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Image 5 of The Camas Hot Springs exchange (Camas, Mont.), October 3, 1940

VOLUME IS NUMBER SI HE Camas Hot Springs Exchange HARRY L BILUNGS EDITOR EDNA B GANNAWAY Owner at A Weekly Newspaper published every Thursday I wwm at Gamas Montana Under the Act of Congress of March 3 137 1 YEAR In State 200 6 months in state SIOO 1 YEAR out of state 235 6 Months out of state 135 I wholly disagree with what you say but I win defend to the death jour right to say it Voltaire EDITORIALS carried in the Exchange The Thompson Falls Ledger and a number of other papers In Montana on why the expenses of school districts should be published have started many people to thinking about the matter They reason that if it is proper for incor porated towns and for counties to publish annually a statement of in come and expenses then likewise it is equally proper that school dis tricts also give an accounting This desire for information on board expenditures becomes even greater when people consider that a good ly portion of each state and county tax dollar directly or indirectly finds Its way into our education system That this desire for information by the taxpayers doesnt seem out

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Library of Congress1940

Image 2 of Carbon County news (Red Lodge, Mont.), September 6, 1940

American Newspaperdom Joins in Honoring Johann Gutenberg Who Gave the World the Invention of Printing From Movable Type By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union HE American press dur ing 1940 is paying hom age to Johann Guten berg who 500 years ago in a little workshop in the free city of Strasbourg now in Germany invented the art that makes possible the mod ern newspaper Gutenbergs inventionthe discovery of a technique for casting from lead individual types bearing individual let ters which can be arranged into lines for the printing of words and sentencesmakes it possible for you to read what is on this page Citywide celebrations honor ing the father of printing in which newspapers are actively participating are being held dur ing the year 1940 throughout the western hemisphere as the result of the outstanding promotional Work of Douglas C McMurtrie chairman of the Invention of Printing Anniversary committee for the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen an organization made up of 6000 printing foremen and superin tendents and leaders of other graphic arts groups T The significance of Gutenbe r gs invention can best be evaluated by looking backward into the world before the

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