Shortage Of Paper Affects Supplies Of Bibles

Chronicle (Levin), 10 September 1948, Page 4

Shortage Of Paper Affects Supplies Of Bibles

. -• How patterned wallpaper and imjtation leather originally intended to adorn wooden toys and rocking horses was helping in the Bi'itish and Foreign Bible Society's effprfs to take the. Bible into the heart of Africa, was mentjoned, by Mi's. V. Markham Jones when she told of the handicap which paper rafioning was imposiiiR' 011 the -oeiety. These materials, she ■aid/ were' being bought up and uspd in the provision of cpvers for the Bibles sent otit from the society's headquarters in,London-. It could be. seen therefore, that the society was alive to the opportunities which arose to advance its output. Paper shortagp was the reason why the world's demand for Bibles could not be met. Paper was seyergly ratione'd and the society could only issue a certain number of copies of the Scriptures, It could not go beyqnd that number until the shortage of paper had been overcome. The society had, however, ^mahaged to discover a flrm which had lengths of wallpaper „ to spare-r-lengths which were too short for use in the trade, and these had been used for the binding of some Bibles. Anothpr firm which manufactured wooden toys and also used imitation leather," found itseif unabie to secure wood and the society had bought the leather which had prpvided the binding for 10,000 New Testamerits for a tribe in Africa.