Show SMALL A L L BUSINESS B U is I 1 ESS 11ycwrson HARDER there if is much talk of inflation in washington and this la Is grist for or the bureaucratic mills bu rcmicrttt relklierats love to shit their eye eyes to t ahr thr real couac cou4c anil cnil cf f any tiny danger 0 and nnd nd aloi exploit ploi t it fully to raise boic moic noro ic i cimpi timpi c impose more coiroli conroli controlis con roli trolis or gnp lnp in hi s f mp ather fther iu r way lead ahe 1he lh nn na II 11 n into 40 rennentatloil tgirnentation I 1 I 1 r w n A perfect ex s ample of thl this policy Is 1 shown by the chaotic A 40 newsprint sit it nation new uxtioni print li a vital vigal commodity t ta the american lif life 41 every real C W harder dent ol 01 of a community depend depends on his hl local newspaper to keep him informed about big hl community the a e local merchant depend depends on th the e paper to promote trade yet the V price 111 0 of f newsprint the bleat bluest roit cost item in publishing 11 hing a it newspaper newipaper newi paper has soared from 30 to 122 112 per ton 1 1 naturally if a free free preg press is to survive independent publish ers must increase their rates this inere increased 1 s ed rate in tarn turn mit must be pa paid ld by small businessmen who are prevented from increasing their profit margins by weird pricing regulations there has been a lot of talk at higher level about this shortage of newsprint the talk always dwells on higher labor costs and other facton factors H however wever the uth report of the he ozarsh&u marshall plan covering the period through may 11 31 1951 how shown how inflation ha his been accomplished complis com pUshed hed in newsprint price prices 0 newsprint Is suffering from an artificially created shortage this marshall plan man report how shows that US american taxpayers tix payen I 1 ONWW rdnu renu rd nU iniltixolinl biulnwi have donated 114500000 worth of pulp and paper to europe of this total 60 per cent rent has gone one to england Kn land where it in used largely to pulli puhllrlxp pulliclip clip the lie new now british socialism 1nxland ivisland ham received almost four dinv tinv tlnri s an a much paper a western germany where presumably the need for or antl ntl ep cnnl conl m 14 P PP piopo liopo P enila sanda lii to gtet ctet ipttt of course thl this amount of 0 paper coes rioeg ioes not nearly equal tha the 442 million worth of tobacco givia givca giveft away with american taxes but on the basis of Us its importance port arice to the american economy ft it ti Is more startling atar tUng the amount of paper given away even based on an present inflated price prices would supply every independent american weekly newspaper new paper for or twenty year years hut but the inter interesting s tl ng facts about this situation tltuatlon situatiun d do not end there newsprint supply tupply cupply ll 11 to largely a canadian monopoly 80300000 worth of the paper given away by the marshall plan wai was purchased in canada yet just recently canadian newsprint mill mills rabsey ralaed rabsed the price to american Amerl cin publishers 10 per ton bo so there Is the queer situation of monopoly la in one part of the british empire profiting because of gifts afta ifta bestowed on another part of the empire 0 there seemed to be some hesitancy on the part of the few major american amelican producers to follow suit perhaps this was due to investigation investigations being made of the newsprint scandal by sea sen sparkmani sparkmaws Spark mani maWs senate small business committee but now american made newsprint haj has been brought up to the canadian price so inflation 1 la IL the imnprlat newspirba industry Is explained A cana caoa can& dim monopoly plus he the lafr mafr x&d ahall shan plan han has created the inf inflation ia i& A close check would find that the aade aame me duet haa has created inflation in many lines I 1 |