Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-24
CONSERVATION OF PAPER
 ALMOST NATURAL DEMAND
S12o,0ooooo Wasted Every Year on
 Containers of Wood Fibre.

| Boston. July 23.-Every person in l the United States should be interest | ed in reducing the shortage of paper 1 the cost of paper. This is because ! they all are helping-possibly without realizing ito pay for the present high costs.
 forced to advance the prices for their newspapers and magazines. wrapping paper and bags and boxes cost the candy stora, the groceryman more and everyone who sells goods contain ed in them more-and, lastly, the pub lie pays. Secretary of Commerce Redfield has appealed to> the people of the country to save old newspapers in order to help relieve the situation and the national government is un- derstood to be contemplating further steps to conserve the supply and reg ulate prices.
 Every newspaper publisher, no mat ter whether he owns a great city daily, a suburban weekly a coun- try paper and all who buy papers and paper should realize that he is paying his part, directly or indirectly. If he pays another cent for his newspaper he probably realizes it; if his sugar bundle on Saturday night costs him
 cent more probably he doesn't know what part the wrapper plays
 Prices are excessively high-some- thing like twice normal for news some papers or nall a Inll-
 lion or so daily circulation are paying
 at the rate of $1 000 900 more for their
 paper than they were a few years
 ago. This is great burden, espec-
 ially in these times of high labor costs
 and high prices generally. Some pa
 pers have been forced to go out of
 business as a result; others are mak-
 ing little or nothing.
 While the great newspapers of the
 largest cities are paying out extra
 money by the hundred thousands for
 paper and the smaller ones are pay
 ing more in proportion to their circu-
 forced to go up on their prices. nota-
 bly, the one-cent dailies; magazines
 jumped long ago.
 A remedy was sought through the government-and with some success but under present conditions prob ably further action will be taken. There are some men who believe that there is available one oppor- tunity to stop at least a large part of the waste every year of pulp sup plies. They claim that si2o, ,ooo, 900 is wasted each year on containers of
 wood and fibre, which might much better be ground into pulp for pa per, so far as continuous usefulness after completing a single trip. This waste has grown tremendously | in the past few years. The volume it | now has assumed may be shown | clearly when one takes into consid- eration the exports of paper and pulp | wood from Canada For the year ending in July, 1916. s21,67s,S6s worth | of paper and $4,S65, ,266 worth of pulp and pulp wood were exported. Of | these totals the United States re- ceived eighty-eight per cent of the paper and eighty seven per cent. of ! the pulp. The point of interest, how l ever, Is that there was spent for l boxes and fibre containers-alI thrown
 away after one trip-s12o, 100000 or
 roughly twice the value of all the Ca | nadian paper and pulp exports. This is worthy of the most careful consid- eration-that the United States 1 throws away each pear on contain CTS twice as much as the value of all ! exports of one of the Dominion's lead | ing industries.
 | It has been said by William G. Groom, traffic manager of the Whita-
 ker Paper company Gin an address be- I fore the Industrial Club of Covington ky.) that a single Sunday edition of some of the New York newspapers consumes the pulp from fifteen acres
 of forest trees or 7so acres of trees 1 for one years Sunday editions of only enc of the great newspapers. Proba- | ply the same paper would require about one-fourth as much for it's daily editions on the average, and if this | be then in enc year nearly 2.OOO acres of forest trees would have to l be cut down and reduced to pulp to meet the needs of a single newspa per l of the largest circulation.
 With many thousands of newspa- pers to be provided for and with the other enormous demands for pulp and | paper it would seem indisputable that anything that will help conserve the | supply should be adopted, if it is economical and practical.
 An indestructible container would ] largely eliminate the waste on one 1 trip boxes. It could be used over l and over and. if strongly built sure 1 ly would save the railroads hundreds of thousands of dollars annually paid