Show PUBliSHERS GATHER TO PAPER SHORTAGE J S Scores 1 ores of Journ Journals ls' ls Face Suspension sion Curtailment Plan Advocated WASHINGTON May My of ot more than 10 newspapers meeting meet meet- ing here to deal with the haJ hardships sur stir rou rounding publication of the smaller papers organized the U States Pub Pub- ers lishers News PrinT Prini Conservation n league and and called on similar organizations to Join It ft for tor mutual protection Some reports sent in by editors unable to attend painted distressing pictures of ot the troubles ahead due to Inability to obtain news print and the high prices Many dailies soon will be forced to suspend sus sus- sus- sus pend pend- unless there Is Is' Isquick quick quick- relief letters let let- and telegrams said while some editors edi edi- tors declared the weekly walk of the ghost would be a thing of ot the past In many little offices if prices kept climbIng climbing climb climb- Ing and nd mills ls failed t to answer the he news newsOne print appeal One editor whose paper has not missed a publication since sinice the Civil war telegraphed telegraphed tele tele- graphed he could not get away because there were only two rolls of or news print In the shop and where the next would come from no man man could could say saV Hope was expressed by the publishers rs however that through organization re relief re- re lief hief might come Among officers elected was Orville Orvllle Elder of the Washington Ia la Journal l. vice president Resolutions requesting all publishers of papers of circulation and over to reduce consumption I per 10 per cent Sunday and 5 per cent dally daily were adopted and half a dozen similar organizations were asked to help obtain l legislation to al te the evil |