Show HUGE HEDGE PAPER WASTE r BY US U.S. GOVERNMENT i Senator Assures Country I Newspapers that He Will Support i Au Any Movement to Protect The Them t I During Paper Shortage Twenty-five Twenty hundred newspapers bf Or r the United States have been forced to fo suspend publication during the pact past year on account of the alarming i shortage hortage of pf print paper paper and the al almost almost almost al- al most impossibility of securing ing it at tiny any price e. e Recent investigations of this shortage shortage short short- age ge disclosed a wholes wholesale le waste of ot paper in the Government departments departments depart depart- ments of Washington Washington Senator Sm Smoot ot In a recent letter to the newspapers newspapers o of this state assures assure's assures the publishers that this waste will be stopped which ill wil aid materially in th the present crisis Mr Smoots Smoot's Jet letter er follows In reading over over the papers I find that Utah publishers are are re facing the same sort of a crisis that confront confronts other publishers in the the United United States the the paper shortage Let me assure you that I a appreciate appreciate at ate the consequences of the situation and am doing everything In my power pow pow- er to alleviate the condition Tho The country paper is a material factor in the tho well-being well of the Nation and I f stand squarely behind any any plan or movement that will protect the small publisher As chairman of the Joint Committee Committee Committee Com Com- on Printing I have taken steps step i ito to prevent the waste of paper that has has been going on in the Government Govern Govern- ment meat Departments Thousands o- o bulletins newspapers booklets ts etc published during the thelast thelast thelast last four years by divisions of the several departments have been summarily summarily sum sum- marily stopped You would be he sur- sur to know how much paper has been actually thrown aw away y For in instance In- In stance in the War Var Department some men nten en went so far as as' to print their personal memoirs at t Government expense ex ex- pense pen e Virtually ally every little bureau rl i rl Its Its' own particular newspaper under the tile supervision of or ofIs orits its Is ts chief Let mo me add that most of this has hall hasen en sit s copped however and I am now nov having a survey survey made of r the paper pape- by bythe the Government with a aview view of t further curtailment Millions o of pounds of white paper have hav already been saved through these measures measure and a sti still greater greater saving will be efI effected effected effected ef ef- ef- ef I within the next two months |