The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, December 02, 1920, Section One Pages 1 to 8, Image 6
I PER MORTALITY.
Process is Driving
f to the Wall,
margin of profit which
newspaper business being
costs and selling
m wiped out in a very
of cases by the steady
h of contract prices for
ny publications are now
e streets for nearly the
nk paper on which they
his rising has caught
many publishers who
ig enough either to
by raising their prices
Belves afloat on the
lore profitable years in
ude of this flood tide
and the number of its victims is indicated
by the decline in registration
of second class publications with the
Post Office department:
Decrease from previous fiscal year:
1919 1,158
1918 1.183
1917 . 91
These, of course, are not figures;
that is. they .do not measure the number
of publications which went out
of business, without offsetting it with
the new publications registering for
the first time.
'The full measure of discontinuation
of established publications is
contained in the figures of Messrs.
Ayer ft Son of Philadelphia. Their
compilations Bhow the following suspensions,
not listed and net losses for
the three years:
1919 1918 1917
Publications
suspended 1,689 1,964 1,659
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New publications
listed 1,043 778 1,041
Net loss 646 1,176 6H
Only a few of the largest metro
politan dailies have their own pape
mills; only the largest publications?
relatively few in number?contrac
direct with producing companies fo
their supplies at the published con
tract prices.
The great number of publication
get their newsprint through Jobber
and middlemen, and some of then
do not even have contracts. Thesi
are the consumers whose need drive
them to payiny "spot" prices for news
print ?sometimes as high as 15 ant
18 cents a pound. A few years ag<
newsprint sold under 2 cents a pound
The passing of the country news
paper would mean the loss of a uni
que American molder of public opin
ion, as well as the loss of one of th<
things which helps the worker on thi
soil. When country newspaprs go ou
of business, the exodus from th?
farm it is feared, will reach even lar
ger proportions.?Boston News Bu
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LIGHTNING CALCULATION.
The following "short cut" in addi
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ants and auditors, also by bank an<
Insurance clerks. Tfce following ex
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3,398.27
7,143.65
8,343.79
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Into the army in unprecedented
lumbers. During October more than
L7,000 enlisted, most of them for
three-year periods.
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NOTICE.
The Improvement Club will meet
Friday afternoon at 3:80 o'clock to - 4
one of the class rooms of th? school
building. All patrons of the school I
are urged to come to this meeting as ,
subjects pertaining to the school will
be discussed which should be of Tl- 1
tal interest to all.
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