The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-28
Scarcity OF White Paper
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welcoming the manufacture of pulp
and paper in her own territory, mas
absorbed North American expansion
in newsprint production. The pro-
hibition Of export pulp wood from
Crown lands was primarily to force
manufacture on Canadian soil, and
the Canadian Government has en-
couraged the development of pulp
and paper manufacture in other
ways so successfully that in the ten
years preceding 1919 the number OF
pulp mills in Canada was increased
ST per cent. and the output increased
many fold, because of the installa-
ton of the most modern equip
ment.
In the United States there has
been no growth in our newsprint in
dustry since 1909, and We have been
increasingly dependent on foreign
supplies. The industry has remained
stationary, conferred very largely in
the Northeast and lake states. OF
the S65 pulp and paper establish
| ments reported in 1918, fully IS per
cent. are in the Northeast and in the
lake states. Large areas once COW
cred with pulp timber have been cut
over and burned over and are now
producing little or nothing. For
New England and New York the in
dications are that at the present rate
of cutting supplies will be exhausted
within twenty years. In the North
east and lake states the annual cut
exceeds by two or three times the
growth of the Forest yet there has
been virtually no development in
either the Pacific Northwest or in
southeastern Alaska, where our
| largest remaining timber supplies
suitable for newsprint are located.
| In these regions we have spruce,
hemlock and fir, which have been
shown to be as suitable for news
| print requirements if means could
be found for developing indus
| try.
newsprint industry has been at a
standstill the United States has be-
! come more and more dependent
| upon Canada. But at the present
rate of Getting Canada's land will be
| virtually exhausted in the eastern
! provinces in twenty five years, and
| the beginning of the reduction in
. output is likely to be keenly felt by
| the American consumer within
decade. The reduction, when it
comes, will be felt first and most by
the American consumer.
Prior to the war the United States
was importing some = pulp from Eu-
rope, chiefly from Scandinavia I'M
ports Of wood pulp from Norway and
Sweden in 1913 were slightly in ex-
cess of 235, 900 tons. But the forests
| of Norway have been very heavily
overcut, and those of Sweden are be-
| ing cut to the limit of their actual
growth. There were large timber
SURPRISES in the forests of the for
n1er provinces of Russia, such as
4 Finland before a
| may be quite a large development
\ OF the pulp and paper industry dur
ing the next few years. However,
we must take into account the fact
| thai We shall have to compete with
several countries Germany, Eng
land, France and the south of Eu-
rope countries which produce little
or no pulp, and with Australia, Asia
| and South America.
These facts are derived from Off
ctal sources.
| Certain large publishers, intensely
| alarmed over the outlook, are begin
ming to bestir themselves with a
view, not merely to placing iron
clad contracts for a few years ahead
but to evolving some sound, basic
permanent solution Of the whole
problem.
| H. H. hOHlSdat, FORMER owner
and editor of the Chicago Inter.
Ocean and later the Record Herald
and the Evening Post of Chicago, i.
now at the Biltmore Hotel, New
York, in connection with a compre
hensfve plan which he is working
out in Insulation with both New
York and out-of-town~ publishers.
have been privileged to examine Mr.
kohlsaats tentative scheme, ant
while it involves what every on,
would like to avoid if possible
perry is:on upon the part of the gov
eminent. and while it calls for bust
ness and financial statesma nship +,
! carry it through, neverth eless 1t
questionable whether anything les
comprehensive, less fundamental o
| less cooperative could insure a per
manent solution. Incidentally,
would insure a perpetual pulp an
paper supply in the United States
. through Systematic and regulate
reforestation, and would mean 18th
same price at the mill for the sam
GU; lity of paper to every one
Inasmuch as both the Republica
and the Democratic presidential can
. | dtdates are practical newspa pc
ow1 ers and publishers, it is reason
! able to believe that whoever is electe
will grasp the urgency of the situa
ton and co operate in applying
> remedy.
Il None of us wants to see our Chi
; ! d-en or our children's children gro
= up handicapped by an ignoranc
: which we can, by exercising diligene
e and foresight, avoid.-B. C. F'orbe
= in the Philadelphia Ledger.
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