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Show CRISIS IN PRINT . PAPERSTTUATION 3 Will Be Unparalleled Demand I During Fall Which Will Be Hard to Meet. i Washington, Aug. 10. Tlie crisis In ' the news .print paper situation, which J ' already has cut down newspaper ) ' profits enormously, will not be reached till late in October, when contracts con-tracts come up for . renewal, according accord-ing to reports received, from many sources by the Federal Trade commission. com-mission. The presidential election, . together with the European war, 1b j expected to increase an already un- paralleled demand for news print, I which manufacturers tell the trade commission they will hardly be able to meet. This year lor the first ( time they have not been able to lay 5 up a large reserve during the sum-i sum-i mer. I The Trade Commission's report on its investigation of news print I prices, it was announced today, will be published not later than October 1, regardless of whether congress still Is in session. Probably a brief , extract will be given out beforehand, ; summarizing the figures. As yet the mass of material has not been suffl-5 suffl-5 clently digested for officials to indi-f indi-f cate definitely its trend. ; Great Question to Decide. j The great question in deciding i whether there has been collusion . among the manufacturers to boost prices unduly Is said to be whether ! the Increased demand for paper has i been entirely disproportionate to the I' increased production. Manufactur-' Manufactur-' ! , ers claim that publishers are using ! 20 per cent more paper than ever before. Consumption figures presented to the commission, however, vary '' wldcily. G. F. Steele, secretary of the News Print Manufacturers' association, asso-ciation, has estimated that figures ) for June show "that largest dally production of news print ever recorded." re-corded." Shipments, ho declared, ; represented 99 per cent of this production. pro-duction. : None of the substitutes for pulp re- ! cently suggested is commercially feasible, fea-sible, according to officials of the various bureaus Interested. Cotton ; Btalks, most frequently mentioned, would be prohibitively expensive to j collect, they say. The Bame situation situa-tion holds for corn stalks, broom corn, rice straw and flax. As yet the experiments have not passed the I laboratory stage and so far as is known no commercial use of the dls- 1 coverles is contemplated anywhere. |