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Show oo Waste in Printing Attacked by Smoot WASHINGTON, April 23 Sensational Sensa-tional disclosures made in a report to Congress by the point committee on printing, of which Senator Reed Smoot of Utah is chairman, indicate a decided misuse of government' publications pub-lications and an extravagant waste of paper by the various government bureaus. Propaganda agencies also are charged with having employed Improper influences in the unauthorized unauthor-ized sale of advertising space in such publications. Senator Smoot, as spokesman for the committee, has made a scathing attack on all tho government departments depart-ments who are wasting paper and abusing the privilege of their various publications. "Entirely unmindful of public demands for paper and that ex- travaganco cease the government de-l partments have rushed ahead raadlyi with useless printing regardless of the serious paper shortage, confronting' the nation," declares Senator Smoot.' "The committee has already ordered the suspension of hundreds of such publications and has curtailed others with the result that hundreds of thou-1 sands of tons of paper have been I saved, to say nothing of the monetary saving' continued the senator. The committee is preparing to put1 a chock on an additional number ot |