The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-12-20

blunuy announced that they soaked the consumer, because Mr.. Ultimate
likes to be humbugged," IS P. T. Barnum nce emphatcaly announced
Twould seem a fair guess today that those who have become expert at
prohteerng have observed the willingness with which newspapers print, for
nothing all sorts OF propaganda calculated to get money IRON omer people
IN ne pretext or another, O. without n definite pretext at ALL and have
of all, and are going at him with the hardest drive o n record.
Not content with the customary artillery preparation in the way of
warning of a shortage" in print paper, the profteers are adopting the tao
urprs attack, disregardng the usag which politely prescribed a certain
time of bombardment In other words, and in plain English, paper dealers
have simply shut down o. the supply Of white paper in a manner which
means that they ar going after everything the publisher is able to pay
"Gentlemen:-we re this day n receipt of a communication from the
Crown Willamette Paper Company, the source from which W e secure the
paper under your contract reading as follows:
I've regret tt advise you that since December IL. 1919. the Willamette
River and Columbia River at the sites of u West Linn and camas plants
respectively have been frozen solid. and u mills forced to shut down, our
supply of power and fuel being ut off by the freezing of the rivers. All
suspended.
Every effort is being made to meet this condition. which is unprecedented
in the history of our business. We will keep our customers advised of any
chang in the situation The purpos of the present communication is to
notify you that we will not be able 20 maintain u present deliveries to you,
should the conditions at the mills continue, as the freezing of the rivers
makes it impossible fol IS to manufacture; and we urge you, for your own
selfprotechon, to economic your requirements to the utmost extent that
you cam
You will see, therefore, that the situation is very serious, and that the
present shortage is greatly intensified. 1t therefore behooves you to cut
down your consumption in every manner possible. it being borne in mind
that w will do everything in u power to get paper to you"
Oh. yes; W se, all right We a it coming. We admit that it is
sudden. and maintain that the rules of profteerng warfare have not been
lived up to by the paper lei who probably figure that "alrs fair in war;"
The letter quoted simply means that contract Or no contract they are not
barrage was laid down tbat the nublsberw "a willing . tv 70 nav or cents
a pound for the paper he used to buy for IA cents. They are not sure but
what he will fall for II cents o Is cents o W. more. if they add a freeze"
and then a flood" and then perhaps some other things, to the shortage"
We have OF heard tina. the Willamette river has frozen any harder this
winter than it did last o. do We believe that railroad transportation has
been frozen" a alleged We believe the publisher is about to get it where
the chicken got the AK"
If anybody has a spare copy of Edwin Markhams poem, "The Man With
the Hoe" The Silver State would. like to borrow it for copy.
People nea the eastern edge If a certain Eastern time zone again are
aghating the daylight saving" law. If consderate at all, they would stop
o think Of their brethren residing at the western limits of the same
time. powntoun streets in salt lake csv wsr crowded nil nDI idn,u 1nt
m 1t was thu sam at the western side of each zone.
officer. he's 1t it again! The Proclamation Kid has done it again. under
his hand and the great seal Oft the State of Nevada.