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Examines the factors causing the closure of the daily newspapers in the U.S. Conspiracy of the publishers for greater mutual profit; Role of the advertisers in the publications; Claim that 75 to 80 percent of the total cost of delivery of a newspaper is paid for by advertisers who purchase white space in the paper at rates based largely on circulation.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of April 24, 1971. U.S. foreign economic and political relations with China are discussed in detail. The forced closings of domestic paper mills due to Federal anti-pollution standards are reviewed. The State Department's foreign training programs for police methods and anti-communism is described.

Presents the problem of unemployment in the U.S. that has taken a form of a giant monster with the advent of the age of electricity. Dawn of the new environment of the Power age with the eclipse of the Machine age; Replacement of steam hoists run by the workers to the electric mine elevators because of the obvious advantages in safety, speed and better control; Eruption of problems in various industries like the paper industry as workers got maimed by the hot rolls and gnawing gears.

Discusses the U.S. bombings during the war in Vietnam. Views of critics on the Vietnam bombings; Factors responsible for the U.S. decision to bomb Vietnam; Views of Pentagon analysts; U.S. government's attitude regarding the future of South Vietnam.

Presents information on a scandal in newsprint industry. Establishment of a Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee, comprising of publishers, managing editors and general managers of major papers all around the U.S.; Issuance of the Printing and Publishing General Limitation Order L-240, by the War Production Board (WPB); Order restricting newspapers to 100 percent of their newsprint use of 1941, which would have been a cut of about 10 percent of 1942 figures; Influence of the shortage of pulp on the newsprint cuts; Recommendation by the Newspaper Industry Advisory Committee for curtailments running upto five percent of 1941's consumption for the largest papers; Impact of these cuts on circulations of small and medium dailies; Opinion of Republicans and a few reactionary Democrats that the newsprint cut was an elaborate attempt to destroy press; Investigation into the newsprint curtailment; Allegations on WPB for deliberately imposing the curtailments for purposes of censorship; Suggestions of curtailing the advertisers space to reduce wastage of paper.

Presents information on the paper industry in the U.S. Benefit of paper industry by technological advances made by the Herty Laboratories and the Forest Products Laboratory of the United States Forest Service; Suitability of the Southern pine for pulping; Importance of maintaining a continuous supply of wood for the proper functioning of the paper industry; Protection of Southern forests from fire; Demand for improving the fire protection and forest-management practices to protect the second-growth pine stands of the South; Information on the varieties of pines being grown in South; Role of pulpwood industries in the economic prosperity of the South.

Presents the investigation of taxes by U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. Overstatement made by the Nixon; Discussion of the donation of papers with former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson; Efforts of the Congress to close the tax loophole that allowed for the donating of deductible papers; Overview on the investigation; Estimation of the amount of possible deduction on tax returns of Nixon for four year, 1969 to 1972.

Presents information on criminal fraud committed by Ralph G. Newman, the appraiser of U.S. President Richard Nixon once tax-deductible gift of vice presidential papers. Change of statements by Newman; Investigation of the matter by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service; Reasons given by Newman for his earlier misstatements; Statement by Newman that he had reviewed his files and his activities pertaining to the Nixon gift.

Reports developments related to politics and government in the United States. Conflict between President Franklin Roosevelt and his Democratic enemies in the Senate; Allocation of new capital to the Southern paper industry; Dispute between executive Morris Llewellyn Cooke and the Rural Electrification Administration.

Examines the relationship of the U.S. press controlled by whites with its African American readers in 1965. Roles played by the press in the race situation in the country; Ideas and values advanced by the press to its African American readers; Rights and privileges that has yet to be awarded to African Americans; Significance of the press in preparing the society for the social change brought by the changing socio-political conditions of African Americans.

Comments on the content and ideals of newspapers in the U.S. Advantage of a technical training in the weighing of the kind of evidence which does not pass current in the courts; Discussion of the violation of moral law; Accounts on the duties and obligation of the journalists.

Focuses on the headlines and editorials of several newspapers in the United States. Report that fifty-five counties and scores of cities and towns may have to close shop unless special session of legislature can find new sources of tax revenue in West Virginia; Hope that federal mediation board will end coal strike in Pennsylvania; News from Ohio includes the state's desperation to seek additional revenue to save public schools; Socio-economic conditions in New York and other states.

Presents letters to the editor referencing various articles and topics published in previous issues. Fascist groups in the U.S. and the approach adopted by the two major political parties of the nation to appease these groups; Comments on Beardsley Ruml's postwar fiscal program for the prosperity of the U.S.; Criticism against journalist Richard Rovere for ignoring the importance of the "Farm Journal" in his article on American wartime magazines; Description of an American battle dress; Appreciation for the review of Robert Fitzgerald's new book of poems done by Rolfe Humphries; Ways in which kraft paper has been used for military purposes.

Presents a supposed text of a ship's log written in archaic English. Metaphor for the political condition of the United States; Retirement of the Captain to the stern and subsequent take over of the steering wheel by diverse persons; Mate who pretended not to see miserable persons drifting on a raft; Trader balancing budget on the ship's sails for want of paper; Ship's general lack of alacrity and direction.

The article presents news briefs for the week of March 13, 1965. Particular attention is given to the domestic and foreign policies of the U.S. Article topics include the U.S. State Department's White Paper on the Vietnam War, the United States dedication to fighting Communism, as well as discussion on a U.S. housing program which would provide jobs for Americans and aid those in need of home.

Presents information on various articles related to socio-economic issues in the U.S. that were published in several periodicals. Comment on the article "Action Now!" that was published in the June 16 issue of the periodical; Discussion of the article "Russia and the War of Ideas," by L.J. Eddy that was published in July 7 issue of the periodical; Feedback on the article "Create a Second Front!" that was published in July 7 issue of the periodical; View of William Makins, business manager of the British literary monthly Horizon, that only help from the U.S. will sustain the magazine in the face of a very serious situation in the U.S. paper supply; Criticism of the United States Post Office Department's recent practice of destroying tons of foreign literature on the theory that every publisher abroad desiring to use the United States mails must register with the State Department by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Offers a look at the extent of air pollution in Lewiston, Idaho and Clarkston, Washington caused by the operation of the pulp mills of Potlatch Forest Industries. Information on a report from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare based on environmental survey of the towns; Reaction of state agencies to the efforts of the federal government to address the problem; Health problems suffered by the population because of pollution.

Reports that the United States has won its third paper battle at the United Nations. Approval of a modified "Little Assembly"; Opposition of the Soviet bloc to the plan and promise to boycott the assembly; Design of the "Little Assembly" to by-pass the Security Council veto; Dealing with political situations referred to it by the Assembly; Subjects under consideration by the Security Council; Need for the consent of the states involved.

Presents news items published in several periodicals. Tendency of Germans that they do not want to be hung; Information that the U.S. government is sure it can find enough to print the needed next batch of 665 million income-tax blanks despite the paper shortage; Statement that in Chicago, Illinois, the new catalogue of Turtox Products Inc. offers grasshopper eggs at 75 cents a dozen and other dainties at reasonable prices.

The article focuses on several issues related to national debt in the United States. Toward the close of the second session of the 79th Congress in 1946, a group of economy-minded Republicans joined by conservative Democrats succeeded in reducing the statutory limit on the national debt from $300 billion to $275 billion. No one seriously believed that ceilings on the debt would be a major factor in ending deficit financing. The Republicans wanted to place the Democratic President in the position of having to ask Congress for a higher limitation, thus giving them an opportunity to charge the Administration with inept debt management, bankrupting the nation by wild spending, and other fiscal and monetary sins. In the closing days of the first session of the 83rd Congress, with a Republican President in the White House, one of this same GOP economy group. Republican Daniel Reed stood before the House and pled for an increase of the debt limitation to $290 billion. The Republican Administration has reluctantly concluded that paper ceilings on the national debt can thwart the entire operations of a modern government. Economy-minded Senators, when they return either in the fall or in January, will have to face this distasteful fact, too.

Presents information on an advertisement by William Randolph Hearst, U.S. newspaper and magazine publisher, that was printed in several newspapers. Report on the headline of the advertisement being "The Hearst Papers Stand for Americanism and Genuine Democracy"; Announcement of Hearst's publishing principles and his philosophy in the advertisement; Comments of the author on the part of the advertisement saying that the Hearst papers support the American style of government; Information on patriotic approach of Hearst in all conditions; Criticism of Hearst to force his readers into Mexico war through his newspapers; Information on interest of Hearst in writing about the U.S. entering war with Mexico; Report on defensive behavior of Hearst of freedom to assemble; Information on the editorial "Keep the Faith of Our Fathers," published in the journal "The Los Angeles Examiner," on February 24, 1935; Report on disguised reporters as students who went to interview some of the professors at Columbia and Syracuse universities, with instructions to get them to say they were Communists; Comments on the headline of an article "Drive the Reds From the Campus"; Information on Hearst being a great capitalist and owning lots of property; Report on large industries and agricultural land owned by Hearst; Focus on claptrap, triviality, sob stuff and tripe in Hearst's newspapers; Comments on Russian famine, mentioned in newspapers in the U.S.; Information on no mention of a food shortage in the Soviet Union in his articles.

Focuses on the codes adopted by newspapers in the United States regarding what types of medical advertising they will allow in the publication. Definition of medical advertising according to A. J. Cramp, director of the Bureau of Investigation of the American Medical Association; Newspapers which were considered for a survey presented in this article; Rating of newspapers for the amount of pernicious medical advertising; Dominance of cure-all medicines in medical advertising; Allegations made against newspapers that they themselves have created the appetite for sensational news; Ethical behavior of tabloids where medical advertising is concerned; Position of medical advertising in newspapers targeted at African Americans.

Presents information on bias editorials in the presentation of news by several U.S. newspapers, as shown by their handling and reporting in headlines and text of news events. Description of controversial matters such as the Cruiser Bill controversy in Congress and tariff debates; Measurement of the discrepancy between objective facts and news facts; Analysis of 400 issues of seven Pittsburgh newspaper during the steel strike; Development of a project by Carola Woerishoffer Department at Bryn Mawr College to give reliable results from newspaper analysis; Comment that to advocate a policy editorially has been regarded as a proper function of the press; Information on public controversies on which indexes of bias are based.

The article focuses on the Republican Party's influence on the American press. The American press today is pre-dominantly Republican. Democrats and independents have not only the right but the responsibility to point out to the public the bias in the source of their news. Ownership influence upon newspaper content and performance can be very large. Or this influence may be of a much lesser degree, as found by one study of "Midcity Daily," the pseudonym given a real-life paper. Some members of the editing-writing group shared in every decision on printing or not printing the news about "Midcity Daily."

Presents information on several socio-political issues in the U.S. Failure to find the solution of housing problems after the World War II at a conference. Information on the renewal notice from the Curtis Publishing Co.; Objectives of the Fourth Filipino Inter-Community convention that took place in New City Hall; Existence of English-speaking, adaptable and intelligent workers in the small towns of Georgia; Concern shown by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association on the shortage of paper during wartime.

This article presents information on different newspapers, read by the people of the U.S. The article also presents an account of headlines and statements, published in these newspapers, regarding a controversy surrounding the students of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. One of the newspaper "San Francisco Chronicle," said that presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson quelled a pushing, pulling mob of Yale students by appealing to their pride as Yale men and Americans." As reader, Francis J. Carr, of Palo Alto, California observes: "The upshot of the whole affair was that apparently the Yale students were in a rather festive mood."

Focuses on the Disarmament Conference which was held in Geneva, Switzerland. Information that the conference gives Germany the theoretical equality of armament with the other Great Powers; View that the conference aim to impress the United States that Europe really is setting its house in order and is therefore entitled to drastic reduction or cancellation of the war debts; Claim that despite the seeming evidence to the contrary, the statesmen assembled at Geneva are not a pack of simpletons.

Focuses on the two new picture magazines, "Life" and "Look." Increase in the demand of both the magazines; View that the U.S. has suddenly gone candid-camera crazy; Enhancement of the attractiveness of such periodicals by adding pictures that are sensational, faintly salacious or gruesome; Description of the April issue of the magazine "Look."

Focuses on the taxation of the income of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Announcement that Nixon would pay the taxes he owed to Internal Revenue Service and the Senate-House Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation on his income during the first four years of his presidency; Information about the gross income of the president during that period; Details of deductions for a gift of his pre-presidential papers to the National Archives; Information about the valuation of donated papers by a professional appraiser.

Focuses on faults of the American journalism and the scope of improving it. Factors responsible for some improvement in American journalism; Role played by the American Newspaper Guild to increase the self-respect of the individual newspaperman; Prevalence of the censorship authority exercised by publishers; Drift of the newspaper into the hands of money-minded men who are interested in profits; Danger posed by monopoly in the press; Increasing tendency toward standardized and syndicated material; Over-representation of the middle class in the press; Need of newspapers with a far smaller capital investment, so that genuine competition will more easily be possible.

Presents information on the suppression of news in the U.S. Criticism of the policy adopted by the U.S. government to suppress the press; Vested interest of the advertising media to suppress certain news; Suppression of the Cauley Bridge silicosis story; Publication of the news by all liberal-labor publications of the U.S.; Suppression of a news by the New York Herald which involved a shoplifting arrest of socially prominent women at the James McCreery store; Report of the La Follette Committee that alleges that a number of papers like The New York Herald Tribune and The Newark Ledger employs spies or secret agents; Elimination of all commodity news favoring consumers; Criticism of press for playing down of liberal and labor news and the distortion of facts which go on every day in matters of social, economic and political importance.

Focuses on grand jury system investigating the leakage of secret documents from the U.S. Department of Defense. People accused of duplicating the Pentagon papers; Provisions related to secrecy of proceedings in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure; Information that because Lynda Sinay, the woman who had allegedly helped duplicate the Pentagon Papers, testified before the grand jury, is free from possible prosecution.

Focuses on the press in the United States. Views of journalist Heywood Broun of the newspaper "New York World" on rural press and sameness of all newspapers; Views of metropolitan editors on the syndicated columns of small-town papers; Role of syndicates in village press; Report that page one is still the old-time gossip of the village street and its news is local news; View that the metropolitan dailies are getting more and more away from news, and more and more involved in features; Statement that it is the show business that standardizes the city press and fills the village paper with its syndicated columns.

Focuses on the issue pertaining to the Justice Department's selection of a media monopoly in Topeka, Kansas. Response of Federal Communications Commission to deny a license renewal to Topeka's radio stations; Interest of Stauffer Publications in reporting the Topika city news; Information that the Justice is expected to file more petitions concerning newspaper-broadcasting crossownerships in Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta and San Francisco; Decision to emphasize local coverage and personalities so as to attract a larger audience in the city.

Focuses on the implication of the disclosed Pentagon papers, which have been maneuvered by intelligence officer Daniel Ellsberg, for the administration of President Richard Nixon and the national security issues in the U.S. Opinion that pro-Democratic federal bureaucrats hostile to President Richard Nixon would be tempted to imitate Ellsberg and slip newsmen potentially embarrassing tips on domestic and national security policies; Views expressed by various politicians that this has been attempt to seal off any leaky spots in the government; Confirmation on future disclosures following the Ellsberg precedent; Impact of the administration's response on the Watergate investigation.

Presents information on the plant paper or employees' magazine which is one of the numerous cures for unrest which American industry has tried within the last decade. Information that established, sometimes in connection with, sometimes independently of welfare or "industrial relations" programs, these magazines now represent a capital investment of, roughly, $4,000,000, and constitute an article of some bulk in the journalistic diet of the working class; Published "for," "in the interests of," "for the information and inspiration of," occasionally "for and by" the employees of a corporation; Circularization of the paper free of charge to all employees, and is sometimes mailed, to their home addresses; Purpose of the magazine to promote industrial efficiency; Publicity campaigns conducted by some editors to eliminate the wastes of heavy accident rates, of sickness and tardiness; Subjects which really touch the relations of capital and labor and which are therefore of primary interest to labor are wages, hours, methods of collective bargaining, working conditions, and the status of employer and employee.

Focuses on the battle between press and the radio in the U.S. Description of efforts made by newspapers to limit the growing popularity of the radio; Information on the commercial broadcasting; Comment on selling programs produced by the radio; Demand made by papers for their property right in news during the annual meeting of the National Association of Newspaper Publishers; Establishment of news service by the Columbia Broadcasting System; Comment on operations of the Press-Radio Bureau.

Focuses on the African American press and reactions of the whites on publications of the press in the U.S. Information on the press that has been consistently growing too big and tough for the focus of their prejudiced visions; Accusation of the whites that the African American press has been creating something to which it has only given expression: the American Negro's drive for the freedoms, rights, privileges, and human happiness for which the war itself is being fought; Demand of the African Americans regarding the real news of African Americans in the war and the war's effect upon race issues; Statement that in a great majority of cases is given the race slant right at the source; The race press has grown up to fill a need as important to the African American as the home-town paper to any white man; Discussion of the African American writers, who over and over, in all possible variations, with a variety of tones and shadings, with none of the ambiguous and deceitful language by which hard facts are softened in the white press, tell the African American exactly what the white man doing for him and to him; Information on critics of the race press who failed to mention the better-conduct campaigns; Description of the fundamental weakness of the African American press.

Focuses on ethical standards of the press with reference to the social value of the American newspaper. Steps taken by editorial associations in the U.S. to preserve the high ideals of integrity and social service which should control the behavior of the press; Views of noted politicians and media persons regarding the violation of journalistic ethics; Steps that should be taken to improve the ethical behavior of the press; Details about an investigation undertaken by the Carola Woerishoffer Graduate Department of Social Economy and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania to assess ethical standards of the press.

Focuses on the investigation conducted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on the purchase of the "Boston Herald" and the "Boston Traveler" by the International Paper and Power Co. Insistence of company president A. R. Graustein that the firm has purchased its shares in newspapers without any intention to control their editorial policies; Aim of the corporation to insure an outlet for its newsprint; Claim that the majority of its stockholders care nothing for the freedom of the press.

Focuses on the prevalence of experiments in the U.S. and Europe in which a group of unions are contributing to the publication of papers such as "New York Leader" and "The Herald." Success of such efforts for the entities involved that portray actual facts of the conditions of the classes involved; Reasons behind the boycott of the labor press by local and national advertisers; Answer to the demand of production of papers with limited finance; Economic problems associated with the workers who are working with these newspapers.

The author reflects on the implications of the victory by elected U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on newspaper publishers who have harshly criticized the president during the electoral process. He said that publishers such as W. R. Hearst and writers including Betty Millard and Paul Block are among Roosevelt's detractors. Roosevelt is the subject of accusations regarding social security taxes and his alleged dictatorship. Such newspapers eventually experienced a decline in sales.

Focuses on policy decisions of the National Security Council (NSC) that led the U.S. into war with Vietnam. Reasons for the U.S. to the Communist attack on South Korea in June 1950; Comment on the foreign policy of the U.S. mentioned in NSC paper regarding Vietnam; Reports that in September, 1949, the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb, about five years ahead of expectations by American and European experts; Observations on the new power relationship in the world, with the U.S. and the Soviet Union occupying the terminal poles.

Comments on the U.S. Air Force's briefing paper suggesting the bail out of defense contractor Lockheed Aircraft Corp. by the United States Department of Defense. Value of C-5A aircraft contract of Lockheed with the U.S. military; Debate on whether the government will bypass the Armed Services Board of Contract appeals, which is litigating the claims of Lockheed against the government on C-5A aircraft; Dispute between Lockheed and the government as to whether the government is obliged to buy C-5A aircraft from Lockheed; Proposal of the Air Force to settle the dispute by replacing the C-5A contract with cost plus fixed loss contract.

Provides several ideas for newspaper ownership in the U.S. Daily schedule of circulation; Quality services for advertising clients; Issuance of quarterly financial statements to corporate staff; Subjects in the work of the cartoonists; Strategy in the recruitment of editorial staff.

Discusses the publication of the information on Senator Richard Nixon's fund, in different U.S. journals. Publication of the story of how 76 men gave politician Richard Nixon $18,000 to sell free enterprise jointly by reporters of the journals "Post," and "Daily News,"; Number of newspapers that placed the story on first page; Information on the survey of 70 daily newspapers that printed the story on Nixon's fund.

Focuses on the spread of communist activities in China while discussing the foreign policy of the U.S. towards China. Details about the U.S. State Department White Paper on China which presents a factual day-to-day record of wishfulness and unrealism on the part of the Chinese National Government; Conclusion that emerges from this publication of the White Paper; Discussion of possible steps the U.S. can take to save Asia from a dreary century of Communism; Predictions made by the U.S. Foreign Service officers after the Second World War regarding the civil war in China; Efforts made by the U.S. government to save Chiang Kai-shek, head of Nationalist government on Taiwan; Reference to the armed Communist movement in China in 1946.

Discusses that the newspapers of journalist William Randolph Hearst are on decline. View that the Hearst newspapers no longer have anything like the significance they had in American life a generation ago; Description about the journalistic career of Hearst; Influence of Hearst on American journalism during 1900 to 1910; Existence of a stiff competition faced by the Hearst newspapers from other papers like the "New York Daily News" and the "Chicago Tribune"; Testimony that Hearst no longer sets the pace journalistically is shown by the recent history of his magazines; Argument pertaining to Hearst's influence upon the army of readers of his newspaper.

The article presents an exploration into the personality and political profile of the advisor Pat Moynihan to the administration of President Richard Nixon. Moynihan's views on poverty and the political responsibility of the government concerning them are discussed, highlighting comments written in the book "Republican Papers," by Melvin Laird.

This article presents news including foreign trade bill that was discussed during United States President John F. Kennedy's State of the Union address, other factors discussed in Kennedy's address, which reflects his 1961 pattern of relations with the U.S. Congress, and several hundred journalists in Los Angeles, California, who lost their newspaper jobs when two downtown papers went out of business.