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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1915)
Why i«ot .ay \ d FuuiiSner? It has ever been a mystery to us why p joplc generally feel that the obligation to pay their newspaper subscriptions rested more lightly upon them than the obligation to pay any other debt they owed. Our experience and observation of many years has been that peo ple who are strictly punctilious in meeting all their other debts are universally careless in paying the publisher. We can see no reason why they should be. On the other hand we can see good and sufficient reason why they should be to the con trary. Such people would not think of buying and using the sugar or meat or shoes or hats of ihe mer chant with ut paying for them. The papers a publisher sells comes in the same category. The mer chant buys those articles and sells I,hern at a pr hit to c >ver the ex penses of handling and to afford him a living; the publisher buys white paper and goes to the ex pense of printing m ttter thereon and sells susposedly at a profit upon the cost of the paper and the cost of printing thereon to afford him a living for himself and fami ly. When one fails to pay the merchant he heats him out of the cost of the article bought together with what the profit thereon must contribute to his living expenses; when one fails to pay the publisher for his paper he beats him out of the cost of the white paper, ink and ot ler materials used, the cost of preparing and printing there what the subscriber wants and gets in reading matter and also out of what the profit on each subscription must contribute to the sustenance of the publisher and his family. Aren’t they ex-1 actly parallel cases, and is there any less “beating” in the o le case than in the other when payment is evaded ? That the amount due the pub lisher miy be only a dollar or s while the account due the mer chant may be several dollar-' does not change the proposition. The volume of business done by the average mercantile firm is many times as large as that of any av erage publisher, especially country publisher—fully ten times as great. Therefore the dollar due the pub lisher on subscription plays as .great a part in his business as at least a tin- lollar account due the merchat. To lose it entails as great a per cent, kss on his net income as a ten-dollar loss would upon the net income of the mer chant. The dollar debt is there fore of as much importance to the publisher as the ten-dollar or more debt is to the merchant. Such a debt is by the mer chant of sufficient importance to enter suit to collect if settlement sn.6s $".65 account U. V. C. REUNION Southern Railway PREMIER CARRIER Ot IHE SOI I H Tickets on sale May 29 to June 2. inclusive. Good returning un til June 10th, with privilege of extension until June 30, Ulo. Side Trip Tickets at Reduced Fares on Sale From Richmond to Many Important Points. For full information call on agents or address : 'uot be obtained otherwise. Watt would subscribers ow ing tin* publisher dollars each think and do if the publisher were to enter suit for the dollars they are owin'.: them on subscription ? Yet the dollar is to tin' publisher of as much relative importance as the ten-dollar or even - renter, ac count is to the average merchant; he feels the loss t it as much. Yet, with all of the above ns in- j disputable fact, there are many who, while they pride themselves upon paying all their other bills promptly seem to have no concern as to whether they prv the pub-i iisher foi his paper. They evi- | dently do not stop to think that the publisher needs as badiy tiie, small amounts due him as does' the merchant the larger amounts; that compared to the volume of the business, thev are oi as much importance to him, and that their loss is felt as much. And th v evidently do not comprehend the fact that, being of as much import-: ance, the publisher would be as much warranted in entering suit to collect them as the merchant in putting ten and twenty-dollar ac counts in suits. But the publisher is long suffer ing and exceedingly considerate of tlie feeling of his subscribers and never thinks of tawing any drastic steps whatever to collect j the dollar amounts due him on subscription. Just suppose we were to do so. —Oglethorpe Echo. cals. Little Miss Marian Shields is the gue t of het grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Bunn. Mr. and Mrs. McViJier and son, of Miami, Fla., have been here the guests of Mr. McVicker’s sister, Mrs. W. J. Barrett. Mr. Henry Turner, of Jackson visited his father, Mr. A. W. Tur ner, Sunday. Mrs. Robert Berry, of Villa Rica, and Miss Ella Berry, of the Sixth district, ware with Mrs. Howard Carmichael last week. Mrs. Jamie Hooten and children are visiting relatives in Atlanta. She expects to return home Mon day. Mrs. Sarah Patterson spent a few davs with her son, Mr. Kim ball Patterson, this week. Judge Reid Was Here This Week. Judge C. S. Reid, of the Stone Mountain Circuit, presided at Su perior court here Monday and Tuesday, during the absence of Jude Daniel in Ohio. Judge R id is an able judge and an excellent gentleman, whom we are always glad 10 have with us. To-day the case between Butts and Jasper counties over their county line will be t .ken up here. The Southern Mortgage Company Capital and Suiplus, $ Fsuiblbhcd 1870. Gould Building—lo Avatar Street 9 Edgevwod Avenue. FARM LOANS Negotiated throughout the State on Improved Farm Lands in sums ot SI,OOO to $ 100,001 Five Ye.—' *' ne at 'able rat-i, Our sources ot money n v ii xl. ruT' We hav** 0 .trong line ot customers among individual investors ami Savings oanks and T'i ust Companies in the X n th, F Ist and Middle West, and we number among om cnstomeis the * John Hancock Mutual L fe Insurance Co. with assets ot more than a ‘hundud million dollars. J. T. Holleman, President V. A Thompson, Abstracts of Title W, L. Kemp, Vice-President R. H. Osborn, Abstracts of Title J. W. Andrews, Secretary L. A. Boulighnv, Auditor E. R. Hunt, Treasurer S. R. Cook, Secretary’s Clerk E. V. Carter, Attorney T. B. Dempsey, Abstract Clerk A, d’Antignac, Inspector C A . Felker, Jr., Abstract Clerk. W. A. Howell, Abstracts of Title Horace Hoik man, Application Clerk. For information, call on or write to BROWN ■% BROWN, ■ McDonough, Georgia. "SAFETY FIRST’ IS THE BEST RfIOTTO IN STUDYING THE EUROPEAN WAR Some have gone across the seas to observe close at hand the fighting. I * ri -WAR ATLAS C OK ■ t EUROPE T l- < , -y Detail Maps of - rad- Country. i i v l , COVTLN r$ K ; V, V)»<! Wwfid fh. \ -g.g < - Tojual Pow- i«»fv . Z ?■/ ;nt d u t p U t. ope 1 * -Brluit or tirfj wMqt "i. t*Uink ILi. i.ir» le 1 mbnr/ t Si. ,9 j Sc £**<i)ru . '\Z-be isjg *rijM f . . .. IAS £■* , . . ! *;X £•; W. ’•»' V i -• » Yd k-irwT--' *•: Secure the Atlas offered by the Weekly and study the War at home in safety. See the editorial in this issue for the terms under which Ihe Weekly is dis tributing this ATLAS. Ma. A. F. Bunn's Barn Burned by Lightning. Mr. A. F. Bunn lost his ham at his home in McDonough by fire Wednesday night at 8:30 o’clock. During the tierce thunder storm, the barn was struck by lightning and that set fire to the barn. Before the fire department could reach it. th-' structure was sc nearlv ron-umH that it could not be s ved and their work was directed to saving the acjoining buildings, which was accom, fish ed. Mr. Bunn lost two mules, which were killed by the lightning. He saved his horse. BRING IN YOUR JOB WORK. 1
