Excerpt from Practical Printing: Explaining the Ways and Means of Production in the Modern Printing PlantThe mercenary motives of some unscrupulous employers are too frequently responsible for the indifferent qualifi cations of commonplace journeymen. The ambitious young man should be advised of this. If he is continu ously assigned to the duties of an office porter or an errand boy with the promise of a trade as a subterfuge his four or five years of apprenticeship may grant him a journey man's title of very ordinary value.Some twenty years ago an unpromising lad entered the employ of one of Pennsylvania's most successful pub lishers. In less than a week it was discovered that the boy was utterly unfitted for the trade. He lacked the necessary common school education and he was not of the bent and stuff productive of good printers. He was unceremoniously discharged with the laconic advice to seek employment in a blacksmith shop. This printshop sarcasm was accepted in a literal sense. Today, the dis charged printers' apprentice is a man of af¿uence and wealth and the products of his wagon-shop are known to every user of heavy vehicles in the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.