Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-13
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which is circulated as a card adver-
tisement, contains SO much good adj
vice that 1t is worth reprinting.:
Creamery Mans Ten Commandments.
!. Thou shalt net slumber late In the
morning, but shalt rise early and de-
liver thy milk to the factory. for he
that goeth late causeth the butter
maker to use profane language
2. Thou shalt not cast all the dirt
thou canst brush off the COW into the
milk pail
3. Thou shalt not take any cream
for thy tea or coffee, for when thou get
test thy dividends one shall say to an
other, why takest it more milk here
for a pound of butter than AT any 9th
er creamery" Then shall the butter
maker arise and hold thee up to ridi-
cule with the Babcock rotary test .
4. Thou shalt not.miX water with thy
milk, thou nor thy man servant nor
the hired girl for SO surely as thou do
eth this thing thy name shall be Dem
mis- over the length and breadth OF the
whole milk route.
s. Thou shalt not feed thy cows too
much potatoes, onions. horseradish,
mustard or bad cabbage, for these
things, tho they may be as cheap as
all outdoors. cause the buttermaker to
gnash his teeth exceedingly, and the
butter eater to buy his butter some
where else.
6. Thou shalt not set thy can of
nights milk in the cellar with the COW
err off In order ITO use it as trap to
catch rats and mice therein, neither in
the woodshed as temptation to thy
neighbbr's cat.
I. Thou shalt not carry away more
milk or buttermllk than thy share lest
someone shall say concerning thee.
For a wonder, one hog carrieth food.
for another
s. Thou shalt not use unclean cans,
but shall cause thy cans to be washed
every day with dairyman's cleaner and
cleanser, for filthy can is an abomi-
nation in the buttermaker's sight, and
he will visit wrath upon him that
brlngeth It,
3. Thou shalt not trouble the butter
maker, saying: When shall l receive
my pay?" for verify say unto you,
he knoweth not nor careth little bit
10. Thou shalt not say unto another
'Lo, behold, have not these milk hand
lers soft snap? They receive much
pay and work not hard at ALL" Verify
say unto you, this Is whopper.
They rise early and toll much, and per-
adventure the board of directors re-
fuseth to buy another separator; they
will be obliged to toll Sunday morning
when other people are tanning them
selves within the gates of the syna-
gogue.
Many of us have known for a long
time that the circulation OF the daily
paper in Iowa was phenomenal. Ac-
cording to the following from one OF
the state statisticians, New Jersey is
one of Sthe most remarkable states.
relatively to its size and population, in
the number and circulation Of its
daily newspapers. OF these represent
tatives Of public opinion, Jersey has
fifty-five. with an aggregate circulation
of more than 100000 copies. A COM
parison of the number of daily news
papers in New Jersey with those in
the six other states of approximately
the same population follows: Iowa, "a:
Wisconsin, 81; Minnesota, 4S; North
Carolina, 81; Alabama, 90: Tennessee,
Is. Their average is 80 against Jer-
sey's So. d
The table shows that only two states
exceed New Jersey in the number of
daily newspapers. But only in Iowa
Is the aggregate circulation more than
Jerseys 100000. Iowa's papers circu-
late in the aggregate 100000 copies,
while Wisconsin's make total of only
$4,000. In area each of these states
is about three times the size of Jersey.
Newspapers reflect the intelligence
of a state" remarks the statistician,
"and in the state where newspapers
flourish one may expect to find high
class citizens. The newspaper does
not necessarily follow the home. 1t
depends upon the character of the
home. Fortunately Jersey has facil-
tiles that appeal to first class people.
1t has better railroad facilities than
most states, and the development of
its trolley system has been the envy
of less favored states. This has ,con-
duced to the growth of schools ali
over the state. Today the percentage
of illiterates in the state is less than
2 per cent.
This is real progress. These are
the things that attract people to the
state, and it is small wonder that Jer-
sey real estate is booming. So far as
the number of her daily newspapers is
concerned, Jersey is relatively in the
same class as Massachusetts"
With no figures at hand to verify
such a statement the writer can say
from good authority, that the Chicago,
Do,, a,oI n,,o III,
dailies have larger circulation also in
Iowa, than in any other state outside
of the place of publication. Only a
short time ago there were over thirty
travelling solicitors for daily papecs
regularly at work in Iowa. This latter
fact, that is, that quite percentage of
this number represented papers pub
lished outside Of Iowa, has resulted
from force of competition in Iowa pro-
ducing the best newspapers in the
world, this reference to the size of the
towns of the place of publication Some
years ago the writer was in Mas
sachusetts town of $4,000 population.
He, called at their daily newspaper Of
flee, they had only one daily, and nat
urally showed the proprietor OF this
Massachusetts daily, a copy of an Iowa
daily published in a town of 1900
inhabitants And the first remark was.
How do you manage to put up so
good a daily in town of that size?'
Here we cannot afford to print such
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