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.
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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.
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