Arrangements have now been completed for the turning of the Pulp and
Paper Magazine into a weekly publication, this forward step to be made
on the first of January, 1917.
Four years ago the present publishers of the Pulp and Paper Magazine
purchased that Journal from the Bigger & Wilson Company. It was then a
small sized paper, published once a month. The first step taken by the
new publishers was to enlarge its size to the present dimensions and
publish it twice a month. Now a second forward step has been taken and
the publication will shortly appear as a weekly.
No better evidence of the prosperity and progress made by the pulp and
paper industry can be given than that furnished by the Pulp and Paper
Magazine. It has grown in size, in circulation, in influence, and in
usefulness, and today is the official organ of the technical section of
the Pulp and Paper Association, and occupies a commanding place among
the Pulp and Paper Publications on the Continent. Under the leadership
of the Pulp and Paper Magazine the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association
was formed, the Forest Products Laboratory at McGill University
created, and the Technical Section of the Pulp and Paper Association
made a possibility.
Much of the success which has come to the Pulp and Paper Magazine must
be attributed to the two editors who have given it their best services,
namely Mr. A. G. McIntyre and Mr. Roy Campbell. As editors of the
Pulp and Paper Magazine, they both have done much to further the best
interests of the industry, and those associated with it.
Arrangements have been completed whereby Professor J. Newell
Stephenson, now head of the Forestry Department of the University of
Maine at Orono, will take over the editorship of the Pulp and Paper
Magazine when it launches on its career as a weekly. Some facts
regarding the new editor appear elsewhere in this issue.