Show newspapers FACE SERIOUS PROBLEM A recent issue of the editor and Pu blisner carried a care wily prepared staten statement tent of the news print situation it quotes the price that are being made to the laree large itan newspapers for roll print when ordered in laree large luan titles news print when supplied in n sheets tells sells for SO 30 cents centi a hundred more than t L aan the arico for rolls heo hen ordered in equally urge large quan quantities titled the Thear artille title as printed in the editor nd publisher is as follo follows 11 it ib i on the cards and this is the view not of pesi pessimists mists but of pub lishers keenly observant that the year 1910 1919 will see a large number of newspaper properties small only as compared with the great ulan dallies dailies either closing their plants because they cannot get sup plies of newsprint at any price or combining with others in the same locality for the same reason this without consideration of the other factors that have greatly enhanced the cost of production of a news paper remedy for the high cost of nebb print as well as of labor must be found in advancing the selling price of newspapers and increasing adver rates two actions that it is 13 freely prophesied will b hive ive to occur anyway these would help to meet expenses however they could not ada a single pound to the production 0 of f newsprint which already has fallen so low that there is scarcely enough to gp around |