Newport daily independent., 1918-09-24

The following is the order received from the War Industries Board of the United States Government by the Newport Independent.
 To Publishers of Daily and Sunday Newspapers:
 The Priorities Board of the War Industries Board has listed Paper Mills as an essential industry, and has rated thep in Fourth Class for prority for coal, on the distinct un- derstanding that the greatest possi- ble economy in the use of paper be exercised and that the reduction in the use of paper by the newspapers shall be fifteen per cent on week day editions and twenty per cent on Sunday editions.
 Each paper mill be put upon the priority list for coal, conditional up- on their signng a pledge that they VII furnish no paper to any consumer who will not also sign pledge in du- plicate that he will exercise the greatest possible economy in the use of paper, and will observe all the rules and regulations of the Conser- vation Division and of the Pulp and Paper Section of the War Industries Board. These pledges are now being prepared and will be furnished short 1 ly. One copy will be left on file with the mill and the other will be sent to ths office.
 The War Committee of Newspaper Publishers believe that this curtail- ment should be accomplished by the l elimination of all wastefukD practices and by the reduction of size of all newspapers, and to this end have made the following recommendations to the Pulp and Paper Section of the War Industries Board. If by Octo- her 1st, 1918, the above reductions are not accomplished, additional curtail- ment VII be put into effect at that time.
 These recommendations have beer accepted by the Pulp and Paper Sec 1 tion of the War Industries Board as controlling the weekday and Sunday newspapers.
 Wasteful Pratice of Circulation.
 (Effective Immediately 1. Discontinue the acceptance of ths
 return of unsold copies. I Exceptions: Employees of newspa
 pers who are employed directly a the home office by a newspaper
 as wholesale distributors to news
 boys, news agents and news stands
 may return unsold copies, provided
 such unsold copies have not been il the possession of retail dealers I news stands or news boys. Sucl
 employees cannot take back, unde
 any considereration, papers whicl
 already have been distributed fo
 sale.
 2. Discontinue sending papers afte date of expiration of subscription
 unless subscription is renewed am I paid for. (This ruling to be effec
 tive October i, 1918.)
 3. Discontinue the use of all sam 1 ples or free promotion copies. 4. Discontinue giving to anybody ex
 cept for office-w working copies O l where required by statute law il l the case of official advertising l Exceptions:
 Copies may be given free to em ployees of newspapers if such f
 the present practice of the office. Copies may be given free to formel
 employees who are in the war ser
 vice, and copies may be sent fre'
 to camp libraries of institutions recognized by the government
 such as Y M. c. A., K. of c. etc | Copies should not be sent to indi
 vidual soldiers unless formerly em
 ployed by the newspaper.
 Copies may be sent to the Library o
 Congress and to State and othei l public libraries which will agree t'
 bind or otherwise permanently pre-
 serve the files of the paper als' I to government departmenetal libra I ries.
 ' Copies may be given free in return
 for actual services rendered. Copies may be sent to clipping bu
 reaus which render an equivalen
 service to the newspapers.
 Copies for service purposes only ma.
 be sent free to newspapers cor
 respondents and press bureaus. l ,. Discontinue giving free copies t N advertisers, except not more tha one copy each for checking pur poses.
 Exoaptious.