New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-06
Fromk Dogs Dream

Frank Day, Of the Fairmont Sentinel,
one of the best known of all Minnesota
editors, has dream, and it's a good
dream at that. Mr.. Day proposes that
the State Board of Control build a
paper mill and supply Minnesota news
papers, and in fact all publishers and
printers in this state, with it's products,
State Reformatory inmates furnishing
the labor. The board now has a Irvine
factory at the state prison, from which
the farmers of the state have saved
thousands upon thousands of dollars
in the purchase of binding Irvine. 1t
also manufactures farm machinery, from
which large sums will eventually be
saved to Minnesota agriculturalists.
Mr.. Day has put the proposition up
to the board and that body apparently
is of one mind, the members promptly
saying:
"Fine business, but we'll have to have
authority from the legislature first
Of course there will be objections to
the attempt to induce the state to manu-
facture paper, just as there was when
it was proposed to manufacture binding
Irvine, but if the newspaper men will
pull together just as the farmers did
there will be no trouble to overcome all
the objections.
The high price of paper mot only
affects the newspaper men themselves,
but their customers as well. Many or
most newspaper publishers will be o.
bliged to increase their subscription and
advertising rates, and some of the weaker
ones will of necessity 60 out of business
entirely, if prices continue to climb as
they have in the past, and there is GER
tainly no evidence Of let up in that
direction.
The three English dailies in Mime
apolis have been notified that their
contracts for white paper for 1917 will
be renewed, but at an advance of 1922
a ton over that of the present year.
with January l, they will
pay $62 a ton where now they are pay
ing but $4O Added to this they must
pay the freight and carriage charges,
which heretofore have been borne by
the paper manufacturers. The cost of
white paper alone to the three English
dailies, the Tribune, Journal and News,
will reach an an aggregate of between
100000 and 100000. This means
that the metropolitan papers Of the state
must curtail in every possible way,
and also raise their subscription and
advertising rates. What affects Minnea-
polls, not only affects the entire state,
but the whole country.
In discussing the proposal to establish
a paper mill by the state, Mr.. Day says:
''The proposition is entirely practi-
cable and simple.
Minnesota owns in her own right,
millions of acres of virgin forests which
contain all the raw material for all the
paper used in Minnesota. In those
forests are embarrassed water powers,
enough to move the machinery of the
largest plant in the state.
I'm the State Reformatory are hum
dreds of men who could be utilized to a
tremendous advantage in lifting bur
den from the newspaper fraternity in
Minnesota, and at the same time furnish
them healthful and profitable employ
ment.
''The proposition is one that should
appeal not only to every member of the
legislature and the governor, but to
every taxpayer in Minnesota, because
the Infamous extortions of the paper
trust, affects, either directly or indirect
ly every one in the state"
Mr.. Day, who has taken the initiative
in the matter, will be assisted by many
able men, both in and out Of the news
paper fraternity. 1t is proposed to
ask Governor Burnquist to deal with
the question in his annual message to
the legislature, when it convenes next
month. If he does not, and there is no
reason to believe but he will, committees
will probably go to the legislature direct
and demand that the request be granted.
The Presidents Message.