PUBLISHING AND LABOUR
Sut,—Mr. L. J. Cormack's invocation of Euclid does not meet the point I sought to make. Euclid, if 1 remember rightly, submitted no proposi- tion to the effect that the less included the greater. It may be that additional paper would be helpful to publishers of school books, or some of them, but my point related to the article in your issue dealing with shortage in supply of books in general and its suggestion that this was due to lack of paper. On more than one occasion my bookseller has given as a reason for not being able to supply a book that want of binding was the cause. A printer of books has informed me that want of paper has never held him up but want of labour has. Individual cases vary. The broad fact appears to be that paper, printing and binding are all factors to be taken into account in explaining the shortage and that relief in one direction alone will not solve the difficulty.—Yours faithfully,.
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