The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-05-16
LOCAL RECIPROCITY.

The editor OF the Daily Panhandle
is informed that brother printer
and newspaper man from Charming
was In the city yesterday, and car,
ried home nice bundle OF orderi
for Job printing, and advertising
collected from Amarillo business
men, That shows the spirit OF re-
clprocity in the gentlemen who gave
him the orders does II not? In his
paper, down at Claiming. he can
give them such nice notices. when
they are anxious to receive publicity,
And again, his workmen can spend
SO much OF their salaries with the
merchants who gave him the orders,
that the little saving they may have
made In prices by giving hSir or
ders to little town, will amount
to nothing compared with II.
The Daily Panhandle Is employing
regularly, l6 people, aside from the
carrier boys who deliver It's daily
each evening To this force OF work.
men, six OF whom are married men,
aid support families from the sala-
ries they draw from the Panhandle,
Is paid weekly over 1886 In salaries,
or over $1,000 per month, which
they spend among the business men
OF the city, and It circulates through
the channels OF trade. How much
does the Charming printer spend with
Amarillo merchants and business
men. and how much does his work.
men spend with them?
The Daily Panhandle boosts all
the propositions local business men
are Interested in, and helps their
business In many ways, indirectly,
which they should be willing to re-
eiprocate by giving II their job work
as we'll as their advertising. Our
prices are reasonable, In comparison
with the expenses OF doing business
in Amarillo. We pay our workmen
from SIS to as high as S24 per
week, regular salaries. and-this they
spend in Amarillo. The merchants
who have sent their orders away
from home, may save a, Few cents al
fectly, but II all business men
should follow their exathple and
cripple the local printing offices
thereby, they would eventually vbe
losers, for the employees now m$n-
tanned would be let out, and the
merchant would lose the business. of
these men and their families as.a re-
suit, ~. t.
There are several offices in ANA
rillo doing Job work, and none have
anything TO show for the money they
have taken In from the work, as their
rates have been too low for their eX-
penses. All the offices in Amarillo
are doing job printing as cheaply as
It should be done considering ex-
penses here, and the man who sends
bis printing outside of town charging
that rates are too high here, Is not
loyal citizen, Is not attempting to
build up his town, but to tear 1t
down, and deserves no business at the
hands Of local citizens, How he
Ihowls II citizens patronize Montgom-
cry, Ward G. Co., Sears, Roebuck &
Co., or some out-ot-town firm. But
he is the first man to send his print
ing away from home.
II he pays expressage on his work
from abroad, he will not get 1t much
cheaper than at home, II the printer
gets more than his own wages for
the work. As the Claiming man
lives on a line Of road still furnish
ing transportation to newspapers for
advertising, he possibly does not
consider his expense, and days
time, coming to Amarillo and taking
the work, and possibly he will de-
liver It In the same way, and not
count his own time anything. He
may do the work himself, may make
lower price than we are making
for the work, but II he gets enough
work so he has to employ printers
to do It, he will find II he makes
anything he must charge as much
for his work as we do
However, we do not blame the
Charming printer for taking all the
work he can secure, nor would we
blame any other outside firm fol-
doing the same, but It Is the shorI
sighted home merchants and bust
ness men who send their work away
from home to save few cents, whom
we cannot condemn in too strong
terms. Give your work to some loca
concern, patronize home business
, men, even II YOU pay more for 1t, and
I thereby stimulate home trade, and
build ub your town This Is recip.
| rocity, and the Panhandle believes Ia
i Il and practices II.