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Show JSM00T STILL AFTER PRINT PAPER WASTE I . w I t. r , , i Will Save Millions of Pounds By Elimination of UselessGbv- ernment Publications, United States Senate, February 28, 1920. Mr. Charles S. Wilkinson, Cedar City, Utali. Dear friend Wilkinson: I nm in receipt of your letter of! Februnry 21st, 1920 and sincerely thank you for the same. I I have addressed a letter to every' official of every department of our! Government, requesting a report from' them as to just what publications theyj were issuing nnd tho reasons therefor. I hnvo also addressed a letter to every' Senator and Congressman, asking that' they suggest to me what Government' publications the recievo that are of I no service to them. You have no con- ception of the number of answers I. have rccieved suggesting that certain cer-tain publications are utterly worth-' less. I expect to save millions of pounds of paper by ordering these publications discontinued. I Wo aro going to have an investign-1 tion of the orders issued by Canada' prohibiting pulp and pulp wood being exported from three of the provinces of Canada into the United States. I think if the embargo remains, we ought to retalinte by legislation, and force them to remove the embargo. We asked for bids for 54,000,000 pounds of paper for tho use of the Government during the next six I months, and we received bids for 8,-I 8,-I 000,000 pounds only. The paper situation sit-uation in the United States is in a most 6ritical condition. We havo had the question of restricting Sunday and special editions of newspapers under consideration by tho Joint Committee Com-mittee on Printing, but there is such a protest from senators and congressmen congress-men that wo have felt up to this time that wo could not put legislation thru with that object in view. If the paper situation gets much worse than it is I am quite sure that Congress will be ready to act even upon that question. With very best wishes, I remain, -' Yours truly, REED SMOOT. |