The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-02-23
WILL BENEFIT
IOWA MAGAZINES
Postmaster General Hitchcock Is
sues Statement Of Explanation.
ONLY FOUR ARE HIT BY RAISE
Twenty-six Others Would Be Allowed
to Carry Advertisements, Here
tofore Prohibited, While Rest
Are Unaffected.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. 22.-Spe-
cial: Postmaster General Hitchcock
has issued statement in which he
states that but four Iowa publications
will be affected, except in a beneficial
way, by the proposed increase of post
age on periodicals and magazines. On
the other hand, says the postmaster
general, twenty-six Iowa publications
will be benefited in that they will be
permitted to carry advertising hereto.
fore prohibited. The postmaster gen.
eral refers to scientific, professional
and fraternal journals.
The statement issued by the post
master general is as follows: From
an analysis of the 1853 periodicals 9th.
er than newspapers, journals and the
like published in Iowa and admitted
to the mails as second class matter
with the privilege of carrying adver-
tisements, it appears that only four of
them will be subjected to an increase
in postage by the proposed amendment
in the pending postal bill that in
creases the postage rate on the adver.
Using pages of magazines.
Newspapers Not Affected.
THE higher rate does not apply to
newspapers of any kind, including farm
journals and similar publications that
print current information of news
value, nor does it affect periodicals
that mail less than 1000 pounds at
each issue, as happens to be the case
with every one except four of the 1853
general periodicals and publications of
Iowa. On the other hand the pro-
posed legislation will grant for the
rest OF the twenty-six periodicals pub
lished in Iowa the right to carry adj
vertisements which they could not do
heretofore. .t ..>.@.}
These twentyrsix periodicals, list
of which follows fall into the cate
CORY of periodicals admitted to the
class without the advertising privilege
under the act of, July 16, 1894, and
comprising the publications of incor-
porated institutions of learning, of fra.
ternal, scientific and professional So
Cieties, etc. AS these twenty-six peri
odicals all mail less than 1000 pounds
an issue, the postage on their adver-
Using pages will be at the present
rate of l cent pound. 1t is therefore
apparent that so far as the periodical
publications of Iowa are concerned,
with four exceptions, the postage rate
provision in the pending postage bill
will carry pnly hpDpfitS
Periodicals Benefited.
The following Iowa periodicals, ad.
mitted as second class mail without
the advertising privilege under the
act of July 16, 1894, are granted, the
right to carry advertisements by the
provision in the pending postal bill:
American Noble, Waterloo, month
ly; Amity College Bulletin, College
Springs, quarterly; Charles City Col
lege Bulletin, Charles City, bimonthly;
Cornell College Bulletin, Mount Yer.
non, bimonthly; Degree of Honor It'd
ings of Iowa, Shenandoah, monthly;
Ellsworth College Bulletin, Iowa Falls,
bimonthly; Fraternal Bankers Bulle.
tin, Cedar Rapids, monthly; Graceland
College Bulletin, Lamont, quarterly
Grinnell Review, Grinnell, monthly;
Herald, The Cedar Rapids, monthly;
Industrial Echo, Eldora, monthly; Iowa
College of Agriculture and the Me.
chanic Arts Bulletin, of Ames, month
ly; Leander Clark College Bulletin
Toledo, quarterly; Lenox College Bull
letin, Hopkinton, monthly; Memorial
University Bulletin, Mason City, quar-
terly; Perry Normal College Bulletin
Perry, monthly; Seminary Record
Usage, quarterly: Simpson College OF
Indianola, bimonthly; Seminary Bulle
tin, st. Angar, quarterly; Still College
of Osteopathy. Des Moines, monthly;
yerein Bote, Waverly, monthly; Wal
dorf College Bulletin, Forest City
quarterly; Norwegian Woman and
Home. Cedar Rapids, monthly; Swed
ish Woman and Home, Cedar Rapids
monthly: Womanhood, Cedar Rapids
monthly"