Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-08-05

In giving you a few minutes talk
| want to touch on two subjects only,
both for the purpose of helping you
in your business as well as our own.
II refer to how you publishers can
be of help in keeping down the cost Of
paper and to give you some details 81
inside facts pertaining to the causes
why paper sometimes causes com
plants from you and what can be
done to remedy some of these trOu-
bles
II feel that the greatest problem
confronting the paper manufacturer
and which affects you just as serious
ly, is the future source of raw mater
ial-meaning pulpwood. 1t is true
that in few places serious attention
is being paid to this matter but if
more pep or speed is not used immedi-
mately we are all going to be too late
to avert disaster Everyone is inter
ested in the matter; and I am sorry to
note. there are but a few, have
their own ideas, but, personally,
must frankly admit that large share
Of this lack of interest is due to sell
lishnesss and lack of cooperation.
IF there was legislation enacted
whereby the pulp mills were COM
pelled to buy their wood in tw0-foot
lengths and an inch smaller in diam
eter, an acre of pulpwood timber
would yield about Is per cent more
)ulpwood. AS it is now, the wood is
mostly cut in four and eight-foOt
lengths. 1t therefore means that the
top of every tree is partly wasted and
allowed to remain in the forests be-
four-foot stick, but as formerly
stated, if a tWO-foOt stick and an inch
smaller in diameter was accepted you
can readily see the difference in the
yield. Furthermore, laws should limit
the height of a stump for wood is also
wasted there.
Playing a ShOrt-Sighted Game
SIN addition to all of this, more
grades of cheaper wood should be
used. For instance, in the manufac-
ture of news, there could be used
more balsam, tamarack, poplar, pine,
| etc, whereas the manufacturer and
publisher are both playing a selfish
and short-sighted game for they want
a good sheet. The manufacturer
making news on large and fast ma
chimes cannot get his maximum OF
production unless he has choice wood
and the publisher cannot make good
appearance with his sheet to his sub
scriber unless he allows the manufac-
| turer to have his own way, but L
claim that i'm the long run, and you
are making a terrible mistake to al
low this condition to continue, for
when the real pinch comes, then the
cost will be a real one and it is prob
able that the small publisher will be
forced out of business.
Il feel that you publishers who are
! called the moulders of public opinion,
| have a duty in which you should en-
| courage conservation more than you
are doing at the present time. In ad-
| telligent and efficient method of cut
| ting what timber is left, you can give
| further aid by encouraging the pur-
chase of parks. 1t is a known fact
| that water power is developed to
higher degree of efficiency when the
head waters are protected with for
est because in the spring the SHOWS
melt slower which means that the wa
ter does not get down to the larger
streams all at once and in such vol
ume, thereby giving the pulp mills
| longer time to use this water, and OF
course this lowers the cost OF making
| the pulp.
''The tendency is to standardize in
all kinds Of industry, but you publish
ers and printers are so diversified IN
your notions that Standardization III
the paper business cannot get much
of a start and if you were to know
what this is costing you ] am sure
that this subject would be talked OF
more at your conventions and dis
cussed more seriously in your trade
journals.
"And just one more point while On
the subject of your aiding in securing
lower price on paper. I was consider
ably impressed the last week or SO
when reading several papers published
through the state when they reviewed
the work of the last session OF the
legislature. In head lines it mentioned
that there had been so much done for
the farmer and laborer. But it did
not say how much had been done for