Central High School - Red and Black Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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I P J ' --:LL - .M , i d' 0 wg -V - ff , ' Y V It -1-1 ' ,Q - , f55.Q-f-557 1- f 1-' . '- '-s- i7f4'iG- E ' , fi .. r L' ig' E i'iiG , 'gt-'J Y vi VT' T H E R E D A N D .'. B L A C K process and must be done by skilled work- men who have spent years in learning the how and wherefore of ink. lnk is com- posed of pigments or colors, and varnish. The mixing has to be done ill a certain order, a secret ol' the makers, and the rolling and grinding under the same con- ditions. NVithout a doubt John Gutenberg is one of the foremost men of all time. There have been great generals who killed 100,000 men in a day, there have been scientists, poets, inventors, and a multi- tude of others, all very famous, but their fame would be useless had not Gutenberg put into their hands an instrument to make known to every man, woman, illlll child with enough intelligence to read that for which they are famed. Printing is the dispenser of knowledge, the recorder of history, the beacon light of a thousand years. VVithout it we would still be in medieval darkness when the many were superstitious, ignorant, and crude, and the few who had knowledge, jealous, dogmatic, and just as supersti- tious as the many. To show how important printing is, imagine what the result would be if the newspapers of the United States were to be shut down for a single week. llow could we operate? Who would know what was going on? Business could not function. A chaos indescribable would inevitably result. So in looking over this year book, think- ing of the different processes which -the materials had to go through, of the linotype operator, the compositor, the engraver, the binder, be filled with won- der tliat you are able to buy at such a price the work .of so many men's hands. A ' - f ' 5 eg . - e: i-14759 L, ff:-'SL fi: XE... '11 21 'x' i I X 'if ,F gf? - ' - ' 4, E, Q , -ff' A rf-1 :-,',.' Ei:-:ATP Mig i.f'i: 7: f - 374' f 2Lff'7i Ax A ' J ,g-95-kj, , ,YY , W lg--' 1- ,E ev -11 - -- .. - 1 -. ,. 'rg . - ' Elga ap , ' ., V . v . 1 -.5 . 4 i ' -5:f55f:::i:.f:ii-:I25.21572 - - 'er-f ':-:.'.i-vir:-'.-f-.fp4::11- fe-:a.f.,..ft---:1::.u:pw--.-... -. '-121-:f,::.-: an-.-.2 ' ,3f.1jfQg,fg Q . 75 .32 L-1:15-.5 j'f:.:j'EQI' ' sf, . 5.-15.5.1 kia:-if gg 5-5 4.-I-51.5 -5.5.5-lf , '5.j,Qj.1 Seventeen.

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,A-., , p'r' g,g 4 f 4: so so-N-Q H L ' g e .aj i,!'ff,,.m-1 4 - , E!! ur.: - - ' ., Q U , lu . . .HW HMV ff ' I :ff :ri-1 1 Tx-is - ui-:D AND BLACK line slug. Setting up for the monotype is done on a separate machine called the keyboard. The copy is translated in a series of perforations on a narrow roll of paper, each representing a character. The operator presses the keys until he has enough words to till a line. An i11di- eator tells exactly how much space is left. Then, by, pressing the proper justification key, the operator is able to till up the remaining space. The roll is taken to the monotype machine proper, where com- pressed air, being forced through the per- forations, operates the machine. The cast- ing machine begins at the end of the perforated roll a11d works baokwardg it sets any measure to sixty picas, and any size to 'forty-two point. The press has had much more advance- ment than the making and setting of type. For four hundred years press work was done by hand, ink balls were used, and no very great changes made in the mech- anism. A toggle-joint had replaced the screwg an apparatus for moving the bed in and out quickly was devised, and the press was braced so as to get an even impresison on all parts of the form. About 1,800 machinists started out to improve the pressg and the one and two- revolution presses are the modern results of these adventures. The printers of today are indebted to George Gordon for the invention of the forerunner of the modern job press. This press has been developed and thousands of them are in use. A self-feeder for it, which is able to guide to at very fine register, has been invented. The first newspapers were printed with the hand presses 011 tlat stock. On account Si.1'fvf'n of this the circulation of a newspaper was very limited. The cylinder press was hailed as a great advance, and the news- papers immediately put them in. The next step was the rotary press. This still printed from Hat stock, but did both sides at one operation. The Hoe ma- chine is the latest result in rotary web- fed presses. It prints from one to three rolls at a time, and turns out a folded and cut newspaper at the rate of 72,000 per hour. The different appliances for inking the forms have also been improved. Until the leather roller came into use, inking balls were used. Then the molded roller made from glue and molasses, or now-a- days glue and glycerine, superseded the leather roller and is now used on all presses, from the 15-inch rollers on the smallest Gordon to the 8-foot rollers on the largest Hoe presses. The paper-making machine invented in 1803 is in its essentials the paper-making machine of today. Up to that date all paper was made in single sheets by hand. The pulp was put into the mold by work- men, and then the mold was shaken to distribute the pulp evenly, and the result- ing sheet removed for drying and press- The principle was to substitute end- less woven wire sheets for the mold, and as the paper was formed by the felting of the fibers to lead it between heated cylinders to dry and press it. As it came from the machine the paper was cut into sheets of standard sizes. The continuous web of paper was made in 1803, but was not used. as a web for rotary printing until 1868. 'The making .of ink is a very intricate ing.

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'amiga-f-gli- H f I L-1? 4 , -'vi . W , sg! 1 x- :L . -V 'eff f'- - Q '--- 5-.ff':::c- . l F-'ff'Ff'g if-ff--1 ' ' THE RED .'. AND BLACK , AN EIGHTEEN CARAT JONAH , I By Blanche Klein IMMY BAXTER, fullback and cap- tain of the Classon University foot- ball team, rushed breathlessly int: thc makeshift office which Nat Smith, head coach, maintained in a remote cor- ner of the gymnasium. Natl Nat! he cried, his voice vibrant with excitement, I've got him! I've got him l The head coach, who wore a worried, hunted look that contrasted strangely with his boyish face, blonde hair, and athletic figure, looked up impatiently from his work. He had been moving a group of blue-headed tacks about a drawing board, endeavoring to demonstrate graph- ically the practicability of a trick play which he and Stewart Henry, his assis- tant, had conceived the night before. You've got soinethingin hc murmured abscntly, you say you've- VVake up! exclaimed Baxter. And listen! I've got him, I tell you! 1-lim? Sure! beamed Baxter, who wore the smiling ai1' of triumph that Columbus must have shown when he told Isabella that the trip was an entire success. A left halfbackln he explained. Smith leaped to his feet, upsetting his drawing board. He seized. Baxter is shoul- ders in a grip which made the big full- back wincc and gazed open-eyed into the captain is face. Is that on the level, Jimmy, he cried. You've really-you're not fooling? Anything but! I dug him up in the law school. liiglztven The law school! A left halfback in the law school! NVasting his time and talents on Blackstone and-and-wliat ever else they study in law schools! You're kidding me, Jimmy l Hope to die! vowed Jimmy. His own roommate gave me the tip-off on him. The two of them came here from some little fresh-water college out NVest.',' Oh l Nat Smith lost his happy, hope- ful smile. Then he 's just a- He ain't! He 's a pippin! Listen to this, I wrote it down so's to give it to you straight. Jimmy dug a wrinkled sheet of writing paper from his pocket, and began to read: against Michigan year before last- the head coach 's eyes lighted at the mention of an institution which he knew had real football teams- this bird got loose four times, each time running the length of the field for a touch- down ! Hey! Hold up! interrupted Nat. I don 't remember Michigan being beaten by-i!7 She wasn,t,'.' said Jimmy. lVell, what became of this bird 's touchdowns ? ' ' I-le never made them, replied Jimmy, referring to his paper. - Baxter, who was struggling hard trying to read his own writing, looked up just in time to duck as Nat leaped at him. Nat upset the table, breaking an electric lamp and a collection of glass and china, knicknaeks. He cxtricated himself from the wreckage, and started for Jimmy again.