The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-08-22
RECJ ting
E1'sAPERS
The War Industries Be Or
ders the Reduction Of the
Amount Of Paper Used by
Weekly Press 15 Per Cent.
INCREASE IN PRICE URGED.
The Discontinuance Of All Sub
scriptions to Patrons Who
May be in Arrears is Made
Mandatory.

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May be in Arrears is Made
Mandatory.
Washington, Aug. 2O.-The
order reducing the amount Of
print paper that may be used by
weekly newspapers by Is per
cent has been prepared by the
pulp and paper section Of the
war industries board, and will be
effective September 15.
Publishers Of weekly news
papers must arrange for q re-
duction Of 15 per cent in their
circulation beginning with Sep
tember Ii, in order to meet the
requirements Of the war indus
tries board. The method Of MAX
ing such reductions will be large
" left to each publisher, who
will work out the details bf the
problem for his own paper. At
the meeting Of the country
weekly publishers held in Chi
cago and called by Guy u. Har-
dy, president Of the National
Editorial association, at the re-
quest of. T. E. Donnelley, chair
man of the pulp and paper Sec
tion, it was generally felt that
the following methods would be
effective for most cases.
An increase in the subscrip-
tion price of the paper, espec-
tally where the price is less than
81 a year.
The discontinuance Of all sub
scriptions that are not renewed
and paid in advance at the time
the subscriptions expire.
The elimination Of all free
copies except one to each adver-
tiser. !.
The elimination Of all exchang-
es except where the papers re-.
ceived in exchange are absolute
ly essential to the conduct of
the paper.
The discontinuance of the
practice of conducting subscrip-
ton contests or clubbing ar
rangements when the weekly pa
per does not receive approx
mately full subscription price.
Must Report, amount Used.
Publishers Of weekly news
papers will be supplied by the
war industries board with blanks
for the purpose of reporting the
amount of paper used by them
each month from September 1,
1917, to September /, 1918. The
statements made by the pub
fishers will be in the form Of
sworn affidavits and each month
for the next IL will be required
to make a sworn statement
showing the amount of paper
consumed during that month and
it is expected that this amount
will be Is per cent less than that
used during the same month Of
the previous year.
Publishers who have stock on
hand will not be allowed to use
it in larger ratio that those who
must buy from month to month.
Failure to make accurate re-
ports, or failure to make reduc-
tions will result in either mills
or jobbers being required to shut
off the supply Of paper to the Of
Tending publisher.
It is not the desire Of the war
Industries board to seriously in
jure the business of any week
" newspaper, and there will be
some exceptions made to the
general rules in order to avoid
such injury. But these excep-
tions will be announced gener-
ally and will govern in ali cases
to which they apply. The board
cannot undertake to consider
each individual case.
It is not expected at this time
that any further reductions in
the use Of print paper will be
made, but the war industries.
board has made it clear that
should the fuel problem become
worse further reductions may be
found necessary and IL 80 they
VIII be made. Should such ad-
ditional reductions be found ne
cessary they would he based On
the alnount Of paper then being
used BY each paper, md Tor that
reason i = very important that