Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1909-08-27
PULLMAN BARBER REPLIES
Attack of Pullman Tribune on George
Kenou Reacts and Proves n
Boomerang
Editor Herald,

Editor Herald,
Dear Sir Will you allow me space |
in your paper to reply to the coward
ly attack of the Pullman Tribune in |
its last issue, made upon me? dis |
like to engage in a personal con- |
troversy, but the attack of the Tri- |
bune is so unfair, unjust and libelous |
that | feel | must say something. |
| If | wished to do so | might engage !
in mud singing at the editor and |
| have been supplied with the material
| for a dirty fight, but | am above such
work. | claim to be a gentleman.
Pullman business men have come to
me and offered assistance. ! have
| been given copies of the Pullman
News of November 81, 1907, which
openly charged the editor of the Pull
man Tribune with being a thief and
stealing the city's money. l have
beer given copy of the Pullman
| Tribune in which the editor replies
and acknowledges that he did over
Icnarge the city when he was doing
the city printing, thus proving that
he knows what graft" is. ! have
been advised to get out hand bills
and food the town with these charges
and to show up the editor of the
Tribune.
do not care to do anything of the
kind. | came here to engage in bus
mess and make my home in Pullman,
and not to fight any political battles
wish, however, to tell the facts in
regard to the case which the Tribune
tried SO hard to show up as case
Of graft. The man who made the
icomplaint came into my shop and
got into the chair and asked for a
hair cut He got it and | asked him
plainly if he did not want the other
work done. OF course | tried to sell
him the extra work, but did not give
him anything until | had first ask
ed if he wanted it. That is my bus
mess, to sell as much as possible,
just as a dry goods or grocery clerk
would try to sell customer more
tnan he had asked for. One of the
leading merchants said to me: You
did just as | have instructed my
clerks to do If man comes in and
wants 81 worth of coffee they have
instructions to try to sell him other
| al tn -b1 at1A
goods. If | hau a clerk that would
not do this, but would merely sell
man what he asks for, | would dis
charge him"
l take it that if a man went into
the Tribune office to gel some letter
heads printed the proprietor would
try to get him to take envelopes,
cards, bill heads and other stationery
and he would not be open to charge
F of grating if he succeeded. The
Tribune says that | did not over
charge the man, but actually charg-
ed him / 5 cents less than the regular
prices, so the charge of grating"
is disproved by the paper which
makes the charge. Any man who
does not know enough to go into a
barber shop and decline to take any
onlng that he does not want, should
shave himself and have his mother
cut his hair, as | suppose the editor
of the Tribune does.
| came to Pullman to stay and in
tend to make my home here.
shall try to sell my customers as
much as possible and shall charge
them the regular prices fer what they
take, but ] never have and never will
give a man anything he does not or
der, but will follow my usual Gus
tom of asking if he wants all of the
extras / have to sell and if he takes
them | shall expect him to pay regu-
lar prices for them. My business
has increased greatly since the last
issue of the Tribune and some of the
best men in town have come to me
and assured me of their friendship
and have told me of the dirty m me-
tnods of the Pullman Tribune, but
they assure me that it has but small
circulation and its influence is limit
ed to a very few people All | ask
is fair trial and a fair share of
the patronage of the people of Pull
man and if my work and prices are
not satisfactory you need not come a
second time.
Yours truly,
GEORGE KENOU