THE PAPER AGE 



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like ninety-two million miles away, a distance 

 so great that an airplane flying in a straight 

 line could not cover it in a hundred years. Yet 

 the various paper-making machines of the country 

 turn out every year an amount of newsprint equiv- 



Our annual production of newsprint paper is equivalent to a strip as 

 wide as the ordinary daily and half the distance to the sun in length. 



alent to a strip as wide as the ordinary daily 

 paper and half the distance to the sun in length. 

 Look at a Sunday edition with its hundred and fifty 

 pages of news, stories, pictures, and advertisements. 

 Many of us cannot help thinking what a waste it is. 

 We read a few pages and put the rest in the scrap- 

 basket. "I could get along without half of my daily 



