PRINTERS POWER
BRINGING ROMANCE AND BEAUTY TO PAGES OF BOOKS. LONDON. The art and craft of the printer was praised by Mr. Harold Bellman, when he and Mr. Thomas McAra, secretary of the Newspaper Proprietors' Association, were entertained at luncheon at the Connaugh Rooms by the London Master Printers' As- ' sociation, to commemorate the knighthoods conferi'ed on them in the New Year Honours. "You have an annual output of 15,000 books on your conscience," Mr. Bellman told them. "You it is who make serving wenches dream of dukes and duchesses dream of knights of Araby. You carry travellers' tales to eager youth and loosen*the last slender guy ropes that hold hoys to respectahility and dusty offices. "You rob youth of its sleep, and bring beauty to the unlovely, friends to the friendless, and love to the unwanted. You are the builders of monuments to the toil of great men as surely as you dig graves for the follies of little men. One of the seci*ets of your contentment, my speculation leads me to believe, is that you have overcome the barrier that to some extent has spoiled other art and industry by upholding the practice of craftmanship in a mechanical age."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 212, 2 May 1932, Page 3
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