El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-01-11
PAPER SAVING
WAVE IS HERE
Large Stores and Other Con
Germs Economic on
Precious Article.
Nv LANES RFDDNC.

Increased price OF paper and the
scarcity o. the product IS causing
heads OF Fl Paso business houses 10
work out problems whereby they can
reduce their paper expense TO the fig
ures that prevailed before the war.
Remedies for the enormous paper ex-
Penses are being experimental with
and a general move 10 conserve paper
is being made.
Merchants say that the increased pa
per expense is enormous and they are
having difficulty in having their or
cause of the scarcity.
Orders have been issued generally
10 employees TO save every scrap Of pa
per In instances. paper is being used
Two and three times over. This is eS-
pecially a fact in the case with heavy
wrapping paper.
Popular Considers Problem.
Al the Popular Dry Goods comDany's
store. which uses probably as large a
quantity Of paper as any other bust
ness house I'm the city. a careful study
OF the paper famine problem IS being
made by president A Schwartz and
other officials Of the store. Mr.
SchwartS said Thursday that at the
present time he has not been struck
ny the paper famine or increas SEQ Daper
expense because Of having secured A
quantity in the past which will last the
store for months TO come. Neverthe-
less. ne Is devising means to meet the
future scarcity and TO keep down the
inevitable increased cost OF me- pro-
duct which viii come when his present
supply is diminished
one OF the remedies which will
probably help TO cut down the extray-
agant use OF paper. which we now have
under consideration, is sboIishing the
wrapping OF goods which regularly
come In boxes. said Nj Schwartz
This can be done with shoes and any
number Of other articles which we sell
ANY number of stores throughout tho
west have placed this remedy into
practice and IL is proving one of the
means OF ecOnomizing in paner We
have not yet found it necessary to do
this in our store. but we NAV be re-
CURED 10 II the paper famine continues.
Are REFUSING Paper.
Another remedy which We have now
in practice is the reusing of paper. Ev-
cry DIT OF wrapping paper which comes
70 us from manufacturers is saved in
our store We use this in making
shipments of our goods to other places
We have found that this is being done
generally throughout the country by
both wholesalers and retailers
An indirect means which we are
using to cut down our paper expense
IS to save every scrap OF waste paper.
This We bale and are now using for
tueL il has helped to cut down our
fuel expense ana for a period of two
days during the recent fuel famine i'm
Fl Paso. We burned only paper in our
furnaces. because we were unable 10
secure coal When it is considered that
our furnaces consume from one to two
tons Of coal day. you can see what a
saving the waste paper made for us"
Telegraph Blanks Saved.
At the Postal Telegraph Gable office
manager g =. Miller is working to cut
down the huge paper expense Of the
company. Instead Of the reckless waste
of blanks which was experienced in the
past every piece Of paper is being
saved. Paper which has been partly
used is being clipped and used for note
paper
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany is condensing space on telegraph
blanks by using the single space IN
ypeUritiug messages Instead Of the
double spacing formerly used. This
has proved considerable saving in the
use of blanks.
The Tri-State Telephone company
has been forced to use a cheaper grade
Of paper in its directory because of the
scarcity and the increased cost of high
grade paper. II is now devising means
TO Ootain whatever economy possible
in the use Of paper in order to cut
down this high expense.