The Penn's Grove record., 1920-04-30
Hard lit BY Rising Prices

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10 business men are being harder
hit t!.an newspaper publishers by the
r.s.ng prices OF neWsprint paper. Last
August it was sold 1or Ale cents a
pound or 500 = ton. A ton bought
January it cost 8l2 cents, $40 a
on. \ ton bought April cost $3.50 q
ton. The present price is S27O a ton.
Where AID when the rise will stop
.-nar dealers and manufacturers say
III mt.
he luason for such vaulting prices
ave not been fully explained and
.!,aGo IS a political significance in 1t.
Eeg,sprnt paper is made from
spruce pine logs ground into a pulp
mi treated with lime and ether
~,cr3ioa's similar 20 what cotton IS
raated in making pulp for the basis
IF smokeless powder. In fact paper
making machinery IS used to make
acf on pulp into sheets for the base
to hold chemical explosives.
It should be remembered that in
1915 when economic pressure was
3negohr to PCT the United States into
s,,a World War, the price of paper
Y-ea and q shortage was proclaimed.
II evbodv was eXhorted to save paper
NJ sScse vie had waste paper were
e.s9rted to buy paper balers. After
tae b9lers were bought and we got in
e. lie wa there was plenty OF cheap
r~oal and the baled paper could not be
sold at any price.
Where did the shortage originate
end whence the supply IN a few
r.eaths ?
The United States has not enough
spruce pine forests to give a supply OF
paper by 10000 tons a year.
The Underwood tariff law made
~7aq:sprint go up to ) cents a
~,lad. 500 a ton, free of duty when
imported from other countries. The
sudden rise the past six months caused
Congress- to raise the duty free price
{, s cents a pound. $3.50 a ton. Presl-
dert Wilson signed the bill last Mon
LAY. But the price has scared above
J sast = pound. Why
Last Tuesdays daily papers con-
tanned this: pending Congressional
the assistance of the State De
Dartment in the paper situation, was
invoked in connection with the efforts
7, secure removal of restrictions upon
xDart from Canada of raw materials
Used in paper manufacture
! circular sent out by the American
Palo and Paper Manufacturers, April
18th, says:
"The only chance that we will get
any relief from the shortage OF
1000 tons is that the English mills
ill stop buying in such quantities as
hoy are buying from the Canadian
=.
IN Canada there are millions of
acres of public forests, called crown
onds. Export has been forbidden
from crown land to the United States.
It is equivalent to a high protective
eff which most of the newspaper
publishers advocate and are now en-
(?) in the United States.
at August. as soon as the little
American" Congress got out the ham
nor Of Thor. the pagan god of Ger
many. and began a crusade against
7anada and Great Britain and against
he Peace Treaty, newsprint dealers
publishers what was coming.
IF the United States Senate cares
nore about the pro-German and ny
,han-Irish vote than about the friend
.,.p or Canada and Great Britain they
On get along without the pedantic
ankees. Let the little country pub
ishers who believe in little-Amerlcan-
~ make their own wOod-pulp as
hey do their OWN wooden-nutmegs."
Yhv should they not go to Germany
nd Ireland for their wood pulp since
hoy think the Canadians no account
nd not fit to have a voice in the
.cogua o. Nations.
Greet Britain says in action why
i've the United States publishers
heap nevysprint paper when we need
r in ne British Empire for our own
Yeople. If the little-Americans don't
ant 10 be friendly the British do not
ave 70 sell cheap news print paper
If o protective tariff is good why not
it
That is the prime aust of the sud
len wise in paper.
There is now a good demand for old
,aper and card beard. Save paper
nd card board. Waste nothing.
Pension RiIl Passed