Arizona republican., 1918-07-22
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] WASHINGTON. July 20-Restric- tions on the reading matter space in daily and Sunday editions of newspa- pers, retail price of cents or more. and the elimination of all waste were recommended to the war industries board today by the committee on cen servation of newsprint paper appoint ed by the American Newspaper Puo- fishers association. The recommenda- tions were taken under advisement by board officials.
 Statement of Committee
 The committee on conservation of newsprint paper appointed by the American Publishers association, re- spending to the call of the chairman of the pulp and paper section of the war industries board, Thomas E. Don- nelly. for conference respecting the adoption of measures looking to the re- duction of the consumption of paper, met today at the office of the war in- dustries board. Mir. Donnelly outlined | to the publishers the necessity for radf- cal reduction in the use of paper of all kinds and asked them to formulate for | his information certain definite recom- mendations for the accomplishment ot that purpose by methods which would | be effective and at the same time ba fair and possible from the point of view of the newspaper publishers. | Principles Announced i The committee made recommenda- i tions based on the following princi- | ples: s: | q. The abolition of all waste, in- cluding returns, in accordance with the suggestions already made to the chair man of the pulp and paper section of tH0 -f,-,1 have now been made mandatory by the board.
 "2. The retail price of cents or fhore for all daily newspapers.
 8. Restrictions of the reading mat ter space in daily and Sunday editions proportionate to the necessities of ton mage to be saved, and recognizing as nearly as possible the relative reading space needs of the papers as indicated by their present use of space.
 Tn connection with the second prin- ciple stated, the following resolution was adopted:
 Lowest Price Gents
 It is the judgment of the commit tee that to avoid unfair competition and to make practicable the reduction of the news print tonnage desired. it is necessary to fix the minimum retail price for daily papers at two cents.'
 The recommendations in the appli- cation of the third principle is as follows:
 Reduction on all reading space up to 50 columns, five per cent
 Reduction on additional enace over 50 columns and not over 70 columns, 15 per cent.
 Reduction on additional space over 70 columns and not over 90 columns. 30 per cent.
 Reduction on all additional space over 90 columns, fifty per cent
 Based on Monthly Average
 The reductions to be based on the ; daily monthly average of each paper , for the six months ending June 30, 1918.
 Recommendations as to the reduc- tion of the reading space in Sunday papers is as follows: l Up to 150 columns, reduction 10 per 3 cent; next 50 up to 200 columns. re- l duction 20 per cent; next 50 up to 25C r columns, reduction 30 per cent; next
 50 up to 300 columns, reduction 40 per f cent.
 l Next 50 up to 400 columns and over
 reduction 50 per cent. Tt is suggested that these reduc- \ tions be effective for daily papers Au- 7 gust 5, 1918, and for Sunday papers ) September 1, 1918. g "Mr. Donnelly and his assistants
 have taken the publishers recommen- dations under advisement.'