The Glenwood post. (Glenwood Springs, Colo.) 1897-current, 1920-05-01
u.ds Tets set Tine stsr,ss
Current Events For the Children
and 0rown-ups, Too
WASTED PAPER AND
WASTED MONEY

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"Why are the newspapers SO small
lately!" asked Jack as Uncle Ted sat
down in a big arm chair near the win
dow.
| "The newspapers are small, Jack, :"
answered his uncle, "because there ID
so little paper upon which to print
them. You see. we never stop to real
ize what these various things mean
until the shortage Of certain articles
is brought right home to US Not only
have many of the small weekly news
papers throughout the United States
had to quit printing at all, but prac-
tically all Of the papers in the large
cities have had to cut down in size be-
cause if they did not they would fnd
some day that they had no paper to
print on. 1t is very serious matter.
81 was going to tell you different
story tonight, but since you asked this
question it reminds me of the report
made by the committee Of our congress
in Washington that has been looking
into the waste paper and money by
the various branches of our govern
ment'
| "What committee is that?' asked
Ruth, who had Just come in after an
afternoon with little Alice Marie who
lives next door.
"That committee is called the Joint
committee on printing, and is made up
of men belonging to both the senate
and the house of representatives. Sen
ator Reed Scott, of Utah. is chairman
of this committee and Representative
Edgar r. Kiess, of Pennsylvania is.
vice chairman. This committee has
been investigating or looking into the
way in which the various branches Of
our government have been spending
money for printing. They found that
there have been 266 journals, maya
zines. and other kinds of printed mat
ter printed by the government and
that this printing has been costing the
government about $2,500,O0O every
year. To show you that his investigat-
tion has done a lot of good, this com
mittee made regulations which stopped
the printing of all of these documents,
thereby saving about 81 100000 year
for the government. am going to
read you something from the report
of this committee which was read m
the house of representatives a few
days ago by Representative Keiss as
| is well known reads the report, the
scarcity of paper and its abnormal
price have vitally affected the printing
business during the war. Many times
| it has been almost impossible to get
paper at any price. This situation,
coupled with the enormous require
ments for paper by the war activities
of the government and its extravagant
use by the various publicity and prop
uganda bureaus, has made the work of
the committee most difficult and try
ing, but it is believed 4 the record
proves that its efforts to effect econn-
mics have been highly successful even
under adverse conditions
People ask, of course, 'Just how
has this committee saved the govern.
ment money! / will tell Won one
thing which will show you how thew
saved the government money, by snip
cruising the printing. For the first
eight months of the fiscal year 1919.
the printing hy the government print
ing Office in Washington where almost
all of the government printing is done.
cost $4,000, 1895. For the first eight
months of the fiscal year of 1920 the
amount was only 81 ,373.0s, which
meant that 1904 1861 less was spent
than the year before. The fiscal year
ends June 30.
Before i tell you about another
phase Of this r.atter must explain to
yOn thai members of congress in Wash
ington must pay at least the cost Of
the nrin.ins of any speeches which
thcy have made and which they order
to send ont to various people. That is
not true of the administrative officers
Of the government. Their speeches