Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-09-30
STOPPING WASTE BY ADVICE.

There is a wide difference between preaching and
practice between precept and example The scriptures
tell is better to give than to receive though Josh
Billings insisted this applied ONLY to castor oil and advice
This homy is suggested from the perusal of very well
written editorial in the OregOnian of Sunday on the con-
seTvaton of paper That editorial suggested the saving
OF used envelopes for scratch pads the carrying home OF
packages uwrapped savings Of old paper bags and such
other ways and means may be possible 1t says every
pound saved represents saving of two and half pounds
of COAL besides the labor etc. 1t points cut that the chem
icas used in bleaching needed for purposes and
asserts that the reduction Of paper consumption Is per
cent would release 100000 tons of coal for other pur
poses The issue of the Oregonan containing this advice
is composed of 66 pages 1t would be perhaps assuming
too much for to say how many of these pages ut
tery Unnecessary that could at least be dispensed with
without materially reducing the news features or the
literary material that is really SUCH 1t might be even
intiated by that reduction properly made would
be of real benefit to the paper We do not hesitate how
to say that the alleged comic supplements dead
waste of paper True they to amuse children for
minute two, but their literary class impossible char
acters exaggerated situations and utter asnnity make
them inexcusabe. The Oregonian has circulation, as
understand of about $4,000 and the comic supple
ment contains four pages is matter OF arithmetic only
to demonstrate that the Sunday issue OF our cOntempor
ary used 100000 pages 10000 sheets of paper
ing 16 by 22 inches in its supplement Not counting the
other reductions that could be made by cutting out several
pages of Society sush and pictures, saving of twenty
pages at least could have been made in the Sunday issue
and its week day issues less than half the size Of
the Sunday paper it is fair to presume the issue of 66
pages yesterday could have been cut in half without in
jury to the paper deprvng its readers of any of the
news Of the day. or the ladies Of the auring advertise
ments calculated to reduce savings to minimum It'll
is safe say that the four larger newspapers of Portland
waste paper Sundays in extra stuff for the issue
of that day than could be saved by the methods suggested
by the Oregonian in the whole state in year When this
waste Of paper by the big daes of the entire nation is
considered it is pretty we'll demonstrated that the great
est saving possible in the paper consumption be made
by cutting out the padded pages of the big daes espec
tally the Sunday issues Huck Finn Polly and her Hon..
Pa Tge and all that rot very well be spared during
the war; This alone would save hundreds Of tons of pa
per weekly in the nation Cutting the Oregonian down
to 6 pages and adding the four pages saved by the elm
inaton of the comic supplement would mean the saving
in Sunday of "a pages IL sheets 16 by 22 inches
and each large six average envelopes which the pa
per its readers scratch pads and such This
would mean in an issue of 10000 the saving of 100000
sheets of the size named what would equal 6120OO0
envelopes II looks though it Of saving at
the spigo while the bunghole left open and it also
shows that Josh Billings right in his application of
the proverb to castor oil and advice.