White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-09-02
WASTE WORSE THAN wANToN

tie and wheat, but at that it may
win. What Canada proposes is to
put an embargo on wood pulp an6
then to take it Off again if the United
States will give her a low preferential
on wheat and cattle.
In the long run it would be bet.
ter for the world at large and pos
terity II no trade were made. The
destruction of wood for print paper
is wanton. It should be stopped forth
with. This goes whether ii be the
United States, Canada, Norway or
wherever it is.
The wood that is used for porous
news print Is spruce. 1t Is not being
exhausted for any necessities what
ever, but for those great oversize
Sunday editions with nothing in
them but downright tommyrot and
foolishness One hundred to zoe
pages in the larger cities is the rule,
and these papers have claimed and
certified circulations of 1000 or
more, each one each Sunday denud-
ing several acres of ground to OBJ
tain the pulp AS a sample Of the
weighty matter circulated to the
supposedly intellectual American pe0-
pie in these giant editions one coast
Sunday paper not long ago had a
page devoted to scrawny pencil
sketches with a little reading matter
here and there under the shell-shock
banner heading, THE Girl Who Had
to Be Hypnotized to Be Natural"
Reckoning that for each ream of
paper run off to tell the keenly in
terested world about The Girl Who
Had to Be Hypnotized TO Be Nat
ural," and allowing that this either
took or spoiled for other uses a hall
sheet of paper after it were cut, in a
$4,000 edition this one vitality i'm
portant story consumed 1000 pounds
or two tons of paper. If this paper
cost laid down at San Francisco 4
cents a pound, the value of 1t i'll
money amounted to $50. Yet no.
one cares what it cost the de Yourgs
so much as to have to take sorrow
full note of the fact that this one
feature denuded a good part OF an
acre of ground of its stately spruce
tres, or at least several square
yards, and if in the anne edition
there were a dozen stories of the
same t~ranscending Importance to
mankind. those on one Sunday
do doubt denuded no less than two
acres, taking no note of what was
done by the other 100 or 200 pages.
If it were the reading matter
alone it would not be quite so Of
Tending to the eye and would use
slightly less spruce trees, but not
one OF those armful Sunday editions
comes that does not contain several
pictures of women in various stages
of nudity, with %salacious postures
and comments to further edify man.
kind in its quest for intellectual
nourishment and spiritual uplift.
Rather than dicker with Canada to
make this game easier there should
be a policy of immediate application
TO penalize any man or publisher
who causes or permits one OF these
salacious products Of the printing
press to enter the household of any
family.
Unfortunately for the welfare Of
posterity Canada is not erecting its
embargo barrier for the purpose OF
conserving its forests OF spruce. Its
object is the reciprocity deal as out-
lined. If conservation were the OBJ
iect it would deserve the applause Of
the world, and with the weighty in
fiuence of the press thrown into the
scales of the American side OF the
argument, it can be seen how the
deal might be put over, both sides
being willing Too bad that Can.
ada's objects are Interior, that it
does not wish to conserve its spruce
and not trade. By so doing 1t would
be aiding in a small way to suppress
an evil that is gradually worming
out the virtue of American woman
hood making sensuality the 10 ap-
propriate slogan for American coins.
SHEDS and banners, supplanting the
somewhat celebrated In God We
Trust
Independently of anything that
Canada may do, one of the first hon
est duties of the American congress
is to adopt measures to curtail this
willful sruce destruction by laws linn
iting the size of newspapers that
may be sent through the mails. To
be sure, this would not be more than
placing the branding iron on the
evil, for the bulk of the Sunday edi-
lions go by express and are delivered
by carriers, but it would lead to or
could be accompanied by further
legislation stopping the shipment OF
such editions in the conveyances OF
interstate commerce., and finally OF
taking hold of the forests and parcel.
ing their roducts out like food ra-
tions IN war times.
Added to this each state should
either make and enforce laws against
publication of nude pictures or else