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Show UNCLE SAM, CHISELER . Country printers, who for more than half a century have suffered from government competition in the printing of envelopes, en-velopes, can hardly be blamed for looking askance at N R A codes and their pretensions to the elimination of "chiseling." The case against Uncle Sam is ably set forth in an editorial in the Hayti (S. D.) Herald-Enterprise, which says: "After all, a printer is but human, and he ought not be criticized criti-cized too severely if he froths at the mouth upon receipt of a letter from a concern which proudly floats the blue eagle but transports its message in a cut-price government envelope. The government is now engag-ed in an undertaking to effect and enforce en-force codes of fair competition for every business in the country and yet it continues to print envelopes in competition with the printers of the country at a price that is not only less than the printer can purchase the blank stock for, but it is even less than the government asks the printer for the postage necessary to transport the envelopes a few ;uiles. In many ways there is no bigger chiseler in the country than the government itself."' |