Show USE OF NEWSPRINT I S LARGELY INCREASED i icon con Consumption of newsprint paper In the II United States has Increased 21 per cent cert In the last five years during which period domestic production of of the commodity commodity com corn has shown a gain of only 5 S p per r cent according to a s survey of the n newsprint newsprint news news- print i paper situation tI n ns in the ri May Commerce Corn Com merce Monthly the magazine mac of the National National National Na Na- Bank of ot Commerce In New York Although the present acute newspaper shortage is partly due to greatly increased use of paper this lack of a normal In IncreasE Increase increase in- in crease in production Is one of ot the principal prin prin- principal cipal causes causell of ot the stringency the bank says I In 1909 It is pointed out the tile United States produced uce all the n newsprint paper it I I used but by 1919 it had hd become de dependent pendent pen pen- dent on foreign sources for a a. third of at ofUs its Us supply But between 1904 and 1919 the Increase amounted only to 45 per percept cent |