The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-03-02

terest in the business of papers .ha'
do not do business with 1t.
want to tell you boys, we news
paper men have always been poor DuS
mess men, but the most assinine thlh
we ever stood for was aoVerlisins
ready-prints. We allowed the nlah
who made our ready-prints TO COM
nete with us for all advertising out
side of our own town. He chargeo 10
the full value of the paper and WORK
of printing his half of 1t ana theh
sold three or four columns of adVef-
Using besides. Naturally he eoniu
sell advertising cheaper than We-i'
didn't cost him anything. He was sell
ing our space. The result was lha'
all foreign advertisers got mighty
cheap opinion of country papers.
1t was just that condition that
wears ago forced the good ne"spa-
pers to abandon ready-prints. NO man
who has the business ability to make
a newspaper pay is going to use reaay
prints if he can help it and most men
who can make a paper pay can Heip
it. The result is that nowadays the
big country papers, the ones .ia'
have the circulation, are all nome
nrints Yet. these home print papers
have less of the ''out of town al
vertising than the little diDky sheets
that are gotten out to save printing
hand bills Why? Because the nome
print man will not put his advertls-
ing columns in class with cheap
ready-print sheets.
So. the American Press Association
has undertaken through an organ
lied combination of home-print pa
pers to convince advertisers mat the
cheapest country papers are not acc
essarially the best advertising med
iums. 1t has fight on its hands, ana
| am glad that the Tribune is one OF
the papers that is backing it TO WIN
If anybody asks you if | am still
writing editorials from the sanitar-
ium, you tell them yes ma'am, nut
that | won't be long. If you had any
HYMNS picked out to sing at my run
eraI you better put them in cold
storage.
Say, I'm getting so well that ieel
good natured 10 and II hours at
stretch. | haven't quarreled with any
one for a week. | eat all that is let
before ME and complain that the COOK
is penureous. Really | should think
this Northwestern Sanitarium would
be ashamed to take my money any
longer. but the Doctor says 10 stick
il out Just few weeks more. He
says there are a few frazzled edges
of nerves sticking around in the out
side corners of my anatomy that
ought to be combed, braided, and tied
with baby ribbon.
All of this is Introductory TO some
thing else. When l get home we are
going to make the Tribune hump it
self again. We have lost little over
a year while l have been fooling
around trying to be sick, but We are
SOlll6 W CutCu up. ANU, we Will NdiiI
lot of help. Can we count on you?
If you had been sick and your work
had accumulated it would be the nat
ural thing to get up a haying bee, or
in way | am going to have lews-
paper bee, and you are all going to be
invited. | haven't got time this week
to tell you all just what you are i'll
vited to do but in a general way we
are going to make the Tribune the
best paper in the county. That is We
are if you will attend my bee-l can't
do it all alone and without your help.
No paper amounts to much unless it
has a lot of friends. But, | am cer-
tain you will help out at my pee. ]
never heard of anyone refusing an
invitation to a bee, did you?
Well improve the paper, double its
circulation and make it power Tor
good local and county government.
Just bear this in mind.
Ht Hiuu WIZ uOCoIl doh laN vi
of me sometimes, hasn't much faith
in my friendship.
The Sumas News has new editor,
w. Fl. BOhannan, and the News looks
as bright and clean and as interest
ing as any paper in the whole North
&c
glad there has been change-not
that I had thing in the world again
the other man, who had such long
name-but because | believe the chan
means a better paper for Sumas
BY the way, the new editor takes
a fling at me and the Tribune The
first shot out of the box, and accuses
us of lacking charity because We
likened Sumas to Covington. Neb., re-
Gently. And, | don't know but he is
right. That wasn't very charitable
fling, but We were provoked into max
ing it by having a previous editorial
twisted into meaning something We
didn't mean at all. | don't really reck-
on Sumas is such an awfully wicked
place. l wouldn't be surprised if there
was most as much cussedness in Lyn-
den as there is over there. But. we
at least haven't got the saloon cuss-
edness, and l am sorry that Sumas
has. No town in the Nooksack val
ley could be quite so cussed rs Cow
ington was-not and remain in the
Nooksack valley. Yes, reckon | was
a trifle hasty in what l said, but
Well, Bro. Bohannan, don't attempt
to defend the saloons. You've got EN-