Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-01
Suspended Newspapers.

titles.
Suspended Newspapers.
Until within recent years newspapers
never quit they just passed on from
one owner to another. But now pub,
Ilisers fail in business, just like other
business men. Publishing has become
a matter of first Importance in the MAJ
ton, and likewise its hazards have in
creased. The time has passed when
you can take a dull boy and make an
editor outen him." as the poet Will
Carleton put it. Twenty-Five hundred
newspapers have suspended publication
since July, 1918, but still the post Office
department cries sayagely for higher
rates for second class mail matter.
They lay their deficits at the door of
the publisher, and even try shifting
some $5S,OOO,OOO annual loss in the ru-
raj free delivery service to the news
papers.
White Print Paper.
1t would be pleasure to report that
there was prospect that the govern
ment would limit the size Of some Of
the big city papers. The excess fat
that cannot be classified as news" in
Sunday editions consumes enough white
print paper to provide thousands of
small weeklies and dailies. But the
government is not likely to intercede,
and meanwhile the big publishers with
their cinch on the white print paper
supply are the big fish in the pond
whose greediness has jumped the price
of print paper out of sight. Evidently
the bigger the publishers, the less is
their worry about the white print pa
per condition.
The Raw Material.
New York state and New England
will exhaust their woods from which
paper is made in approximately seven
teen years. The lake states are good
for eighteen years. Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, Maryland and North Carolina
will finish in ten years. Only Alaska,
Washington, Oregon and California
have the reserves that insure that their
supplies are in no immediate danger.
The government itself substantiates
these statements.
1t is an important factor that 95 per
cent Of the pulp and paper mills are
located in the east. To move these
plants to the west means that they will
have to be wrecked, or entirely recon-
structed The change in the geOgraph-
ical source of supply means higher cost
Of paper Canada has entered into the
equasion, and already one-third of our
paper, wood and pulp used in the Unit
ed States comes from Canada.
" Future Stocks.
The forest service has called atten-
ton to the Swedish system where the
mills employ technically trained for
esters who prepare accurate figures
concerning the growth of young forests.
This federal bureau even supplies the
belief that young forests can be pro
duced and reproduced in the vicinity of
the paper mills And the layman who
reads the forestry literature can see
young trees fed into the hopper like
sugar beets passing through factory.
But Uncle Sam is insistent that he has
the right dope and it is declared that
young, thrifty, growing forests will
produce yields scarcely imagined by
one who has been accustomed to dcl;
exclusively with old timber" a sad
commentary on the spirit Of national
wastefulness is the fact stated by the
forest service that in the saw mill
waste in slabs and edgings now taking
place that 100000 cords of wood tina.
could be made into pulp and paper is
lost. The publishers hopes for the fu-
ture evidently lie in new methods of
getting pulp wood, perhaps along The
lines referred to above.
Lehigh.
Mr.. Keve, of the Keve Lumber Co.
firm, was a Lehigh visitor Thursday.
NJ. CarterTs home from the lumber
,,.o.S convention in hos MOinpS