Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1872-11-28
DEAD HEADS.

The Record, the organ Ut the Haptists OF
West Virginia, has word 10 say ola class
OF readers who are not confined 10 West Yir-
ginia.
WedislIkc to use tile term. Il Ii moro ex-
| pressiva than elegant. 1t has wide appli-
cation. We have applet IL to those who
ride on steamboats, and cars-wlio take news
papers and never p;iy for them. We have i
| small list Of dead heads They promised 10
work for the paper-to write for it--aild hare
failed to do so. They have absorbed !tH and
have given forth nothing. we did not ex-
pect them to become dead-heatls.
With them we have just word. You
may think Ilat reading eur paper IS colnpli-
nient enough to pay for it. Let us see. You
read fifty-two papers per Year-enough to
make neat volume. Your opinion of the
paper, and the fact that you read it, have
had no Influence upon any one in your inn
mediate vicinity, that We have heard OF. So
we must, with great. reluctance, it is true
Inform YOU that you can no longer remain a
dead head On our books. You are capable
or having better place. and should return
to life again by remitting tile price Of the
Resord, or by sending us list Ut Subscribers.
The one or the other must be done by the
Ist OF October, or the Record will cease to
visit you as before
There is the critical dead head the mar,
who reads with determination to pick q
flaw IN everything. lie reads much; thinks
but little /; finds fault with the editors. the
correspondents. the advertisements and the
paper generally. Knows how paper
should DC edited. printed and circulated gem
orally. He reads 1t because it il sent to him.
Can't think OF paying for it. q
III we have snch dead head on our list.
commend us TO the man that will point him
out We will take great pleasure in sending
the copy we send him to some poor man or
family who Will appreciate it and be.grateful
tor the same.
There is large class Of dead heads who
promlsefo pay, and who run from year to
year without doing so. We have been bear
ing and waiting with them for wears. but
can do so no longer. They must either pay
up aud pass oyer 10 the list of live ard USE
tul subscribers, or they must 60 off of our
books. We want live list, and we are get
ting just such > list. 1t is growing daily,
and we must, IN Justice TO those who COM
pose the list, separate the dead from the liy-
ing.
There Is the failure and ruin dead head.
The man who reads his paper iii expectation
that 1t is bound to fail. and iii that syent he
will be released from his obligation to pay
what is justly DUE. should lie sent to some
sparsely settled island. where there are but
few mail facilities, none but old Ramage
presses, and worn, battered, mixed type,
AIAtsaO ~ wiz iCWSpdpcTp set HIS OWN IyEG,
do his own press-Work. mailing, collecting
ard then listen to tile complaints OF his pa
irons because bis paper does rot come to
hand in time. is not well printed; then to
crown it all, he should be compelled to read
his own paper at least one day in the week.
We have few of the ruin ard failure dead
heads on our list. They will henceiorth be
assigneda place on some other list TO make
room for. the live, paid up subscri-
bers that are reaching us by nearly every
mail. We TART with such dead heads with
out regret. We expect them to become ami
mated THAT they will tell what they are GO
ing to do for some other paper. We are not
the least alarmed. Can survive it all, for
unless they become more industrious and en-
they can't do us much harm, nor
any other paper much gosd. 1t would pe
relic to us to know that they were working
tor some one else. as they never did anything
for the Record. We will cheerfully tur.s
them over 10 any Journal that may be in
need Of such readers. We do not need them,
We want all to share alike. not that some be
burdened with the support Of the paper and
others eased. Let every one do something
oward its support.
Finally, dear dead head, Farewell! We
rave been together several yea S; we must
BART. Justice demands that unless you pay
or the paper in the first week in October,
FOUR name be removed from the Record,
ist. Farewell