Printing Luncheon Page 2 A letterhead, an invoice, a billboard poster, our newspapers and magazines, and the innumerable brochures, maps and pamphlets put out by public agencies and private industry all help to "sell" San Francisco, and the fine quality of work that is the uniform output of our printing industry is a credit to San Francisco. In private life I am in the construction business, although I must confess that in recent weeks this claim has been challenged by my associates in the company even more than it was before I became President of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Recently I was reviewing the proofs of our Annual Report to Stockholders before it went to the printer, and it contained a series of three photographs taken on a railroad rehabilitation project that we are performing in Korea. The first picture showed 4 husky Koreans struggling to carry a single heavy rock in a sling. The second picture showed a Korean driving a small mine car filled with muck and pulled along the rails by an ox. The third picture by contrast showed tons of earth being moved by huge Euclid trucks. Here we can compare man's progress in some measure - man as a beast of burden, man utilizing the wheel and an animal to extend his carrying capacity, and finally man utilizing the latest equipment, born of the discovery and application of knowledge, employing a mechanized monster to move mountains. In the construction industry we are constantly searching for bigger and better tools to make man's work easier. In the place of the hand shovel and the strong back, we have huge power shovels that can do the work of armies of men. Best of burden - whether human or animal - are being quickly replaced by far more efficient mechanized units. Because of the type of work that we are in, we tend to think of all things as tools that help to get the job done, and it strikes me that, perhaps of all tools that man has invented, the most important is that of the art of printing, for here we are dealing