Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-26
CUT OUT WASTE,
lSPLEA OF |.
4 R. WILLIAMS
Tells "A. p. Delegates to
Fight Against a. Hour
Week For Newspapers.

aSytl
fun weight Of the American Newspa-
per P~nblishcrs' association against
any effort to introdAce the 4@-lour
week into newspaper shops and de
clarinEsg thar athcrc cannot be any re-
duction in newspaper advertising or
subscription rates at this time. T. II.
Williams of the Pittsburgh Press n
p~resldcn& Of tho association, called
upon the rncnthoIB at the opening OF
the annual convention today to elm
mate waste In the newspaper plants
of the country and get behind the APP
premiership school movement in or
der to- prevent y shortage Of skilled
help in newspaper plants.
Calling attention to the achieve
ments OF President Harding, himself
a publisher. M. Williams urged his
hearers to follow the example of their
illustrtous fellow craftsman and, as
he had led in the scrapping OF the
engines OF war to promote internal
tional corporation for the publisher
to scrape the jealousies and animoei-
ties that In their ultimate results IN
harmful not only to those upon whom
they arc used but to those who uee
them ns ,sell. Only by this method
will this association obtain its fullest
resulta he added.
Undoubtedly one of our chief
needs Is q further lowering OF the
cost of production and the elimination
of willful WASTE said Mr.. Williams.
''The former lies chiefly beyond the
immediate control OF the publisher;
the latter Is entirely beneath his w
roof.
A n further alienation of the
high ost of production, many instst
that labr~ " = are too high and the
chief err = sought Is reduction
While ii aonceded that some re-
duction is n order from the very top
notch prices still being paid and while
these reductions seem certain to come
in course OF time. yet there Is another,
and ! think, better light in which to
consider this problem - securing
greater and more efficient returns
from labor. Publishers generally are
not averse to giving labor 8. high
wage In keeping with the experience
and skill required by the business but
In return they have the right to insist
upon a days work in constructive la
Dor. producing something of real
value to the employer"
A call for the revival Of the con-
s~ervation committee vas made by Mr..
Williams. who called for an agrees
dve campaign against waste in the
handling Of news print, freight hauls,
Standardization of roll lengths, weight
of paper, press room waste, core
waste, etc.
ut is safe to say" he declared,
annually through lack of proper
| study and attention to these sub
jecta"
Now York, April 25.-Lady Aston
told leading editors n publishers of
h United States today at the an
nual luncheon Of The Associated
Press that America would yet join
the conference at Genoa.
believe America can show the
way to peace" she exclaimed fer
vently amid a gale of applause.
The reference. to: Genoa was but one
Of a score Of subjects touched upon
by the Virginia born member OF the
British house Of commons In a
breezy address on mother love and
practical politics that held the close
attention of her auditors in the
\ grand ballroom of the Waldorf AS
torta. Her audience vas mostly men,
although. the boxes in the gallery
were filled with women
Lady Astor seemed perfectly at
home from The moment she tripped
jauntily into the room to the strains
OF Dixie" She Joined in the singing
OF Garry Me Back to Old Vlrglnny,'
shouted Hear! Hear!!" when her
husband, Viscpunt Aston, spoke brief.
" and mounted a chair and waved
good bye" at the conclusion OF
luncheon.
She depressed considerably from
her prepared address, touching al
random on such topics as Lloyd
George, Bolshevism. labor and cap.
ital, the power of. the press, q closer
understanding between England ano
the United States.
Called Il .'Peach."
IT have often been called wild since
/ left home but I have never beer
called a peach until I came back
was the way she started her speech
referring to her Introduction by
Frank B. Noyes. president of the AS
ISOLATED Press, who said in discussing
the apple episode in the Garden o.
Eden, that "man has ever fallen fol
the peach, whether it be wild or cul,
ttyated."
She proudly said h was a 'TVir
ginfa patriot and a very ardent one
This patriotism, she said. had stool
her well. because it has proven tt
England that the real patriot can b.
useful in any country, and. a narrow
bigoted patriot is no use to an!
country, even his own.'
She apologized for her recent re
II mark against the bonus, saying :"
forgot I was a British member o