Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-31
Trials Of tue Newspaper
 Game NOlUGddys

Uncertainties of the war, the steady in- crease in the shortage of the skilled labor required, the scarcity and increasing cost of raw materials, and the inability of pub fishers to get new and better mechanical equipment, has brought about an extraor- dinary situation in the newspaper and magazine world. An example of what is taking place in an industry vital to the wei fare of the nation and to the successful prosecution of the war against the enemies of the United States and her allies, is the decision to suspend the weekly magazine known as Every Week, published by the Crowell Co.,, in New York City.
 Although enjoying its greatest period of prosperity, and having more than 5OOOO0 readers, this periodical will pass out of existence on June 22, because the future, so far as the war is concerned, holds no promise of change in situation which makes the work of publication financially and mechanically prohibitive.
 In its announcement of suspension, Ev- cry Week says:
 France and England, which are three years ahead of us in their experience in the war, have had to sacrifice many of their oldest and best established periodicals. In this country almost every week brings news of some new discontinuance or con solidation. And so far as can be judged, these conditions are likely to grow more onerous rather than less so with the dura- ton of the war.
 The war has greatly increased the cost 1G L. ~,,.z ale tba+ tha publication of magazines. l. has made 1t difficult, if not actually impossible, to get the new and better mechanical equipment with which we had planned to enhance the physical appearance of the magazine. It seems to us wise, therefore, to adopt the sterner, if less easy course, and to discon- tinue Every Week while it is still strong and in full favor, rather than that 1t should languish under conditions that promise to grow worse before they can begin to i'm prove
 The New York Post comments on the above as follows:
 The publishers of Every Week had nothing further to add today to the fore going statement which, they said, ex- plained all of the reasons for its suspen- sion The same problems entering into the action of the Crowell Publishing Company confront the publishers of other magazines and those of every newspaper in the .cour- try While Every Week is financially able to continue publication, it is not so with others which are struggling under burdens that demand an extraordinary expenditure of patience and energy, and a measure oF courage perhaps no other calling or enter prise and usefulness has ever experienced
 The lot of the newspaper publisher grows more uncertain daily. Within very short period the price of paper has doubled and the most of raw materials almost trebled In addition, said New York pulp fisher, the problem of obtaining needed machinery to replace that grown obsolete or useless in service has become almost be- yond solution. Further, the publisher has the difficulties of circulation beyond the center of publication, due to railroad con- gestion and transportation uncertainties. and the new Postal Coming law, due to go into effect on July to contend with
 The newspaper publishing game has become practically that of the rich man ex- clusively, said newspaper publisher to- day. A poor man with the desire to share in the mission of enlightening his genera ton has no show at all In the old days all he had to do was to acquire a small press, buy a little paper, and spread his publica- ton broadcast Could he do it today? He certainly could not, even with the cost of paper, material and machinery left out of consideration.