The Punta Gorda herald. [volume] (Punta Gorda, Fla.) 1893-1958, 1918-07-04
Depressing the Newspapers

veStmentS and all OF them are
generously contributing of their
space and best brain efforts to-
wards helping to win the war.
Notwithstanding this fact, begin
ming July / postal regulations will
become effective that add yet
greater burdens both in the way
of labor and expense. We hope it
may not be regarded as unpa-
triotic if we warn the govern
ment against killing the goose
that laid the golden egg Area
dia News.
If, after this issue, you fail to
find as much free matter boosting
Liberty Loans, War Savings
Stamps, Red Cross campaigns,
! etc, you will know that we are
out trying to dig up the necessary
wherewithal to pay the extortion-
ate tolls levied by the paper trust,
which the government commits
sion" could find no means Of sub
DUNG or controlling, and to pay
the increased postage exacted by
a Every Appreciative" Congress
as token of their respect for
those who gave while others were
grating, profteering and de-
handing inflated prices from the
government and the people. It's
nice to be patriotic, bighearted
and liberal but in this instance
the newspapers certainly "get it
in the neck. Frost Proof News.
On July LIST the new rates for
postage for newspapers go into eff
feet. This will make our postage
largely more than it has been We
are going to bear the burden as
best we can, but it means we will
have to bear down harder on col
lections for subscriptions. With
the price Of paper and postage
both more than doubled during
the past two years, newspapers
are hard hit. We are not going
to raise subscription rates, if we
can help it; but we must insist
that our subscribers pay more
promptly, than many Of them
have been doing If you are in
arrears, please settle up without
waiting for us to send YOU state
ment.-Bartow Record.
Really it seems beyond belief
that any civilized country that ia
vors education could enact so
idiotic law as that measure
which regulates the postage on
second-class matter throughout
the United States. The project
has been condemned by every
reputable publication in the u
nited States, as one that will re-
suit in suppressing many publica-
lions, lessening the influence of
greater number, and depriving
millions of citizens of source of
education which can in no other
way be supplied. After all the
good the press of the United
States has done in the advance
ment for war preparedness Burle-
sons bill for the killing of infu-
ence of the press shows a mind
narrow, bias most pronounced,
and an ignorance that is peculiar
ly nauseous when found in a pub |
lie official. And that whatever. |
Thorn, in Palm Beach Post.
The Palmetto News announces /
that it will print four to eight |
pages each week according to the
patronage it receives. A great !
many papers over the state will |
be forced to do the same. The |
Bradentown Journal has reduced |
to SIX pages and the Manatee Ban
ner to four. With the increased |
cost of paper, labor and every
thing connected with newspaper
plant, and the government impos-
ing heavy postal rates on all pub
locations, the first of the year will |
probably see the price of both
subscriptions and advertising
raised in all newspaper Offices
Sarasota Times.