Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 218, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1918 — NEWSPAPER TO SUSPEND AS ACT OF PATRIOTISM [ARTICLE]

NEWSPAPER TO SUSPEND AS ACT OF PATRIOTISM

Huntington, W. V., Sept. 21. Huntington’s youngest newspaper, the Evening Journal, today was requested by Thomas B. Donnelly,'chief of the pulp and paper section of the war industries board, to suspend publication for the duration of the war. In. his letter to the Herald Company,* Mir. Donnelly said: “On August 24 we issued regulations that newspapers could not be started during the period of the war, but, if you were established prior to that period, technically you have the rgiht to continue your publication. The print paper situation, however, is becoming more and more acute on account of the lack of coal and shortage of transportation, and it is necessary for the war industries board to curtail its use in every possible respect. “If it would be possible for you to suspend the publication of your Evening Journal, you would be doing a patriotic att, both to the public and newspaper interests.” The company indicated its intention to comply with the reuest. Publication will, ibe resumed at the close of the war, it was stated. ?