The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-30
MUCH STATE PRINTING
NOW BEIN 6 AWARDED
TO COUNTRY EDITORS

Oklahoma city, July 2s.-Consider
, able publicity has been accorded recent
ly to complaints that the statutory pro
vision requiring that AN public state
printing involving as much as $500
must be let through competitive bid.
ding was violated few weeks ago by
the state board of affairs in the dis
trbution to newspapers outside OF Ok
lahoma City orders for state printing.
The members of the state board OF pub.
lie affairs have given out the follow.
ing formal statement in addition to
personal interviews by members OF the
board who declare that the distribution
of state printing 20 the smaller town
newspaper offices is fully within its
rights:
when the present state board OF
public affairs organized few months
ago, one OF the first steps taken was
TO institute a thorough investigation Of
the methods heretofore employed i'm
handling state printing. It was found
that a large printing establishment had
been built up and was operated by con
vcts in the state penitentiary at Me
Alester Quite a volume Of public
printing was being executed in this es
tablishment. Without hesitation the
board OF public affairs discontinued
sending printing TO the prison. Work
heretofore done by convicts was or
dered sent TO the country newspapers
OF Oklahoma, who in the opinion of the
board, were entitled TO a greater rec
oenition than had heretofore been ac.
corded them After a conference with
officials OF the Oklahoma state Press
Association a commission was appoint
ed to make a minute examination OF the
scale OF prices contained in the sched
ule governing all state printing which
was then in vogue. This schedule hav
ing been prepared prior to the war was
unfair to the printers in that no rec
ognition was taken to the increased
cost OF material and labor. This com
mission comprised John II. Anderson,
Snyder, Okla, president of the okla
homa state Press Associations !. II. |
Newlin, editor Daily Leader Frederick
T.. A. CASTOR, editor Ledger, Okemah /
n 4. Nichols. editor American FL
Reno: w. T. Mcdowell, representing
the wholesale paper houses; W. II f.
Figg. representing the boollbinders, and !
Carl c. Phelps, representing exclusive |
job printers and the Typographical |
union.
con May 81 this commission compiled .
a revised schedule of printing prices
and recommended that the board OF pub |
lie affairs adopt the schedule as a Just .
basis for compensation for state print |
ing. This was done and several hun
dred copies of the price schedule were
printed and distributed throughout the .
state. On May "a the oklahoma state
Press Association, i'm session at Medi
cine Park, Lawton, endorsed the ac-
ton OF the state board of public ar
fairs and recommended that the state
governing printing he univer-
sally adopted throughout oklahoma.
This schedule provides for a net profit
of twenty (20) per cent based on the
selling price.
"Since the organization OF this board,
state printing has been distributed to
he country newspapers of the state
n greater quantities than has ever been
lone since statehood Wherever and
whenever It is possible TO do so, the
state board of public affairs turns to
he country publisher all printing for
state institutions and departments and
pays for such printing as per schedule
adopted and published. This recog
lition of the country press does not
Justify further explanations nor any
hing in the nature of an apology"