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Show Some tlmo ago The Republican suggested , that the Qovernmcnt could save $ 10,000, Whin year by curtailing the numbers of copies' of books, reports and pamphlets printed at the government printing office, unread millions of which find their way to wastebaskets from Maine to California. Since that time this offlce has been deluged with dally consular re ports, forest service literature, reports from the bureau of commerce and labor, speeches made by this, that and the other fellow, and after awhile will come nicely bound books telling tell-ing all about everything of no particular Interest In-terest to anybody except a llmllrd few who delight In long rows of statistics. 20.000 other newspaper offices, colleges and universities, commercial clubs, many public instiutlons, and prominent men have.been and will continue to bo deluged with this literature and wherein comes the good? Paper Is expensive, Ink costs monoy, press work takes time, and the government govern-ment pays railroads large sums of money, to have this literature delivered to the widely separated wastebaskets, so why not curtail at the government printing office and save enough to make up for tho postal deficit? Wo com. mend this thought to lions. Joseph Howell, Reed Smoot and Oeorge Sutherland, Ms. P. |