The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-04
A Business Talk With Our
 Readers.

Commencing With this numoer of THE TRIBUNE, the paper is en- lareeG from six column to a seven column and the space de- voted to news in each weeks issue will be almost double what it has been heretofore. On the first page, you will find seven full columns of state and general news, unbroken by any kind ot advertising. On the last page you will find a variety of select reading that will no doubt prove of interest to you and the second and third pages are devoted to the best news of the town and county. When the legislature convenes, which will be in a few days, we will have each week during the session two or three column report of the weeks pre- ceedinos of that body. Every citizen should certainly be inter- ested in this feature and every one who desires to keep posted as to the proceedings of the general assembly can do SO by reading THE TRIBUNE each week during the session.
 But now to the point. The heading of this article gives you an idea of what it is intended to he. a business talk with our large number of readers. The lm- movements We have made in the paper mean an increased eX- pense in issuing it each week and commencing with this issue no reduction will be made to any one anywhere from the regular price of one dollar per year. Our dealings with men has taught us that the average American citizen does not want any article for less than the cost of it's production and it only re- ouires a reference to our books to show us conclusively that on every subscription taken at less than one dollar per year, loss IS sustained. It will take only little figuring on your part to show you, when you look at the matter from common sense standpoint, that no weekly paper containing as much news as ap- pears in this issue can be issued for less than one dollar per year. In twelve months you will read fifty two copies of the paper, each issue containing about twenty full columns of news and each issue that you read is de- livered at your office, postage prepaid, for little less than two cents, not quite as much as the cost of a postage stamp. Then did you ever think of the indirect benefits that you receive from your county papers? THE TRIB- UNE alone sends about four hun- dred papers out of the state each week. Every year a number of people have their attention di- rected here by reading the paper and their location in the county is often the result. Every good citizen who is thus brought among us adds t. the produc- vity of the country and as a re-
 eperty values keep moving
 8unty papers of Car
 as we'll as of every
 odnty, have done more to
 .bout condition of affairs
 sich you are each year
 benefited than any ether
 y, excepting alone the
 Is and the churches. We
 fully of the opinion, then,
 t any citizen can we'll afford
 pay the small sum of one dol
 year for his nome paper. We are willing to exchange for anything of value, such as wood, farm products of all kinds, etc., but we will not at any time in the future display poor judgment by exchanging dollar paper for fifty cents worth of any kind of an article. In other words we wodld rather loose a subscriber than to furnish him his paper at an actual loss but we believe that when our subscribers look at it from this standpoint, very few