Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-13
NE N PAPERS hht.: URGED 10 MAKE:
 RATE INCREASE: 5:
Higher Charge for Subscription and Advertising Necessary
 Move in Paper Shortage.
REDUCTION IN SIZE
 ALSO RECOMMENDED
Mills Now Producing 100 Per Cent and Consumption Deficit Is Men ace to Continued Life of
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 ! New York, Nov. 12.-Material in creases in advertising and subscrip
 tion rates, limitation of the size o1 newspapers and provisions in adver
 tising contracts whereby rates car be adjusted monthly or quarterly were among the recommendations made today by special convention of the American Newspaper Publish ] ers' association, called t oconsider the newsprint shortage
 1 The report of the resolutions com mittee adopted unanimously fol lows:
 Paper manufacturers have told us that there is worldwide short. age of paper. At the present rate of consumption, the newspapers are using about 10 per cent more paper than is being produced. This means an annual shortage on the present basis of approximately 100000 tons. Your committee, therefore, recommends:
 "That the regulations of the war industries board for the conserva- tion of newsprint be strictly adhered to, and that the full text of all these regulations be sent to all the daily and Sunday newspapers of the United States, whether or not they are members of the A. N. P. A.
 That publishers everywhere be urged to materially increase adver- Using the subscription rates and at the same time limit the size of their issues.
 "That no newspaper enter into a yearly contract for advertising, at a fixed rate, but make rates adjust able monthly or quarterly.
 "That the A. N. P. A. send out a standard form of adjustable con tracts for advertising.
 "That the paper committee strongly discourage the hoarding of print paper.
 "That the white paper committee and the legislative committee of the A. N. P. A urge the enactment of such legislation as will permit the development of water power, so that our timber lands may be made fully
 available for the manufacture of wood pulp, lumber and paper, and we also recommended that congress be urged to take steps that will in- duce the Canadian government to repeal the order in council prohibit ing the export of wood out from crown lands.
 Producing 100 Per Cent.
 "We recommend that the presi- dent appoint committee on concil- iation for the purpose of adjusting differences between publishers in competitive territories; that the members of this committee be se- lected with the view to governing the entire country; that this commit tee formulate such plans and recom- mendations as will assist in adjust ing existing differences. so far as possible; that each member of this committee be given allotment over certain territory and be authorized to appoint sub-committees to deal with conditions in cities or competi- tive territories within that area. "It is further recommended that this committee keep the print paper committee of the A. N. P. A. in- formed as to it's problems and &C., comnlishments: that the entire mem- hershir of the A. N. P. A. co-operate with this committee to the end that it may result in the greatest bene- fit to all most concerned" In line with the recommendation of Franklin P. Glass, president of the association. that publishers CO., operate with newsprint mannfactur- CTS. committee of the publihsers conferred with a committee of the American Pulp and Paper associa- tion, which began a fonr-dav conven- tion at the same hotel. The results of the conference were laroely en- bodied in the resolutions which were adopted. R. s. Kelloeg. secretary of the .Newsprint Service Bureau, told the convention that the mills were unable to increase production as they were running at 100 per cent capacity.
 Sawmill Waste.