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RIGHTS OF THE CONSUMER
TO COUPONS ENDANGERED
Lobby Will Ask Georgia Legislature 1 o Deprive The Peo
ple Of Benefits From Trading Stamps And Coupons.
Another effort will be made at the
coming session of the Georgia legis
lature, it is said, to deprive the peo
.ple of this state of the benefits they
tare now enjoying from the issuancd of
(trading stamps and coupons.
Although the proposed legislation is
•backed by a powerful northern lobby
■and is favored by some of the large
;*ity merchants and big daily papers
in this section, it is not believed that
the Georgia legislature will pass such
•a measure. Every effort made in otli
ter states has proven abortive, al
though more than fifty such bills have
been introduced in the last three
years. In most states where this big
lobby has been active, the bills have
pimply failed to pass, and in the few
states where such laws have been en
acted, they have in every instance
later been declared unconstitutional.
The objection to the trading stamps
and coupons has come only from large
mercantile organizations which have
hoped by legislation to stifle compe
tition, and from big publications who
have objected to seeing the public
share in the benefits of money spent
for advertising which otherwise they
might be able to get for themselves.
•The public has always welcomed trad
ling stamps and coupons, as they
amount, to the equivalent of cash dis-
tcounts and premiums on their cash
'purchases. The idea that the public
was not really getting any benefit,
but simply paid more for the original
article, or got an inferior article, lias
been completely exploded by proofs
showing that the goods sold with cou
pons are sold at. exactly the same
price and are exactly the same goods
that competitors of the coupon using
merchants sell without coupons.
The manufacturers aqd merchants
using the coupons are enabled to do
;®o, not by charging more for their
wares or selling inferior wares, but
jtmthe advertising they get from the
coupons and by the-trade it attracts
Ito their stores. It is estimated that
fully $5,000,000 worth of valuable
jgoods are given away to the people of
Georgia each year through these cou
pons.
This money represents over-head
advertising expense, which the manu
facturers or dealers themselves pay,
believing that they get $5,000,000
worth of benefit out of it in advertis
ing and attracting business. If a bill
were passed prohibiting the use of cou-
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PHONE 411 CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Special Notice
City Tax Books will be open on April Ist for
receiving of returns of personal property for the year
1917, and remain open until 6 o’clock p. m., on the
first day of June 1917.
All persons failing to m ike returns of their per
sonal property will be doubled taxed as provided
by law.
By order of the Board of Commissioners’ of the
City of Cartersville, Ga.
W. W. DANIEL,
City Fax Receiver.
pons, prices on goods would not be
one cent less to the consumer and
would not give the consumer an arti
cle one white nuj>erlor in quality. It
would simply mean that these manu
facturers and dealers would cease to
distribute among the people of Georgia
the $5,000,000 worth of goods, which
they now give away annually absolute
ly free for advertising purposes.
Trading stamps are not the same as
coupons, yet the proposed legislation
aims to put them on the same basis,
and to crush both with the same blow.
The trading stamp, strictly speaking,
is issued by a company in the trading
stamp business, which sells its own
! system to merchants and makes a
| profit out of it. There might be some
I objection to the trading stamp on the
' part of the small merchant, as he
; might be compelled to buy a system
which he did not want in order to
keep pace with a neighbor who had
pul in the system, but this possible
objection does not apply to the cou
pon proper at all, as the coupon is
packed by the manufacturer or retailer
in its own article and given away only
with its own articles and redeemed in
its own stores.
No instance has ever been shown
where the people have objected to the
system.
They regard the efforts of the lobby
as a plan to thwart and stifle com
petition and deprive the public of a
benefit it is now getting without con
ferring upon it atiy new benefit what
ever to replace what it has lost
Nobody but the thrifty housewife
knows how th? average Georgia home
has benefited and been beautified by
the premiums from trading stamps and
coupons, for in the homes of every
community, large and small, are found
coupon-given articles of every kind and
description from cut glass vases and
waffle-jrons to bedroom furniture and
pianos. Nearly everyone uses some
filing on which stamps or coupons are
given, the list including Octagon Soap,
Spearmint Gum. United Cigar Store
purchases, Arbuckle’s Coffee, Bal
lard’s Flours, Pet and Acorn Condens
ed Milk, Quaker Oats and many other
standard goods. The whole family
benefits. The legislator who votes in
favor of this lobby measure to prohibit
stamps and coupons will simply be
voting at the behest of big business
to take $5,000,000 annually away from
the people of Georgia.—(Advt.)
Just received a car load of cane bot
tom chairs. Price for cash 65c each. G.
M. Jackson & Son.
Bread is the staff of life, therefore
have It good. Tip-Top or Butter-Nut
Breafi.
THE BARTOW TRIBUNE-THE CAR TERSVILLE NEWS, APRIL 26, 1917.
°REPARATIONS FOR STATE
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
From Savannah comes the news
that unusual preparations are being
made for the State Sunday School Con
vention which meets in that city, May
*ih. tith, 10th. The churches of all de
nominations of the city seem to be
vying with one another as to which
can get the most homes for delegates.
13.5C0 Programs Mailed Out.
Every Sunday school superintendent
in the state whose name and address
could he secured will receive this
week a copy of the Sunday School
News in which is printed a program of
the state convention and a large num
ber are being mailed to other Sunday
school workers in every county in the
state. In all 13,500 copies are being
mailed out.
The County Sunday School Officers
Boosting the Convention.
All the counties of the state except
j four are now organized into County
Sunday School Associations and have
president, secretary an;l division pres
idents, and to these officers, programs
and other printed matter are being
mailed, and all are asked to help boost
the convention. The committee on ar
rangements last week sent out 5,000
picture posters printed in two colors,
1 • :>x2C inches with the pictures of 21
1 of the 03 convention speakers. These
were mailed to the Sunday school sup
erintendents and Sunday school work
ers in every bounty in the state.
Prominent People on the Program.
Among the speakers at the state
Convention will be Mr. John J. Eagan,
Atlanta, one of Georgia’s most promi
nent Christian business men and Sun
day school superintendents * Dr. E. C.
Dargan, Macon, pastor of First Bap
tist church; Dr. W. N. Ainsworth, Sa
vannah, pastor of Wesley Monumental
church; Dr. S. E. Wasson, Rome, pas
tor of the First Methodist church; Dr.
Joseph Broughton, Atlanta, and many
other men of equal prominence. Be
sides the in-state speakers Mr. John
L. Alexander, of Chicago, 111.; Miss
Nannie Lee Fraysqr, Louisville, Ky.,
and Mr. Leon C. Palmer, Montgomery,
Ala., will each speak several times.
Music a Special Feature.
it has been customary for several
years to feature the music at the-state
convention. Prof. E. O. Excell,' of Chi
cago, 111., one of America’s foremost
musicians will have full charge of the
convention music. He brings with him
Prof. W. P. Erwin, a famous pianist,
of Chicago. The Methodist Quartette,
of Rome, Ga„ is also on the program
several times.
Delegates and Entertainment.
All delegates will pay a registration
fee of SI.OO, and then he given a pack
age containing a souvenir program,
note book, song book and several oth
er things necessary to make the time
spent at the convention pleasant and
profitabe. They will then he assigned
homes on the Harvard plan-lodging
and breakfast free.
new HOME
TREATMENT FOR
BANISHING HAIRS
(Beauty Topics)
With the aid of a medol paste, it is
an easy matter for any woman to re
move every trace of hair or fuzz from
face, neck and arms. Enough of the
powdered medol and water is mixed
into a thick paste and spread on the
hairy surface for about 2 minutes,
then rubbed off and the skin washed.
This completely removes the hair, but
to avoid disappointment, get the
medol in an original package. Medol
costs only 50c and SI.OO a package.
Mail orders filled by American Prc-
P’-ietory Cos.. Boston. Mass. —(advt.)
“THE BIRTH OF A NATION’’
RE-OPENS OPERA HOUSE.
.Manning and Wink, who operate a
chain of theatres in Georgia and Ten
nessee, have secured a lease on the
Cartersville Opera House. They will
present, it is said, only theatrical at
tiactions of the greatest merit. For
the opening show they have secured
I). W. Griffith’s spectacle “The Birth
of a Nation,” which is ceded to be the
j most prententious entertainment on.
tour today. Three performances will
he given of the picture in Cartersville;
j Friday and Saturday, May 4-5. A mati
nee, starting at three o'clock, will take
place Saturdavps well as the evening
performance,* which commences at
8:15.
It has been promised that when
I “The Birth of a Nation” comes to Car
ters vflle, the same big symphony or
chestra that accompanied the specta
cle on its long run in Atlanta and in
Chattanooga will be with it. Also, a
sixty foot baggage car load of stage
and scenic effects will be used. It re
quires the services of twenty men to
j operate the mechanical pertion of the
I entertainment.
| Mr. Griffith is advertising the last
i tour of his photo-spectacle and is ad
vising all who wish to see it to be
! present at this showing. Anew super
spectacle called “Intolerance” is to
follow "The Birth of a Nation’’ on
tour, which is also the work of Grif
fith.
Reduced prices are in order for the
farewell tour. The best seats are from
seventy-five cents to one dollar and a
half. Ax the matinees the prices are
even lower. Mail orders are being ac
cepted new if they are accompanied by
a money order add self-addressed
stamped envelope. Ihe regular seat
sale starts Tuesday, May I, at Griffin
Dili” Cos. Wherever ’The Birth of a
Nation" is presented, the seat sale is
often very large, and many times all
of the tickets are disposed of before
the opening of the first show. For this
reason it is well to take advantage of
the mail order sale and avoid the dis
appointment of not being able to get
accommodation. The sale is for the
benefit of local and out of town thea
tregoers and all orders will be filled
in the sequence of their receipt.
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house, all conveniences. This house
now occupied by Mr. J. M. Rising. Can
give possession about April 6th. See
or phone W. H. Field at the warehouse
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