Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-08-03
No FREE PAPERS
TO OUR SOLDIERS
Conservation Demands That
Some One Put up Money
to Pay for Papers For
merly Sent Free to Boys
Overseas.

The Republican is up against a
hard proposition The war indus
tries board has issued a drastic
paper saving order designed to limit
the amount of news print for the use
of each publication that among
other things forbids the sending of
free copies of a newspaper by the
publisher to our soldiers in the train
ing camps or in France. There are
numbers of other limitation in the
order, all of which it gives this paper
pleasure to obey to the letter and in
the spirit in which the order was
issued But of the 276 men who
have gone from Elmore county at
the behest of freedom, there are a
large number who enjoy receiving a
paper from home, and we have been
sending it to many of them free
Now these free copies will have to
be stopped unless the people of the
county will step forward and pay
the subscriptions. Personally the
manager would be more than glad
to pay the amount out of his own
pocket, but the war industries board
would hold that to be subterfuge
and we ourselves would know it for
that.
The order of July 5, which went
into effect July Is, 1918, is as fol-
lows:
Discontinue the acceptance of the
return of unsold copies
Discontinue the use of all samples
or free promotion copies.
Discontinue giving copies to any
body except for Office working copies
or where required by statute, like in
official advertising.
Discontinue giving free copies to
advertisers, except not more than one
copy each for checking purposes.
Discontinue the arbitrary forcing
of copies on newsdealers (i e., COM
pelling them to buy more copies than
they can legitimately sell in order
to hold certain territory.)
Discontinue the buying back of pa
pers at either wholesale or retail sell
ing price from dealers or agents, in
order to secure preferential represen-
tation.
Discontinue the payment of salaries
or commissions to agents, dealers, or
newsboys for the purpose of securing
the equivalent of return privileges.
Explaining that order, Thomas E.
Donnelley thief of the pulp and
paper section of the war industries
board has made rulings in regard
to free copies of papers to soldiers
which modify the above order to this
sextent:
Publishers can send copies of their
paper free to their employees who are
in the military service of the United
States.
Publishers can send free copies to
camp libraries of organizations re-
cognized by the government, such as
the Red Cross, Y. M. G. A. and the
Knights of Columbus, but cannot
send free copies to individual soldiers
in camps.
Explaining the discontinuance of
all free exchanges Chief Donnelley
says that he believes that this will
work to the advantage of publishers
when they come to put it in execu-
ton. He is not going to modify
that portion of the order. Under
that order free exchanges mean
when one publisher exchanges his
paper with another publisher. I'm
der this ruling publishers desiring
another newspaper will have to
make bona-fde subscription for 1t.
The plan by which we wish to
keep these names on the mailing
list is this: We will accept sub
scriptions for soldiers at one half OF
the regular subscription price and
ask any and every patriotic person
to pay us one dollar to go into a
fund for the payment of all the
boys subscriptions to the end OF the
war so that no one of them shall be
left out and so have his paper
stopped The money will be credited
proportionately among them and II
the fund becomes larger than is
necessary to meet the bill, we will
account for the balance and turn 1t
in to the local chapter of the Red
Cross.
This matter must be attended to
promptly or we will be compelled to
obey the order and cut off all papers
we are now sending abroad with
this issue.