Evening star., 1916-09-02
COSTS Of PRODUCTION
HURT SCHOOL PAPERS

That editors OF local school papers
Will be ..up against it, this coming school
year may he seen from statements from
Washington printers.
The class of paper generally used hy
the school papers has increased abous
100 per cent The price of engraving also
has taken . jump upward. Then, too.
handlers OF school printing are not sure
how long the supply of paper aNailahi"
for school puhlica tions viii last.
Paper generally used for school papers
is increasing in price about e-qusries
of a cent a pound every week. accordin-.
10 Frank J. Howard. president OF ihc
Columbian Printing Company. which pub.
lished the Balance Sheet and the East
erner OF Business and Eastern High
schools, respectively, last year,
Cost Much Increased.
He took one instance in the in
creased cost OF production the Balance
Sheet. Last year this paper put out
thirty-two- page issue. rule. costins
$40 for paper and printing alone Mr.
Howard said thai this same size magazine
for the next school year will cost from
So to S25 more.
Tech Life. the Mckinley Manual Trainiug
High School hi-weekly newspa per gave
out . statement to the same effect one
commodity that has not gone up. accord
ing 10 this firm. is labor. IL Ia bor Should
increase in cost, il is probable that ,hr
production of a paper next year wouid
double in expense over last year.
Tech Life was the only high school
paper in the country of its size that pl,t
copies out for sale at ! cent each. The
paper was usually Of eight pages and had
a circulation of nearly . 1000. being sold
in the other local high schools This
publication could continue TO place III.
same class of an issue out for sale fOi
cents and meet the increased cost or
production that way without hurting its
circulation.
Although engraving materials haze
increased in price the I.anman En-
craving Company. which has been tie
headquarters for school engraving for
a number of years. Will not advance the
cost of engraving to any extent. ac-
cording to J. Maxon Cunningham. u
member of the firm. He stated that
school papers are given estimates for
their work on which there is almost
no profit. This coming year the schools
will get their work done by this COM
pany almost at cost.
Prospect for This Year.
Last year the majority of local school
cially, even with, in all cases. an in
creased circulation and increased vol
umes of advertising. owing TO the rise
in the cost of production then. II Is
iehly improbable that with the eXcep-
tion of the Review of Central High
School there will be any increases III
| circulation among these papers this
coming year. The Review may expect
a big jump in circulation if the neyv
Central High School building is opened.
| with a possible corresponding decrease
| among the papers of the other schools
! The Balance Sheet. of Business High
School. led last year in advertising, but
| only after tremendous efforts had been
made by its solicitors. \ decrease in
/. the volume of advertising is the onl,.
thing that can be expected this Coming
year. for business men in Washington
are becoming more and more unwilling
| to buy space in school papers.
| 1t may be said, therefore. that in
| creas ased cost Of production and to soII3a
extent lack of capital may work 4
/ hardship among the local school pa
! pers. which for many years have beca
| an interesting feature of high school
| life The publishing of newspaper
| such is the case at the Mckiiles
Manual Training High School mas
prove the most popular remedy al
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