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Show LOWER AO RATES HELOJPLY Newspaper Costs Show No Decline, Publishers' Leader Declares HARlilflBURG; Pa-, Feh 107 Newspaper publishing costs are at the highest point iiJ are still increasing, said r. R Williams of Pittsburg, president Of the American Newspaper I Publishers' association; in an address i Wednesday, (isv ,li. i P I'nder SUCll conditions, there no p.,.Mtl,ltt ,,f decreasing advertising ! rates, he said, adding that advertising advertis-ing rates were too low before the war. and in I he last few years have !iot increase. i in proportion o Increased Increas-ed publishing costs. He said that puo- llsrteni cons if imawiw ion p r cen.l and that advertising rates ,: mCed less than half that amount In no case has there been a decrease de-crease m labor scales made in the last (fcgts days, but nearly all of them call-. call-. f,,r substantial Incre-ises, some a much as to a per cmi. he s;ild. Mr William" contended that there ail be no hop of redueniK skllieo 'i. iior ic'iulre.i by oewspapers for years to come, and thul while spot newsprint news-print prices arc softening the contract pi-toe of six and one-half cents a pound is the highest in 2 years IWIM K si , - HIGH It Ui certain," he said, "that cohj tracl newsprint prices will rcmaiirper-minently rcmaiirper-minently higher than before the war. advertisers who know newspaper cop dltlons are not askinn for a decrease on advertising rates, as they know that -it present rates their advertising upaci i- the lowesi vripi commodity Ihey buy." |