ROCKPORT REDWOOD SHIPMENTS

Orders don't just lie around here. When you want Rockport Redwood v'e Irno\^/ you want it nou'! So as/ay we go with the very finest Redwood, in every grade and it's on its way without delay. The strategic location of our planr provides further advantages in saving delivery time. It is economical for so many customers to pick up from this locacion.

Nothing rltrpasres tbe end,ur'ing Certifiecl Dry Red.wood, Beuel beauty of Rockport's ancl Finish.

Printing was discovered in I44L It might be truly said that the world reallv began to live with the coming of printing. Up to that time the past was a vast) misty cemetery with scarcely an epitaph. The ideas that human brains had generated mostly perished rvith the minds that produced them. The lips of the human race had been open, but their recordings had been sealed and lost. Printing came and gave recordings and opinions to human t'ought'

It preserved ideas. It registered words. It became possible for the first time for a man to bequeath to the future the riches of his brain and the wealth of his soul. When people began to read, they began to reason. And when reasoning began, progress commenced. An entirely new world was ushered in by printing. Things printed can never be stopped. They are like babies newborn. Their souls go on forever.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is universally acclaimed today to be one of the greatest utterances that ever fell from the lips of a man. l-et, we are told, when he delivered it. it made little impression. The exalting inspiration that comes to you even today as you read over those eternal words in cold print, was lacking to the minds oI that crowd that heard Lincoln deliver it. There was no thrilled audience that listened enthralled, knowing that what the.v were hearing would become immortal. They were not deeply moved, so we are told. One of the all-time masterpieces of human thought and utterance had touched their ears and their sensesbut they knew it not. lt was only after the words had been printed and distributed that their immeasurable grandeur soared toward the sky, and the glory shone through. Had it never been printed, it would have died a-borning, would that miracle of word and thought. It took printing to give it to the world--and keep it there forever'

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The first printing press set up in America was the Cambridge Press, established at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1639. The first

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work produced on this press was the "Freeman's Oath," and the first entire book printed on it in English was the "Bay Psalm Book." This lamous press still exists, and was used for the design of the three cent stamp printed in 1939 commemorating the threehundredth anniversary of printing in America. The first American newspaper rvas the "Hartford Courant." established by James Franklin, half-brother of the younger Ben Franklin. Ben Iearned printing from James, and later established his own paper, the "Pennsylvania Gazette," in Philadelphia. Later on the fanrous liberal. 'fhomas Paine. was editor of the Gazette.

I once knew an "1,1 -"" *n" ,", . t", ", fun out of trying to buy himself life insurance. although he was 85. He would corner a life insurance man and offer to buy insurance. When he told his age, the insurance man would, of course, back away. He was too old. he would declare. What difference did that make, the old man wanted to knolv. "You are too likely to die," the insurance man would explain. The old gentleman would sa,v: "1{ I were 25 vears old you'd sell me insurance, wouldn't you?" And when the insurance man admitted that he would, the old man would drive home his clinching argument-He would say: "Young man, didn't it ever occur to you that a hell of a lot more men die at the age of 25 than at the age of 85?"

Much talk about the "l"o,.ol".uor] -un." one speaker said there never was no such thing. Oh, friend I I'll have to take issue with you there! There rvere TWO. as a matter of fact, in this world's history; ADAM and NOAH. Stop and think lor a minute about the truth of that statement. Where l'ould we be without those two ?

Sthenever Voltaire said something, there was wisdom and power in it. Witness this little remark: "I envy the beasts two things; their ignorance of evil. and their ignorance of what is said about them."

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