The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-05
FRIDAY, OCTOBER s, 1905.

cheerfully. But l left my name and
address pinned to the cushion of the
headrest of the chair In which had
sat"
The Man About Town was told in
the middle OF last summer, as he has
been told about that date every year,
that the west would need no money
from the east to move the crops, as
it had enough of its own. The fact
proved to be the same this year as in
previous years, that the west had
money but had it in eastern banks.
That Is Just the sticker with the Man
About Town-he had all his money
in Paul Stensland's revolver pocket.
1t had to be withdrawn from use in
order to meet the autumnal need. The
effect upon the eastern money mar
kets. and ultimately the money mar
kets Of the country, was about the
same as though the Man had been OBJ
liged to borrow. with this difference,
that he could not have withdrawn the
money SO premtorily in the latter case.
But the man was also told one new
thing last summer, and that was that
the farmers had so generally opened
bank accounts that they could use
checks and therefore little currency
would he needed. This would have
been important If true. II farmers
could handle checks as merchants cah
the autumnal demand for currency
would disappear-that is to say, If the
| farmers and also their harvest hands
could handle checks-fOr very much
of this money is distributed in wages.
The farmer who sells his wheat for
thousand or five thousand dollars
may take a check and drive into the
| neighboring town and deposit 1t. But
he has got to get money out of the
bank to pay his farm hands. and this
money will be some time in getting
| around through the channels of retail
trade and reaching the Man About
Town.
: II was reading i'm one of the Mil
waukee papers the other day of the
authorities putting a stop to the dis
tribution Of dodgers or handbills
Toledo. O.. at the Hotel Dacotah to the
my mind similar state of affairs
down in Poughkeepsie. N. Y, q short
time ago.
THE city had an ordinance making
it an offense to distribute literature
of this kind and shopkeeper who
was arrested on a charge of violating
the ordinance put up novel defense.
He held that to prevent the distri-
button of dodgers was to give the
newspapers a monopoly of advertising.
In order to make money a merchant
must advertise. This merchant must
use the newspapers or he must dis
tribute printed matter directly among
the consumers of his wares. OF these
two methods newspaper advertising
is the more expensive.
"An ordinance preventing the dis
tribution Of handbills, the shopkeepel-
claimed, was virtually driving the ad-
vertiser into the newspapers.
Being newspaper writer. the Man
About Town does not doubt but thar
it costs more to place advertising in
the newspapers than it does to have
few thousand handbills printed and
thrown broadcast about city. but
when it comes to getting results the
newspaper will be the cheaper medi-
UNI every time Whether an ad is
printed alongside of reading matter
or whether it is published in an ad-
vertising section of the paper it is
going to be read. Readers of a paper
today look for the advertisements"
There is nothing we admire more
than man with little sense. Next
to that We admire polite man.
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