Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-03-30
SAVE WASTE PAPER"

Secretary Redfeld, of the department Of commerce, has cireu-
larized the country with an admonition to save the waste paper and
rags, in view of the probable shortage Of paper.
Secretary Redheldys suggestion is timely, no doubt, for the price
News could alay down in WATERFOWL common print paper for a a
trihe above two cents a pound, if taken in carload lots. Today the
price runs close to three cents at the factory, and, if the advance
months hence will command four or five cents a pound.
An increase of two cents a pound on white paper for newspaper
purposes would mean in the course Of a years subscription for a
weekly newspaper Of the size OF The Saturday News, an additional
list of two thousand would find It's increased cost for white paper to
be about a dollar a day for each working day Of the year.
1t will not be surprising, therefore, if the subscription rates of
many of the daily papers, and perhaps some of the weeklies. be per
cephbly advanced within the near future. The difference in the
cost of the paper may represent, in many cases, the entire profits.
Take, for instance, a paper like the Daily ArgusLeader at Sioux
Falls, which, in comparison with some of the great daily newspapers
of the country, has but small circulation, yet it's ten thousand sub
scribers are costing it, for white paper alone, at present prices, an
average of fourteen dollars a day more than three months ago. This,
in the course of a your, would approximate four thousand dollars.
Ii paper advances again, the proportion will be still greater
But, speaking Of saving the waste paper, there isn't much in it,
Gently The Saturday News had five thousand pounds of waste paper
on hand-the scraps and trimmings from its presses and the wrap
pings from various packages. 1t was neatly baled, and the baling
was done as a matter of = getting rid of the waste and to guard
against fire, etc. The five thousand pounds Of waste cost all the way
from two cents to twenty-five cents a pound. The lot cost The Sat
urday News a sum in the neighborhood Of five hundred dollars. Yet
The Saturday News derived the munifcent sum Of three dollars and
ten cents for the five thousand pounds.
Hereafter, unless therei s some object in saving the waste, the
iannor has instructions to burn i, nights and mornings, in The cool
spring days We could have derived more than three dollars and
ten cents worth of heat out Oft.
The only institutions that derive any profit from the saving of
waste paper, at prices heretofore prevailing, are the railroads that
transport 1T and possibly the paper factory that buys it-and we are
not at all certain about the factory profits, nor the railroad profits,
either, for that matter All we know--actually know-about it is
hat the institution which has been baling it never sees either the
inside or the outside Of profit in the transaction.
Boss Barnes is said to have determined to stay away from the
convention, fearing that Teddy may be nominated anyway. Boss
Penrose IS sid to have determined TO place nothing in Teddys way.
And yet The Saturday News is willing to go a last years hat against
4 peanut that Teddy won't be nominated.
We don't know why those fellows who sshave it IN for Teddy
50 conspicuouay should seriously object to his nomination. II what
they assume to be true proves to be true, it would be an easy way
OF gettng rid OF Teddy as a great political factor.