The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-03

are seriously considering suspend. /
ing publication for time or moving |
to other cities as a result of de-
mands made upon them by printers
which are considered impossible in
abe face of the general situation
which confronts the publisher to-
day.
When war conditions created de-
pressing circumstances for the put
Usher to labor against he was opti-
mistic enough to see the rainbow at
the end of the war but the cessation
of -hostilities while creating a greater
volume of advertising has brought no
relief in publishing conditions but
rather has increased the burden and
were it not for the rather unusually
good business which has prevailed
for a number of months the publish
! ers' graveyard would be considerably
larger than it is.
| However it is a fact that many
publications having their homes in
New York may presently suspend
/ publication temporarily 4, at least,
while a number of them are already
seeking new locations.
Some of the publications which
may be affected are Golfers, Hearsts
Literary Digest, Harper's, Scribner's
Life, Pictorial Review, Delineator and
,many others. The. Literary Digest
published an emergency edition last
week with its advertising omitted as
a result of a strike of printers.
. Dt,, Op hn
ers is for A hour working week anC
a wage increase of $14 week
The labor situation while n3t 81
acute in Other cities &c in New, Yorl
shows increasing gravity elsewhere
and coupled with the very high price
, of print papcr makes Publishing a pro
T blcm.
S. S. CarvelPo, one of the bes
known newspaper men in the United
States, and formerly the'general mana
ger of all the Hearst publications
: stated in recent interview that news
= papers are facing the greatest crisis
4 in the history of the industry. HI
said that 20 per cent more paper i
being used than is manufactured tha
Z high prices are inevitable, and tina
paper stocks are already at the DANCE
e line.
= Mr.. Carvalho bases the increase,
Price of paper on the four following
things:
''First-The labor cost per ton o.
= white paper us now $40 against 81
n four years ago
e "Second-it takes one ton of Goa
to make one ton of paper and Goa
!, at the mill has practically double
in price.
"Third-The haul on pulp wood j
e growing greater each year; likeWis
p freight charges.
r "Fourth-The six to nine cen
y markets of Europe South Americ
and Australia are now asking 70
Canada and United States paper"
/ Before the war the price of pape
i was given little consideration by pul
g fishers in figuring publication cost
q Today it is very important iten
q What is true of paper is true {
nearly all the other supplies that p
u into the making of paper or mag
e zine so that all in all Mr. Carvalh
It does not magnify the seriousness {
g the situation.
The remedy he suggests is, of cours
greatly increased rates for. both a,
vertising rates and subscription
which form the only two sources
III revenue publications have
* With payrolls and supplies soarin
a conditions are worse at this tim
10 than at any period of the war so tn;
Ie the salvation. of the publishing indu
:, try seems to lie in constantly revise
II rates upward instead of bowman
II as hoped when the Huns laid dow
N their arms Burlington News.