There is now no doubt as to the grave shortage of newsprint paper in the United States, says the New York correspondent of the "Daily News." Five years ago, the price was $50 a ton on large contracts, but at least double this amount must now be paid, while small journals, buying piece-meal, have sometimes been charged $200 a ton. Stocks are very low, and the slightest interruption in supply would menace the publication even of great dailies.
The situation is due to an increase in advertising of 25 ner cent.—some journals rejecting _thousands of dollars weekly of this re venue. Supply has not kept pace with the new demands, partly because new forests are not planted to replace the old, and partly because the failure of Canadian Reciprocity in 1910 has been fol. lowed by provisions whereby the Dominion forbids the export of wood pulp unless it be first manufactured.
Britain is not directly interested in this quarrel between Canada and her neighbour, but the gradual exhaustion of American forests. without scientific replacement, is of "rear importance to the Press throughout the world, while its climatic effects here must be also Jou Shell, said to be the oldest living man in the United States, has just celebrated the 13Ist anni-versa of his birth. lotion prohibited without permission.
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