Arizona republican., 1907-06-08
IDEAS THAT HAVE PAID.

The American boy should be taugh that the ideas which have formed the ] foundation stones of the great Ameri- can business enterprises have not all sprung from the rich and mighty. The American disregard for conventionali- ties and the national crying out for something new unite to offer a golden opportunity to him who has an idea whatever the idea is. or whoever may be the man to bring it forward. That peculiar quality which enables the Yankee to see into the future by the light of a shining coin is not a gift to 'be lightly prized. Furthermore it Is a kind of prophecy which des- Tises not small things.
 Every town in the country, almost. now has pressing club" which con- tracts to press and clean all ones clothing for d certain amount per month. usually Sl. with no limitation on the number of times the clothes are to be pressed. The crease in Un- cle Sam's trousers has been much heater and more distinct since the be- ginning of pressing clubs. A boy working in a tailor's shop in an Iowa
 
 time pressing suits of clothes for 30 cents each. He had an idea. He cal culated how many suits of clothes he could press if he were kept busy all the time. He calculated what it would cost, his own wages being $7 d week Then he startled the townsmen by going around offering to press clothes for a month, called for and delivered" :" Some people thought him foolish. but when his pressing club had grown un- til it had 500 members they realized that a good many apprentices at g. a week may be hired for $500 a month and leave a handsome profit besides. From that beginning the pressing club scheme spread all over the country in remarkably short time. says Fred eric J. Haskin in the Pittsburg Dis patch.
 A small retailer in a southern city was dragging along in business barely able to make both ends meet. One day he found that the store building next door could be rented for very small sum. He had an idea. He called on q friend who was interested in the moving picture machine business. utN fdituistA'h ilPN ilsiiiN tilstbH could he put into the empty store, and how much they could take in at a nickel head if they played to capac- ity and gave a show every 2O minutes. IL looked good. The storeroom was rented, a moving picture machine and big phonograph installed. and the first "Nickelodeon'' was ready for business. Afterward. when this man went to bank to borrow money to extend his business to several other cities he showed to the satisfaction of the bankers that he had netted s1200O the first six months. These 5-cent theaters are now to be found in every town in the country. and their number is increasing every day. There are over 800 of them in Chicago.
 A merchant in western city was desirous of reducing his stock without delay. and was willing to make a li- beral sacrifice of profits to do so. He a 20 to 25 per cent reduc- tion sale. It was bona fide and the prices had been cut, but the public had seen such announcements before and was slow to come in. The merchant was discouraged. Then he had an idea The newspapers next day car ried big ads" announcing that at this store every fourth yard Of every fourth