THE CORDOVA DAILY TIMES
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Alaska, as second-class matter
H. G. STEEL
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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1920
EXPENSIVE LESSON FOR NEWS
PAPERS
The present condition of the print
paper market in the United States
offers an excellent illustration of the
natural effect of withdrawal from an
American industry of the fiscal policy
which is based upon the theory that
the first duty of America is to Amer
icans; that the nation owes protec
tion to the men and institutions which
protect it in time of war and upbuild
it in time of peace.
Under the Taft administration the
newspapers of the country, under the
leadership of a group of influential
publishers, of whom the late Herman
Ridder was perhaps the most conspic
uous, demanded of congress the re
moval of the tariff on print paper im
ported from Canada. Congress, al
though at that time a protectionist
body, could not resist the pressure,
and it scaled the news print tariff to
the vanishing point.
At that time paper was se.lmg in
the United States at about otie-thjrd
the present average contract, and
about one-fifth the open market price.
There was a considerable importation
of news print from Canada, offered,
in competition with the domestic pro
duct. The theory of the free print
paper advocates was that the elimi
nation of the paper tariff would cause
a huge influx of paper from Canada
and drive down the price from a fig
ure that was even then very profit
able to the American producers.
Up to the time of the removal of
the print paper tariff, the news print
industry of the United States kept
pace in growth with the rapid devel
opment of the American publishing
trade. With the removal of the tariff
the growth of the newsprint industry
in this country ceased. Many mills
were dismantled and put out of com
mission. Some were diverted to the
production of the higher grades of
paper. The erection of mills in Can
ada began. Curiously enough no de
crease in the price of print paper fol
lowed. The Canadian mills continued
to charge what the market would
bear. Being able to produce more
cheaply than the American mills be
cause of lower labor costs, cheaper
power and more abundant raw mater
ial, they thrived mightily. But they
did not keep pace with the growth of
the American publishing industry.
American producers of paper bought
large tracts of timber land in Canada
as sources of raw material. The gov
ernment of Canada proceeded to put
an export tax on pulp wood, in order
to conserve this timber supply and
enforce the manufacture of paper in
Canada rather than in the United
States.
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newsprint in the United States in
creased rapidly- Much of the Cana
dian supply was diverted to Europe
where it commanded war prices. The
American industry, long crippled by
exposure to competition *of cheaper
alien production, was not in a posi
tion to rise to the situation, and was
too uncertain of future considerations
4o justify rapid increase of facilities
for paper manufacture. Prices be
gan to mount. American paper com
panies which for years had been pass
ing dividends began to take advan
tage of their opportunities to make
up for lost time. It was not strange,
under the circumstances, that they
were not as sympathetic as they
might have been with the publishers
who had been howling for free trade
in paper as a means of hamstringing
the home producer. But for govern
ment interference the paper situation
in the United States would have
bankrupted half the publications of
the country.
But for free trade in print paper the
beginning of the war would have
found the American paper industry
probably doubled in output during th<
past few years, in position to tak<
care of the emergency. As it is. it k
estimated that it will take two year;
for production to catch up with con
sumption.
All this goes to show that it is a]
ways good policy for Americans t<
stick to the Washington-Lincoln-Mc
Kinley-Roosevelt policy of fosterini
home industries, rather than to buil(
up alien industries at the expense o
American productive enterprises an<
employment. This particular depai
ture from the protective policy ha
(tost the publishers of the Qnitei
States hundreds of millions of do]
iars.
THAT “PASS THE BUCK” BRIGADI
BUSY AGAIN
The administration organs have al
tained a high degree of efficiency i:
the gentle art of “passing the buck
in some years’ activity as a camouflag
corps. The latest evidence of capacit
in cunning is a campaign now bein
carried on by a national magazin
committed to the task of fooling th
people in behalf of Wilsonism. Thi
publicity stunt is supposedly in th
interests of the postal employes wh
had such a raw deal at the hands o
a postmaster general who is notor
ously the chief political manager c
the present national administratioi
The people are urged to appeal to coi
gress for relief of the postal en
ployes; to write letters and send teh
grams demanding that a square dec
be given the men wrho handle the mai
The impression is left that it is coi
gress that is responsible, purposely c
through negligence, for the underpa;
men: of the postal employes. Tb
truth is that for this situation th
postoffice department of the Wilso
administration is directly and persoi
ally responsible, as every postal en
ploye in the country knows. The d
partment has the duty and respons
bility of recommending to and nr
curing from congress sufficient appr
priations to adequately pay post;
clerks, carriers and other employes <
the department, but it has failed ar
neglected and refused to do so. Co
gress has passed one law providir
better payment for certain classes <
costal employes, and this was don
over the opposition of the postmastf
general. Yet the country is led
believe that it is congress that h;
been treating the postoffice worke:
unfairly.
That these employes have bet
treated unjustly is true. The wagi
of these workers, most of them skilh
workers whose tasks necessitate tl
exercise of a high degree of intel
gence, has failed to advance in an
thing like the proportion prevailing i
other lines of employment. The r
suit is that the department has be<
deprived of the services of thousam
of employes who have found it mo
profitable to take jobs as street clea
ers. While the administration hi
| been freely handling out advice to ei
ployers in private industry about c<
! lective bargaining and higher wag€
! it has been standing out against bo
1 in its management of the postoffice d
I partment. No effort to camouflage tl
situation is going to fool the postal ei
ployes, who have a personal fam
iarity with the situation, no matt'
how well it may succeed in bunkir
people who do not know the facts.
THE SOUL OF AMERICA
“The 'pedple of these United State
are the makers of their own gover:
ment. If the government be a ba
one, the fault lies with the individu:
who by negligence or selfishness h£
permitted the control to pass into tl
hands of self-seeking office-holder
thus reflecting in the management <
public affairs the laxity of the ind
vidual. If the people on the othe
hand, are patriotic and honest, dil
gent in business and zealous for tl:
betterment of things, the gover
: ment of the people will reflect the:
conduct and sentiments.”
The above item was taken from A
torney Foster’s Memorial Day speec
and is well wnrth repeating. Go
speed the day when every one of i
from the president down to the younj
est newsboy, from the first lady t
the land to the most humble of h(
sex will all try our level best to liv
up to the idea which this item coi
tains, and every true-hearted whit'
souled American, no matter what tl
color of the skin, place or circun
stances of birth might be, will full
realize that “My Soul is the Soul c
America” and govern their lives a<
cordingly. then we will not turn thos
grand old words “united we stand
into a travesty of their true meaninj
as we are now doing to our own coi
fusion. MRS. JAMES GILMOUR.
If you change your address, do no
notify the carrier boy—report you
new address to the office.
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It is no credit to have no credit.
Better a wandering foot than a wan
; dering mind.
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£ Who remembers the favor you did
j him last year?
An old maid’s idea of a good baby
} is an absent baby.
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It’s the possessions your friends
have that break you.
r A man may be crooked and yet be
going straight to the devil.
If you do as you like, you’ll not
1 necessarily like as you do
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3 It’s better to draw a blank in the
y marriage lottery than a prune.
= Don’t be too hard on them. Many
3 a silk shirt covers an honest heart.
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3 If you think you are fooling your
e friends it means' that you are follng
yourself.
f Statesmanship used to be a gift of
i- autocracy; now it’s often a gift of
f I-talk-racy.
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L_ Gray hair may be becoming but not
!_ when its becoming gray—a woman
will tell you if it’s her own.
1 When a woman has very old-fash
l- ioned furniture in her home it is a
'• sign that she’s very poor or very rich,
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r- Judged by the divorce records, some
e of the movie queens seem to have as
... many troubles in real life as they do
n in reel life.
x' Things are so arranged in this
x' world that the investment we scorned
3- would have made us rich and the one
i- we took up makes us poor.
Summer resort proprietors are be
1 lieved to be behind the protest against
short skirts on the ground that men
no longer see any reason to go to the
seashore.
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s A good many of the objections to
^ painted faces are due not to the fact
e that they are painted but because
ir they look like the job had been done
° by non-union painters.
A man who seems to know most
about the problem of capital and labor
and to do most of the talking about it,
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is the one who never had any capital
\ and never would labor,
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Le A good many things have been add
i' ed to home life in recent years—tele
y- phones, phonographs, automobiles—
n but there never has been found an
e- improvement over children as joy-giv
sn ers.
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re You can never be s«re what im
pression a “knock” will make on your
I hearer as to the one who is knocked,
is
but you may be sure that his im
; pression of the “knocker” Is always
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| bad.
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Plain sewing for children done by
e- Mrs. A. Bruce. Call at C street.
ie Northwestern house. ?9-6t,
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l_ Scarborough pictures that please at
,r prices that are right. Over Cordova
K | drug store. Phone 140—3 rings.
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CORDOVA
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Second St., Next to Hospital
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OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
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J. A. Farnham and E. Taylor,
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Headquarters for Alaskans. Ted
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S. S. Alaska
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