Show HIGH HIGH- POSTAL RATE HITS NEWSPAPERS Victor Rosewater Declares 2500 Pu Publications Are I Forced to Suspend WASHINGTON Ji Feb b. b 11 Present iL-Present Present excessive and onerous second class mail mai rates were blamed as tile the major cause ause for suspension of 2500 newspapers newspapers newspapers pers since July 1 1918 1916 by Victor Rosewater of Omaha Neb appearing today before the house postoffice committee as spokesman for the American as- as Newspaper Publishers' Publishers as- as He urged reduction of ex existing existing existing ex- ex mall charges and a congressional congressional congressional inquiry into the cost of the mail service for publications Estimates that the government lost a year on the old rate were challenged by Mr Rosewater who said the loss was purely a bookkeeping bookkeeping bookkeeping book book- I keeping figure ur that includes I lost on rural free delivery I ISome ISome Some papers that pay practically no postage are in favor tavor of letting the law stand said Mr Rosewater He Headd add added d that he believed approval of some small publishers was due to fears that I If it the present law w were re discarded the publications publication's rate would be made four tour cents a pound The Western Vestern Newspaper union and the American Press association he said has encouraged such belief |