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Show H ITJoTiXTINt! '11111 1MUXT H TJtADKS H i ; AVashlngton dlspatohcs report that H j , Congresjjien begin to aoo tho Injus- H tlce of tho government fixing a prlco H I for paper for Us own uso, while H '. leaving tho producers freo to soalc H '''' tljo printing and publishing trades. M it tho governmont Is to secure Its H ! y l own supply at reasonablo prices. It H ' ,. will have to go a stop farther and H stop extortion to the trado gonoral- H ty. Tho printing dono by governmont B bureaus Is but a small part of tho M ' . war work performed by whlto paper. B Printing lias been called, Tho art BBBBBB Bl Iirogroustve. In roallty this phraso B ' ' only covers a fragment of tho prln- M . ' i f t " tor's f lold. Ho .not morely proaerves B t ,.. wluit exists, but he. communicates In- M U: ', lormntlnn and Intelligence, nnd is n H -f predominating factor In tho creation B of new Institution-) and now force?. H It Is only by tho machinery that tho H jjfjl, printer creates, that tho community HHl v, can ho organized nnd rallied to tho H J, support of any Idea or systom of H ,(t . work, business, or progress, Kvory H "',: newspaper Is a rallying center for H " tho forces of civilization nnd nd- H l ' ? vanco. When a. newspaper stops, a H j orco for organizing community nc- H ' ilvlty U gone. BbI ' ' '..'! , Tho' wor,ld mado.no progroM away I. ,- J- -4 .rl H s f ., . ,) i.itt i'fi . j from mediovallsm tuilll the printing 'art came Into general us. Modern civilization has advanced parallel w'lth the development of printing. In n great modern exigency like war, the newspaper Is tho moans by which community forciM are rallied to tho support of tho govi-nimont. When newspaper production Is rtop-ped rtop-ped or difficulties thrown into its way, obstacles urn placed across tho efforts of lln government to carry on tho war. Tho .nil reasonablo prices askod for jiapor, therefoto, are a direct attack upon tho menus for distributing' Intelligence In-telligence rallying public MiiitlnTant and unifying the work of war mak- Ilng. The government cannot permit this condition to exist, so contrary to public policy nnd patriotism. ft fti ta |