The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-12

the present circumstances, they have
been unable to accumulate the re-
serve stock. A very large amount OF
newsprint paper has been shipped
abroad at fancy prices. The same
situation prevails in respect to vari-
GUS other kinds of paper and some
mills have found it more profitable to
discontinue the manufacture of news
print and engage in the manufactures
Of tissue, box board, etc.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers Association declares that the
manufacturers are guilty of consplra-
cy in restraint or trade, and the Fede-
raj government is conducting an inves
tigation which will result in a report
to Congress. rney find that they
cannot get paper from any other
source than the mill which is now
supplying them. Competition is, there
fore, entirely eliminated. Further
more, the mills refuse to make CON
tracts 70 r future supplies. AS fast as
the publishers contracts expire this
year, they are in formed
that they can get no contract
IL. hext years businegs. Their pres
"ot source of supply vii. undertake TO
GeIver them newsp.iat paper suffici-
Ont to insure publication of their
newspapers, but the dhlishes must
| pay the market price from month TO
EiCnth.
TIE price heretofore has been
about $40 ton at the mills. The
market price today Is from $40 to
$50 a ton. Newspaper face the pros
poet of a tremendous increase in the
cost OF newsprint next year. The
newspaper using, say, two thousand
tons OF paper year will cxpend any
whore from $4,000 to $4,000 more
for paper next year, should this con-
dition continue. The publishers hope
to see the combination, or the condi-
ton, or whatever II is that is causing
this tremendous increase broken be-
fore the end OF the year. The manu-
facturers admit that the actual in
crease broken before the end of the
year. The manufacturers admit that
the actual increase in the cost of pro-
duction is $40 ton, whereas the in
crease in price which they are
| asking is $50 ton. Newspaper pub
fishers for some months have been
making desperate efforts to conserve
the supply by running fewer pages,
eliminating returns, putting off free
copies and in other ways doing away
with the increased cost of newsprint
waste. Some publishers claim that
means little short of bankruptcy to
them. There has been a general adj
vance in advertising rates through,
out the country, and large number
of one-eent newspapers have a,
q cf price to two cents.
The American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association and other news
paper organizations are presenting
| facts to the Federal Trade Commits
sion to demonstrate that the news
print manufacturers are taking adj
vantage of the situation to force tho
publishers to buy only of the mills
where they are apportioned at the
| exorbitant prices fixed by the man-
ufacturers. The representatives of
the mills however, reply that the de-
mand for newsprint has been so great
| that there could be no competition
and that, obeying The law IF supply
and demand, they are legally entitled
to secure the long y -, 1t is shown
that earnings on newsprit paper have
| averaged 40 OF so -; cent. and the
stock OF the conc us has jumped by
leaps and bounds of lac The business
is so profitable thar new mills are he
Ing erected which will bring it about
500 new tonnage into the market next
rring. when it is hoped that the situa-
ton viii be relieved.
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1.-THE MOST HEATHEN."