Show SMALL NEWSPAPERS F FACE AGE EXTINCTION i IN PAPER LACK House Postoffice Committee Told Limit of 24 Pages Is Needed WASHINGTON Dec Dec- 15 Between Between 2600 2500 and anU small newspapers face tace suspension If It not extinction unless the newsprint situation Is la soon remedied I Representative e Anthony Anthon Kansas told I the house e committee today In n urging favorable oraLle action on m his bill to limit to twenty four pages daily newspapers and periodicals using the second class clans mall mail privilege The he present acute paper shortage he said IB is due to the large t size ze of ot big bigIt pity Fity It dallies and some magazines The larger newspapers he added is uld eliminate fifty or more pages or of feature feature fea fee ture comic an maJ matter maller published pub pub- lJ in Sunday editions without loss lose loseto to tho the public The volume volume- of ot advertising should be drastically reduced d during the present shortage ho he said R RATES TES GO UP Replying to Chairman II Representative Anthony Anthon said Bald he had hall hallI I heard heaed that some advertisers ad had greatly great great- I ly increased their expenditures for tor advertising advertising ad ad- to avoid lame payment t of ot excess profits tax he but-he attributed the bulk bulkot of ot the tho increased advertising to the postwar resumption of ot normal commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial activities The Tho pre present nt shortage of ot newsprint paper he continued is due largely t U. U the rapacity of ot the great publishing companies which are buying up ever every ery pound of ot newsprint they can lay their hands on The country and small city publishers cannot meet this powerful Ilow-erful competition Mr Anthony read a letter tetter from former former for tor- mer Representative Charles F F. Scott publisher of ot the Toka Ioka Ran Kan Daily Register who declared that while white afew a afew few great newspapers might find It a hardship to comply with the Anthony Anthon bill moro morn than 2500 small papers face extinction unless some such legislation were pall passed edThe ed The Tho situation Is la all but magic the letter said The small man papers are Just Justas as Important to the people or Of thE United Slates States as are the great city dallies r- r |