The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-08-13
FAMINE
IS GAUSINGCUT
NEWSPAPERS
Size Is Decreased and ECOnO-
mics Are Forced to Avert
a Crisis.

d OlISlSs
NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-Unless there
is a curtailment of waste of news
print paper-sayings that can be ef-
Iected only by reducing the size OF
newspapers, refusing unsold copies
and cutting off the drain of exchanges
newspapers OF the United States will
be on the bread line, ~fguratIyely
speaking. They will be compelled TO
take their material on allotment, re-
ceiving no more than manufacturers
can give from vanishing supplies.
That a famine in news print paper
will result within a few months un-
less these economies are effected was
the prediction Of paper manufactur-
ers recently.
TO Avert a Crisis.
Only a outstanding Of resources by
by the papers themselves, particularly
those of New York can stave off the
crisis, it was admitted throughout the
trade. Therefore the announcement
printed in newspapers Of limiting the
news dealers supplies strictly to
sales and the agreement Of publishers
of Manhattan to decrease the size OF
the papers met with approval.
At the present time in the United
States and Canada fifty mills are work
Ing three shifts of men eight hours
daily and six days a week. Their out
put for June-the last compilation
was 140,151 tons, representing 1914
per cent of their maximum production.
The highest efficiency ever attained in
the industry. This output represents
an increase Of $1,000 tons a month
over the mark for June, 1915, but even
this tremendous Increase has been in
sufficient to feed the demand. Full
production has had to be augmented
by 5000 tons more a day, which was
drawn from a rapidly depicting re-
serve stock.
Surplus Gradually SlrinkS.
= Surplus stock has been swallowed
up at this rate for several months
now. At the end of June only 65,194
tons remained in storehouscs that
at the same time last year held 49,
9ot toiiS' II MINIMUM 10 III 81
appreciation OF %1lcn lacV piouen .ae
ment recently. We're production
to cease today there is not enough
paper stored to keep newspapers alive
for ten days. IL has been necessary
Tor the puDhsherS mutual Soou anu
n beneht Oh the news Ieaulns p1D-
lie TO curl the tenGency vo""!u E ~,
creaslng the Sl1c oN papers az '"'
time OF the year
The fgures cltea nere Ior June TL'
take a cohsiueTaOle auNalce ~ w.,
tooer' usuaIly lne pahleL LloLtN !"
the newspaper year AS a RUE thS c!-
ulatlon increases IN the IAN All "u-
vertising Keeps apace VIII II. AS a
result more pages nave " pe auuou
TO the dally paper anu Iie 9unu"E pa.
per takes on unusual DUN. Niluvnt
the measures taken ny puDllsnors 'al'
fails increase "oIIu wipe out 'nt w.
tai proGuctioh aIa 'ne reseL'e SUN
1t may be Dy tne pu1aiU'
why dld not tne paper llaluLac'GI-
ers anticipate tnS ~
crease in demand% Iney 90, So lar US
it was humaniy posslDie 10 SrtlclPase
conditions. since June lyIo, lugIe
has been aooeo 10 tne mII4s ot tnIs
country CANADA htteeh per Geht
more facllltles lot turning "oou lnto
paper. When orders were given II
seemed ~according TO the nalulac'Ia-
ers, an extremely risky venture 10 ~
stall additional machinery On conaI,
lions temporarily roseate. ~ was iv,t
demand tor war news mLsnl acgogns
for the greater call loE papeL anu q
cessation OF me wal posSlo!y VIZ"
bring an emu 10 tne sLo"lns GJ.ii",luG,
Yet the machinery was inaIa.ieu anu