bible is
a fact ol which printers have ever since been proud. This first publica
tion appeared in 1455. Soon afterward the practice of printing spread
rapidly all over Europe and later to America.
The first presses used were crude devices operated on the plan of a
letter-press, which works up and down to make the impression. They
were small and worked slowly. Improvements in method and machinery
followed one after another until the hand press was superceded by auto
matic machines.
In 1814 Frederick Konig of Germany constructed the first steam print
ing machine, for the London Times in England. Instead of laying the