The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-06
Some Facts the Jeffersonians' Friends
Should Know.

LEGATIONS have been issued, regularly, and
in the manner which their Editor adopted
with his first venture.
The price of each was placed at a purely
nominal figure, and it has only been because
the Editor-in- Chief drew no salary, that the
periodicals have been able to keep up to their
standard, without raising the price, or cutting
down the size of either.
When the European war was first begun,
we of the United States had little idea that
we would be affected, appreciably, In any OF
our mercantile phases, but we were so igno-
rant as a people, we did not realize that we
were absolutely dependent on Europe for as
many Of our almost necessities as it seems to
be proven each day that we are
The matter of dyes has affected many in
dustries, but dies are not what one would call
absolute necessities, and we will manage to
make shift with the United States substitutes
until our scientists can get tn hang of making
dyes, and then all will be well with us.
But there were other things besides dyes,
and one of these was the pulp out of which
pape ris made The scarcity of this pulp in
the United States, the little our manufactures
seemed to know about making it as cheaply
and as we'll as the Europeans made it, hit
every print shop, whether daily paper weekly
paper, book bindery, OF whatever branch of
the printers trade that had to use paper.
At first the rise in price was slight; as the
war progressed, the advance was more acute.
When it became a certainty that the war was
to be no thirty day, nor sixty day, nor one
years length, the manufacturers In this coun-
try became alarmed and their alarm was so
keen it ran tn price of print paper up with
the rapdity of thermometer bulb in the sun.
In exact figures, the advance on carload
of the ordinary news stock which The JEFF
fersonian Company publishes its weekly
paper on, is 5000, and the advices from the
mills are to the effect that no more can be
shipped even at that figure
Stereotype tissue that has been bought in
the market for $1.85 per ream is now quoted
at IS, and at that figure even is scarce
The Jefersonian Publishing Company has
never made money, because that was not the
object of the founder In starting his publica-
tons; it has been run at what would have
been loss, had he not had other sources of
income.
The Company has always employed Union
labor, and has paid the highest Union price
of wages, has always run on full time, and
has never, since the day the first wheel was
turned, missed paying its entire force off, in
full. every Saturday.
When the club offer was started, wages
were as high as they are now, in The Jefer
sonian plant, but supplies were not.
1t is not even considered to cut down the
wage Of a single employee, but it has become
absolutely necessary for the Company to
abolish the club offer and hereafter to place
the publications on the strictly 81 per year
basis
Tile club offer acW be qcithdraacn April 27.
This is done only after the matter has been
fully considered; for the past month, the
operating expenses of the Company have been
50 much over the actual receipts as to cause
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