Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1918 — WHAT’S THE USE, INDEED! [ARTICLE]

WHAT’S THE USE, INDEED!

The governmental decree fur publishers of magazines to uma ffMer weight of paper might well be heeded by some functionaries of the government itself. Some of the numerous bureaus and commissions are sending out daily or weekly bulletins an® other publicity matter printed or graphed on paper of a verifaabl de luxe thickness and quality. There must be tons of such output Tory week, indeed, every day. The great porSbn of it is intended for predation or for any other use than t be read, in some cases to be reprinted, and then to go to the scrap heap. Hie government might itself effect afery great saving in paper bjg using ngnter weight and le3S expensive stpck; and perhaps by considerably curiauing the distribution of*such maflMr. Where is the use of sending tor the editor of the Sqnedunk Squeaker, with 250 backwoods subscriuers, reams of bulletins, on extra cream-ftid paper, about the necessity of subscribing a .bittmv dollars \M the Liberty loan in thd metropolitan dis-trict?-—Harvey’s Weekly. For a year now editors have rebelled against taring to even glance over, let alone publish, the great mass of bureau bulletins and government print waste that is sent out to them and almost aH of it fired in the wfdtsi basket. Newspaper men have quit kicking. It doesn’t do any good. The bombardment of bunk still continues.