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Show il I William R. Hearst Urges Reduction Re-duction in Size of All I Dailies j FRANK A. MUNSEY j GIVES HIS VIEWS Says Sunday Journals Should! Be No Larger Than on Other Days j WASHINGTON", May 1. Five and I even 10-cent daily newspapers were predicted J.oday by Frank A. Munsey, New York publisher. Appearing before the senate committee investigating the news print paper shortage he urged drastic reduction In the use of news I print and governmental regulation! both of the paper and the wood pulp j William Randolph Hearst, another New York publisher, in a letter to the committee, advocated a 20 or 25 per cunt-cut in the size of newspapers, but said he believed the time for govern mental regulation had passed. Mr. Hearst urged that publishers double both advertising and circulating rates, saying such action would automatically automatical-ly cut down the. size and number of copies without reducing revenue; Not For Government. The government could not reduce news print consumption by regulating the number of pages of papers admitted admit-ted to the mails, Mr. Munsey told the committee because none of the large city dailies rely for their revenue on mall circulation. Both publishers agreed that the Sun day editions of the papers'wero Important Impor-tant factors in the situation. Mr. Munsey advocated regulations limiting. , the- Sunday edition tfrtlld size' of the week day Issue "not more than 2-1 ' Hearst Cuts Size. Mr; Hearst wrote that he .had cut xhe-slzo ofhis papers 20 and '25 per cont without' adversely affecting his revenue or causing complaint from subscribers. Chairman Reed announced that a number of paper brokers would appear before the committee Monday. Ke read a telegram from T. R. Williams, Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, president of the American News-nnnpr News-nnnpr PiihlJsVif-.rs nKsnmntfnn. savinn I he could net appear before the com-1 mittee in his official capacity because the association had decided to take no part in the congressional investi-Cause investi-Cause of Trouble. The fundamental cause of newspaper recklessness in the use of print paper, pa-per, Mr, Hearst said, is that publishers publish-ers conduct their newspapers on the ygQ basis of high print paper and the cheap dollar exlstiug today. Senator Underwood's resolution, authorizing au-thorizing a commission to confer with the Canadian government regarding existing embargoes on wood pulp shipments ship-ments to the United States, was ordered or-dered favorably reported today by the houso foreign affairs committee. Under Un-der a committee amendment the commission com-mission would report to President Wilson Wil-son instead of congress, |