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A Newspaper must be balanced, just like a man. If a fellow is off
and hits on special subjects all of the time—you say he’s nuts. The
ra same way with a newspaper.
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be a real newspaper it must have local news; social news;
society news; telegraphic news; general news; editorials, etc. That’s
the Times-Recorder
This is the only paper in Americus and the third congression
al district which is served by telegraph with its general news. There
you are.
The Associated Press tells you and us what’s going on.
The Times-Recorder
DAILY AND WEEKLY
(Advertisement.)
ABOUT TOMI
The following article appeared in the
South Georgia Progress, April 26:
Explanatory.
“So many friends in the city have
made inquiry concerning the printing
of the annual High School publication
this year, that, in justice to them and
to ourselves, we consider it just and
proper to make the following state
ment. It is made merely as a matter
of information to those who may be
interested. The work is in charge of
Prof. Hale and Prof. Clement. We
have a printing plant w'ell equipped
to handle work of this nature; we
Lave printed two or more issues of
the annual -which were accepted with
complete satisfaction. This year we
submitted a bid for doing the work
according to specifications, revising
the figures later in order to quote the
lew’est possible price, not knowing at
the time that the contract had already
been made to have the work done in
Atlanta. Our revised figures came
within about ten dollars of the At
lanta figures, and we guaranteed to
produce practically the same work.
Owing to the extraordinary condition
of the paper market and the high
price charged for every kind of ma
terial, the cost of publishing the an
nual will be in the neighborhood of
five hundred dollars this year—a tidy
sum to be paid Americus workmen and
in turn spent by them among the mer
chants of Americus. Our information
is that it was not through any desire
to hand the local printer a lemon that
the work was placed in Atlanta, but
merely the doubt of our ability to turn
out the grade of work demanded by
those having charge of the publica
tion. If individuals see fit to spend
their money out of town for goods
that could be had at equal advantage
in Americus, that is strictly their bus
iness and not ours, but if funds are
to be paid out of the board of educa
tion treasury for work done in Atlanta
that could be done equally as well in
Americus, then as taxpayers and Cit
izens we feel that we should register
a protest. And here it is.
SOUTHERN PRINTERS.
The following advertisement appear
ed in both of the Americus papers on
Thursday, May 4th:
RESOLI TIONS OF PROTEST.
WHEREAS, Mr. C. G. Clement, of
the faculty of the Americus High
1 School has seen fit to send the print
ing of the “A-Meri-Clan” (the High
School Annual,) out of the city to a
notoriously unfair printing concern in
Atlanta, thereby depriving certain
members of this union of the financial
| benefits that would have accrued
I from working on the same, had the
printing been kept at home, and
| WHEREAS, We, as printers, know
i that equally as good work could have
- been done in Americus as in Atlanta,
from a typographical standpoint;
therefore, be it;
RESOLVED, That Typographical
Union, No. 435, protests against the ac
i tion of Mr. Clement in sending the
of the “A-Meri-Clan” out of
I town.
| RESOLVED FURTHER, That Ty
pographical Union, No. 435, asks the
( assistance of the business element of
, Americus in keeping all printing at
I home that can be done equally as
| well here as abroad.
1 RESOLVED FURTHER, That these
, resolutions be published in both the
papers of Americus.
AMERICUS TYPOGRAPHICAL UN
ION, NO. 435.
This May 3rd, 1916.
In view of the foregoing articles
we think it is due the High School,
members of the Senior Class in par
ticular, and the business men of the
city, who have in the past so gener
ously supported us in all high school
activities, that the people of Americus
should know all the facts in the case,
concerning the contract for this year’s
Annual.
When the contract for the engraving
for the annual was placed, the engrav
ers were notified that the Southern
1 rinters, of Americus, Ga., W’ould do
the printing; and the engravers were
instructed to ship all plates, when
completed, to the Southern Printers.
There was no intention or idea of even
asking any out-of-town firm for a bid.
But when asked for their very low
est price, the Southern Printers rais
ed their rate over last year's figures
just one dollar and ten cents per page;
or a raise of fifty-five per cent. And
leather covers they quoted at one dol
lar each for two hundred annuals,
making a total of five hundred and ten
dollars. These quotations w'ere sub
■ mitted in writing on March 23.
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
When the Southern Printers were
told that the Annual could not afford
to pay so high a price, Mr. Ames sug
gested that he would be glad if we
would ask Byrd Printing Company, of
Atlanta, Ga., for a bid. We did not
know that this was "a notoriously un
fair printing concern,” and w r ere act
ing purely upon his suggestion.
However, Mr. Ames stated that he
would in the meantime revise his fig
ures. Between March 23rd and April
3rd, Mr. Ames was urged three distinct
times to submit his revised quotation.
On April 3 the Byrd Printing Com
pany sent a special man to take up
with us the matter of the annual. Be
fore this man was consulted at all, the
Southern Printers were again asked
that afternoon for their revised bid.
But Mr. Ames again deferred.
The representative of the Byrd Print
ing Company offered to do the work
for the following price: Two hundred
annuals, bound in ooze sheep, stamped
i" silver, printed in two colors, on
140-pound paper; and artist's designs
for border included without extra
charge, for four hundred and fifty dol
lars; extra copies bound as the others
at ninety-five cents each. This bid was
sixty dollars lower than the only bid
that we had been able to get out of
the Southern Printers. Even granting
that the Southern Printers could have
dene equally as good work as the Byrd
Printing Company, the management of
the Annual could not from a strictly
business standpoint, do otherwise than
close the contract that night w’ith Mr.
Daniel, who represented the Atlanta
firm.
To forestall any criticism from the
local firm, and to prove to its own
satisfaction that the business manage
ment was justified in its conclusion
that the Southern Printers could not
meet the quotations submitted by the
Byrd Printing Company, the manage
ment consulted Mr. Ames the next af
ternoon. After he was made aware
of the fact that he was badly beaten by
the Atlanta firm, he made in the pro
cess of an hour or more, the following
quotation. Two hundred copies for
four hundred and sixty dollars; extra
copies at two dollars and twenty-five
cents each, which he said was his
best price. But when he was inform
ed that the Byrd Printing Company had
agreed to furnish us extra copies for
n’nety-five cents each, he Immediately
lowered his price to one dollar.
There was no offense intended; and
if the gentleman feels that he was put
to any unbusiness-like inconvenience,
or that he lost any business as a re
sult of this conference, the manage
ment of the A-Meri-Clan is ready to
compensate him in full.
When on April 26th, the first article
ai peared in the South Georgia Prog
ress, in. which it was stated that since
the Board of Education was contrib
uting to the expense of the Annual, the
taxpayers should protest to that body
against sending money out of town, the
management called on Mr. Ames, and
very kindly requested him to appear
with the undersigned before the Board
of Education, the trustees of the public
fund, which invitation Mr. Ames very
graciously declined.
C. G. CLEMENT.
C. M. HALE.
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We believe in Vinol because we
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