Show I RECORD FIGURES I IThe The figures Just given Iven out In connection connection con con- with the publication of ot tho the Congressional Cons Record are huge o. The Tho number of oe words printed In 1917 was G and In In 1910 SO Pap Paper r forms one of the principal items of ot expenditure but although Its price as every newspaper publisher knows to hi his sorrow has gone sona up lP enormously enormous enormous- ly In the last three y years there has been an actual diminution under this heading so far as the tho Record is concerned con con- corned deu to the tho fact tact that a lighter light light- er and less exten extensive quality has been used Tho The cost of oC paper for 1917 was Voas for InS and for 1919 Tho total cost of ot the Record was last year yeu There has been a R strong 1 agitation in eon congress ress for the tho discontinuance of ot tho the Record ecord on of its cost but If Ie extraneous matter were excluded I and nothing given but tho the official ac account account account ac- ac count of oe the tho proceedings proceedinG's and the speeches of oC senators and representatives LIves tives a considerable saving could bo be effected Many of ot the tho speeches in indeed In- In deed could very well wen be bo dispensed with but on tho the other hand there Is to tono no doubt that tho the world would be bo the poorer If Ie the great reat orations delivered ered In both houses were not preserved pre pro served In permanent form torm and indexed for tor rady reference For example some of or the spirited pronouncements pronouncement for tor and against the tho league lenue of ot nations ar are worthy of ot being enshrined In Inny any ny collection of ot tho the great debate of ot his his- tory I The Tho Congressional Record has grown rown to bo ho a time honored Institution DeSP De- De SP spite the Irreverent Jocosity with which It is 15 occasionally referred to to It U Is ca eagerly erly awaited and carefully road re b by thousand thousands of oe Intelligent nt per per- eons enns throughout the country countr and besides besides be he- sides letting them see how bow their representatives representatives rep rep- in con congress ress vot voted d. d It not infrequently I excellent and satisfying literary pabulum The aim I of It legislators 1 should therefore he ho to toI m mend n It not end It It Washington it-Washington ton Post I |