The fool-killer., 1919-10-01
THE P FAMINE

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Hold your bosses!
And mind your eyes!
The cat is out of the bag!
The mystery is solved!
The pain is eased!
The "nigger in the w~ood-pile"
has been found.
Maybe you knew it, and may
be you didn't, but anyhow there
is a considerable chunk of a
print-paper famine staring us
editor-men in the face. We are
having a hard tussle to get pa
per to print our chin-music on,
and when we do find a little
stock that we can get it costs us
three or four prices.
Now the big daily papers, you
understand, are not having any
trouble about getting paper.
Neither are the big national
weeklies and popular monthlies.
They have contracts with the
mills for two OF three years
ahead, and they get paper whe-
ther anybody else gets it or not.
There is never any shortage
for publications that stand in
with the ~"patriots of plumber"
and the observation-disclosures of
Wall Street and the devil. The
Associated Press is never short
Of paper-stock to circulate it's
lies.
The daily papers grind up
hundreds of tons every day
great bedsheets of pages cover
ed with the veriest rot and
drivel, and reeking with the
rankest and rottenest falsehood
and that is all right.
But if The Fool-Killer prints
up a thousand pounds a month,
and fills every inch of it with
plain fat-footed facts that need
to be read and remembered
the pitiful cry goes up that old
Pearson is wasting the precious
little stock of print-paper.
And so the Greensboro On. c.
News of Nov. 18th tells all about
it. A fellow by the name Of
Dave Lawrence who hangs
around Washington and gets
, paid for suppressing the truth
has let the cat out of the bag il
the following manner:
Enquiry at the department O.
justice CD where a sharp ey'
is kept on radical publications
I reveals the startling fact tina
during the war and since the al
+ mistice at least 400 publication
of a radical tendency have
2 sprung up. And when it is con
sidered, too, that the circulation
of these radical publications i!
: rapidly increasing, some idea O.
! the causes of industrial unres.
in America can be obtained. Jus.
, now the newspapers Of Americ;
are beginning to worry about
possible shortage of white prin'
paper. Owners of paper mill
say the demand is greater thai
: the supply. Usually the blam'
! is placed on the increased size O
! the Sunday newspapers, but i
, would be interesting to discove:
= how much print paper goes int
t the radical publications"
t Then you said a mouthfu]
0 Dave. It shore-to-goodnes
would be interesting to know
how the poor little radical sheet
are exhausting the paper supply
| do declare it is a plum pity
: For instance, I suspect it Nigh
be proven that the radical pres
uses one ton of paper to ever,
y thousand tons that the plut
press uses. The nerve of it
Don't the fool radicals know
that the darling plutes need tina
ton, too?
- | have taken the trouble t.
figure up how much paper tn
Greensboro News uses, and
find that it uses FIFTY TON,
while The Fool-Killer is usin,
. ONE TON. But it seems tina
| ought to feel a terrible weigh
T of guilt resting on my conscienc
i because | have wasted" tina
ton of paper by printing tn
% truth on it, whereas the Greens
n boro News might have saved
:, it by smearing it up into a "fur
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