| Show publishers publisher and prices although every everyone one is ready to ad out mit that the cost of living has materially increased during the last fifteen or twenty yeara sorn some publishers publisher complain that many of their subscribers bers connot understand why Y late should be increased and busi men are asking why prices of job work should be advanced the present critical situation in the paper market and the increase in the price of ink and practically all kinds of printing material due to t the he war in 10 europe is cu cutting eting heavily into the profits of publishers and higher prices must be secured le if they would even make ends meet J E jones editor of f weekly events published at kilbourn wisconsin deb delivered ered himself of an interesting inter eting a editorial I 1 torwall commentary on the present condition of affairs in a recent issue of his paper in which h he 8 old eaid one day last week a man came to renew his subscription to events when he found the price to bel be 1 25 he said I 1 never paid more than a dollar and if you wont take that you can top stop it it was stopped about the same time a business man called to order printing stationery he was told that increased prices price of paper would nuke make the difference of about ten per cent dont want it he said ironically that is a pure holdup he had to have the paper aad a d paid over a do dollar edtia t a to yet get it from a printer mail L arder rd e r house the first of the week we ordered a special color of ink that last fall was priced at 2 00 0 a pound it toots oata us now a pound we bought a lot of special enamel this his t week that a month ago cost 7 50 per hundred pounds pound now we pay 10 per hundred pounds letter paper pa per envelopes and printers stock have hae I 1 increased from twenty to thirty five per cent prices on nearly every t thing hing has increased and no one no questions quest ons the higher price made by the merchant met e hant the lawyer the doctor the 1 laboring baring n man and city papers ba but t ane fact that the printer of a news newspaper paper in the country asks twenty five cen cents to a year more or 1 to ten per cent advance on work wor in which the material alone ib rerouted increased one third or one half is a called a holdup or an order to stop atop my paper unless you can make a fair profit on your work why wear out your machinery an and maten material a I 1 besides tiring yourself Youa elf 9 spring is I 1 a here and the fishing will soon be good let the other fellow take the work if there is no money to be made for sooner or later star he will be out got of the field of competition kulesa mile he sees a the error of his hia ways |
